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A72111	The doctrines and practises of the Societie of Iesuites In two bookes. The first, containing their grounds and intentions, discovered by two of their owne societie, the Reverend Paulus Florenius, Doctor and professor of Divinitie, and Christianus Francken, professor of philosophy, both in the Imperiall Schoole of Iesuites at Vienna. The second, containing a detection of the secret designes and bloody proiects of that societie of later yeares; especially, since their first designes for disturbing the sate [sic] of Germanie. And may serue as a warning for vs of this iland, and these times whereinto wee are fallen. By W.F. an vnworthy minister of the Gospell of Iesus Christ.; Colloquium Jesuiticum. English	Francke, Christian, b. 1549.; Freake, William.; Camilton, John. aut; Florenius, Paulus.	1630 (1630)	STC 11346; ESTC S122937	33,931	78

by that second beast our Societie in some part haue recouered Germany Bohemia and other Kingdomes lately taken out of their hands and shall see many other Realmes and Principalities reduced to their obedience by the same For then shall this society being growne rich magnifie its owne heart and rise vp against the King of Kings Dan. 8.25 and be crushed to peeces without hands Spirituall Coadjutors vnder which name are comprehended all Priests and professors of Diuinity or Phylosophy and all and singular teachers of the inferiour Arts not yet hauing made profession hauing first vowed Poverty Chastity and Obedience doe assist this beast in peruerting and seducing of Soules vnto the first Beast Wherein as any one shall approue himselfe more apt and ingenious then his fellowes so is he the more quickly admitted by profession to bee a Member of this Monster Now those who are called Temporall Coadjutors haue charge to prouide for the backe and belly of this Beast purueying and prouiding for the same and intermedling with all Domesticke busin●sse Lastly Schollers and Novices are maintained at home to this end onely least at any time there might prooue a defect in the Body of this Monster But that as old eaten limbes shall happen to decay and fall off so fresh and new supplies may be still made out of this Storehouse or Seminarie of young Iesuites Moreouer In the Epistle of Jgnatius de Loyola who is ●ead euery moneth at the Table to the end this Idolatry and superstition may be for euer concealed free from feare of discouerie and that as it is preserued so it may bee increased continually this Beast is accustomed to forestall the vnderstanding of her whelpes if they haue any and to bind vp their very sences admonishing or rather Commanding in good earnest that all things which the Superior shall Command be performed with blind obedience and that whatsoeuer our superior shall doe bee passed ouer with blind judgement without so much as Considering whether it be good and profitable or hurtfull and damnable which is enioyned or done forasmuch as euery such thought taketh away the merit and valour of obedience In which particuler our Societie followeth the steps of the Canonists those most pernicious flatterers of the Popes and seducers of the whole Christian world For these were the onely men who in times past perswaded all Christian Churches that the Byshop of Rome was of such Soueraigne power and authoritie that albeit Distinct 40. Cap. 51. Papa hee should lead the whole world into Damnation no man had power to controle him no man might be so bold as to demand of him a reason for so Deuilish an act And euen thus altogether or rather a great deale worse doth this Societie of ours instruct her Nouices teaching that whatsoeuer our Superiours inioyneth to bee done or doth himselfe is not onely not to be questioned much lesse to be found fault withall but euer to bee presupposed as holy and good In the same Epistle to vse the very words of our Father Ignatius And all this onely to this end forsooth that all their Foolery Idolatry and Superstition may at length obtaine the name of Holinesse and bee adored as Ordinances of the Societie And now mee thinkes I haue brought thee about neere enough to the Knowledge and sensible feeling as it were of the summe of our Religion Neither doe I doubt but that now at last thou vnderstandest how extreamely wee haue deceiued our selues and bin gulled in making choyce of this kinde of life and how veniall a sinne wee shall commit in withdrawing our selues from the same Wherevnto I replyed CHRISTIAN These are monstrous and horrible things indeed PAVL and truly in my minde I haue often seene such kind of Monsters in Italy but I blinding my vnderstanding as our own● constitutions doe enioyne vs did suppose these things to be nothing but deuises of Sathan whereby to divert me out of my course and hauing but once shouldered mee out of my calling by the losse thereof to cast mee headlong into euerlasting miserie Now you for your part so farre as I discerne putting confidence in most abhominable prodigies rather then the strongest arguments endeauour to disgrace both our owne first Calling and the whole Religion of Rome which thing if I shall yeeld vnto you as lawfully done seeing you are but one man in this kind I see no reason why the same libertie may not be granted to the particuler Sects of all others that cauill at Religion Forasmuch as there is no op●nion which may not seeme to bee proued out of holy Scripture being vnderstood and interpreted by euery man as shall best stand with his particular liking But yet considering that all thy relations touching these Monsters are wonderfull probable and the other things also most euident and such as doe convince the sence and vnderstanding I cannot herein dissent from you nor indeed may I with safety seeing I know you to bee as learned and ingenious as our Societie affoordeth any I will rather endeauour to rouze vp my selfe and call to exact accompt my best vnderstanding in this case which as you say is ouerclouded with Iesuiticall delusions and vnfold the most implicite notions of my heart touching the Societie of Iesuites that afterwards you may expresse more at large what is the very Species forme and Character of a Iesuite whom all the Christian world so much honoureth and adoreth And now to the end that I may after your example fall out of hand vpon the fundamentall points of the Societie hearken and I will relate vnto you what strange things I haue seene and obserued in these stranger times I did in my younger dayes I assure you suppose that the foundation of this Societie was altogether Diuine and me thought I was no longer conuersant on earth so soone as I was admitted into this societie as I thinke it is a vsuall thing with all our Nouices or the greatest part of them to be so affected For so great is the power of our continued meditations touching diuine subiects that a man seemeth euer to bee borne a new not of naturall parents but after a peculiar manner borne a Iesuite in the Societie of IESVS euen as CHRIST our Redeemer was incarnate by the holy Ghost And thus the whole nature of man being in a māner Deified doth witnes as which ●oth from that time forward wherein it hath giuen it selfe to meditations of this nature altogether forbeare to pamper and feed the body abandoneth all societie of the flesh by whipping and other voluntary afflictions of the body restraineth and suppresseth pleasure as a blot of infamy and dishonour acknowledgeth in euery Spirituall brother the Image of the Lord our God as our eighteenth Rule commandeth and withall abjureth and dispiseth riches honours and all such things as by the vulgar are accounted most excellent and precious And this was indeed without any dissimulation my firme and constant perswasion as touching