upon that ground do require of the People when they come to them that they begin and make to them the Confession of their whole Liâ—e-past even notwithstanding that they had made a general Confession at the last Jâ—bile They put in practice the maxim of Mr. Arnauld in his book of frequent Communion which is That those who want a sincere and pure love of God ought to be separated from the Holy Communion It is indeed a heinous crime with the Jesuits to insist upon the absolute necessity of the love of God either to fit men for this Communion or for their Salvation These Priests are said to impose hard and rigorous Pennances for very small Crimes Many of them particularly at Rotterdam Delft and the adjacent places pronounce the Sacramental words of Baptism Absolution Marriage and Extream Unction in the Vulgar language when they administer these Sacraments Some pronounce those words twice That is first in Latine and then in Dutch and that without fear of committing Sacriledge by this Repetition of the sacred words which do not operate the second time that which they signifie They condemn and disparage in their Sermons and Books which they distribute among the Protestants the rich and costly furniture of Altars and the magnificence of consecrated Vessels They with Judas to put them in good company call this a wast of expence and a true Luxury And for the most part they make so little account of Indulgences especially of those which are to be applied to the Souls in Purgatory by way of suffrage that there are many and those some of the Principal among them who refused to publish others who very negligently publish'd that of the Year 1690. granted by Pope Alexander VIII which is the more surprizing says this person because the Catholicks of Holland have been wont to have a particular devotion for these things especially for the Indulgence which is granted to the general monthly Communion for the living and the dead These Gentlemen he says do particularly declaim against this and endeavour to abolish the use of it They speak of Purgatory in a very unworthy manner and yet worse of the Relicks of the Saints They publish that we are not bound to believe that the Saints know the Prayers which men make to them They do not content themselves only to leave out the Title of Immaculate which their Ancestors were wont time out of mind to give to the Blessed Virgin in the Dutch Creed nor to change the Phrase in the Angelick Salutation Blessed aâ—t thou above all Women into this Blessed art thou among Women But they have also gone further than all this and have taken away from this Salutation all that which transforms it into a Prayer leaving out these words Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us Poor sinners now and in the Hour of our Death And the retrenching of this is the more scandalous he says because these words are the only ones which the Protestants disapprove of in the Ave Mary And he concludes 't is an infinite thing to go about to recount all the like novelties which they run into they are so numerous Be it so These things I leave to the Wise to make their use of and to consider what use might perhaps be made of them when his Majesty shall be able to find a Person to reside in those Countries who has a due Sense and Veneration for Religion and a Zeal to encourage and promote Reformation and who would make the Excellent way of Worship used in the Church of England and admired abroad by all judicious persons that know it as publick and notorious in his Family as he could God grant such a time may come To Jansenius in this Lecture succeeded his Friend Libertus Fromondus a follower of his Opinions and the Editer of his Book By additions of later times the Faculty of Theology here is augmented to Nine Professions And the ordinary College or Society of this Faculty is made up of Eight Doctors whom they call Legents and Regents Because to these alone belongs the Authority of governing the School of Theology and the Students of the Faculty and of examining the Students in order to their taking of Degrees and these alone enjoy the Emoluments of the School And these when any of their number dies chuse another into his place whom they judge the most fit for it At length those of the Religious Orders are allow'd admission into this College but with this restriction that there shall never be two of the same Order in this Society at the same time There are in this University of founded Schools and Colleges 32 besides the Colleges Colleges of the Religious Orders Some of these are appropriated to the Arts some to Languages to History to Politicks some to other particular Faculties And some are not confin'd to any one sort of Study but serve in general for all There are some Colleges to which certain annual Sums are left by the Founders for provision for so many Students which not being ordinarily enough to provide them their diet they must supply the remainder