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A46678	A further discovery of the mystery of Jesuitisme In a collection of severall pieces, representing the humours, designs and practises of those who call themselves the Society of Jesus.	Jarrige, Pierre, 1605-1660.; Schoppe, Kaspar, 1576-1649.; Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179.; Flacius Illyricus, Matthias, 1520-1575.; Zahorowski, Hieronim.	1658 (1658)	Wing J489A; ESTC R219108	215,027	399

discourse through a whole Countrey and the world is in a manner scandalised at it The Reflection that naturally arises hence is that the persons whom I produce by name and surname as Authors of the crimes before mentioned are the most eminent of the Order such as Provincials Rectors Procurators of Provinces Preachers Divines great Humanists as for instance Malescot Rousseau Pitard Sabbatheri John Adam Petiot Olive Biroat Dusresne Manian and such others in abundance as whose names and excellent parts are known to all the world When some of the lesser stars tread amisse and appear not in their ordinary places it is not perceiv'd by any unlesse it be by some curious Mathematician but when the Sun suffers an Eclipse the people of the foure parts of the universe turn their eyes towards his globe I do not here entertain the world with the crimes of those among them whom they contemptibly call formall Coadjutors or if I have produced any they are very few in comparison of the others but I bring upon the stage the Ring-leaders of the Society guilty of the most enormous offences If the denomination of a compositum ought to be taken from the better and the nobler part let all the world judge whether that Society instead of being called the Society of JESUS should not be more justly called the Society of MALEFACTORS REFLECTION V. and last When a man hath read and diligently examin'd what is contain'd in this little book I am confident there will be no necessity of my putting him in mind that the Jesuits themselves forc'd me to this discovery and that it very much concern'd in point of honour to endeavour my disparagement as much as might be as well by indictment as by books in case they rationally presum'd that I should not alwayes be silent and that if I conceal'd their crimes for some time after my coming from among them so to avoid all medling with them and to shun the first sallies of their exasperation yet at last I should upon the perswasion of the Reverend Ministers of our Church discover them But God knowes how far they have been mistaken in their conjecture and how that they have put the sword into my hand to defend my self and wherewith I have wounded them in their heart and in the apple of their eye that is in their reputation I conclude making a folemne protestation of two things the first that I have not said any thing but the naked truth The second that had they not betray'd such an implacable violence against me I should have resolved to be silent though it had been out of no other consideration then that of avoiding that shame among my Brethren which I must needs conceive at my having lived so long in an Order guilty of such horrid crimes THE END Psal XVII PReserve me Lord from hurtfull things As th' apple of thine eye And under covert of thy wings Defend me secretly From wicked men that tyrannize Let thy hand help me out And from my deadly enemies That compasse me about In their own fat they are inclos'd And bear themselves so high That with their mouth they are dispos'd To speak presumptuously They have encompassed us round In our own footsteps now And down unto the very ground They beuo their lowring brow Like th' eager Lyon that doth long To take his prey in chace And as it were a Lyon young That lurks in secret place Arise and disappoint him then And cast him down O Lord Defend my Soul from wicked men Which are thy cutting sword From worldly men thy help I crave From men which are thy hand Which in this life their portion have And do not see beyond THE CALUMNIES OF JAMES BEAVFES REFUTED By the same Author PSALME LIV. To the Reverend THE PASTORS AND ANCIENTS Of the FRENCH Reformed Churches gathered together in the united Provinces of the Low-Countries REVEREND SIRS IT is certainly an obligation of divine Providence and a favour which all my services cannot come into the least degree of deserving that it hath been pleased to permit the Persecutors of our Churches and the enemies of the Faith we professe to set upon both by indictment and by printed books the Declaration I had made with all the syncerity of my heart The seed which is sown must endure the nipping frosts and the injuries of the aire before the grain can come to maturity Roses are not gathered without some danger of the prickles they are invironed with Lillies do many times grow among herbs of evil scent It shall ever be honourable to me to suffer upon the account of vertue even flames The Lord of glory was nailed to the crosse between two thieves The servant is not greater then his Master nor the Ambassadour more considerable then he that sent him as it was necessary that Jesus Christ should suffer and so enter into his Kingdome so is it