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A01233	Tvvo spare keyes to the Iesuites cabinet· dropped accidentally by some Father of that societie and fallen into the hands of a Protestant. The first wherof, discovers their domestick doctrines for education of their novices. The second, openeth their atheisticall practises touching the present warres of Germany. Projected by them in the yeare 1608. and now so farre as their power could stretch, effected, till the comming of the most victorious King of Sweden into Germany. Both serving as a most necessary warning for these present times.; Colloquium Jesuiticum. English	Francke, Christian, b. 1549.; Freake, William.; Camilton, John. De studiis Jesuitarum abstrusioribus. English.	1632 (1632)	STC 11346.3; ESTC S102623	30,485	64

euery one of them In what things hee is obserued to take most delight Whether hee take any care of his people or not Whether hee bee a Religious Prince or not Or rather whether hee bee not a man who delights to take his pleasure in drinking Wenching or Hunting Whether hee haue any Catholickes about him or that are neere vnto him What the people report abroad concerning theyr owne Princes Whether the Churches of the Adversaries bee full of resort or not Whether the Pastors of those Churches bee learned and diligent men in theyr place and calling or otherwise lazie Lubbers and vnlettered Whether the Profession of Divinitie thriue in the Neighbouring Vniversitie of Heretickes Whether theyr Divines maintaine frequent Disputations and against whom principally What bookes they haue published of late and vpon what Subiect To these and sundry such questions if the Regent and the rest of the Fathers doe answer punctually hee doth wonderfully commend theyr industry and vigilancie If hee finde them defectiue in answering to these or any such demaunds hee reprooveth them sharpely saying what meane you my Maisters doe you purpose like lazie companions to vndoe the Church of Rome How doe you suppose your slothfulnesse in these waightie affaires can bee excused before his Holinesse How is it that you presume to take these places vpon you and to manage them no better What or whom are you affrayd of Why doe not you buckle vp your selues better to your businesse and performe your places like men These things if you had beene such men as you ought to bee had not beene to doe now These things should haue beene done long before this time Doe you obserue the incredible watchfulnesse of the Heretickes and can you bee lazie And with these or the like speeches hee whetteth them on to their dutie At the last he enquireth as touching the schollers fellow-Commoners Novices and the rest how many they are in number How much euery one hath profited To what study or delight each one is inclinable Whether there bee any one amongst them that is scrupulous or vntractable or not a fit subiect to bewrought vpon For he adiudgeth euery such an one fitting to bee remoued from the study of Divinity except he haue bin very well exercised in the disputations in Schooles and haue a very great and good conceit of theyr Religion beaten into him Moreouer hee enquireth if they haue any one in the Colledge who can be contented for the advantage of the Catholicke cause to vndertake any laudable attempt and to spend his blood in the cause if at any time necessity shall seeme to require it And at last he sendeth away all these informations being sealed vp vnto the Father Generall at Rome by whom they are immediately made knowne to the Pope himselfe and his Conclaue of Cardinals And so by this meanes an order is taken that there is no matter of Action set on foote nothing almost consulted vpon throughout the whole Christian world which is not forthwith discouered vnto the Pope by these traytors that lurke in euery state and kingdome Also it is not to be omitted that the Iesuites are translated by theyr Provinciall from one Colledge to another and that for the most part once in three yeares that so the Provinciall out of theyr severall discoveries may attaine to vnlocke all the secretest Cabinets of the Prince and State where he doth reside In the last place I will adde in stead of a Corallary some strange and wonderfull devices of the Iesuites which beeing but of late newly hammered in the forge they haue earnestly endeauoured yea and at this day doe labour tooth and nayle to put in practice by publike consent for an Innovation to be made both in the Church and State throughout the whole Romane Empire To this end theyr chiefe and onely ayme is how to set the Princes of the Empire together by the cares and by taking off some of the principall Doctors of the Church to bring the tyranny of