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A65789	The memoires of Mr. James Wadswort [sic], a Jesuit that recanted discovering a dreadful prospect of impiety, in the blasphemous doctrines (or Gospel) of the Jesuits, with their atheistical lives and conversations / faithfully published to the world out of the authors own original notes, with the particular places, persons, and circumstantial actions &c., of which he himself was both an eye and ear-witness from time to time.	Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656?	1679 (1679)	Wing W183; ESTC R38026	56,469	76

not direct them or if he did the furnace is too hot for all the world can witness they are not purged from their Ambition Covetousness Treacheries Deceitfulness and in special from their Blood and Cruelties which appears in that this is their Maxim Nisi Religio Lutherana ferro igne tollatur Eccles. Romana pacem tranquillitatem habere non poterit Unless the Religion taught by Luther be removed by the Sword and Fire the Church of Room will never enjoy peace and quietness See the book called Epistolar Iesuiticar Libellus Agab Bariaco 99 in Epist. art 11. pag. 66. I come now to shew the world the Occasion of this Jesuitical Blasphemy Iustus Lipsius a man of learning enough but too much levity having run over all Religions and at last set up his rest in Popery fell in his declining and doting days to open Idolatry and as he never troubled himself much with Christ in his life whose name a man shall seldom find if ever in his Books so at his end wanting matter it seems to magnifie Christ he writes 2 Books in praise and honour of 2 Idols viz. 2 old rotten or 2 new forged Pictures of a woman with her Child in her arms which must needs be taken for Pictures of our Lady wherein the prophane wretch blusheth not to write that at these 2 Images there are more and greater Miracles wrought than the Scriptures speak of to be done by Christ himself A learned Low Country Divine wondring that such Owles durst flie abroad at Noon light and such trumpery be set to sale in these days of knowledg wrote a short reproof of the Impieties utter'd in the first of these books which is De Virgine Hallensi of the Lady of Hall wherein because the Jesuits were also touched as being the Fathers of such fooleries and the makers of those bolts which such fools as Lipsius do shoot thereupon a Jesuit of Antwerp calling himself Clarus Bonarscius but his true name being Carolus Scribonius taking upon him in a Jesuitical pride the general quarrel of the whole Order of the Jesuits undertakes to defend their innocency and their honour against all the world and to that end writes a book and calls it The great Theater of the Iesuits Honour Amphitheatrum Honoris in quo Calvinistarum in Societatem criminationes jugulatae Wherein after many blasphemies against Christ and slanders against Princes all kind of lyes against our Ministers and Professors he comes at last to defend their friend Lipsius and his Legend of our Lady of Hall And after he hath abused him that wrote against it with all despightful terms and rail'd most artificially wherein he excells all other Jesuits Parsons excepted as far as they all other Papists he makes a transition from rayling on men to playing with God and from disgracing Princes to dallying with Iesus Christ and not only defends the Legend of Hall written by Lipsius but farther to shew his own devotion he makes a Poem not to the honour of God or of Christ the Mediator but to our Lady of Hall and the Child Jesus Wherein whether the Verse be better or the matter worse is hard to tell but whether his Devotion therein is greater to a Creature or his Blasphemy against the Blood of the Mediator let the Cristian Reader judg by the Poem it self which shall be manifested word for word after I have shewn you the Approbation of the Author and given you the discourse of the Ladies of Hall and Sichem shewing you particularly the occasion of this their New Gospel In the next place I will shew you how highly the Author of this Poem is Approved Clarus Bonarscius otherwise called Carolus Scribonius is a Jesuit now living at Antwerp and of much account amongst them he writ the Iesuits Theater of Honour before mentioned and spewed this Blasphemy out of his unclean heart and whereas both the Author and his book deserved the Fire and Halter it was so far from being misliked in the Romish Synagogue or any way censured that since the book hath been reprinted and the Author and his book stand enrolled approved and commended in their great Volumes set out for that purpose for good and Catholick Clari Bornarscij Amphitheatrum Honoris Iesuitici in quo Calvinistarum in Societatem Iesu criminationes jugulatae Prostant Palaeopoli 1605 postea 1606. Palaeopoli hoc est Antuerpiae Haec Possevinus Iesuita in Apparatu Sacro Tom. 1. lit C. pag. 357 Editionis ultimae And it is to be noted that these Volums of Possevine contain only an Inrolement and Approbation of no other other writers save such as are approved Romish Catholicks and are set out with great and publick allowance of the Romish State Besides let all men know the Book stands yet uncensur'd and the man lives still unpunish'd nay unreproved or rather commended and rewarded for it therefore this cannot be called an obscure or private fact of the Romish Church Now follows a Discourse of the Ladies of Hall and Sichem shewing particularly the occasion of this New Gospel The blessed