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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

the moneyed men giving Bond before a Scrivene Perchance when they lie a dying they will send to the Scrivener for the good of their souls to deliver us up the Bonds And a piece of paper is easier given up than the counting over a heap of money For the same reason we should take up all the money we could of our Friends though we put it out again that so being sensible of our great indigency this may be a more ready way to provoke them in compassion at the hour of death to leave us the whole or a good share for the erecting some new College We must not fail to be in Fee with the Physicians that they may recommend us to their Patients upon all occasions Our Confessours must be sure not to nelgect visiting the sick especially those that are in despair laying before them the pains of Purgatory and Hell which are no ways to be avoided without Charity They which have been formerely covetous are used for the most part to be very liberal ot our Society and if may be put all their Estates presently into our hands which our people must press as much as they can for fear the opportunity should slip by If a Woman in Confession blames the vitious and harsh humour of her Husband that hinders her from observing our Discipline and that she be rich and well inclined towards us She must be convinced that she can do nothing more pleasing to God than to lay out a good Sum of Money unknown to her Husband or else spare it out of her own allowance as being the only means to procure her quiet for the future and remission both of her own sins and her Husbands And we find many times by experience that this course has abated much of the Husband's rigour CHAP. X. Of the Rigour and Discipline within Our Society THe Superiours shall declare the rigour of this Discipline to be such that excepting some reserved Cases whosoever among us of what age or condition soever shall have taken off any of ours or our Friends from doing us good or put them upon entring into any other Order but Ours or upon bestowing their Patrimony on Us shall shew a coolness and backwardness and rather perswade them to give it to some other Order or if any that receive Confessions shall perswade their Penitents to bestow their Charity upon their poor Kindred such ought to be esteemed mortal Enemies to the Society And though they must not be dismissed immediately yet let them be forbid hearing any Confessions and mortified by undergoing the most vile and abject Offices be put to teach the lower Forms in the School hindred from taking any Degree and as well in private as at Meals let them be perpetually jobed grumbled at debarred of all recreations and solemn Meetings whatever they value most in their Chambers let it be taken away that being thus hard put to it they may first complain themselves Which is the best way to get rid of such incorrigible Fellows They which scruple the procuring any manner of advantage for the Society shall be turned out without any more to do In short the Superiour must never stick at dismissing any that continue not in perfect obedience and submission CHAP. XI How to order a Dismission TO the end that they we turn out become not irreconcileable to us we must handle them after this manner Before they are dismissed they shall give it under their hands and confirm it over the Sacrament that they will never speak nor act any thing against our Society Hinder their access to Great Men whether of the Spiritualty or Tempralty for fear they should curry favour with them to our prejudice Lay open their Vices and Miscarriages and ill Conditions with a testimony of our great resentment that they should so far forfeit themselves with us past hopes of reconciliation Write word to all our Colleges of their names and sirnames we have dismissed with a large account of their Mis-demeanours In whatever power or credit he may be that is turned out we must still be before-hand with him in our address to the sober and powerful Men letting them understand what hainous Offences he has committed that were the cause of his Disgrace Then lay before them the love power reputation and advantage our Society has brought to the Church of God by the approbation of all men the great esteem is had of our Learning for which Kings and other Great Princes take us for their Confessours and Chaplains and admit us into their most secret Counsels And besides if we acknowledge our selves obliged in Christian zeal to have a particular love for our Neighbour how can it be imagined that we should do the least wrong to any we have admitted Companions under the same Rule with us We must have a great care how we let any of those we have dismissed into a Benefice before having first cried Peccavi given us a good sum of Money and assigned all they have over to our Society or at least given some particular and sufficient testimony that they are ours body and soul CHAP. XII What choice ought to be made of those Novices we take in amongst us and how to keep them VVE must be very careful in choosing Youths well-disposed of good parts and comely persons well born and rich To intice them they must be carryed into our Gardens or into our best appartments by the Prefect of the Classes who shall satisfie them how acceptable an undertaking it is to God their coming into our Society The Governours of our Colleges must be very gentle with them to let them see what an affection we have for them which to manifest the more when any others chance to be in the same fault with them we will pardon them meerly for their sakes and then let them privately understand as much We must tell them with some seeming kind of passion that Youth is always ill-disposed and if they render not up themselves upon such warning they must be threatened with eternal Damnation For the more easie winning upon them we must present them with some small trifles little Images Books or the like walk with them in the Gardens and there give them some of the best Fruit sweeten them up with good words place them in the best seats upon any publick Solemnity and sometimes entertain them in our Refectories giving them a tast of our best and choicest Wines We must perswade them that God has designed them for us and that we are most assured of it by the revelation of our Holy Fathers But they must have a care not to speak of it again to any body Then must we threaten them that they are eternally Damned if they despise the Call of the Holy Ghost who has inspired them to enter into our Order When they come to desire to be admitted it must not be granted them presently but put off a little to try the strength of their resolution