out of their own Stock In others there is a full and sufficient provision so made for their Diet. In others besides Diet they are allow'd by the Foundation Fire and Candle and some further assistance for their Studies These allowances they call here Purses They are for the most part annexed to such and such Colleges and expresly design'd for the encouragement of particular Studies which therefore they who enjoy them are bound to follow Some Purses are given which leave the Possessors at liberty in what College they will to reside and so to what Study they please to apply themselves Every College has its President who has the direction of the Manners and Studies of the Students and the Care of the Family And besides him there are Visitors either appointed by the Founder or deputed by the University or by the Heads of the particular Faculties It is their business to admit to the Enjoyment of the Purses belonging to the College to visit at stated times in the Year and enquire into the Studies and Manners of those who enjoy the Purses and to Audit the Accounts of the College once in a Year I went into some of the Colleges and found them built round a Court in one corner of which from the bottom to the top was the Presidents Apartment in another place the Chappel And all the Rooms below were of some general use as Dining Room Kitchin and the like Over the doors of some we should see written Schola Physices or Schola Logices c. In two Stories above were the Chambers for the Students The Jesuits that first invaded this City were Jesuits but two they could do no great feats therefore more were added to the Number at length they were strong enough to build a College or Castle being assisted by a good Legacy left them by Torrentius
Mass for that day in particular which the Priests may celebrate and which any one may cause to be said in a case of Necessity for a good Pay Every Year in the Month of October he celebrated the Feast of the Holy Guardian Angels with an extraordinary Devotion He attended the Sacraments with the greatest Preparation he redoubled his Alms his Austerities his Fasts his Prayers He renew'd thro' the whole Octave the Protestations of St. Char. Borromaeus in the Chappel of the Angel which he visited every day Lastly Every day before he lay down to rest he implor'd the Assistance of his Holy Protector by the Litanies of the Angels which he recited upon his Knees This is that 't is said which the Associates ought to do every Evening or during the time of Mass And 't is impossible for any Man to have an ill Death when he has so much wish'd and so much begg'd the Grace to die well by these Devotions See here ye Dear Associates say they what Practices are to be perform'd in Honour of the Angels And from what has been said these six important Verities as they are call'd are recommended to be the subject of serious Meditation 1. God is willing to save us by the Ministry of our Angel-Guardian 2. In the ordinary Course of his Providence he will no otherwise save us 3. This Guide will infallibly procure our Salvation if we earnestly demand it 4. This great Affair of our Salvation depends upon our Death But without doubt it is rather true to say it depends upon the manner of spending our Life 5. There is no one but our Angel who will as of Duty be concern'd to assist us at our Death and to protect us in this grievous Combat 6. The more Prayers there are for and the more Persons that demand the same Grace the more easily shall they obtain it This is an effect of the Communion of Saints Therefore the more Associates there are in this Brotherhood the more certainly may they hope to obtain the Grace to die well These now are wonderful Inducements to wheedle Men into this Association of the Guardian Angels in order to secure a happy Death and this last is a pretty motive to perswade those who are in it to be decoys to others to bring them into the same Net Now we shall take a more particular account of this Society What is intended in it and what they are directed and bind themselves to do who enter themselves into it This Association they say is nothing else but a Holy and Secret Union made between Believers who being perswaded of the great Importance of dying well and of the Succours which we ought to expect from the good Angels in that Moment do unite their Prayers and their Vows which they address to these amiable Protectors for this end So that this Association is plainly a Combination of People who bind themselves to the voluntary Humility and Worshipping of Angels which the Holy Scripture forbids Yet this is said to be an Association which Heaven has inspir'd Men with the design of and does Authorize with a multitude of Favours which the Believers who are engag'd in it regard as a mark of their Predestination to Eternal Glory and which the Prelates of the Church the Arch-Bishops and the Bishops who endeavour to conduct their Flocks to Heaven do effectually