the Spaniard and the Primacie of the Pope into Germanie Concerning which very project I haue heard the Provinciall DEL-RIO himselfe discoursing sometimes whose plots and Machinations were such as follow In the first place saith hee care and paines must bee vsed to estrange the effections of the Princes of the Empire one from another Now the meanes sayd he to effect that is to worke vpon theyr contrariety of opinions in matters of Religion And for this end let the Emperor be incited to make a Declaration that hee will not grant liberty of Conscience in matters of Religion except there shall first be a restitution made of such goods as were taken from the Clergie vpon the treaty at Passaw for this is a point whereat they will sticke assuredly and deny it Let the Emperor thereupon send his Princes and demand the same of the Cities of the Empire They will either obey or deny If they consent and obey all is well If they refuse let him proclaime them Rebels and expose them to be seized vpon by the next neighbouring Princes but still let the matter be so caried that he be sure to oppose a Lutheran and a Calvinist the one against the other Moreouer some deuise must bee found out that the Duke of Bavaria may fall foule either vpon the Elector Palatine or vpon the Duke of Wittemberg for then may the Emperor be easily wonne to proclaime him Traytor whom the Duke of Bavaria shall distast and all meanes taken away of making pacification either with Papist or Calvinist for thē besides thereby will be raised vnreconcileable diuisions in the Empire neuer to be quenched before an highway bee made for the accomplishment of our desires For the further ripening of which Designe the Iesuites vnbethought themselues further of this Stratagem It will follow say they necessarily when any Citie of the Empire shall be proclaimed rebellious that euery seuerall Prince will be more ready and willing to serue his owne turne vpon the spoyle thereof then to admit any other that shall be emulous of the same bootie to preuent him This for the Generality More particularly yet meanes must be found out to set the Princes of Saxony at difference that their strength and power may be broken or at least weakened Now that may bee most conueniently effected thus first if the Administration of the Primacie of Magdeburg which now is vacant bee giuen to the Bavarian Elector of Colen neither the Marquesse of Brandenburg nor the Duke of Saxonie will easily grant theyr consents thereto Secondly if that succeed not according to our desires there must be some cause pretended why the Duke of Saxony either doth seeme worthy or ought to seeme worthy to be remoued from the Electorall dignity For if in times past the Princes of the Empire cast downe Wenceslaus from the Imperiall Throne because they had adjudged him a negligent Prince surely the Emperour may take as just an occasion to remoue from the Electorall

vpon all that Sanctity whereof thou hast had experience hitherto partly in thy selfe and partly in other Iesuites and weighing the same deliberately together with the seuerall dispositions of the people as they are Italians Spaniards French or Dutch ingenuous or blockish free-borne or base consider them apart seriously so shalt thou at last bee resolued I assure my selfe that thou hast euer obserued and tooke notice of more frequent and outward expressions of Iesuiticall Deuotion in Spaniards and Italians then in Germans French or other Nations and most vsually in seruile and blockish companions much more then in free-borne and ingenuous Gentlemen Now as touching the Spaniard himselfe you shall find that this Disposition in him proceedeth meerely from his seruile Education in the Christian Religion For there is in Spaine as your selfe know as well as I doe so strict a course taken for inquiry into euery particuler man touching his profession at the least of the Romane Religion and the same is so narrowly watched for flying away that except the very Sonnes and Children themselues shall bring a Faggot to the burning of their Fathers if once they be adjudged Heretickes and so become little lesse then the Executioners of their Parents they are generally reputed Heretickes and worthy to fry with them in the same flame Whereby it is apparant enough that the Spaniards of necessitie must be Superstitious and very frequent in all outward acts of Devotion and both in life and death Romane Catholiques Yea they had need to take heed that they doe not so much as smell like an Hereticke when they are rotten in their Graues least if they haue fallen short in outward testimonies of Religion they happen to bee suspected touching the Faith and come to be most seuerely persecuted to