Cum occasione

The handbook cited prints the five propositions with the note that each follows. The first, on commandments impossible to the just, is declared rash, impious, blasphemous and heretical. The second, that interior grace is never resisted in the state of fallen nature, and the third, that merit requires only freedom from compulsion and not freedom from necessity, are declared heretical. The fourth, on what made the Semipelagians heretics, is declared false and heretical. The fifth, that it is Semipelagian to say that Christ died for all, is declared false, rash and scandalous, and, if taken to mean that Christ died only for the predestined, impious, blasphemous and heretical.

The heading under which the handbook prints them, “Errors of Cornelius Jansen, excerpted from the Augustinus”, is its editor’s. That the propositions were Jansen’s, and were condemned in his sense, is what Ad sanctam beati Petri sedem defined three years later.