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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31633	The cabinet of the Jesuits secrets opened in which there are many things relating to the church and clergy of England : as also the ways by which they encrease the number and wealth of their society on the ruines of kingdoms and families : in part began by Dr. Oats from an Italian copy, but now more largely discovered from a French copy printed at Colon, 1678 / made English by a person of quality.; Monita Secreta Societatis Jesu. English.	Person of quality.; Zahorowski, Hieronim.; Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing C189; ESTC R18321	39,724	49

Society called Father Person the Assistant of that Kingdom having wrote a Book against the Succession of the King of Scotland to the Crown of England Father Critonic with others of the same Order defended the Right of the said King by a Book entitled The Reasons of the King of the Scots against the Opinion of Father Person Now though they seemed to be divided among themselves yet they were in truth very well agreed for this Comedy was acted by the commandment of the General to the intent that if the House of Scotland had been excluded from the Succession they might have produced to him or them that had the Government Person 's Book or it on the contrary that House happened to be settled upon the Throne they might yet gain the King's Affection by shewing him Critonic's Book And so how ever the matter fell out they might quit themselves and be provided of a fit means to increase their Society By which we may observe also the truth of what I said when I affirmed that Princes were the ordinary and usual Objects of the Resolutions and Actions of the Jesuits and how much reason they have to say that their Order is a Great Monarchy And is not this also a convicting Instance and proof of the little fear they have to discontent Princes when it is their Interest Experience furnisheth us with a number of other Examples which would make this as clear as the day but I should be too long and troublesome if I should repeat them here I will therefore instance in one which is worth a thousand it being most remarkable Every one knows there is no Person in the World whom the Jesuits are more obliged to serve faithfully and obey than the Pope and that not only in respect of that particular vow of obedience which they make to him but also for a multitude of other reasons Yet nevertheless when Pope Pius the fifth who can never be enough commended had by the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit commanded them to officiate in the Quire and make their profession in the same manner as all the other Orders do they never would obey him it seeming to them that they should thereby receive a considerable prejudice There were only some few who yielded their Obedience to his Holiness his Will and who consented to accept the profession in that manner which he had propounded But how were they treated by the rest were they not in contempt call'd Avatins And was there ever any one Person of these who could obtain the least preferment from the Society After this manner also they opposed the famous Charles Borromee Arch-Bishop of Milan who in quality of Legat à latere would have brought their Company to the observance of a Religious Discipline But what is this They obey not the holy Canons seeing contrary to their Decrees they trade in Pearls Rubies and Diamonds which are brought them from the Indies and it is a common Opinion that the greatest part of the Jewels of India which are sold at Venice pass through the hands of the Jesuits and we cannot imagin this is a meet Report which hath been spread by their Enemies the very Posts themselves whom they use have taught it us And I could here report some other things which would prove as evidently that they are bad and unfaithful Servants to the Pope but because I cannot do it without speaking of a Prince who will be offended at it I will pass it in silence my design being to serve the World without offending any Man no not the Jesuits whom I honour otherwise and pretend not here to make an Invective against them but only to abate their Pride and teach them if it be possible a more tolerable way of acting For who is it that hath not just cause to complain of the Jesuits Yet as it often happens that sick Persons send up their crys to Heaven and are beheld by others in the interim with Wonder every one perceiving they are afflicted with this or that Malady and yet but few discern the true origin and fource of them So though almost all the World complain of the Jesuits some because they are persecuted by them others for that they are not served by them with a Fidelity becoming their Habit yet the evil continues nevertheless because most Men cannot perceive the true cause of so great a disaster But if they would examine the thing a little more exactly they should easily find that it is the vast and boundless desire they have to aggrandise themselves which makes them think it a thing of no moment to discontent Princes or deceive them to oppress the poor to spoil Widows and ruine most noble Families to raise Jealousies and make Discords amongst Christian Princes that by that means they may insinuate themselves into their greatest Affairs But would not this be a strange disorder in Nature if one of the least Members of the Body and that formed to no other end than to serve as an Instrument to the more Noble should yet draw to it self the purest Blood and the greatest part of the Vital Spirits the disorder without doubt is not less in the Civil or Ecclesiastical State while the Order of Jesuits which was one of the last that was admitted into the body of the Church to the intent that it should serve her in the Conversion of Infidels and particularly in exhorting Sinners to repentance on the contrary draws to it self the greatest affairs of Princes and Prelates that is as I may say the most pure and Vital Spirits of their Interest to the end this Order may appropriate and apply them to her self though she cannot do this without troubling the repose of Families and Kingdoms without oppressing many whose rise should rather be desired and raising others who deserve rather to be abased and finally without thousands of other inconveniencies which arise from hence I could easily produce here a great number of other reasons drawn from experience besides those I have already alleged to manifest That the Jesuites ambition is of a vast extent and that they have entertained an Appetite of Greatness which can suffer no Limits or Bounds But because I affect brevity in these Reflections it shall suffice to report the Project of Father Person upon England in that manner he discovers it in his Book intituled the Reformation of England where having blamed Cardinal Pool a Prelate worthy of an eternal memory not only for his Vertue and Sanctity of Life but also for his other merits to the holy Church and observed certain faults and defects in the Council of Trent at last he concludes That supposing England should return to the Catholic Faith he would have it reduced to the form and State of the Primitive Church that to that end all the Church Revenue should be held in common the Administration of which should be committed to seven Sages drawn out of the Society of the Jesuits that they might distribute