the third and fourth generation How then can it bee possiblely that the Spanish Nation being borne and bred educated and instructed in such infinite slauerie of minde being also by Nature hot and chollericke should chuse but be most violent or if you please to tearme it so most Devout in his Religion Yea how could the Deuill himselfe if hee were lyable to the Spanish Inquisition how could hee avoyd it but hee must be compelled at all times to transforme himselfe into an Angell of light and to acquire some habite at the least to put on an outside of Romish superstition and seeming Sanctitie From this Fountaine sprung that Ignatius de Loiola who being a Souldier and by the valour of the French at the seidge of the Castle at Pampeloun in the Kingdome of Navarre spoyled for following that profession any longer and outstripping all others in Superstition became the Founder of the Iesuiticall Order by whom hee might in time to come not onely bee reuenged of the French but also make a Conquest of all the Christian world besides You shall also obserue in Italians that they are exceedingly frequent in those outward acts of religious Deuotion and that through a naturall inclination which they haue to hypocrisie and dissimulation as a Nation which euer hath bin as appeareth by all their antient Monuments and Records very superstitious and are to this day inclinable to worship a multitude of Deities and marueilous prone to Idolatrie insomuch that it may easily be demonstrated how out of this Cup of Fornication that people hath powred out many things into Christian Religion and infected it throughout with deadly poyson Wherewith the whole Christian world being for the most part inticed and deceiued by the sweetnesse delitiousnesse Antiquity and faire outside thereof is in a manner quite inebriated whiles day by day in the matter of saluation they resort to a Rabble of Romish Deities and to a Numberlesse number of Saints forsooth substituted by the Popes of Rome in roome of the Heathen Gods and propounded to be invocated and prayed vnto and them multiplyed continually though not in deed yet in their names as also to many Goddesses feminine Saints amongst whom questionles the Virgin Mary was brought in as in the place of Ceres whom the Roman Matrons in the time of Heathenisme did most religiously adore with burning tapers at such time of the yeare as the Feast of Candlemas or Purification of the blessed Virgin was enacted Which thing I am the rather induced to beleeue seeing that for the increase of their Idolatry this very solemnity was purposely contriued to fall into the moneth of February that being the selfe same time of the yeere the antient heathen Romanes kept their Feast called Februa offering vp sacrifices for all soules and for the purging or expiating of the sinnes of the whole City For indeed all the people of Rome at that time of the yeare as their owne Writers testifie was wholly taken vp with making Oblations and Sacrifices with lighted Torches and waxen Candles about the Sepulchers of the Dead for obtaining of rest to the Soules of their friends departed And finding the Scriptures of God vnwilling of themselues to consent to this Idolatry they haue forced and drawn them thereunto as it were by the head and shoulders and hauing by chance stumbled vpon one booke or other that seemeth to approue that opinion in some sort they haue made that booke Canonicall that so their opinion might bee made altogether an Article of our Faith in defence whereof as well as of other points all the Doctors or rather Doddipoles of the Romane Church doe labour till they sweate againe but all in vaine till at the last perceiuing that they nothing aduantage their cause by all the new Arguments they can deuise and rake vp day by day they retire in the end of all to the traditions of the Church as to their short Anchor and onely safe harbour in that case When as neuerthelesse that very tradition it selfe is for the most part I may safely say altogether vnderpropped by that great and principall Idoll of Rome which with its greatnesse doth in a manner reach vp to heauen Yea maketh it selfe equall to that euer to bee adored and blessed Trinity by that triple Crowne it weareth and that threefold gemiculation which is expected from all such as dare to approach neere vnto him Neither indeed can I suppose that the Germaines and Bohemians being naturally and of themselues inclinable to true piety did so easily fall off from the Church of Rome for any other cause so much as for this to wit because in regard of that honestie and grauitie of manners which is in them by Nature they haue euer abhorred cannot away with to this day a multitude of Idols and Ceremonies with all that leuity of Minnick representations and superstitions howbeit indeed they haue defiled themselues for many yeeres together with this Idolatry and inconstancie being ouerborne by the authority of that Romane Idoll and that infallibility of Spirit which they so bragge that they hold in Feesimple or at the least haue an euerlasting lease thereof to themselues and their posterities for euer And