Mother of Our Lord as the Church in all ages hath done so doth ours willingly honour as the most blessed of Women yet as a Creature and as one Saved by her Son that Saviour in whom her Spirit rejoyced We know and acknowledg that not she but the Holy Ghost hath said that all generations shall call her Blessed yet we must confess we are of that Fathers Religion who said her Spiritual bearing of Christ was happier than her carnal and Her self more blessed by Conceiving Christ in her heart than in her woomb and by believing in him than by bearing him for her bearing him in her body would not have Saved her soul if she had not more happily have born him in her heart August lib. de Virg. And in another place She was happy and blessed not because in her The Word was made flesh but because she heard the Word of God and kept it This her blessedness far be it from us to impeach and who would not yield her all blessedness and honour that a Creature may have of whom GOD vouchsafed to take the flesh of Man And if any of our Religion hath spoken any thing of Her that may in the least blemish her blessed State it was not done in any the least contempt of her but in the zeal they bear to the honour of their Saviour whom they held dishonoured by the unequal comparing of her with HIM For what will not a Christian's zeal cause him to do when he seeth his GOD dishonoured Who would have thought that Moses would so carelesly have cast out of his hands so precious a Jewel as were the Two Tables written with the finger of God And yet when he heard the Name of THE LORD Blasphemed he forgot himself and Them and as though he remembred none but GOD he threw them away and brake them in pieces If Mose's zeal makes his hastiness

last Psalm Let every thing that hath breath praise our Lady Now this Book stands not onely not controlled but even defended by the Jesuits and those of the principal Greg. de Val. in vol. de rebus fidei controversis sect 5. lib. de Idolatria 5. cap. 10. Bernard de Bust is in Mariali parte 3. Ser. 3. Again a famous Frier and well approved amongst them preached this Doctrine in the Pulpit amongst many other little better A man may appeal from God himself to the Virgin Mary if any feel himself grieved at the Iustice of God seeing God hath divided his Kingdom with her having reserved Iustice to himself to be exercised in this world as he pleaseth but Mercy he hath reserved to her This Divinity was so well relish'd in the Church of Rome that after he had preach'd it he publish'd it under the Pope's own Patronage and the Book was again re-printed and the Jesuits testifie that this is a learned and godly Book and full of piety And Horatius Turselinus a Jesuit of good esteem among them writes thus God hath made the Virgin his Mother as far as he may lawfully a modest expression from such a person partaker of his Divine Power and Majesty And Possevinus in lit H. wrote a Book and publish'd it by allowance of Authority and says thus That Christ made his Mother fellow with him in the work of his Redemption This Book is dedicated to Cardinal Aldobrandino And a great Spanish Doctor and Professor of Divinity of his Order writes thus We have often seen and heard of very many who in their extreme dangers have called upon Mary and presently were delivered And oft-times safety is sooner obtained by calling upon the name of Mary than upon the name of Iesus Christ. Io. Chrysostom à Visitatione de verbis dominae tom 2. lib. 2. cap. 2. And this Book is both dedicated to Pope Clement the 8th and receives publick allowance By this then it appears that this blaspheming Jesuit Bonarscius in his unsanctified Poem says no more in effect than others of this damnable Sect. The sum of their blasphemous Doctrine is contained in these particulars following 1. That the Virgin Mary's Milk may be mingled with Christs Blood in the matter and merit of our Salvation and that a Christians faith may lay hold on either 2. That it helps and heals spiritual sores and sicknesses of the Soul as well as Bodily diseases 3. That it is to be preferred before the Blood of Christ and that if we must refuse the Milk or Blood we may with more safety refuse the latter 4. That though no Man did help Christ in the work of our Salvation yet a Woman did viz. the Virgin Mary 5. That God hath made Mary partaker and fellow with him of his Divine Majesty and Power 6. That God hath divided his Kingdom with Mary keeping Iustice to himself and yielding Mercy unto her viz. at her disposal and that a man may appeal from God to her 7. That a man shall oftentimes be sooner heard of God through the Mediation of Mary than of Christ. 8. That Christ is still a little Child in his Mothers arms and may now be so prayed unto 9. That it is the highest presumption and so the greatest sin imaginable to desire to handle Mary's Paps or at least wise to drink her Milk 10. That the Psalms may be turned from Lord to Lady If these be the Doctrines of the Church of Rome and if they have recanted any which perhaps they may have the impudence in after-ages to affirm to some of the more ignorant sort of Women seduced by them then take notice Reader This their Gospel is a Nose of Wax in their account If so as hath been evidently proved from their own Authors then let all the Churches of God and every Christian or Member in them fix This in their hearts that They who call themselves true Christians and Members of the true Ancient Catholick and Apostolick Church