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A41989	Autokatakritoi, or, The Jesuits condemned by their own witness being an account of the Jesuits principles in the matter of equivocation, the Popes power to depose princes, the king-killing doctrine : out of a book entituled An account of the Jesuits life and doctrine, by M.G. (a Jesuit), printed in the year 1661 and found in possession of one of the five Jesuits executed on the 20th of June last past : together with some animadversions on those passages, shewing, that by the account there given of their doctrine in the three points above-mentioned, those Jesuits lately executed, were, in probability, guilty of the treasons for which they suffered, and died equivocating.	M. G. (Martin Grene), 1616-1667.; M. G. (Martin Grene), 1616-1667. Account of the Jesuites life and doctrine.; Hopkins, William, 1647-1700.	1679 (1679)	Wing G1826; ESTC R13202	29,605	24

Mr. Gawen in his Speech at Execution tells us he pronounced himself and he saith well for few believe it was composed by himself but by the Jesuits for him in defence of the Jesuits It is very well known that when the King made that Speech to the Parliament of Paris he came resolved to gratifie the Pope who had long and with great earnestness pressed the revocation of Jesuits from banishment and not to take advice of that Assembly what was fit to be done Had he admitted a fair debate of things and suffered the weightier reasons to preponderate Harlay one of the Presidents of that Parliament gave reasons unanswerable against their revocation But the truth of the matter was plainly thus The same necessity of affairs which at first enforced that great King to embrace the Romish Religion now also constrained him to re-call the Jesuits from banishment While he was a Protestant he saw there was no hope of sitting quiet upon his throne so long as the Leaguers with whom the * Oratio Harlai apud Thuanum lib. 130. ad An. 1604. Jesuits unanimously sided and not so much as one single man of the Society took part with the King could have the pretence of Heresie to excite his Subjects to Rebellion When he was turned Roman Catholick one Chaste a Scholar of the Jesuits attempted to kill him and confessing that he had learnt that Doctrine which animated him to this attempt among them whom he had often heard call the King Tyrant saying it was lawful to kill him and that he was out of the pale of the Church c. and upon searching Father Guinart's Chamber having found several papers owned by himself to be his writing which contained that dangerous Doctrine the Jesuits were at the Petition of the Universities of France banished the Kingdom and Guinart was hanged During their exile he saw himself in continual danger of Assassination by their Friends He was plied with earnest sollicitations from the Pope on their behalf Rivet Jes Vapulans cap. 12. n. 5. as may be seen in Cardinal d' Ossat's Letters and at last saw he should never make any interest in the Court of Rome unless he would comply with the Pope in their Revocation He therefore thought it good policy to make necessity a vertue and try if by an unexampled piece of Clemency he might at once oblige the Pope and appease their restless malice Hereupon he repeals the Sentence of their Banishment receives them into more than ordinary favour admits one of the Society for a Confessor bequeaths his heart to them and by all Arts endeavours firmly to oblige them to his Interests hoping he might find them as serviceable to him for the future as formerly they had been to the Spaniard against him Otherwise 't is notorious to all the World that this great King retained too much kindness for his old Religion to be Bigot enough for the Jesuits It was fear made him Court them and after all the flourishes our Author makes 't is more than probable he was their Orator for his own Ruin And when the Jesuits found him not for their turn they soon sent him after his Predecessor having hopes of playing their Cards to better advantage with a King in minority and an Italian Queen Regent M. G. I easily believe that those who have already calumned the Society in this matter will endeavour some sleeveless answer to this Authority of the words and actions of so great a King but withal I confide that his Majesty will give more credit to the single Assertion of his Grandfather p. 108. than to ten thousand detractions and all wise men will joyn in his Majesties opinion If so much stress lie on the Authority of his Majesties Grandfather why should not the Authority of King James be as valid against the Jesuits as that of King Henry the 4th of France for them But if you would understand truly the sentiments of King Henry the 4th See the instructions