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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

Person Charles Boromeo Archbishop of Milan when as Legate à Latere he would have visited their Society amongst the other Regulars But alas what is all this They break even the holy Canons by trading expresly against their injunctions in Pearls Rubies and Diamonds which are brought them from the Indies And it is generally believed that the greatest part of the Jewels which come from the Indies and are sold at Venice pass through their hands Neither is this a bare rumour spread abroad by their enemies for I have it from those very men whom they imploy as Brokers to put them off I could produce other Stories that should make it as clear how ill they serve the Pope and how dishonestly but because I can say nothing in it without mentioning a Prince who would not very well relish my discourse I will be silent For I desire to serve all the World and offend no man not so much as the Jesuites which otherwise I honour and against whom I do not in the least pretend to write an invective only a little to abate their pride and if possible make them behave themselves with more moderation than hitherto they have done For who is there almost that has not reason to complain of the Jesuites And yet just as it falls out many times with men in desperate diseases whilst they make lamentable complaints to heaven such as startle every body that hear them though each patient very well knows what kind of a Disease he is visited with yet not one in a thousand can tell from what inward cause it proceeds so notwithstanding all the World cries out upon the Jesuites some for being oppressed by them others for not being so honestly dealt with as was to be expected from men of their Robe yet the inconvenience continues few perceiving what is the original of this Mischief However if one would but look a little into the business it would appear plainly that the immoderate and boundless passion of making themselves Great provokes them to neglect the satisfaction of Princes and to deceive them to oppress the poor embezel Widows Estates ruin great Families raise suspicions and promote enmities betwixt Christian Princes to introduce themselves into their Affairs But would it not be a strange irregularity in nature if one of the meanest parts of the body which was made only as a servant to the more noble should take to itself the best blood and the greatest share of the vital spirits Could one after such a disorder expect less than a dissolution of the whole The abuse in Church and State is no less when we see the Jesuites Order which is come in one of the last and erected for the Conversion of Infidels and drawing sinners to repentance assume to itself the Concerns of Prince and Prelate drawing out the best and very life itself of their Affairs for their own use Which most assuredly cannot be done without both a publick and private disturbance by keeping under those subjects who most deserve advancement and raising none but the unworthy with thousands of other Divels such monstrous proceedings must call up I could easily bring many reasons here from experience besides those I have given to prove of what a vast extent the ambition of the Jesuites is and that there is no measure in their desires of growing Great But because I hate to be tedious I will only lay before you the project of Father Parsons upon England as he himself has set it down in his Book called The Reformation of England Where after he has fallen upon Cardinal Pole a man of singular piety and worth and has observed certain faults and defects in the Council of Trent he concludes at last that supposing England should fall back to the Church of Rome he would put it into the Condition of the Primitive Church For this purpose all the Ecclesiastical Revenues must be brought into one common Stock the care and dispensation of which he would have committed to seven discreet persons taken out of the Jesuites Society to distribute as they should think fit Moreover he would have all other Orders forbid coming into this Kingdom under severe penalties only such as they shall permit which according to his judgment must be none but the begging Orders But as it is the usual fate of self-love to blind those it has mastered and be they never so wise make them guilty of the greatest follies I do not much wonder at what this Father adds England says he being once brought back to the Truth the Pope must not for at least five years after think of making any profit out of the Church-Revenues but remit the whole entirely to the seven who shall dispose of them as they think best for the Churches advantage In good earnest a man must be very dull that should not perceive their whole design to be to amuse or rather cheat the Pope by such a proposal hoping at the five years end to find out some other trick which seldom fails them to keep it five years longer and so by degrees shut His Holiness quite out Does not this demonstrate their greedy ambition to an undeniable degree Can any man after this doubt of their aspiring thoughts of a Monarchy Do not the arts they use but it past dispute And do they not at the same time make it manifest that so they have their Ends they are indifferent as to the rest whether advantaged or ruined by it In the time of Gregory the Thirteenth they made it their request to be invested with all the Churches of Rome no doubt that they might found their Empire in the Capital City of the World But that which was deny'd them for Rome was upon their importunity granted them for England where they made him confer the Dignity of Arch-Priest upon a Jesuite in Vow who instead of protecting the Ecclesiasticks plays the Divel against all Priests that have no dependance upon the Jesuites so far as to hinder their communication one with another though but to discourse which has made them almost desperate Therefore it is no marvel if at present most of all the Priests in England are Jesuites in Vow since besides the reasons I have already given they admit none into the Colledges but such as pass their word to take the habit of the Society So that if England should slide back again there is no question of it but that it would give beginning to an established Monarchy of the Jesuites because the Bishopricks Dignities and generally all the other Benefices and Church-revenues would be bestowed upon Jesuites No wonder then if after this we hear of so few Converts especially in that Nation we last spoke of For first the old Stock of Priests which formerly made a great harvest that the Jesuites falsly attributed to themselves is near worn out And these Youths are more zealous in promoting their own Interest than in saving of Souls And then besides the Protestants observing the