of Christ pretending themselves Peter's Successors who himself will blush to own them when ever he rises from the dead are in truth and reality not so but contrariwise are Antichrist none so opposite to the Doctrine and Practise of true Christianity as they who dare presume thus hainously to disparage the Person the Wounds and the most precious Blood of Christ our Lord and God and cast this abominable contempt upon the most glorious Office of His Mediatorship who alone trode the Wine-press of his Fathers wrath and with whom was none Wherefore in short since Babylon might have been healed of her Blasphemies Fornications and abominable Impieties but would not let every rational Creature Turk Jew and Pagan not excepted forsake her for her judgment is come up to heaven and lifted up above the clouds CHAP. III. The several Orders of the Jesuits and their demeanor therein NOw let us come to the Jesuits themselves having spoken of the manner of their Discipline over their Scholars and to their three-fold Professions The First and chief of them are Machiavillians who do nothing but employ themselves in matters of State and insinuate themselves into the secrets of great ones and giving true intelligence to none save to the Pope and his Catholick Majesty whose sworn Vassals they are These observing no Collegiate Discipline are dispensed withall by his Holiness as if they did God good service nay greater in thus employing themselves than following Collegiate courses As for their Religion they make it a cloak for their wickedness being most of them Atheists or very bad Christians These are they that observe these Ten Commandments following 1. To seek riches and wealth 2. To govern the world 3. To reform the Clergy 4. To be still jocund and merry 5. To drink good Wine 6. To correct Texts of Scriptures 7. To receive all Tithes 8. To make a slave of their ghostly Child 9. To keep their own and live on another mans purse 10. To govern their neighbours wife These Ten Commandments they divide into two Tables All for me and Nothing for thee The charity they maintain among each other is none at all labouring with envy and malice c. as you may read in Speed's Chronology in two remarkable stories of Father Parsons and Creswel too long here to relate and many other instances as Father Foster Flack Strange and Gibbins can sadly testifie The second sort of Jesuits are those who Preach Confess and teach Youth and envy each other for the number of their Scholars and ghostly Children They are besides in no small emulation about their own worth and learning reading to their White Boys those especially of the Sodality that celebrate the honour of the Virgin Mary all sorts of loose and lascivious Songs and Poems A third sort of Jesuits there are not unfitly termed Simple ones these are wonderfully austere in their life of a scrupulous conscience and brought up to colour the courses and actions of the more cunning and

as many as fall into the hands of these Tyrants who are far more cruel in this kind than Mezentius or Phalaris ever were Nor are they without a Devils Coat and a long Steeple-crown'd Hat with black Feathers a jagged Doublet cut and slashed Breeches puffed out and bagged like Bellows down to their ankles such as would even make a man affrighted to look upon them But perhaps he that readeth this relation will wonder to what end Religious persons who profess themselves the Disciples and Followers as they would have all men to believe of our most meek Saviour Iesus should make such provision I will resolve you this question also if you please to attend With such Instruments as these doth the Society captivate the understanding of their Disciples unto Jesuitical obedience for if in the least matter they get any hint of suspicion against any of their Novices that he will not be constant or that he desireth to escape from them and that he is likely to betray the secrets of their Society they clap up such a Fellow in a fair pair of Stocks and having macerated him a long time with hunger and cold and want of all bodily comforts at the last they make an end of him with some exquisite tortures and killing torments I do not belie them I write nothing but a truth There was at Gratz about three years ago a young man named Iacobus Clusseus a Youth of an excellent and pregnant wit this man did they lay hands upon and miserably tormented him by whipping and scourging for a matter of no moment and because he told them plainly that he would renounce their Society and complain publickly if ever he got liberty for this and other such wicked dealing towards him they clapped him up into such a Prison under ground as aforesaid from whence he was never seen to come out again alive Nor did any of us that were Novices make question but that he was made an end of with most exquisite torments And how many Women think you have been devoured and eaten up in the same Gulph How many young Children slain How many young Men that have been sole Heirs of very large and ample Patrimonies have been made away by them I do not say I think but I believe and am firmly persuaded so often as shrieks and cries sighings and most woful lamentations were heard in the night season the hearing whereof would put a man into a cold sweat all over and make his hair stand on end though our simpler Novices believed them to be the Souls of some lately departed it was nothing but the shrieks and mone of Children lately murthered or then