given to Villeroy his Anbassador at Rome where he paints them out in their proper Colours Answ This or whatever else shall be offered may be pre-judged and called a sleeveless answer but I am sure 't is as considerable as the Argument which is an Authority of more pomp than strength And methinks the Jesuits have little reason to triumph over the Protestants upon account of the Testimony of King Henry the fourth That their Doctrine concerning the Popes Authority over Kings differs not from that of other Catholick Divines which if true is really though not intentionally rather an accusation of the Popish Religion in general than any Apology for the Jesuits M. G. But to go on and prove both first and second part of what I asserted Nothing else need be said to make all my Assertion evidently clear but only to give a true Historical account of what hath been done in this matter which I will do sincerely and faithfully The opinion then of the Popes Authority in deposing of Princes was held by many Religous and Clergy men before any of the Society writ of it Answ That other Orders and that before Ignatius Loyala had founded the Society of Jesus were Assertors of the Popes Authority in deposing Kings I deny not And I further acknowledg that the Jesuits have not maintained the Hildebrandine Doctrine at that extravagant rate as many of the Canonists have done They have too much Learning too much Wit and I wish I might add Honesty to boot but I must not ascribe too much to that No they have as much affection for the cause as any Canonist of them all but they are fallen into too knowing an Age to bear it Their Order was Erected and Confirmed by Pope Paul the III. A. D. 1540. at a time when Learning was much retrieved and when those trifling proofs would not satisfie nor would those Arguments convince which had passed for demonstration uncontrolled for four or five hundred years before M. G. For example there were ordinarily cited for this opinion of the renowned Order of the Benedictines Gregory the VII and other Abbots that joyned with him as Desiderius Abbot of Mont Cassin Anselmus Lucensis did and Panormitanus c. of the Order of St. Augustine Aegidius Romanus Augustinus Triumphus c. of St. Dominicks Order St. Thomas St. Antoninus Cajetan c. of the Franciscans St. Bonaventure Joannes de Capistrano Relagius Alvarius Alexander Ales c. of the Carmelites Waldensis and Bacon of the * That is Seculars p 109. Clergy very many Priests and Bishops and Cardinals as Gerson Doctor of Paris c. of the Lawyers Bartolus and Baldus c. these and many more were cuted in Schools for this Doctrine which Barclay rightly calleth the common Doctrine of both Canonists and Divines Answ All this plainly discovers that the Popish Religion as Popish is dangerous to the rights of Princes all Orders by reason of their immediate dependence on

the Pope are injurious to them but yet more than any or indeed all the rest the Jesuits Pursuant to this Doctrine there hath been for several years carried on an Hellish Plot for the subversion of our Government and Religion and in order to the ruin of both for the Assassination of His Sacred Majesty There were engaged in it as hath been sworn of the renowned Order of the Benedictines Corker Howard c. of St. Domincks Order Keimash Dominick Collins c. of the Franciscans Armstrong and Napper of the Carmelites Hanson Trevers c. of the Clergy many Priests Bishops and some Cardinals But it was first hatched by the Jesuits and there are more of the Society accused than of all Orders besides But yet I must not forget or omit one passage I passage I remember I have read in a French Book Entituled Traite de la Politique de France for the Renowned Order of St. Benedict In a Chapter where among other things he prescribes methods for the utter ruin of the English Nation the Author advises that a promise should be made to the Benedictines that they should be re-established in all their Ancient Possessions according to the Monasticon which saith he will make those Monks move Heaven and Earth to bring all into confusion So that you see the Benedictines of how good repute soever they have been are none of the most quiet Spirits As the Jesuits are the Popes Janizaries so are the Benedictines his Spahi M G. Though not withstanding it is to be observed that none of these nor no Catholick Divine ever gave the Pope an Arbitrary Power to depose at his lest as now some though very falsly presume Their opinions were modified so that their Books stood in esteem and were not thought to have deserved so ill at Princes hands as now some would make them seem Answ In the Paragraph before he hath given them such a wound as the Plaister he lays upon it in this will neither cover nor cure It