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A38919 An exact discovery of the mystery of iniquity as it is now in practice amongst the Jesuits and other their emissaries with a particular account of their antichristian and devillish policy / composed in the Italian tongue by one of the Romish religion ; translated into English, and now newly published by Titus Oates.; Instruttione a' prencipi della maniera con la quale si governano li padri giesuiti. English. Oates, Titus, 1649-1705. 1679 (1679) Wing E3644A; ESTC R16706 15,710 16

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a●ain some dignity which by any other means they could never have obtained For amongst them none are preferred to any Office of importance but only those whom they know prone to Advance their Society to that height of Greatness to which they Aspire and consequently none but such as are known to be sufficient in the Managing of State-Affairs Ninethly As from divers Flowers and Herbs by means of a Limbick a man may draw such as Oyntment as is fit to Heal a mortal Wound And as from several blossoms Bees suck honey so these Jesuits from the Infallible Relation which they have of all Princes Affairs and of all accidents that do happen in every State by the Politick power of their own discourse they Extract from them their own Commodity which is the only Remedy to cure that their Abominable wound of Covetousness and Ambition and they compose a certain art of their own Profit by which they obtain their ownends as well from the good of some as hurt of others but more often from the latter than the former Thus they usually shackle with their Fetters that Prince into whose Secrets they have Crept propounding to him that they have the only most Excellent means to make him the Master of his Desires but when by this means they have drawn their own purposes from him considering that the too swelling Greatness of that Prince may one day prove prejudicial unto them as Lawyers do their Causes they prolong as much as they can the success of that affair and afterwards by politick plottings and various Juglings they utterly Ruin those designs to which they had given a beginning The League of France Treated and Concluded by them not long after they abandoned when they saw things prosper on the Kings side And England so often promised by them to the Spaniards yet in such manner performed so confirms this my discourse that there needs no farther Proof Tenthly From what hath been already said It necessarily follows That the Jesuits have no good intentions towards any Prince whatever either Temporal or Spiritual but only ●●ve them so far as they may serve their own turnes Nay I followeth yet farther That no Prince much less any under Prelates can make the like use of then because they shew themselves at the very same time equally affected to all making themselves English with English Men French with French Spaniards with Spaniards and so with all other Nations and Countries according as their Occasions require from which they do intend to Extract their profit They have no regard to the prejudice of one more than of another and therefore those Enterprizes in which they have interineddled have seldom times succeeded well because they have no purpose to serve farther than their own Interests dictates to them And in this the Artifice which they use is most Notorious Some of them faining themselves to be partial to the Crown of France others to Spain others to the Emperour and some to other Princes of whom they de●●re to be most favoured And if any of these Princes please to make use of some Jesuite whom he holds for his Confident Friend he immediatly writes to the Father General of the affair which he hath to treat on and expects his Answer together with Order what he shall do and consormable to that Commission he Rules himself Never regarding whether that Order be Conformable to the Intention of the Prince who commits the Care of that Affair to him But if the Society be served he takes little care what service he doth for the Prince Besides this because the Jesuites understand the Interest of all Princes and are most knowing in all things daily treated upon in secret Councils those who pretend to hold with France propound to the King and his principal Ministers certain Conditions of State and important Considerations which are sent to them from their Politick Fathers at Rome And those that pretend to hold with the Crown of Spain do just the same with them so with the rest From which Course and Cunning of theirs there ariseth such a Diffidence in the Hearts of Christian Princes that none will scarce give Credit to each other which is a main prejudice to the publick Peace and universal Welfare of Christendom The which Diffidence of theirs is that which makes it so difficult a thing to conclude a League against a Common Enemy and precious Peace to be of so little Value amongst Princes Further more With these artificious Devices they have so opened the Eyes of the World and sharpened mens Wits in matters of State that to this day to the notable prejudice of the Holy Church they attend to nothing else but matters of Policy and poize all their Actions in that false Ballance But to the end that these Jesuitical Stratagems may yet appear more plainly I cannot here conceal the means by which they inveig●e Princes to be of their party There are some years now past since one of these Fathers called Father Parsons the Assistant of England wrote a Book against the Succession of the King of Scotland to the Crown of England and another Father called Crittonius with some others of the same Order in a Book which they wrote Defended the Title of the King of Scotland opposing the Opinion of Father Parsons and seigning under a Specious Pretence to be at Discord amongst themselves although all this was indeed cunningly done and by the special Command of their Father General only for this purpose that whosoever should succeed in the Kingdom of England they might have an excellent Argument to work in him a great and good Opinion of their Society and so to extract their own Ends from him A fair Example to shew us that Princes are the Objects of all Jesuitical Actions and Determinations and by consequence to make good their own Saying That their Society is a Grand Monarchy Again That the Truth of this may appear That the Jesuits have no regard whether they please or displease any Prince where their own Interest is most nearly concerned Although experience of infinite Things past makes it as clear as the Sun at noon-day yet the Particulars which I shall here subjoyn will render it every way most evident There is no person in the world whom they are more bound to serve and obey than the Bishop of Rome not only for many other reasons but especially because they make a particular Vow to obey him Yet when Pius Quintus went about to reform some of these Fathers reducing them unto the Performance of their Duty in the Chair they would not obey him esteeming that a notorious Prejudice to their Society And those few who yielded themselves to the Popes Pleasure accepting that Profess ion were always afterwards mocked and jeered and called by their Fellows Quintini Nor could ever any of them get the least Preferment amongst them In the same kind they opposed Glorious Saint Charles Arch Bishop of Millain who as Legate