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A36726	The Moral practice of the Jesuites demonstrated by many remarkable histories of their actions in all parts of the world : collected either from books of the greatest authority, or most certain and unquestionable records and memorials / by the doctors of the Sorbonne ; faithfully rendred into English.; Morale pratique des Jesuites. English.	Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.; Du Cambout de Pontchâteau, Sébastien-Joseph, 1624-1690.; Arnauld, Antoine, 1612-1694.	1670 (1670)	Wing D2415; ESTC R15181	187,983	449

take cognizance of this affair and put the said Roderick in possession of this Estate causing the Iesuites to make restitution of the Principal Money with all the mean profits made by the use thereof D. Iohn de Santelices began to cause this to be executed and his successors in that Charge continue the execution to this day As to these words of the book of Pious works We must temporize with D. Roderick Barba Cabeca de Vaca till the death of the Beneficiary John Segner de Velasco his Vnkle and when he is dead shut the door against Roderick as a person we have nothing to do with They were inserted because the Iesuites gave him yearly three or four hundred Ducats telling him that a Kinsman of his having left them the disposal of a pious work they were very glad of the occasion to imploy it for his relief as a poor Gentleman And their design was as appears by the book to continue this Gift no longer than till the death of Iohn Seg●er de Velasco who was the only person privy to the whole affair being Cousin to Iohn de Monsalvo whose life they hoped could not be long being above fourscore years old 'T is to be observed as a truth made out by this secret book that for sever●l years they had conv●rted these charitable works of marrying Maidens redeeming Captives and others into Alms bestowed on the Fathers Of their po●r little profest house of Sevil as they call it A Iesuite of Madrid engages a Woman to give all her Estate to the Society by will another Jesuite perswades her to give it her Heirs and is expelled the Society for doing so They destroy the life of another for the same Cause PAge 248. the Iesuites are of opinion that no persons deserve Legacies better than they which is founded on the detestable maxim in the last Paragraph of their secret advice that all the Church militant together doth not so much good by all other Orders of Religion joyntly as they alone doe This sets them awork to procure Gifts and severely chastise such as promote not that design as destroyers of the Society whereof you have a fresh instance in the following story at Madrid A rich Woman who had much Kindred in that City fell sick She had for her Confessor a Iesuite who attended her in her weakness and as a faithfull servant of the Company disposed her to make her will in favour of the Iesuites and leave them all her Estate without the least thought or remembrance of persons whom Nature did strictly oblige to take care of being her Nephews The Confessor returned home overjoyed with his success and in sport demanded the reward due to them that bring good newes as thinking he had done an heroick Action having gained the company so considerable an Inheritance It so fell out that one of these Fathers illustriously descended and as Noble in Disposition as blood was moved at this impudence and desiring to undoe what the other had done went to the sick womans house at a time when the Confessor was absent his habit procured him entrance which had been denyed to one of another Order for 't is a Maxim of the Iesuite not to admit any of another Religious Order to the sick they visit for fear they should reverse what they have contrived This good Iesuite brought a Notary with him and represented to this woman that in the condition she was in she was more obliged to satisfie the duties of Nature than devotion and so engaged her to revoke her Testament and all the Legacies she had given the Society and to leave her estate to her lawful heirs The woman died and the Confessor made himself master of the house and all the keys he caused the Testament to be opened whereby it appeared that she made the Iesuites sole heirs of all her estate But as the Iesuite pleased himself in being Master of this inheritance and having compassed his designs and behaved himself with great haughtiness towards the Nephews of the woman thinking to make them dance attendance in waiting his leasure for an inconsiderable Legacy their Aunt had left them the Chief of the Nephews presented them the Codicil took from the Iesuites the keys of the house and drove them all out The Iesuites made narrow search for the Author of this treason and having found him to be the Father of whom we have spoken the morrow after they put a billet under his napkin commanding him to retire for that the Company had no more need of hi●● he went to prostrate himself at the feet of his Catholick Majesty to whom he related the story and was received into his protection where he was safe from the fury of the Iesuites There is another Domestick example of this kind in the person of Father Ximenes whose life the Iesuites of the profest●house of Madrid destroyed in 1633. for that being Confessor to a widow he had not advised her