but just that through many tribulations I also should enter into the Kingdome of Heaven These words of the great Apostle I hear perpetually ringing in my ears if we suffer with him we shall also reign with him and when all is rightly summed up to gether it will be found that the sufferings of the present time amount to nothing in comparison of the glory that is to be revealed in us I had before some resentments of the powerfulnesse of celestiall Grace in my happy conversion but now I am to acknowledge the finger of God and the operation of his divine spirit in my persecutions That which makes my soul as it were overflow with serenity and satissaction and fixes it in a firme and immoveable confidence is that the eternall God who hath begun his work in ●e Will also bring it to perfection to his greater glory and that you Reverend Sirs who are the salt of the earth and the light of the world will afford me so much the greater demonstrations of your affection and tendernesse the more you find me hated by the enemies of Jesus Christ and his Truth It is the main design of the Jesuits to make the world believe that the disgraces they brand me with are marks of ignominy but if you will but be pleased to consider their intentions examine the informations they have put in against me and the causes thereof and require thereupon the judgement of our Pastors and Brethren of Rochel who have been eye-and ear-Witnesses of all the proceedings that have passed you will think my disparagement glorious and the pretences of my adversaries malicious and criminal One of the most religious and eloquent Ministers of the holy Gospel there hath already written in my vindication with no lesse truth then earnestnesse and his answer hath been highly approved by the defeat of my Enemies I should have pardoned Beaufe's the contumelies he had belched forth against my reputation by an obstinate resolution I bad taken to be silent but those who look on the glory of God as what is most considerable in

from among them to the Provinciall We shall not think it much to divert our selves so farre as to surprise this bearded infant in his childishnesse If you read the advertisement to the Reader you will find these words The charge which the Jesuits have against M. Vincent is purely civil to oblige him to produce before Monsieur the Lieutenant Generall of this City the originall copy of the book he hath published to be compared with the Letters whereby Jarrigius himself hath refuted the impostures sca●tered abroad under his name Our Consistory of Rochel hath produced these originals that is to say my writing my Prof●ssion of Faith and my Letters ●llequally authenticated by my own hand and seale Now observe the Adversaries weaknesse Beaufes hath taken and induced others to take my writing of November 24. as that onely thing whereon the Judges might admit of an indictment against me and by a weaknesse of judgement which all humane Sophistry and invention cannot cover sayes in his book since that Monsieur Vincent writ the Letters hath fallen very foule upon him as the Author thereof and to demonstrate it can be no other he opposes not onely me to my selfe and my latter Letters to those I had written before but he opposes the pretended Letters of Monsieur Vincent to mine to refute as he sayes the Impostures scattered abroad under my name I here take no more then what Beaufes is willing to afford me and argue thus If Monsieur Vincent be the Authour of those Letters the s●me Monsieur Vincent Minister of the word of God is Authour also of the writing of November 24. and consequently I have no more to do with that then with the Letters and so the Judges cannot have any pretence to condemn me But if they find that the Writing authorised by my hand and seale belong to me they will also conclude that the Letters are also mine since they carry the same Authority of my hand and seal So that if I am condemned for having been the Author of the writing and that afterwards I had not forborn to say Masse there is as much reason on the other side that Beaufes should be also conde●ned for a publick Impostor as having in his writings and Sermons ●alsly affirmed that these Letters were not mine though he were satisfyed in conscience of the contrary by the publick production made thereof by our Consistory upon the Sollicitations of the Jesuits It must needs be that this judgement was very precipitate when it destroyes it self so of a sudden and it speaks an extraordinary passion in those that were the Revisers of that book to suffer such a fault to passe as discovers their malice to all those that pretend to any thing of judgement But what hath M. James Beaufes to alledge by way of vindication as to this childish and so palpable an imposture Will he say as haply he may considering the contemptible character he gives me in point of abilities that I was not able enough to write a Letter But that he cannot since he acknowledges my admission to the fourth vow which is the highest degree of preferment that the Generall can bestow on the most knowing of the Society Can it be imagin'd that the most considerable of their Body should not be able