ly govern both the other. You’ll find in the first a great knowledge, a competent deal of honesty, often too much heat, and sometimes some animosity. There is in the second, a great deal of obstinacy and self-conceit : those that are least usesul, fortify the Party by their numbers; and the most considerable raise its credit by their quality. As for the Politicians, they employ every one according to his talent; and govern the whole machine, by springs unknown to those very persons who are acted by them.
"Those who preach, or write upon GRACE, and treat that celebrated and so long debated question; those who place the Council above the Pope, oppose his Infallibility, and thwart the great pretensions of the Court of Rome, are persuaded of what they say : tho capable to change their opinion, if the Jesuits should one day think fit to alter theirs. Our Directors do not much regard the Doctrine : their principal aim is to set up one Society against the other; to secure for them a Party in the Church; and out of a Party in the Church, a Cabal at Court. They introduce a reformation into a Monastery, without reforming themselves : they extol penance without practising it : they cause some persons, who endeavour to distinguish themselves by being singular, to diet on Herbs, whilst they live as well as those that have the most delicate palates. Nevertheless, our Directors, such as I represent them, do Jansenism more service by their Directions, than our best Writers by their fine Books.
"Our preservation is owing to a wise and prudent management : and, if I mistake not, should ever M. de Believre, M. de Legue, and M. du Gué-Bagnols, fail us, there will happen a great change in Jansenism. The reason of it is, because our opinions will have much ado