painted that haue suffered Shipwracke notwithstanding their prayers to these Gods in this kinde and haue perished at Sea Which answere of his was wittie and beseeming a Philosopher for thereby hee did euidently enough declare that such people had not bin preserued by the helpe or fauour of IVPITER or IVNO or NEPTVNE or any other of their supposed Deities to whom they had directed their Supplications in this case Forasmuch as many others beside and such as perhaps were honester and better men then those who escaped though they had made the same prayers had perished in the waues But forasmuch as all men generally were accustomed in any time of distresse to flye by prayer to one or other of those supposed Deities and that it often fell out that naturall causes being violently prouoked and threatning Death being eyther stopped in the middest of their course or mittigated of themselues doe vpon a sudden yeeld hopes of deliuerance Thence is it that the effect thereof is without any good reason ascribed to their fained and imaginary Deities And euen thus and no otherwise standeth the case with our people of Italy in adoring and beleeuing on that Idoll of Loretto and offering vnto it Tables of Deuotion because inasmuch as all Italy almost maketh prayers vnto her and that of necessitie it must fall out that by one meanes or other in so great a Multitude of people some few at the least shall obtaine what they haue prayed for either through the especiall hand of God or by the strength of nature And that nature at somtimes euen seemeth to worke a Miracle all those things are by these stupi'd and blockish people attributed to their Lady of Loretto except perhaps men would deny that in the same manner and for the same end the Image of Ceres at a Citie called Enna in Sicilia as the same Cicero witnesseth hath made open declaration of her power and Godhead to vse Tullies owne phrase by many Miracles and wonders many a time and full often euen in the desperatest cases afforded vnto her suppliants present helpe and remedy But these things as I haue formerly said vnto you almost none but the vulgar and such as are like vnto them doe runne after and beleeue For euen the more learned of their owne Phisicians Philosophers and Diuines also as many as haue not their mouthes stopped with some Ecclesiasticall preferment do in their better judgements contemne and deride not onely these Miracles of Loretto but euen the very Romane religion it selfe as false and fained as I easily and apparantly discerned at my being at Naples where they had at that time obtained some restraint of the violence of the Romane Inquisition Yea and moreouer these Atheists euen to my face derided my name because it was Christianus for in the Italian Dialect by the word Christian they are wont to intimate a Blockhead or silly foolish fellow which thing as I conceiue they doe for this reason because in their judgement they hold no man fit or inclinable to beleeue the Popish Chimaraes but silly fooles and blockheads And these are chiefly those things which came into my mind to speake and relate touching the Societie of Iesuites the Idols which it more particularly beleeueth in and adoreth beeing rowzed vp thereunto by your discourse and beyond all expectation illuminated therewith PAVL At this word Paulus looking stedfastly in my face spoke thus vnto mee I will not saith hee henceforth any more enquire after the Causes of so great blindnesse in the Iesuites I will admit no more excuses If in thee so great a light of the truth could be depraued by Iesuiticall Education and almost quite extinct in thee as I verily suppose it had beene in all likelihood if God had not sent me hither What may I imagine they are not able to worke in the darke and infatuated vnderstanding of others When he had thus said immediately the watch-word was giuen that it was time to retire from our walke and recreation and both of vs in priuate retired to our priuate Chambers Here endeth the first Booke FINIS A DISCOVERIE OF THE SECRET DESIGNES AND BLOODIE Proiects of the Societie of IESVITES of later yeares WHat MARCVS CATO sometimes spoke concerning the Romane Southsayers that hee wondred how they could forbeare to smile vpon each other so often as they met may not vnfitly be applyed