to pen a Letter No no let us not be so severe towards him passion co●siders not what it sayes Or is it that the style of those few lines that I writ makes a greater discovery of the style and parts of Monsieur Vincent then my own But to that there is a whole Consistory consisting of persons of honour and credit making evidence that I brought those Letters as they were produced from the Colledge Besides my stile is neither so pure so polite nor so patheticall as that of Monsieur Vincent and we must equally my quondam Brother acknowledge that both my Genius and yours what idea soever you may conceive of your selfe are very much below the excellencies of that worthy person This book which I write and that mishapen abortive issue of your braines which you have dressed up and sent abroad under your name will ever be sufficient demonstrations of the difference there is between us and him Whereto may be added that the things which I discover are of such a nature as that it was impossible Monsieur Vincent should have known them and it was necessary he should first have them from my mouth Whence may be started this question what necessity there was that to lay them down in a simple and low style as I have done I should employ the pen of that eloquent man I must therefore to your confusion and the glory of the Gospell let the world know what stumbling-block that is which makes you fall so infamously It is your ordinary custome according to the secret and mysterious rules of the Society to impose things upon the Pastors of the Reformed Church in your injurious and treacherous r●futations and make the world believe that they say what never came into their thoughts This you thought a likely course to crush Monsieur Vincent by falsly attributing to him what I had written But that person much more judic●ous and considerate then you hath snapp'd you in your crasty designs and hath lashed you in his Refutation as a boy of the fift form And whereas God hath by the adorable secrets of his divine providence so ordered things that whatsoever happens turns to their goood that fear him so hath it been his pleasure that this very imposture which you make use of to render me contemptible hath raised me into reputation among my Brethren and hath given them occ●sion to suspect all the accusations you load me with to be false as thinking it no prudence to believe a man who is so palpable and notorious a Lyer which proves not a little to my advantage among those of my Religion Nor come I to examine the ridiculous refutation which the adversary hath made to my Letters and it shall be seen whether this famous Logician hath not justly deserved that the scholers of Bourdeaux should put an asse to supply his place in the seat whence he read his Lectures He hath fastened upon two Letters whereof the former and that of most consequence was written foure moneths and the Latter two moneths before my departure And by an unheard of kind of argument he takes certain broken periods of the one not relating any way to the other to weaken the credit of certain propositions that are in the second Were it lawfull according to his unperfect Philosophy to argue in that manner St. Paul may very well be in fear that some mischievous person such an other as Beaufes might take some of his Letters and mustring together contrary to all coherence certain passages straggled out of the body of his other Epistles should endeavour to make him guilty of contradiction for there is nothing more easie if this manner of disputation be allowable What

lay in their power See Alphonsus Toletanus in his Relation of the Sleights and Stratagems of the Jesuits in matters of Policy cap. 22. 28. 29. 30. 31. They call'd Henry the third King of the Moabites Nay the Popes themselves escape them not if they oppose their designes notwithstanding their particular vow and dependance on them as may be seen in the precedent Piece of The Discovery of thae Society in relation to their Politicks Thus was Sixtus Quintus in their apprehensions a Lutheran and a Wolf because he would not countenance them in all things Henry the fourth an abetter of Hereticks a renegado an Apostate the Elector of Saxony a Hogge William of Orange the Prince of Beggars for others they had other termes of the same kind Nor was this derogation onely verball but they often discovered their violence in actions by endeavouring the ejection and disposition of Soveraigne Princes out of their lawfull dominions and absolving subjects from their allegiance Upon which account came those Books which treated of the absolute power of the Papacy over Kings and their depositions c. to be condemned and burnt See Speculum Jesuiticum Mant. II. where there is a Catalogue of those Authors that maintained that unchristian opinion out of which we shall cull out the following Mariana de Reg. l. 1. c. 6. de jus●â Henrici abdic●●i●ne Lugduni apud Societatis Bibliopolam Rosaeus de justâ Reip. Christ Author c. 3. num 6. Gregorius de Valentia t. 3. dist 1. qu●st 11. Creswellus insuo Philopatre hinc inde inprimis sect 2. 157. 161. 162. Bellarminus de potestate Pontif. contra Barclaium Romae 1610. in disp de controver Christ ●idei Paris 1613. t. 1. l. 5. c. 6. 