to give them her estate The Jesuites of Madrid Expel a Smiths S●n from their Society but retain his money which the Smith dexterously recovers P. 66. A Smith at Madrid placed his Son among the Iesuites and had him admitted for two thousand Ducats though the Iesuites habit commonly costs more but after a short time they judged this young man not proper for them as wanting the address and fineness necessary for their profession and stript him of his habit he returns home to his Father who went presently to the Iesuites and summoned them to perform the Contract he had made with them for the reception of his Son but when they refused to give ear to him he sued them at law for his two thousand Ducats which they were obliged to restore as having not satisfied t●● conditions on which they received them They had credit enough to obtain sentence against the Smith who seeing himself deprived of the money his Sons Habit had cost him resolved to make that whereby he had lost his money to regain it and that the Iesuite● Habit which had cost h●m so much should be worth him something So t●e next day he habited his Son like a Iesuite and made him work and beat the Anvil that day and after in the Robe and Hood of a Iesuite this gave the people notice of the Iesuites cheat who being mocked p●blickly for what they had done to the poor man and his Son were at last ashamed of it and restored him his money which made him strip his Son of their Habit. A Jesuite of Granada gives two contrary advices but would not sign the one of them by reason of a Maxime of the Society to the contrary P. 121. Don Lewys Lasso de Vega being Steward of Granada the King demanded a Contribution from the City an Assembly was called and divided in Opinion and every one consulted persons of learning and fearing God who might give them advice most profitable in their judgement for the good of the City Some of

Cahors lately deceased whose piety was famous throughout the world declared what value he had for the Iesuites having desired the Abbot of Terrier Grand Vicar of Alby present at a fit of sickness which brought this Prelate almost to his end being about four months before his death to give some advice on this subject● to the Bishops his friends whereof the Abbot acquitted himself having written to M. de Pannez in these words Aug. 22. 1659. My Lord of Cahors is of opinion that the Iesuites are a Flayle and ruine to the Church so that he believed that neither your Lordship nor any other Bishop faithfull to God ought to imploy them and hath charged me to tell you and others who tender the safety and advantage of their Dioceses that you ●ught not to admit them into your houses for that gives them credit and gains them Authority with the people The admirable Conformity of the Society of Jesuites with the Church IN that proud Pourtraiture on the frontis●piece of this book the Society is represented as a young Virgin with three Angels ove● her head Crowning her with the three Crowns of Virginity Learning and Martyrdome On her right side she hath an Angel sounding a Trumpet and saying Ignatius hath accomplished 100 years On the left side another Angel sounding also a Trumpet and saying Let him fill the whole world Totum impleat Orbem She hath the name of Iesus on her breast and saith Not unto us Lord not unto us give the Praise Non nobis Domine non nobis In her right hand she hath a Pen in her left a flaming Cross at her right foot Time and at I say not under her left foot a Mitre and a Cardinals Cap. On the brimms of the Picture are six Emblems answerable to the six books of this work whereof the five first representing the Society in General shew her resemblance with the Church The first Embleme is The Name of Iesus with the Sun and Moon Crescent under it with this Inscription above The Society Derived of Iesus and below this She hath all that the Sun hath The second Embleme is a Globe of Light with this Inscription above The Society spread over all the World and below this She shines in all the World The third Embleme is a Moon in the middle of the Night with this device above The Society doing good to all the World and below this She preserves all things in the midst of night The fourth Embleme is a Moon Eclipsed by the interposition of the Earth between it and the Sun with these words above The Society suffering evil from the World and below this Eclipsed by the opposition of the Earth The fifth Embleme is a Sun Moon and shadow of the Earth with these words above The Society more glorious by persecution and below these Fairer for the shadow These five Emblemes are common to the Church with the Iesuites The sixth regards the Province of Flanders in particular being The Lion in the Zodiack with these words And this the Belgick Lion Goes about At the basis of one of the Columns is a Palm to shew she shall flourish as that Tree and on the other side a Phenix to shew she shall flourish like it according to Tertullians interpretation who renders the Greek Septuagint She shall flourish as a Phoenix But 't is a mistake from the equivocal term Phoenix which in Greek signifies a Phoenix and Palm-tree though the Hebrew word signifies only a Palm and all other interpreters have rendred it accordingly 'T is to be observed that they cite Vlysses Aldronandus a famous Author