every man ought to conclude that interest of State forbids any Prince to choose for his Confessor of that sort of men who are so industrious in prying into affairs of State and make that benefit of what they are acquainted with to use it for a means to ingratiate Themselves with other Princes And much less reason have Princes to suffer Their chief Ministers and Counsellors or the Officers of Their Houshold to Confess to Them Especially since we live in an Age replenished with Persons which neither yeelding to the Jesuites in learning or piety may be as serviceable without running such a hazard being such as only concern Themselves in the Direction of Souls and Discharging Their Ecclesiastical Functions But for the better understanding of what we have said hitherto and what hereafter shall be said it must be observed that there are three sorts of Jesuites The first consists of certain Lay-people of both Sexes which having associated Themselves with that Society live under it in the performance of a certain blind obedience steering all Their actions by the Directions of Jesuites and are ever in a readiness to execute what They command These are for the most part Gentlemen and Ladies that pass the rest of Their dayes in widowhood as likewise wealthy Citizens and rich Merchants who like good Fruit-trees bring plenty of good things to the Jesuites that is store of gold and silver Of this sort are those women which are commonly called Bigotes who being perswaded by These Fathers to despise the World are by Them in requital made a harvest of being wheedled out of rich moveables and other considerable matters The second kind takes in only men of which some are Priests and others Lay who though They live abroad in the World and many times by the Jesuites good word obtain Pensions Canonries Abbeys and other Revenues are yet under a Vow to take the habit of the Society upon the first Order from the Father General for which reason they are called Jesuites in Vow It is by these the Father Jesuites carry on their business so smoothly for the establishing Their Monarchy keeping Them in all places and in all Princes Courts and in short wherever any thing of moment passes throughout Christendom and this for such service as shall be declared in the seventh particular The third sort is of those politick Jesuites in whom all the authority rests who hold the reins of government over their Order and who being accosted by the Devil with the same temptation our Saviour underwent in the Desart All these things will I give Thee if Thou wilt fall down and Worship Me have taken Him at His Word and thus in compliance with Sathan do with might and main prosecute the Universal Monarchy Now as almost all the important affairs of Christendom are passed at Rome and that There it is the chief of These noble politicians reside that is to say Their General with a great number of the Order So is it upon the same place They have determined to begin Their Dominion as They may easily perceive who will but take notice of Their behaviour There Very hardly shall you transact any thing in that Court but the Jesuites who have notice of all that passes of importance will presently meet in Counsell to determine an issue that may be favourable to Their interest There you shall find Them running to the Cardinals the Embassadours and the Prelates where bringing about the discourse to the affair Then in treaty or to be treated of They represent it as They please always considering Their own advantage and for that cause often so disguising the matter as to make White appear Black and Black White Thus the first Relation especially from men of a religious Order making the greatest impression upon the Spirit of Him that hears it falls out frequently that business of importance proposed by Embassadours and other Great men to the Court of Rome hath not that success as Princes could wish and all this by having spirits prepossessed by These Worthy Jesuites with partial accounts which forestalls the Credit that ought to be given to others who explain Themselves with more truth and sincerity Nor is this at Rome alone that They impose these Cheats but likewise in other Courts either by Themselves or the Jesuites of the second rank Whence we may conclude that the greatest part of the Affairs of Christendom pass through the Jesuites hands and that those only succeed which they think not fit to oppose All this while I must confess that their address to engage themselves in Affairs either for the opposing or favouring of them is so artificial that 't is impossible throughly to see into it so as to give a perfect description However it shall be no hard matter for any particular Prince to discover so far as his own Concern requires if he will but take the pains to peruse this short Account that I shall give because I know it will make him reflect immediately upon what is passed by which calling to mind the several circumstances of his former Treaties by comparing them with my observations it is impossible but he must descry the subtle dealing of the Society Notwithstanding this sly and close management be the chief Engine they work with to accomplish their Monarchy which is their principal aim yet they do not omit other means now and then so has their Passion blinded them that lays open their Ambition to all the World Was it not a pleasant request they made under pretence of a publick good for the Church to Gregory the Thirteenth That he would give Order to his Legates and Nuncio's each of them to take a Jesuite for his Confident to advise in all business The fourth thing that requires our confideration is that by these devices and their understanding in Affairs of State the Principal Jesuites are struck into a great league of Friendship with many Princes Temporal and Spiritual whom they make believe that they have done them great service And from this one advantage have proceeded very great mischiefs The first is that by making ill use of the Princes kindness they take upon them to wrong a great many private Families which though Wealthy and Noble have been brought to utter ruin by the Jesuites ingrossing of Widowes Estates and by indirect means inveigling many young Gentlemen into their Order that have been sent to their Colledges for Education For how often do we find it that when these young Gentlemen grow sickly or are found uncapable of performing the Duty belonging to their Order they are dismissed without ever having restitution of their Estates made to them or theirs the Jesuites having got possession before ever they would let them Profess This is far from that justice Ignatius has enjoyned them and no way consonant to that first intention their Founders had who left them not according to their insatiate avarice but enough to keep them in a condition to serve the Church

