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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

and intreat them to come home to theyr houses saying wee will goe before and prouide some good cheere for you Also it is obserued that assoone as these two dayes are ouer they walke out of the Citie againe both men and women with lighted Torches to conduct them forsooth who are now vpon departing least they should stumble in the darke or hurt themselues against any thing Yet further it is obserued likewise that when they returne into the Citie againe they make a diligent search about all their high roomes and tylings of their houses by casting vp stones thereon least any of the Spirits of whom they are in bodily feare should remaine behind in secret Moreouer it is written from thence that when those Iaponezes were demanded by our men why they did set to those Spirits a banquet they made answere that they are vpon their way towards their Paradice which say they was ten thousand Millions of miles and was a journey that could not bee ended in lesse then three yeares time and therefore they tooke vp their resting place there for a while to refresh themselues and to enable them the better to hold out to their journeys end But in all these things it is obserued that the Bontij the Priests and Bishops of Iapan doe all in all and that there is no family though neuer so meane but it must offer one guift or other to the Bontij for the peace of the soules of their deceased Friends I Omit for brevity sake their Holy water their pots of sweet odours set ouer hot coales to make perfume their many and large Indulgences which these Bontij doe tender vnto the people who are frequent at their preachments and enrich their Cloysters Their beades to pray vpon which a great number of the Iapanezes doe daily runne ouer not onely within their priuate houses but publiquely also carrying them about in their hands all ouer the Citty praying to their Amida and to their Xaca for riches honours prosperous health and euerlasting Comforts All which things verily are so true that they are both obserued and written by men of our owne Order and I haue in relating thereof made vse almost Verbatim of that translation which our Father Petrus Maffaeus hath made out of the Italian into Latine And this indeed was an opinion of mine or rather as my Confessor told me a temptation of the Devill cast into my mind touching the Societie of Iesuites and the whole Church of Rome which for all that I was hardly able in many dayes to thrust out of my thoughts by opposing through ejaculations of heart as they terme them and through fastings with other afflictions of the body a whole troupe of Arguments of this nature violently bursting in vpon my vnderstanding day and night And now before this temptation was well disgested and ouercome behold vpon a sudden there fell vpon me another of the same nature which so handled me as scarcely it left any life in me For shortly after it so fell out that we had the 18. Chapter of the third booke of Kings read vnto vs at dinner time for our Spirituall repast wherein is contayned the story of the Priests of Baal and how for the pleasing or appeasing of their Idoll they had a Custome to cut themselues with kniues and launces till they bled amaine Which words when I heard our Chaplaine read for I confesse I was not then a Diuine neither had I euer as then read ouer the holy Scriptures verily I did tremble and shake all ouer as if I had beene taken with a sudden fit of an Ague nor had I any further stomacke to my dinner at that time as remembring to be true to you our owne whippings whereby as well as with kniues launces we our selues are cruel to our own flesh many times spilling not a little of our owne blood and I cannot say but as these Iapaneze Iesuites whom I told you of that they haue named Iamam buxae some of vs at sometimes become guilty of our owne deaths I am sure wee spoyle our healths by it But I feare least these and fiue hundred more spirituall doubts mentioned by me touching the Societie may bee triviall to bee propounded vnto so judicious and graue a Divine as your selfe not being worth your taking notice of Wherefore letting other passages slip by vs I will be bold to describe vnto you onely two Holy and Catholique that is to say Italian Monsters and Idols the maintenance whereof our Society hath peculiarly taken vpon themselues and concerning which I am troubled and haue bin these ten yeares together how I might make them Holy in my estimation as they are made Catholique long since Out of which discourse of mine you shall perceiue your opinion touching the Society of Iesuites and the Romane Church wonderfully confirmed and established The one of these Idols I my selfe haue seene at Rome in the Chappell of St. PETER which Idoll men vsually call the Vicar of CHRIST And I assure you when first I saw it I was of an opinion that it was either CHRIST himselfe or surely something more esteemed of then CHRIST forasmuch as all the people which flocked thither for deuotion sake so soone as euer they beheld it set on high on a Throne and supported by the hands of red men like Seraphin-Angels least perhaps it might dash its foot against a stone fell downe instantly vpon their knees beating their brests and performing such outward acts of Devotion in that kind as appertaineth to none but God onely Oh holy CHRIST did my soule then instantly cry out in priuate how long will it please thee to suffer this that as low as thy selfe being true GOD hast humbled thy selfe on earth so high thy Vicar being but a wretched and a sinfull man shall extoll and aduance himselfe aboue all heauens That whereas thou hadst no kingdome heere yea hast said Iohn 18. that thy Kingdome was not of this world neither woudlst take vpon thee any Kingly Maiesty Thy Vicar neuerthelesse should haue right and interest in all Kingdomes and should out-strip all Kings and Potentates yea euen thee O King of Kings in wordly Pompe and heauenly Maiesty of State That whereas thy Disciple St. PETER who is said to haue bin Created the first Pope would not permit Cornelius the Centurion so much as to fall downe at his feet much lesse to kisse them but instantly tooke him vp Act. 10. saying Arise for I also am a man his Successor for all that forgetting himselfe to bee a man should sit on high as a very God Almighty whose feet all men must fall downe at and kisse But yet I recalled my selfe by and by and somewhat pacified my minde with this Meditation Surely said I it is altogether necessary that the Pope should retaine this his outward Pompe and Maiesty the better by that meanes to draw vnto him the proud Emperours Kings and Princes of this world and to retaine them in