recommend opening to the Associates the Treasures of Indulgencies of which they are the Dispensers The Rules of Association are these 1. Those who enter this Society must confess and receive the Communion at least once a Year either on the day of their Festival that is the first of March or the first of October or upon some other day that may prove more convenient The design and end of this Communion ought to be the same with that of the Association that is to obtain for themselves and all the rest of the Associates the Protection of the Angels at the Point of Death and particularly the Grace to die well Communicate then to the Honour of the Angels say they Here is one of the highest Acts of Divine Worship order'd to be perform'd to the Honour of Creatures Receiving the Communion as they sometimes speak of it is said to be an Offering to God the Victim of his Immaculate Son and this they do to the Honour of the Angels What can deserve the Name of the most impious and detestable Idolatry if this does not Is this no more than to pray the Angels to pray for us 2. They must promise to visit the Chappel which is dedicated to the Guardian Angel at least once a year and if this can conveniently be it should be done on the day of the Feast of the Guardian Aâ—gels to gain the Indulgence 3. They of the Society must promise to their good Angel to recite every day the Office or Litany of the Angels or the Testament of St. Charles Borromeus which I shall produce anon Or if they cannot read they must promise to recite three times the Pater Noster and three times the Ave Mary to the Honour of the three Coelestial Hierarchies that they may obtain for all the Associates in whatever part of the World they be the Grace to die well The Form of the Association which is an Engagement to the Service of the Angels as they speak is as follows My most dear and kind Angel Guardian of my Body and my Soul whom God has commission'd to watch over and keep me at all times but particularly at the hour of my Death Displeased with my self for my past Ingratitudes I come now to make to you an inviolable Protestation of my Service I promise you at the foot of the Holy Altar that as after Jesus and Mary you are the foundation of the hope which I have to die well so for the future you shall be the object of my Vows of my Respects and of my Loves I ask of you one Favour and 't is that which I know you do passionately desire to confer upon me Assist me at the Hour of my Death and besides me all those who shall associate themselves with this Design It is to obtain this of you that I purpose to communicate at least once a year to your Honour to visit your Chappel and to make some Prayers to you every day O hear me since you have so much good will to me Fortifie me in this Combat since my Salvation does thereon depend Conduct me to Heaven since 't is for this that you are my Guide Amen The Protestation or Testament of St. Charles Borromeus mentioned before I shall now insert just as it is though so long because I purpose to represent all these matters as I have them from the Romanists themselves It runs thus In the Name of the most Holy Trinity I N. N. an unhappy and miserable Sinner do protest in thy Presence O Holy Angel of God That I am absolutely resolv'd to die in the Catholick Apostolick
there were 8000 Wax Torches and Flambeaus carried before it I doubt not but some mighty Indulgence was the Lure that brought so many People together and perhaps it was a new one granted in consideration of the late Sufferings of the City for these Occasions bring Money both to Priests and People At the place where this Hostie is kept in this Church there hangs up a Table on which are written these Verses following which relate the matter in short Quisquis ades summi quem tangit cura Tonantis Dum proper as coeptum siste viator iter Hic tibi viva caro aeterni Sapientia Patris Christus adest vivus panis una salus Invida Judaeûm quam dum laniare laborat Impietas meritis ignibus ecce ruit Quare age divinos bic funde Viator honores Funde Deo dignas supplice mente preces If this Story were true it might be reckon'd a miraculous Confirmation of the Truth of Christian Religion but it does not all conclude for the Absurdity of Transubstantiation tho' 't is very likely it was at first but a Juggle contriv'd for a pretended Proof of that as it is to this day reputed a mighty one I will allow it to be the best they have In this Church as I remember I saw an Altar with an Image of the Virgin over it which has an Inscription belonging to it that calls her Maria pacis On the Front of the great House before-mention'd call'd the Bakers there is somewhat relating to this matter One sees there two Inscriptions in great Letters which run cross the whole Front the one of which is A Peste Fame Bello libera nos Maria Pacis The other is Hic Votum fecit Elizabetha pro Pace publica I suppose this Elizabeth to have been Isabella-Clara-Eugenia