78. Gregorius de Valentia in Comm. Theol. disp 1. qu●st 12. Paris 1609. Cotton in Iustit Cathol Paris 1610. Emanuel Sa in Aphorismis Colon. 1599. Suarez de censuris Excomm Lugd. 1608. disp 15. l. 6. ●ursus in defensione fidei Cathol Colon. 1614. l. 6. c. 4. c. 8. Ribadeneira lib de Religione Virtutibus Princip Duaci 1610. Carolus Scribanius in Amphitheatro Honoris lib. 1. cap. 12. How Suarez's book was treated by the Parlement of Paris as also what became of other Treatises of the same nature see Spec. Jesuit the Apologie for Chastel Jesuit● Jicarius Anti Cotton Parag. 26. Ecclesiarum Sacramenta veri● Pastoribus subtrahentes depriving the lawfull Pastors of the Sacraments of the Church They have indeed a strange magnetick Vertue to draw all things to themselves Their envious eyes are perpetually fasten'd upon the revenues and accommodations of the rest of the Clergy Whatever they see they pretend some title to of whatever they touch something will be sure to stick to their pitchy hands This is the complaint of all See an instance of their griping the management of the Sacraments and their submissive carriage towards their Bishops in the Arch bishop of Maechliu's Letter to Cardinals of the Congregation de propagandâ ●ide at Rome at the latter end of the ADDITIONALS to the Mystery of Jesuitisme How the Catholicks of England have groan'd for their avarice and pragmaticall interpositions their loud jarrings and recriminations demonstrate Hence arose their differences with all U●iversities and particularly the Colledge of Sorbonne They are in Christian Religion as the Spleen in man's body of that increase all the members pine away so the richer they grow the more are other Orders crushed and impoverished See the Jesuiticall Mercury part I. and 2. Parag. 27. Recipientes eleemosynas pauperum et infirmorum et miserorum receiving the almes bestowed on the poore the sick and the indigent It may be imagin'd the holy woman would have said rapientes taking away that is converting to their own use those pious charities a word more suitable to their insatiable avarice 'T was drollingly said by one who being demanded what part of speech the Pope w●s answered a Participle because he takes part from the Clergy part from the Laity But how truly might it be said of the Jesuits who are such excellent Projectors as that can make their advantages of any thing nay clip the charities of the sick and poor to fatten themselves Oh unfortunate Hospitall of Saint James at Bourdeaux how have the poore exposed orphans which thy revenues should have sustained experienc'd the truth of this prophecy See the first Tract of this Book chap. 4. Since they take it so heynously to be called Ignatians from the founder of their Order Ignatius a denomination as suitable to them as those of Franciscans Dominicans Benedictines Augustines c. are to the other Orders they ought not to take it ill if henceforward they are called Vespasians since in that Apothegme of his that Gain smells well whencesoever it comes they are his exact Disciples deriving their own enjoyments and accommodations from the groans of the sick and crying bellies of the poor How carefull they are to watch their advantages may be seen in the following stories A Lisbo Merchant put a cabinet of jewels and other things of great value into the hands of the Jesuits to be divided among his daughters who after their fathers death requiring it of them they swore he had bestowed it on the Society and so undid the poore wenches Another Merchant of the same city dying was persuaded by the Jesnits to make the Society his heire the next of kinne not knowing any thing of it coming to take possession of the deceased house was put back by those that were in it with this answer The Apostles sor so the Jesuits are called in those parts were the heirs whereupon the poore man full of resentment and grief cryes out O Jesus Christ hadst thou had such Apostles about thee the Jews never durst have taken thee much lesse crucifi'd thee But the trick put upon them by the Genueses was very handsome when after they had by their insinuations cajoll'd abundance of jewels from the richer Citizens wives they were by the Senate forced to returne them to their husbands See the Book of the Jesu●ts Conscience and Spec. Jesuit Mant. 8. Parag. 28. Nec non in multitudinem Populi se trahentes as also insinuating themselves into a familiarity with the more ordinary sort of people from the court to the cottage from the Shepheards crook to the Scepter from the highest to the lowest a Jesuit finds employment it concerns him to know what is said what is done what consultations are carryed on what 's concluded at all times and in all places from the wench that sweeps the kennell to the Princesse in the palace So that it is now come into a Proverbe that a Jesuit knowes what Jupiter whispers Juno in the eare And from this diving of theirs into the knowledge of all things comes it to passe that in those Cities where they are grown powerfull as Cullen Aken and others no Magistrate is chosen no Consul created no person put into any publick employment no