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Camiltons discoverie of the devilish designes and killing projects of the Society of Jesuites of late years projected and by them hitherto acted in Germany : intended but graciously prevented in England / translated out of the Latine copie ... by W. F. X. B. ...; De studiis Jesuitarum abstrusioribus. English
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Camilton, John.; W. F. X. B.
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1641
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Wing C388A; ESTC R11407
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CAMILTONS Discoverie OF THE DEVILISH DESIGNES AND KILLING PROJECTS of the Society of JESUITES of late yeares Projected and by them hitherto acted in GERMANY Intended but graciously prevented in England Translated out of the Latine Copie DEDICATED To the high Court of Parliament By W. F. X. B. Minister of CHRISTS Gospell From all Sedition and privie Conspiracie from all false Doctrine and Heresie Good Lord deliver us LONDON Printed by T. FAVVCET dwelling in Grubstreet 1641. TO THE HIGH AND HONOURABLE The LORDS and House of COMMONS of England in PARLIAMENT Assembled My Lords and Gentlemen ABout twelve yeares agoe there came to my hand a little tract written in Latine by one who stiled himselfe JOHANNES CAMILTONUS and professed himselfe to have been sometimes a Probationer in that Colledge of Iesuites in Germany whereof JACOCUS DEL RIO at that time Provinciall was the Visitor This booke in the yeare 1607 was by him written and dedicated to the Protestant Electors of Germany as a Discovery before-hand of those most damnable 〈…〉 Society then had in agitation against the people of Germany The title of this booke was De studiis Iesuitarum abstrusioribus concerning the more secret and reserved practises of the Iesuites Whereunto had those Princes to whom this booke was Dedicated given such timely â—are and beliefe as they might have done they had in all probability prevented the greatest part of those unparallel'd miseries which since the beginning of the warres there and that was not till eleven yeares after the publication of this booke these Jncendiaries of Christendome have brought upon the Germaine Nation to the astonishment of all the world But wee see what hath since beene permitted to these fellowes to doe and what the neglect of a timely taking heed to a seasonable warning hath brought upon those then flourishing Princes and States That we therefore might learne by other mens harmes to re 〈…〉 e our owne particular I have endeavoured the publication of this translation under your honours protection having taught this Discoverer to speake our language for the publique benefit of our English Nation against them I dare boldly say even your selves being my Judges when you shall have read this small tract that the same course hath beene taken by these common Incendiaries for breeding a disturbance and bringing all things into a confusion both in our Church and State that was then projected and since then acted upon Germany Nor doe I thinke but it is sufficiently knowne to your Honours and grave Wisedomes that the same wheele of mischiefe that wrought all the woes of Germany since the yeare 1618. hath for some yeares last past bin set also at worke in England Scotland and Ireland witnesse all the factions and fractions in Church and State the disturbances and discontents betweene the Prince and the people the fearefull divisions betwixt the Clergie and the Clergie betwixt the Court and City and betwixt the King and his Commons yea even betwixt the two Crownes of England and Scotland all which have received their birth and breeding from the devilish designes of those sonnes of division the Society of Jesuites and beene fomented almost to a perfect flame by their Agents and Adherents their deluded Disciples of this Nation and had undoubtedly broken out and produced in short time the like effects among us that they have done in Germany had not Almighty God in meere mercy to this Nation and in his Divine compassion to his poore Church in England thus ready to perish stept in to our rescue by his blessed hand of providence stirring up the spirits of our noble Peeres to represent to his sacred Majestie the eminent danger and gratiously inclining his Royall heart to hearken thereto and so that we may say with the Psalmist Ps. 118. 23. This was the Lords doing and it is marvailous in our eyes And the same God if it be his blessed will in his owne time by his owne meanes perfect that good worke of mercy which he hath so gracioussy begun for us of this Land and Nation by rooting out from amongst us that disloyall brood of Inigo Loiola that our eyes may see it and we may say the Lord hath beene megniâ—â—ed upon the borders of England For assuredly though the Romish Factors may now justly say as EDOM did in the Prophecye of Malachy 1 4. We are impovverished but we will returâ—e and build up our desolate places for they cannot but be sensible of their owne 〈…〉 ets defeated both by Sea and Land by water in the yeare 1588 by Fâ—â—e 1605 and it is not to be doubted that they apprehend a feare of the miscarriage of their great and long intended plot of 〈◊〉 begun to â—eake out this yeare 1641 all which notwithstanding they still retaine a resolution 〈…〉 and build up their desolaâ—e places yet I desire them to read and take notice of the words following in the place before-cited yet thus saith the Lord of Hosts They shall build up but I will destroy and men shall call them the border of wickednesse and the people with whom the Lord is angry for ever And your eyes shall see it and men shall say the Lords name hath beene magnified upon the borders of England And to speake truly what I thinke I must confesse that I have conceived an hope of a long time that this yeare 1641. which compleateth the Century since that Society had their Bull from the Pope under protection whereof they have wrought so much mischiefe would shew unto the world an apparant alteration in the body of that Monster the Society of Jesuites A point which I am the rather induced to beleeve because I have been certified as much in effect from a couple of their owne men of eminent note for learning the one PAVLUS FLORâ—NIUS an Italian the other CHRISTIANUS FRANKEN a German the former whereof was DIVINITY READER the other PHILOSOPHY READER in the Imperiall Colledge of Iesuites at Vienna both which above threescore yeares agoe upon just grounds exprest in a booke by them published forsooke that Religion and became Protestants That booke also is to be seene and if it please this Honourable House to command it shall be published also in English for I find it written in Latine And if their prediction faile not more in the conclusion then it hath done in the progresse hitherto I am confident that this mayprove a very fatall yeare to that Society But I feare I hold you too long from the Booke it selfe Humbly therefore commending you all to Almighty God in my due and daily prayers I leave this Discovery to your consideration and rest Yours in all the duty of a Minister of Christs Gospell W. F. X. B. CAMILTON'S Discoverie OF THE DEVILISH DESIGNES AND KILLING Projects of the Society of JESVITES of late yeares WHat MARCUS CATO sometimes spoke concerning the Romanâ— South-sayers that hee wondred how they could forbeare to smile upon each other so often as they met may not unfitly