a murthering Moreover that the extreme and devillish malice of Iesuits may be in nothing defective they are accustomed divers times in those their Vaults under ground to make the Devil very fine sport putting on terrible disguises they cause some of their Novices to be called down to behold their Tragedy upon whom they will rush suddenly with an horrible yelling noise to make trial forsooth of their courage and constancy For if they find any to be timorous and fearful they admit not such a man to the secrets of Magick as accounting them cowardly and degenerate but appoint them to some of the inferious Arts but such as appear to be of bold and undanted spirits they take special notice of them and reserve them for serious imployments And yet they are not always successful for all this as appeared by that which hapned at Prague For whereas there were five principal Iesuits who being habited as Devils made sport with their Youth It so fell out That there was found to be a sixth in their company before they were aware and he questionless was a Devil indeed who catching up one of the personated Devils in his arms gave him such a kindly unkind embrace that within three days after he died of it The fact was common talk at Bake-houses and Barber-shops and at every Table discoursed upon all over Prague And yet for all that the rest of them as nothing amazed with this Tragical event dare still in an heighth of obstinacy proceed in that most ungodly and devillish study of Magick Now amongst that whole Society the prime Man for a Magician is a French Iesuit whom the King of France himself had in so high estimation That he admitted him not onely to his Princely Table but also to familiar conferences in private concerning whom the Iesuits themselves did make their boast That he had a Glass made by Art-Magick wherein he could plainly represent unto the King whatsoever his Majesty desired to see insomuch that there was nothing so secretly done or consulted upon in the most private room of any Cloister or Nunnery of other Orders which he could not easily and instantly discover and disclose by help of this his Inchanted or rather Devillish Glass And indeed it was by the art and means of this Magitian Iesuit that their Society was confident That they should be able to draw on their side one of the most Potent Princes of the Empire albeit a Protestant forasmuch as he was observed to be somewhat delighted in the study of Magick Now as for those whom they take in as Novices to be instructed in this way they expound unto them those nine hundred Propositions which Picus Earl of Mirandula published at Rome as also the Book of Iohannes Trithemius together with a Tract or Treatise touching Abstruse or hidden Philosophy written by Cornelius Agrippa Likewise Theophrastus concerning the Constellations and Seals of the Planets with the Steganographia of I know not what Abbot and the Art of Paul to procure Revelations meaning St. Paul whom they affirm to have been instructed in the Art Magick and thereby to have understood such high Revelations and profound Mysteries Yea they blush not to affirm that St. Iohn was an excellent Magician nor do they stick to say That even our blessed Saviour Christ Jesus himself was a most absolute and perfect Magician as mine own ears hath heard it oftner than once or twice related by some of that Society and such as I am able to nominate And thus much for the Iesuits Church onely take this direction along with you Those Vaults and Rooms under-ground which I mentioned even now those secret Conveyances and Circean Dens are for the most part contrived to be under the Quire or Cloister not where the people do walk or stand And now when thou shalt pass from their Temple into their Study for I will say nothing touching their Parlour or Chambers Refectories or places of Recreation instruction of Novices who are newly admitted and the training up of other Scholars committed to the Iesuits tuition nor yet touching the method and order of their Studies When I say thou shalt enter into their publick Library thou shalt find a most exquisite choice of Authors of all sorts all of them most curiously bound up in Leather or Parchment

with Fillets of Silver or Gold and as for such whereof there is daily use they are laid in order upon Desks fastned with Chains upon a long Table But as for the Inner Library that is onely reserved for the Fathers of the Society it is free for none but them to go in thither and to borrow thence what Books they think good Those ordinary Books are onely free for the Iuniors of the Society nor may they take a Sentence out of the rest without special leave obtained from the Regent Moreover in this first Library are no Heretical Books as they call them but onely the Writings of most approved Authors and Catholicks all for they hold any other unworthy to be placed amongst them as fearing perhaps they should infect the rest Look therefore upon thy left hand and there thou shalt see the wretched Books of Hereticks as they term them standing all in Mourning for the faults of their Authors bound up in black Leather or Parchment blacked over with the very leaves thereof died in black Of these not one of the Fathers themselves may make choice or use without leave obtained from the Regent before-hand but your inferiour Iesuits and younger Novices may not be so bold as to desire the sight of any one of them except he will before-hand with all virulency and