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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38918	An exact discovery of the mystery of iniquity as it is now in practice amongst the Jesuits and other their emissaries with a particular account of their antichristian and devillish policy / composed in the Italian tongue by one of the Romish religion ; translated into English, and now newly published by Titvs Oates ...; Instruttione a' prencipi della maniera con la quale si governano li padri giesuiti. English.	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing E3644; ESTC R11385	15,645	36

Glorious Saint Charles Arch-Bishop of Millain who as Legate a Latere to his Holiness endeavoured to reduce them to a Religious Discipline But what should I speak of these since they obey not the Sacred Cannons themselves but against their Decrees make Merchandize of Pearls Rubies and Diamonds the which they bring from the Indies And there is an Opinion that the greatest part of Precious Stones which are sold in Venice belong to the Jesuits the ground of which Opinion hath been received from their own Brokers whom they have employed in the Sale of them But that they are no faithful servants to the Bishop of Rome those Fathers well know who for default of their Service were called by process to Rome I need not Name them nor will I wade farther into this matter as well that I may not be compelled to speak of some Prince whom my Discourse may not very well please my self designing to do Service to all and to Offend none as because I intend not here to make so large an Invective against the Jesuits as they deserve but only to give a short and plain Draught of their Courses and Customs For as many times we behold one Afflicted with some grievous Infirmity sending forth such lamentable Cries as reach Heaven it self and every one perceived that the Man is terribly indisposed but no man is able to discern the Original Cause of his Evil so the whole World Complains of the Jesuits some for being Persecuted others for being Tortured and some for being Treacherously served by them but the Mischief still remains amongst us nor is the Cause thereof easily Discovered which is nothing else but an immense desire which they have to Increase crease their own Power in respect whereof they esteem it nothing to Vilifie or Murther any Man or to deceive Princes and to Oppress the Poor to Extort from Widows their Estates and Wrong the Fatherless What shall I say to Ruinate most Noble Kingdoms nay many times by their Intermedling with all importaut Affairs in matters of State it causes Jealousies and Despite amongst Christian Princes Now as there would follow a great Inconvenience if that part which was last formed by Nature as an Instrument to serve the rest that were more Noble should attract unto it self all the purest Blood and Vital Spirits because this I say were the way utterly to dissolve the whole so it is as inconvenient that the Religion of the Jesuits planted into the Body of the Holy Church as Instruments for the Conversion of Hereticks and the perswading of Sinners to Repentance should bring within their own Power all the most weighty and important Affairs of Princes and Prelates and Extracting from them the very Life and Spirit of their Interest should convert them unto their own purposes Because from hence both private and publick Peace is Disturbed many Depressed which were worthy to be Exalted and many Exalted which deserve to be Depressed with a Thouand Inconveniences which would follow upon it I could produce many Reasons taken from Experience it self to demonstrate what an ingorgeous Ambition the Jesuits have to increase their Greatness but it shall here suffice to make it known from Father Parsons own words recorded in a Book of his composed in the English tongue and InTituled The Reformation of England where having first blamed Cardinal Pool and having also observed many Wants and Imperfections in the Council of Trent at length he concluded That when England should return to the Roman Catholick Faith he would reduce it to the Form and State of the Primitive Church making common all Ecclesiastical Goods and assigning the Charge of them unto seven Sagii or Wise-men which should be Jesuits and they should make Distribution of Goods at their pleasure Nor is it his will nay he forbids it under a grievous Penalty that any Religious person of what Order soever should return into England without their License Resolving that none should enter there but those who should be Maintained by Almes But as it oft falls out that Self-Love blinds the VVisest Man that he becomes the greatest Fool it is most Ridiculous which the same Father subjoyns in that place When England sayes he shall once be reduced to the True Faith it will not be Convenient that the Pope at the least for Five Years space should look to receive any Fruit from the Ecclesiastical Benefices of this Kingdom but remit all into the Hands of those Seven Wise Men who should Dispense them as they conceived best for the good of the Church This being his Designe that the first Five Years being past by some other Invention of which they are very full they would re-confirm the same Priviledge for Five Years more and so onwards till they had utterly excluded his Holiness from England Now who seeth not here as in a Table the Covetousness and the Ambition of