Pasquier Quesnel

Pasquier Quesnell (geboren 1634, dēadod 1719), wæs Frencisc Iansenisc dryhtweorþ, geboren in Parise on þone 4an Mǣdmōnþes 1634.

Æfter þǣm þe hē his gradcinan āfēng in þǣm Sorbonne mǣrlīce in 1653, geþēodde in þæt Frencisce Gebēdhūs. Þā wearþ hē welcūþ; ac his Ianseniscan efensārgunga lǣddon tō his forewritennesse of Parise in 1681. Hē nōm hlēow mid þǣm frēondlican Heorre Coisline, bisceope Aureliana; fēower gēarum ufor, hūru, foreseah hē þæt nīwe ēhtnes wæs gearu tō cumenne, flēah hē tō Brysele, ongann wunian mid Antoine Arnauld (q.v.).

Þǣr belāf hē oþ 1703, hwonne se hād þæs arcebisceopes Meclines hine hæftede. Æfter þrim mōnþum hæftunge, ætflēah hē swīðe bealdlīce, and setlede æt Amstelodamume, hwǣr hē þā lāfe his līfes brēac. Æfter Arnauldes dēaðe in 1694 hēold man Quesnell þone lǣdere þæs Ianseniscan gefēres; and his Réflexions morales sur le Nouveau Testament dǣlnōm fullnēah swā micel dǣl in his bōccræfte swā Iansens Augustinus self.

Swā his tītul getācnaþ, wæs þes ēstfulnestraht ymbe þā Hālgan Gewritu, þǣrin Quesnell gefōr tō bereccenne endas and biliðu þæs Ianseniscan gefēre, bet þonne gehwilc ǣrra wrītere hæfde gedōn; and be þǣm wearþ se traht sēo hēafodmearc Iesuitisces rǣses. It appeared in many forms and under various titles, the original germ going back so far as 1668; the first complete edition was published in 1692. Þæt gewrit Unigenitus, in þǣm nā lǣs þonne 101 cwida of þǣm Réflexions morales wǣron fordēmed swā eretic, wæs getilod on Clementum XI on þone 8an Hāligmōnþes 1713. Quesnel dēadode æt Amsterdame on þone 2ne Gēolmōnþes 1719.