Daughter of Philip the second King of Spain who married her in the Year 1598. to Albert the Sixth Arch-Duke of Austria whom he made Governour of these Countries This Inscription speaks fully out what they mean by their Application to the Saints and downright asks of the Virgin Mary that she would deliver them from the Plague Famine and War It speaks too their Opinion of Images while the Prayer is made as their Phrase is to that particular Virgin Mary and the People in common Talk will say One Virgin Mary has done a great many Miracles but another has done nothing at all There are a great many Convents of Friars and Nuns in this City for these people commonly chuse the most populous and pleasant places to retire from the World and mortifie themselves in many of them were beaten down by the Bombs out of the French King 's ardent Zeal to promote the Roman Religion The Dominicans had a large Church here the Dominicans Walls and Cover of which are up and they were saying Mass at two or three sorry Altars in it to be doing for something doing something coming A large Division of this Church which is almost half of it was before and is design'd again for the Chappel of the Rosary The Rosary is a Set of Prayers to the Virgin which if you will believe them she her self order'd and assisted St. Dominick to recommend to the World a thing that has done mighty matters but chiefly has well provided for this Order and fatned them up as Hogs for the Slaughter For as the Institution of this blessed The Rosary From of Devotion is deriv'd from this Order so they have all the Profits of it The Chappels of the Rosary belong to them and the Brotherhood of the Rosary are their People and are joyn'd to them and all the mighty Priviledges and Indulgences granted to the Rosary are dispensed by these Monks and by Virtue of these matters there is no sort of the pretended religious Orders who look more jolly and fat and shine with their own Grease more than these Butcherly Fellows This method of Devotion has drawn in such multitudes of People of the Roman Communion and makes so great and considerable a part of the Worship and Devotion of that Church that one should give a very imperfect Account of the State of Religion in the Roman Church without somewhat a distinct Account of the Devotion of the Rosary I shall therefore produce some of the most observable Particulars which I have met with relating to this matter wherein we shall see a great deal of dull and tedious trifling under the Name and Pretence of Devotion a deal of impious Idolatry in the Worship of the Virgin if ever there was or can be such a thing as Idolatry in the Worship of a Creature and we shall see the main business of Worship turn'd into Applications to the blessed Virgin and in a word the Christian Religion turn'd Marian. What the Rosary is The Rosary or Garland of Roses is a Set of Prayers to the Virgin Mary intermixed with the Lord's Prayer These both one and other are number'd by the Beads which one shall so often see in the Hands of the People in Popish Countries especially when they go to Church The String of Beads is tied together at the ends and has commonly fifty small and five greater Beads in the round and there are besides about ten◠I think of the small Beads with one great one upon a little strait String with a Cross which hangs to the other On the smal Beads they say so many Ave Mary's as these Prayers to the Virgin are commonly call'd because they begin with the Words of the Angel's Salutation of her when he came to tell her she should be honour'd with bearing the Messias To which Salutation they have added moreover that of Elizabeth and a Conclusion in the Form of a Supplication to the B. Virgin The whole Prayer runs thus Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou above all Women and blessed is the Fruit of thy Womb Jesus Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us poor Sinners now and in the Hour of our Death This Prayer is repeated ten times and then comes the Lord's Prayer which is repeated as often as the great Beads come The whole Rosary or Garland of Prayers consists of this String of Beads three times repeated which comes to fifteen times ten Ave Maries and fifteen Pater Nosters When and upon what occasion the Rosary was instituted This method of Devotion so erroneously partial to the Virgin whom they pray to ten times in it for one Prayer to Almighty God has no other Foundation but a Story as impudent as silly and evidently devised to derive it from the Blessed Virgin her self Indeed this does but help to fill up the Parallel between Rome Heathen and Popish and if Numa Pompilius might pretend to derive his Rules of Religion from a Goddess why might not the holy Dominick derive his from such an one too Thus then as they say this great and divine Institution as brought into the World When the holy Dominick had
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