Reason compose their own Interest out of the faithful Intelligence they have of the Concerns of all Princes and of all Occurrences of State by which they do not only refresh that inward thirst of becoming Great but make likewise a mighty advantage in understanding their own emolument in prosecution of which they beat down all before them to accomplish their ends But what is most remarkable when as we have said before they are got into the hearts of Princes they are used to play them off by assuring them what excellent expedients they have for putting such a plot in practice and to bring about such a design But scarcely will they have begun in their assistance according to engagement but that upon confideration of some inconvenience this addition of Greatness to a Prince whom they have hitherto fed with fair hopes may bring to them they create a thousand delaies like Advocates in a Process at Law and then upon a sudden by some excellent sleight of contrivance turn all into confusion and so break the neck of that Plot themselves had laid He that will but reflect upon the League of France which being carryed on and concluded by them was likewise detected when they saw the King was like to get the better and upon England which they so often promised to the Spaniards will need no other proof to make out the truth of what I have said May we not then very justly draw this conclusion from the whole That the Jesuites having no real or sincere kindness for any nor will oblige the World beyond their own Interest neither Prince nor Prelate can make use of them without injury to themselves For at the same instant they pretend a like respect to all becoming Monsieurs with the French Dons with the Spaniard and so with all other Countreys as occasion serves and hopes of advantage They are very indifferent who it is they do harm or good to And no doubt it is that excessive Self-Interest and the little regard they have to any mans Concern else which makes few enterprises succeed in which they have a hand However I must allow that they have an incomparable art in concealing this indifference some of them still pretending a great zeal for the Crown of France others for that of Spain others for the Emperour and for all the rest of the Princes from whom they expect any favour But if it so fall out that some one of these Princes takes a Jesuite into his Cabinet-Counsels this fellow shall no sooner know any thing but that he will advise the Father General of it who presently sends back his result upon it in order to which he proceeds without consideration either of his Princes Will or Service And though these I have already declared are very great inconveniences I will shew you yet greater The first is That the Jesuites being fully informed of the several Interests and Counsels of Princes they amongst them that feign themselves to be of the French Faction propound to the King or his chief Ministers certain considerations of State which may be of some weight such as have been sent from Rome in their politick Letters Those which flatter the Court of Spain or any other Government where they have access make other propositions in these places quite contrary to the former or at least such as may keep Christian Princes at a distance to be in perpetual jealousies one of another which disturbs the common Peace more than can be imagined and brings a misfortune upon all Christendom For such a defiance hinders all possibility of joyning against the Common Enemy and indeed makes all Treaties of Peace between Princes signifie very little The second inconvenience is That by these subtle practices they have so opened the eyes of all people that no body minds any thing else but the Politicks So as nothing is done now a dayes that is not first weighed in this blance nor any business that is not directed by this Jesuitical Compass But all this would be nothing to what mischief would ensue if they of the Reformed Churches should take up this example and abuse their Interest with Princes after this manner For then in stead of Lutherans with whom some accommodation may it is hoped be found out one day we should have spring up a politick brood of irreconcilable Antichrists And to make it appear that I have said nothing but the truth when I have charged the Jesuites with such abominable Artifices and Collusions above all when they are upon insinuating themselves into the favour of Princes I must not forget what was done amongst them some years since upon the Concern of Great Britain One of their Fathers an Assistant of that Kingdom called Father Parsons having writ a Book against the Right of the King of Scots to the Crown of England Father Criton with others of the same Order defended the Kings Cause in a Book Intuled The Discourse of the King of Scots against the Opinion of Father Parsons or to that purpose And though you may suspect by this that they are divided among themselves yet I do assure you they do understand one another perfectly well For this Game was played by the directions of their General to the end that if the Scotch were disappointed of the Succession then should be shewed to whoever came in Father Parsons his Book or if otherwise Scotland should carry it then they should ingratiate themselves by presenting Criton's Work And so whatever came uppermost they were provided with that should make their Society acceptable By which you may judge how true it is that I told you Princes are the main object of all the Jesuites Designs and Actions and therefore reason good they should esteem their Order a Great Monarchy Nay is not this an undeniable argument of my assertion the small care they take to please any Prince when their Interest comes in competition We have have many experimental Examples that convince it beyond dispute if it were worth the trouble to set them down I will only give you one which shall be as good as a thousand Every one knows that there is none in the World that the Jesuites are in so high a nature obliged to and to whom they owe more fidelity than the Pope not only for the particular Vow of Obedience they make to his Person but for many other reasons besides And yet for all this Pius Quintus of blessed memory having a mind that these Fathers should officiate in the Chore and do all things after the manner of other Regulars they would never obey him but pretended still some great prejudice it would bring upon them Only there were some amongst them that submitted to His Holiness and did as they were commanded But how did the rest serve them Were they not by way of reproach called Aviatins or Starters aside And was ever any of them afterwards preferred in the least Just so they set themselves against that worthy