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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87579	The Jesuites intrigues with the private instructions of that society to their emissaries. The first, translated out of a book privately printed at Paris. The second, lately found in manuscript in a Jesuites closet after his death. Both sent with a letter from a gentleman at Paris, to his friend in London.	Gentleman at Paris. aut; Compton, Henry, 1632-1713.; Zahorowski, Hieronim. Monita secreta Societatis Jesu. English.	1679 (1679)	Wing J717A; ESTC R226679	39,130	77

and scrape up all that can be spared in Town or the Villages adjacent Our Preaching must be directed by the humour of the people we live amongst and it must be insinuated that we are come to catechise and teach their Children And this we must do gratis without regard had to any quality and yet so as in order to serve our selves by not seeming burdensome to the people as all other Begging Orders are We must profess to be of the number of the other Begging Orders till our House has got a sufficient Income to which we must have a particular aim CHAP. II. What must be done to get the ear and intimacy of Princes and Great men THere is great care to be taken in this business To bring over any Prince to Us we must be sure to take off that prejudice of believing They have no need of Us and perswade Them what interest We have That no man dares lift up his hand against Us. Princes have always desired a Jesuite Confessour when They have been engaged in hateful practices that They might not hear of reproof but still have some favourable interpretation put upon Them This often falls out upon Matches contracted with near Relations which are very troublesome by reason of the common opinion That such Marriages never thrive And therefore when Princes are set upon such things We must encourage Them and espouse Their Concerns putting Them in hopes that We can have what we will of the Pope and alledge some reasons opinions or examples which may feed the humour by shewing how Matches of higher consequence have been approved of for a publick good and have many times been indulged to Princes for the greater glory of God Thus when a Prince attempts any thing as for example He has a mind to make War We must go along with Him fix His mind and resolution upon it without enquiring into particulars for fear if things should happen otherwise than well the fault should he laid at our door And this We may do by pretending Our Rule which forbids Us to take knowledge of affairs of that nature To confirm the good will of Princes it is good to undertake some little Embassy always provided it bring us in some advantage by which We may render Our selves as necessary as welcome and let Them see how great Our power and credit is as well with the Pope as all other Princes There is no better way in the world to win Princes and Great Men at Court than by Presents which though never so mean are better than none at all And to give Them a full testimony of Our affections manners and inclinations We must than which nothing is more acceptable to Princes discover to Them the deportment and manners of those They have an aversion to By this means we shall creep into the hearts of Princes and Grandees Now if They be not married when we receive Their Confession We must propose to Them the Matching into some noble Alliance to some beautiful Lady and a great Fortune and such as if they are not related at least are very intimate with some of Ours set out such Virgins with Commendations suitable to our End to please These Great Ones Thus We may by preferring a Wife make new friendships as we find by experience in the House of Austrich with the Kindomes of Poland and France and the Dutchies When Women of condition come over to Us We must possess Them with as great a love to Our Society as is possible and that as well by those that are Our Friends of their Relation as by Our selves to the end they may become the more liberal towards Us. Now the way to gain their affections is by little Services and trifling Presents which will make them lay open their hearts to Us. To conduct the Consciences of Noble Persons We must follow the opinions of those Authors that write in a more gentle stile against the rigorous Morals of the Monks Which will make Princes reject the latter to embrace Our advice and counsel And thus They shall wholly depend upon Us. Therefore to have the good Will of Princes Prelates and other Great Personages it is requisite that They be acquainted with Our great Deserts and that We shew Them how considerable We are in all parts of the World and that We are able in a high measure to dispense with reserved cases which other Monks cannot do as to absolve from Fasting or Paying any just Debt Untie the impediments of Marriage and a thousand other Obligations and Vows We must endevour to breed dissention among Great Men and raise seditions or any thing a Prince would have Us to do to please Him If a chief Minister of State to any Monarch that is Our Friend oppose Us and that Prince cast His whole favour upon Him so as to add Titles to His Honour We must present Our selves before Him and court Him in the highest degree as well by Visits as all humble respect CHAP. III. How we are to deal with persons of Great rank that are not rich but have great power in the Common-Wealth that we may make Our advantages by Their Credit IF They be Secular Lords We must under the protection of Their assistance and kindness carry any process against Our enemies and make use of Their partiality to hook in Houses Villages Gardens Quarries of Stone for Building especially in the Towns where we have Colledges always purchasing under a strange name of some Confident of Ours We must be very careful to uphold the Bishops and Parishioners revenues for Us lest They should hinder the exercise of Our Function where They have to do For In Germany Poland and France the Bishops have great power and can with a great deal of ease obtain from their Prince any Convenience for Us as Monasteries new erected Parishes the priviledges of Serving at certain Altars places devoted to holy uses and other things which must be facilitated by stopping the Seculars mouths with some small consideration Besides We may transfer to Our own use what foundations We please where Catholicks and Hereticks inhabit together These Bishops should be made understand that besides the meritoriousness of the act in such a case they will reap a great benefit Whereas the Secular Priests and the Monks would pay them with nothing but a Song They ought to have immortal praise for their zeal in so good a deed that are the Cause of Our getting into the foundations of some Seculars and Canons which may be effected with ease by the assistance of These Bishops We must see that when the Bishops and Princes are founding any Colledges we have a perpetual Licence conferred upon Us to assist the Vicar of the parish-Parish-Churches in the Cure of Souls and that for some time the Superiour be a parishioner himself so to have the Church wholly at Our dispose The Bishops must be perswaded to build us Colledges in those Universities that are our Enemies and where