D'assister = to attend

40. Caramuel (Juan de Lobkowitz), a Spanish theologian, 1606-1682. Was nominated Abbot of Melrose and Vicar General in England. Ile seems not to hâve corne to England. The work to which Pascal refers is the Theologia Moralis (1643).

41. Pelagius, a monk of the fifth century, denied that Adam's sin could be imputed to his offspring, and maintained the doctrine of freewill as opposed to that of grâce and prédestination upheld by St. Augustine.

42. In connection with this passage an aphorism of Calvin is quoted which encourages the calumniation and killing of Jesuits.