Novices make question but that he was made an end of with most exquisite torments Which unparallel'd piece of tyranny I purpose in due time to divulge to the whole World with relation of all circumstances being the thing which the poore wretched Clussaeus had a purpose to have done himselfe if he had not been hindered and prevented by death I shall withall make publike unto the World another such piece of Villany committed by the Iesuites of Fulda in Germany upon the body of one MARTINUS whom they stole away most basely from his Parents who are yet living at Miltenberg or Milberg And how many women thinke you have beene devoured and eaten up in the same Gulfe How many young Children slaine How many young men that have beene sole Heyres of very large and ample Patrimonies have beene made away by them I doe not say J thinke but J beleeve and am firmely perswaded so often as shrikes and cryes sighings and most woefull lamentations were heard in the night season the hearing whereof would put a man into a cold sweat all over and make his hayre stand on end though our simpler Novices beleeved them to bee the Soules of some lately departed it was nothing but the shrikes and mone of children lately murthered or then a murthering Moreover that the extreame and Divelish malice of Iesuites may be in nothing defective they are accustomed divers times in those their Vaults under ground to make the Divell very sine sport putting on terrible disguises they cause some of their Novices to be called downe to behold their Tragedy upon whom they will rush suddainly with an horrible yelling noyse to make tryall forsooth of their courage and constancy For if they find any to be timorous and fearefull they admit not such a man to the secrets of Magicke as accounting them cowardly and degenerate but appoint them to some of the inferiour Arts but such as appeare to be of bold and undanted Spirits they take especiall notice of them and reserve them for serious imployments And yet they are not alwaies successefull for all this as appeared by that which happened at Prague in the yeare 1602. For whereas there were five principall Iesuites who being habited as Devils made sport with their youth If so fell out that there was found to be a sixth in their company before they were aware and he questionlesse was a Divell indeed who catching up one of the personated Divels in his Armes gave him such a kindly unkind embrace that within three dayes after he dyed of it The fact was common talke at Bake-houses and Barbershops and at every table discoursed upon all over Prague And yet for all that the rest of them as nothing amazed with this Tragicall event dare still in an height of obstinacy proceed in that most ungodly and Divelish study of Magicke Now amongst that whole Society the prime man for a Magician is a French Iesuite whom the King of France himselfe 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 Iesuites themselves did make their boast that he had a glasse made by Art-Magicke 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 roome of any Cloyster or Nunneric of other Orders which he could not easily and instantly discover and disclose by helpe of this his Inchanted or rather Divelish glasse And indeed it was by the Art and meanes of this Magitian Iesuite 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 for asmuch as he was observed to be somewhat delighted in the Study of Magicke 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 Earle of Mirandula published at Rome as also the Booke of Iohannes Tritemius together with a Tract or Treatise touching abstruse or hidden Philosophy written by Cornelius Agris pa Likewise Theophrastus concerning the Constellations and Seales of the Planets with the Steganographia of I know not what Abbot and the Art of Paul to procure Revelations meaning Saint Paul whom they affirme to have beene instructed in the Art Magicke and thereby to have understood such high Revelations and profound Mysteries Yea they blush not to affirme that St. Iohn was an excellent Magician Nor doe they sticke to say that even our blessed Saviour CHRIST IESVS himselfe was a most absolute and perfect Magician as mine owne eares have heard it oftner than once or twice related by some of that Societie and such as I am able to nominate And thus much for the Iesuites Church onely take this direction along with you Those Vaults and Roomes under ground which I mentioned even now those secret Conveyances and Circean Dennes are for the most part contrived to be under the Quire or Cloister not where the people doe walke or stand And now when thou shalt passe 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 trayning up of other Schollers committed to the Iesuites tuition nor yet touching the Methode and Order of their Studies but will reserve that for another Discourâ—e seeing those passages are for the most part knowne abroadâ— already being discovered by another When I say thou shalt enter into their publike 〈◊〉 thou shalt finde a most exquisite choyse 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 layd in order upon Deskes fastened with chaines 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 goe in thither and to borrow thence what bookes they thinke good Those ordinary bookes are onely free for the Iuniors of the Societie nor may they take a sentence out of the rest without speciall leave obtained from the Regent Moreover in this first Library are no Heriticall bookes as they call them but onely the Writings of most approved Authors and Catholickes all For they hold any other unworthy to be placed amongst them as fearing perhaps they should infect the rest Looke therefore upon thy left hand and there thou shalt see the wretched bookes of Heretickes as they tearme them standing all in Mourning for the faults of their Authors bound up in blacke Leather or Parchment blacked over with the very leaves thereof dyed in blacke Of these not one of the Fathers themselves may make choyse or use without leave obtained from the Regent before-hand but your inferiour Iesuits and younger Novices may not be