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C2 THE HISTORY OF HERESIES,
Tournelly (7) shows that the greater part
of the Doctors and
Bishops of France condemned it. They also boast that Bossuct
gave it his approval, but there are several proofs, on the con
trary, to show that he condemned it (8).
22. When the complete work appeared in 1693, it was at
once censured by Theologians, and prohibited by several Bishops,
and it was condemned by a particular Brief of Pope Clement XL,
in 1708. Three French Bishops prohibited it by a formal con
demnation in 1711, and Cardinal de Noailles felt so mortified at
seeing these Edicts published in Paris, condemning a work
marked with his approbation, as heretical, that he condemned
the three Edicts. This excited a great tempest in France, so
the King, with the consent of several Bishops, and of Cardinal
de Noailles himself, requested Pope Clement XL to cause a new
examination of the work to be made, and, by a solemn Bull, to
censure any errors it might contain. The Pope, then, after,
two years examination by Cardinals and Theologians, published
in 1713, on the 8th of September, the Bull Unigenitus Dei
Films, &c., in which he condemned a hundred and ten propo
sitions, extracted from the work, as false, captious, rash, erroneous,
approximating to heresy, and in fine, respectively heretical, and
recalling the propositions of Jansenius, in the sense in which
they were condemned. The Bull, besides, declared that it was
not the intention of his Holiness to approve of all else contained
in the work, because while marking these hundred and ten pro
positions, it declares that it contains others of a like nature, and
that even the very text of the New Testament itself, was vitiated
in many parts (9).
23. His Most Christian Majesty, on the reception of the
Bull of Clement from the Nuncio, ordered an assembly of the
Bishops, to receive and promulgate it solemnly, and, in fact, after
several private Conferences, the Assembly was held on the 23rd
of January, 1714, and the Bull was received, together with
the condemnation of the hundred and one propositions, in the
same manner as the Pope had condemned them, and a form of
acceptation was drawn up for all the Bishops of the kingdom,
that the Bull might be everywhere promulgated, and also a For-
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