to the Iesuites It is a wonder that one Iesuite when hee looketh vpon another doth not straight way burst foorth into a laughing outright they being amongst themselues priuie to such impostures practised vpon the people I speake not touching your simpler sort of Iesuites from whom these more reserued and closer practises of the Societie are altogether concealed either in respect they are not held wise enough forsooth to bee acquainted with them or that they are thought too deuout to entertaine them or else in regard of their short continuance in that Society for all such are so kept short through seuerity of Discipline that not one of them except hee bee wondrous quicke of sent can euer smell out in the least measure what knauery is therein practised vnder a shew of Holinesse My discourse onely toucheth the prime and principall fellowes of that Societie their Regents Fathers Provincials and Generals all which are so vniuersally and joyntly tainted with all manner of wickednesse but especially with Whoredome Couerousnes and Magicke that indeed any reasonable man may thinke it little lesse then a Miracle if a Iesuite of this ranke meeting such another vpon a sudden and beholding as it were another picture or liuely representation of himselfe should haue power to abstaine from laughing outright I therefore thought it not amisse considering the premisse● to lay open vnto the world some particuler passages and practises of that Society of the greatest part whereof my selfe haue beene an eye-witnesse and some part whereof hath been related vnto me by Iesuites whom I am able to name and will vndoubtedly nominate if they shall but dare in the least manner to lift vp their tongues against mee or to contradict what I haue written And howsoeuer at this time I passe ouer things briefly and doe onely as it were giue you a first draught thereof I doe purpose in due time God assisting me to do it more largely and compleatly with expression of all and singular circumstances thereunto appertaining First of all then at my entrance into my Colledge of Iesuites especially if it be scituated in or neere vnto any large and populous and rich place But alas why doe I say if it be built there Seeing they haue no Colledges in any poore meane or obscure place At your first entry I say into such a place or Colledge take principall notice of the Porter of their Gate and him you shall find to looke like vnto the very picture of a very Charon or rather a Cerberus For the most part you shall obserue him to bee a man of very great yeares or if

he bee younger hee is a fellow of most approued trust and secrecie And this is the man if any such there bee who is well skilled in all the mysteries of the Iesuites Caball or reserued Diuinity In this fellowes keeping is great store of apparell both for Men and Women of euery degree and calling And with this apparell doe the Iesuites habite themselues according to the quallity that euery one findeth himselfe ablest to personate and so practise wonderfull Impostures in the world For at sometimes beeing habited like Souldiers very gallant then walke in the streets and highwayes Whoring and Swaggering in the publike Stewes At other times in the ciuill habites of Citizens professing themselues to bee of the reformed Religion they pry vp and downe and listen in Innes in Play-houses in Tauernes vpon the Exchange and in all places of publike meetings wheresoeuer there is any frequent resort what the people speake vp and downe concerning them what consultations are abroad what matter of Action is set a foot in any part Another while like Doctors of Physicke or of the Ciuill Law with great gold Rings on their fingers avowing and purposely professing themselues to be Papists wheresoeuer they know any of the Common sort that is wealthy and hath sonnes they deuise some cause of businesse with them and insinuate themselues into their acquaintance by strange fetches and in Conclusion doe advise them to bring vp their sonnes in some Schoole or Colledge of Iesuites affirming that themselues haue beene Educated by them and that they haue so profited vnder them that God bee thanked they neuer had cause to repent thereof And sometimes againe apparelled like Noblemen and compleatly attended they cause Coaches to bee prouided abroad and frequent the Courts of Princes as giuing attendance vpon Ambassadors of forraigne States and serue as Intelligencers to vnlocke the cabinets of great Potentates Nay further I haue knowne them to make shew of being banished persons and to craue collections amongst Protestant Divines purposely to learne vnderhand what such men writ against them yea such were those men for the most part who so miserably