bitterness rail upon and disgrace the Author whom he desireth to see by some infamous Libel and scurrilous satyrical Verse or Writing In the midst of these several Libraries is placed a Study being divided into many Seats distinct and seperate one from another with a blue covering On the right side whereof sit the Fathers on the left the Under-Graduates who have already taken some Degrees upon them The other Novices or Fresh Men as we call them sit mixt with the Fellow-Commoners that they may take notice of them and every man in his turn beat into them by continual discourses the sweetness and excellency of the Order of Iesuits especially into such as are of the richer sort or wealthy Heirs I will say no more at this time as touching their Studies but I will describe briefly the manner of the Visitations which every Provincial maketh because it is a point which as I think and for any thing that I ever read or heard hath been never hitherto divulged by any Now every Provincial taketh his denomination from the Province or Kingdom rather which is committed to his Charge and Oversight His Place is to visit the several Colledges to take an account of their Revenues and oversee their Expences exactly and punctually to take notice what Noble Personages commit their Sons to the tuition of the Society and how many they are in number Whether there be not yearly an increase of Scholars as also of their Means and Revenues Whether there be any converted from Protestantism and how many such If there be no such thing or if the Popish Religion have lost ground or if there be any decrease of their Wealth he sharply reproveth their sloath and neglect and chargeth strictly that they make an amends for the wrong they have done and loss they have received in this case But if they have bestirred themselves bravely and converted as they call it or rather perverted many Souls to Popery if they have been frugal and scraped wealth together he praiseth them very highly and extolleth them to the skies Moreover he demandeth what is the opinion of the neighbouring Hereticks concerning them What be the projects of the Nobles What meetings they have How many and where What they consult upon What they resolve to do Whether the Heretical Princes as they term them delight to live at home or abroad To whom they resort most frequently What is the several disposition of every one of them In what things he is observed to take most delight Whether he take any care of his People or not Whether he be a Religious Prince or not Or rather whether he be not a man who delights to take his pleasure in Drinking Wenching or Hunting Whether he have have any Catholicks about him or that are near unto him What the People report abroad concerning their own Princes Whether the Churches of the Adversaries be full of resort or not Whether the Pastors of those Churches be learned and diligent men in their Place and Calling or otherwise lazie Lubbers and unletter'd Whether the Profession of Divinity thrive in the neighbouring University of Hereticks Whether their Divines maintain frequent Disputations and against whom principally What Books they have published of late and upon what Subject To these and sundry such questions if the Regent and the rest of the Fathers do answer punctually he doth wonderfully commend their industry and vigilancy If he find them defective in answering to these or any such demands he reproveth them sharply saying What mean you my Masters Do you purpose like lazie Companions to undo the Church of Rome How do you suppose your slothfulness in these weighty affairs can be excused before his Holiness How is it that you presume to take these Places upon you and to manage them no better What or whom are you afraid of Why do not you buckle up your selves better to your business and perform your places like men These things if you had been such men as you ought to be had not been to do now These things should have been done long before this time Do you observe the incredible watchfulness of the Hereticks and can you be lazie And with these or the like speeches he wheteth them on to their duty At the last he enquireth as touching the Scholars Fellow-Commoners Novices and the rest How many they are in number How much every one hath profited To what study or delight each one is inclinable Whether there be any one amongst them that is scrupulous or untractable or not a fit subject to be wrought upon For he adjudgeth every such an one sitting to be removed from the Study of Divinity except he have been very well exercised in the Disputations in Schools and have a very great and good conceit of their Religion beaten into him Moreover he enquireth if they have any one in the Colledge who can be contented for the advantage of the Catholick Cause to undertake any laudable attempt and to spend his blood in the Cause if at any time necessity shall seem to require it And at last he sendeth away all these Informations being sealed up unto the Father General at Rome by whom they are immediately made known to the Pope himself and his Conclave of Cardinals And so by this means an order is taken that there is no matter of action set on foot nothing almost consulted upon throughout the whole Christian World which is not forthwith discovered unto the Pope by these Traitors that lurk in every State and Kingdom Also it is not to be omitted that the Iesuits are translated by their Provincial from one Colledge to another and that