Note 87 — LETTER I.

Molinist. The Jesuits were so called, in this dispute, after Lewis Molina, a famous Jesuit of Spain, who published a work, entitled Concordia Gratiæ et Liberi Arbitrii, in which he professed to have found out a new way of reconciling the freedom of the human will with the divine prescience. This new invention was termed Scientia Media, or middle knowledge. All who adopted the sentiments of Molina, whether Jesuits or not, were termed Molinists.