the Jesuits naturally describ'd together with the hearty desire they have to make themselves Monarchs And who seeth not with what Cunning they endeavour to promote their own Designes procuring it either from the Good of some or Ill of others VVhat should I say more of them In the time of Gregory the Thirteenth Did they not make it their Request that they might be Invested of all the Parish Churches in Rome That they might there lay a Foundation of their Monarchy And that which they could not get in Rome Have they not finally obtained in England VVhere they not long since have chosen an Arch-Priest one of the Jesuits in Voto who instead of protecting the Clergy like a Ravening VVolf persecutes all such Priests as are not depending upon the Jesuits driving them to terms of Desparation and depriving them under a great Penalty of mutual Communication so that by this time almost all the English-Roman-Clergy are Jesuits in Voto Nor do they accept any into their Colledges who hath not pass'd his VVord to become a Jesuit so that when that Kingdom shall return to the Antient Faith England will be like to give a beginning to an absolute Jesuitical Monarchy because all the Ecclesiastical Revenues all the Abbeys Benefices Bishopricks Arch-Priestships and other Dignities shall be conferred only by the Jesuits I here let pass many things as the pretensions which they make concerning other mens Estates how jealous they are of their VVelsare and desirous of their Prosperity as the Favour which they endeavour to gain from Princes by making them believe that their Subjects are most Devout to their Religion and consequently that they are able to make them well-affected to the person of their Prince Such evident things as these I leave to every one to observe and with Four brief Considerations I will conclude this present Discourse First That Men of such High Spirits such reaching Designes are alwayes Lovers of Novelty ever searching for it begetting it because without some new-raised Motions it is impossible they should attain their Ends And therefore the Jesuits cannot be helpful to any Prince that either loves Peace or the Conservation of his own State since they are more likely to be the Cause of much Trouble and Commotion Nay happily to Deprive him of his whole State if he Favour not their Party or be not partially governed by their Counsel Secondly If these who have not Temporal Jurisdiction are able to cause such great and prodigious Disturbances in the World What think ye would they do if one of them should by Chance be created Pope First he would stuff the Consistory with Jesuits and by that means perpetuate the Popedome to them and then directing themselves by their in-sight and interest of State and having the Arm and Power of the Pope they would be enabled to put in Danger the State of many Princes especially of those who are Neighbours and Confiners Thirdly It would be the Design of that Pope if he could by any means to Invest their Order of some City or Temporal Jurisdiction with the which they would afterwards make way for a Thousand other Designes which they could never Effect without the Damage of other Princes Fourthly When the Consistory should be entirely Jesuited the whole Patrimony of Christ would be in their Hands And as one that has the Dropsy The more he Drinks the more he Thirsts so their Ambition growing with their Greatness would occasion a vast Inundation of Trouble in the World Now because there is nothing more subject unto Change than matters of State These Fathers with all their Power and Crafty Cunning would endeavour to Alter the whole Course of Government that they might finally introduce the Form and Project of their own Government and by that means absolutely Immonarchize themselves They have had it long in their Heads to gain into their Society the Son of some Prince who should absolutely invest the Company of his State and this they had long since Attained if some others wisely Spying out their Design had not prevented them but had they once obtained that they would without any Difficulty have made themselves Patrons of the State-Ecclesiastical And as they are very Invective and Subtil they would afterwards have found out a Thousand Wayes how to enlarge it Thus they would have wanted no means that might make them Masters of their Projects And if nothing else would have done it the Jealousios which they would have raised in the Minds of their Confining Princes would have done them no small Service It is therefore most necessary that for the Preservation of Publick Peace and for the Maintenance of States for the encrease of True Religion and for the Common Good of the whole VVorld that they be utterly Rooted Out of all Christendom whose desires are so extreamly inordinate lest haply that follow which was Anciently effected by the Davidi whose Courses the Jesuits seem to Imitate who were not Destroyed till the time of Claudius the Emperour And when I shall be commanded to VVrite my Opinion concerning an opportune Remedy how to Rectifie These Fathers and to Convince them of their Erroneous Opinions desiring rather that they may be good Pastors of Souls which are the Treasury of Christ and not of the VVorld or of the Profit of the VVorld which is nothing else but vile Dung I am ready to perform it with Charity and with all that Ability which it shall please God to bestow upon me FINIS