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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70781	The Jesuits morals collected by a doctor of the colledge of Sorbon in Paris who hath faithfully extracted them out of the Jesuits own books which are printed by the permission and approbation of the superiours of their society ; written in French and exactly translated into English.; Morale des jésuites. English	Perrault, Nicholas, ca. 1611-1661.; Tonge, Ezerel, 1621-1680.	1670 (1670)	Wing P1590; ESTC R4933	743,903	426

destroy themselves and are refuted themselves by themselves and it suffices simply to report their Doctrine to make appear that it overturns the Foundations of Religion and that it is not only opposite to the Wisdom of the Cross and Christian Philosophy but also to Reason and the Philosophy of the Heathens It is true that this corruption is not equally evident in all their Maxims and that to surprize more easily those who have some fear of God they do propose these unto them with some kind of temperament covering them with some specious pretences which serve for reasons to engage them to follow them without scruple But the Author of these Morals hath so dextrously unfolded all these Artifices and all these studied subtilties and hath so neatly discovered their malignity that there is no fear that those who read them will suffer themselves to be deceived by them nor that they can have any confidence in the people whom he hath made clearly to appear to have a priviledge to speak every thing that they please and not to contradict themselves at all in speaking things altogether contrary according to the diversity of places times and the interest of their Society who give themselves the liberty and the right not only of two contrary opinions to chuse that which is most for their commodity but even to follow both the two according to divers occasions and the different relishes of those who consult with them finally who content not themselves only to refute the holy Fathers the Popes and the Councils when they are not for their convenience but who also take the confidence to make them speak what they please altogether contrary to what they do speak It is true also that this Author having undertaken to make us see the general corruption which the Jesuits have spread all over the Morals could not avoid to speak of those matters which S. Paul saith ought not to be proceeded in so far as to be named by Christians and that he is forced to shew how they would make Marriage which is the Image of all pure and all holy Union of Jesus Christ with the Church and which ought to be handled with all honour to give right to shameful filthinesses which even the Pagan Philosophers themselves have condemned according to these excellent words of an ancient Author Adulter estuxoris amator acrior He is an Adulterer who is too eager a Lover of his Wife Notwithstanding he hath been careful not to transcribe those ordures with which Sanchez hath filled whole Volumes among which some have been so scandalous that they have been left out in some Editions which yet have been no hinderance to Tambourin and Amadeus to renew them where he speaks of these excesses and other such like it is with such temperance that discharging the Reader of a good part of the confusion which he might have received thereby he doth not forbear at all to instruct him sufficiently and make him conceive all that horrour wherein he ought to have these miserable Writers who seem principally to be composed to satiate their imagination with most enormous unheard of crimes Finally That which doth yet more justifie the design of the Author of these Morals and the manner wherein he handles these things is that now of a long time all these excesses which are herein rehearsed have been made publick by the Jesuits themselves who have caused them to be printed and sold and who have delivered them into the hands of an infinite of Religious persons and Directors of others not very clear sighted who think that they cannot better learn the Maxims of Christian Morality than in reading the most famous Authors of so celebrated a Society So that it will be of very great importance to make the corruptions of these Authors so known that no man may hereafter be mistaken in them And this cannot be better executed than by proposing those very same Maxims as impious and detestable which the Jesuits have propounded in their Books as good and safe this alone being sufficient to work effects altogether contrary in mens spirits as may be seen in the Example of Escobar who having been imprinted thirty nine times as a very good Book hath been now imprinted the fortieth time as one of the most mischievous Books in the whole World which hath so wrought that whereas the first thirty nine Editions were very prejudicial to the Church this fortieth hath been very beneficial unto it And the same we believe may happen in the publication of these Morals which the alone zeal and love of the purity of the Morality of Jesus Christ hath induced us to make publick It is hoped that this Publication will prevail to remove the scandal which the Jesuits have caused from the Church to which they gave place to the Hereticks to attribute those Opinions for which it hath the greatest horrour and that these unhappy persons who are separated from its communion shall not impute them unto it any more after so publick a disavowing of these Maxims altogether abominable as they are not giving them yet any advantage above the Jesuits themselves because it is not hard to make appear that the Principles of their Morality are no less corrupted nor pernicious than those of these Fathers It is hoped that this Publication will stir up the Pastors of the Church to renew the zeal which they have already made appear against the Authors of so many corruptions that they will interdict in their Diocesses the reading of these Books that they will take the ways which the Sacred Canons have prescribed them 2 Tim. 2.17 to repress so pernicious Novelties and that they will hinder them that they spread not over mens spirits as Gangrenes which waste and corrupt by little and little that which was sound and that they will fear lest while they dissemble these excesses and pass by those who are their Authors they make themselves culpable of the loss of a great number of Souls which these blind Guides seduce and train along with them into the pit We despair not even of the Jesuits themselves that they also may draw from thence the advantage which this Author hath earnestly desired to procure them For although it seems by their conduct which they have hitherto held herein that they are resolved to persevere in maintaining these damnable Maxims and to despise the wholesom advertisements which the whole Church hath given them to abandon them yet notwithstanding it may be said that if they have used them in this sort it hath been perhaps because they were not yet sufficiently convinced of the justice of the reproaches which have been cast on them and that some secret interest hath hindred them from perceiving them in the Writings of those whom they looked upon as their Adversaries But now that a person whom they cannot suspect and who hath never been engaged against them hath presented unto them so distinctly the concatenation of the Maxims