deluded so many Reverend men in many places by sinister wayes vnder that habit furthering the designes of their Societie and breeding disturbances in the reformed Congregations of whom to the end that all honest-hearted Ministers may be more warie hereafter I shall tell you hereafter what proiects at this day the Iesuites haue a foote to this purpose But in the meane while perhaps you will say vnto me whereto I pray you serueth so much womens apparell or what is their end in depositing so much in the keeping of the Porter of their gate Attend and I will tell you No Pander that euer TIRENCE or PLAVTVS mentioned in their Comedies was so nimble at the trade of winning pretty wenches at are the Iesuites at this day but especially that Porter of their gate whom I mentioned but now For that which the Confessors themselues are not able to wring out of them by Auricular Confession in their Churches and Chappels this fellow knoweth how to winne from them by flattering speeches with wonderfull pleasing and delightfull toyes especially if he meete with a poore widdow or any such silly woman which sendeth her child to the Colledge now and then for an Almes or with some Laundresse or Spinster for bee shee Lotrix or Petrix hee will make her a Meretrix Whom so soone as this base Pander hath once but allured to come to his net although her apparell bee neuer so old and tattered yet hee hath gay Gownes enough in store with accoutrements suitable wherewith hee can make her both tricke and trimme which when hee hath so done hee knoweth how to convey her through many secret passages and by-wayes to his Venerable Maisters the Fathers of the Societie And yet he neuer doth this in the day time but neere vpon the shutting in of the Euening and then they make away the whole night in Ryot and Luxurie with reuelling and Dancing the younger sort and Nouices of the Societie being kept farre enough from Discouery thereof For they haue for the purpose certaine Vaults framed like Chambers and roomes vnder ground as had those ancient Romanes who first deuised there Stewes in Vaults whose inclination to all carnall lasciuiousnes was so great and so bruitish that the Senate of Rome fearing the iust anger of their Gods for the same vtterly suppressed those Lupanaria or publike Stewes And thus much for the Iesuites Porter of their Gate onely I must not forget to tell you this one thing that if any party who by chance shall come to the sight of such and so great a Wardrobe doe demand with admiration what is the end or vse of it answere is made vnto them that it is the wardrobe reserued purposely for acting of Playes but that is the least part of their intention to my knowledge Moreouer when thou entrest into any of their Churches make account that thou walkest vnder an heauen of Iron Bloody Mars is ouer thine head not that Prince of peace below thee is the very pit of Hell and a shop of Tormenters I now doe relate in good earnest what mine owne eyes haue seene At Prague in Bohemia vpon the roofe of their Churches are thousands of Iron Bullets Whips and fire bals such as the Bohemians vse vpon the sides are placed pieces of Ordnance with a great number of Musquets and Harquebushes with Pikes and Halberts In the middest where the Arches meete are great heapes of huge Bullets of stone And the like preparation haue they also made at Craconia Nor doe I make question but that vpon due search their Colledges in other places would appeare as well provided But some man may perhaps make question to what end Religious men should make such preparation or what need there can be so to doe I confesse the matter at the first sight astonished me and to my best vnderstanding was exceeding strange but thus standeth the case The Iesuites know well enough that the courses which they haue taken formerly and now euery day doe take are so indirect and turbulent as maketh them odious to all such as they liue amongst yea to very Papists themselues at least to the wiser sort of them in respect of many things which they haue done both tumultuously and wickedly wheresoever they haue got footing in the least manner For they haue no regard of any they spare not to roote vp the very Catholickes themselues so that they may pleasure the Popes Holinesse therein though it were with the betraying of their Countries and setting the whole Christian world in a Combustion And therefore because they are in daily feare to bee massacred by those among whom they liue they make this provident and timely prevention by Warre-like preparation For indeed they are afraid as I my selfe haue heard them confesse least it might befall vnto them as vnto the Knights Templers who notwithstanding they were