is well known See my Lord Bishop of Lincoln 8. pag. 60. that very small reasons have been thought by the Pope cause enough for the deposing of Kings And by accusing all Protestant Prindes of Heresie these Authors plainly give the Pope power to depose them at his list M. G. All which I do not say to defend their opinions as good but only a declaring matter of Fact I say these and many more were cited in Schools for this Doctrine as a common opinion before the Society was in the World as beside what I have said is manifestly proved in the Oration which Cardinal Perron made to the third Estate in France Answ Having made a fair Apology to little purpose for others he now makes another with as little success for himself All which I do not say to defend their opinions as good Well said but what then Sir Dare you condemn these opinions Do you any where so much as insinuate that they are bad much less do you any where profess to disown them as traiterous and false M. G. Whilst then this was the opinion of the Schools Bellarmine writ his Controversies and in the matter De summo Pontifice p. 110. he taught this Doctrine and he took his Arguments as be professeth himself out of Sanders a Secular Priest Answ It seems the common opinion of all their Divines and Canonists with a Pope at the head of them amounts to no more than a School point He insinuates that though this Doctrine formerly was the opinion of the Schools 't is otherwise now I should be glad to hear that this point is at present determined otherwise than it was formerly wont in Popish Schools But I doubt I may expect till I am a weary before I hear so good news For ought appears to the contrary our Author and the rest of the Society are still of Bellarmines opinion But to serve the present design an Apology must be made for Bellarmine and what is it Why alas unhappy man It was his ill luck to write in a time when this Doctrine was commonly received And was it so It had been worthy Bellarmines great Learning to have rectified that vulgar error to have disabused the World and answered Sanders his Arguments rather than to have urged them further and confirmed so dangerous a Doctrine by his Authority Those vertues for which Silvester de Petra Sancta celebrates him would have inclined him to this but 't is apparent the Genius and Interest of the Society swaid him the contrary way M. G. After Bellarmine partly to vindicate him and partly upon other accounts four or five Jesuits more writ on the same matter alledging Authors who had writ before them taking for the most part their reason out of former writers that stood in Libraries and were read without control in Schools And this is that which Henry the fourth said That he was sure Jesuits taught nothing in this matter which did differ from the other Catholicks But it was not enough for the Society to be as wary as others Answ If those four of five Jesuits have been mis-led by Bellarmine and former Writers the Society ought to have censured both him and them and should have obliged those Authors to recant Till the Society set some publick brand upon them for this scandalous Doctrine that its Authors may be no more in a capicity to mis-lead others the Society is justly charged with that Doctrine and all those ill consequences thereof which it hath in its power so easily to redress M.G. their Doctrine therefore after the death of Henry the fourth their great Protector was highly contradicted especially in France and much noise there was The Jesuits them seeing that this Doctrine was Lapis offensionis and bred disgust because they taught it to take away all complaint of the Society resolved never to say more of that matter So F. Claudius Aquaviva the fifth General of the Society made a Prohibition concerning this matter on the 5th of Jan. 1616. p. 111. Answ Observe I pray you the reason of these Prohibitions which he thinks make the Society less chagerable with this Doctrine than others It is no dislike of it but rather the contrary that occasioned their silence It seems the Jesuits had as they still have a very ill name and Doctrine that was ever a whit suspicious if taught by them was the worse received for the teachers sake Now it grieved them to see this Darling Doctrine and consequently the Papal Power lose ground and themselves hated and reviled for teaching it therefore to stop those mouths which were every where open against them and because the Doctrine was likely to be propagated with better success by more acceptable persons they resolved for the future to be silent in that point M. G. But because that Prohibition seemed not efficacious enough to prevent all inconveniences and give the World full satisfaction Father Mutius Vateleschi the sixth General of