who hath treated of Birds because he saith there are many Phoenixes quoting his words to that effect that their Society may be taken for a Company of Phoenixes At the foot of the Picture are two little Angels one holding a Glass with these words Without spot which may be also said of th● Church being termed to be without spot o● wrinkle the other carrying these words written Without Money The one denoting their Chastity the other their Poverty At the end of the abridgement of this Volumn they have painted the Image of a little Jesus framing a Ring on an Anvill which he gives in Affiance of his marriage to the Society which he espouses as a pledge of its eternal duration with these words To give the Ring of Aeternity for a Covenant of an ever●●sting Marriage In the first book they represent their Order ●s a new foundation of the Church St. Peter ●nd Ignatius were at Rome St. Paul and Xave●u● among the Nations Twelve Apo●tles ten Jesuites 72 Disciples 〈◊〉 Jesuites by the first Bull of Paul 3. lib. 2. ●p 2. As the vertue of the Holy Ghost was shed on the ●ostles so was it on St. Ignatius newly reconed with God after his conversion with as great Earthquake and equal fame lib. 5. c. 5. P. 5. It is allowable therefore if I mistake not to ●ibu●e without Arrogance to the Society of ●s that Oracle which the Royal Prophet pub●●d in Sion the Church of Iesus Christ. Very ●●ellent things are spoken of thee thou City God the most High hath established thee made thee immoveable against all advers ibid. It cannot be doubted but that the Society is exactly like the Church if you consider further t●● persecutions she endures and that we may say 〈◊〉 her what St. Hillary said of the Church th● it is her property to conquer when m●st beset wi●● Enemies to clear her innocence best when accus● with most malignity and to conquer when forsak● by the World lib. 5. cap. 1. p. 582. St. Jerome sayes of the Church that it 〈◊〉 cre●ses by Persecutions and is crowned by Ma● tyrdome we may say the same of the Society a● ask with Horace What part of the World but ●et with our blood Lib. 5. c. 4. ● 619 620. When I consider the great favours and bene● done by Kings and Popes to our Society it appe● credible that the Prophecy of Isaiah which 〈◊〉 rejoyce to see accomplished in the Christian Chur● belongs in some sense to the Society of Ies●● Kings shall be your Nursing Fathers 〈◊〉 Queens your Nursing Mothers ye shall 〈◊〉 the milk of Nations and the Breasts of Kin● the Lord shall be your everlasting light 〈◊〉 your God your Glory the dayes of my peo●● shall be as the dayes of a Tree and the wo●● of their hands shall continue many Ages ●●mit me to believe that in this Prophecy Isaiah not only cast his thoughts on the Church and ●●ple of God but upon Ignatius and his Fa●● the brethren of the Society and their exce● works lib. 5. Ora. 1. p. 686. Iesus is to the Iesui●es what he is to ●h● Church and fights for them as for Christianity lib. 1. c. 4. p. 70. To prove the tru●h of this they cite these words of St. Jerome on the 70 th Psalm Let us give thanks to Jesus our Chief for he is our Captain who fighteth for

is in all the Benefices wherein the Iesuites are installed Pursuant to this they wrought the Arch-Duke so fit for their designs that he was perswaded for colouring their usurpation to write to Rome to obtain an Union for them not only of the Priory of St. Iames but of the Abby of Val-Dieu the Priories of Froid●fontaine and St. Nicolas of the same Order and the Commandery of St. Anthony of Isenheim without the consent or knowledge of the parties concerned the Titulars or Collators of the said Benefices and without shewing the estate or nature thereof which they ought to have done before the passing of the Grant In the mean time they entertain the good Prior Nic●lin with Letters of complement and counterfeit amity which may be produced The better to induce the Arch-Duke to interpose and prosecute the business in their behalf they propose an agreement somewhat extraordinary That every of the said five Benefices being respectively worth between two and three thousand Florins should yield the Arch-Duke five hundred Florins apiece in deduction of so much of the three thousand Florins assigned them for their foundation This was easily agreed to by the Arch-Duke though he had no power to do it and decreed they should enjoy them in Commendam during the dependance of the matter of the Union with charge to satisfie the obligations of the foundations which was impossible for them by reason of the inconsistence and repugnancy of their institution and Rules with those of the foundations By this means the Divine Se●vice and communities of five good Monasteries were suppr●ssed ●o ●ound a Colledge almost useless as being environed on all sides with other Colledges more considerable at Potentrut Frib●urg Selestat M●lsheim and Haguen●u so that they have in the said Colledge but forty or fifty Schollars in six Classes under three Regents But this design was not approved of by the Holy See which refused the union as appears by another letter of the Arch-Duke of Insp●uch written to Rome Decemb. 9. 1651. on the same subject and to as little purpose as the former nevertheless these good sub-farmers who fancied that the Arch-Dukes Authority would never fail them and that the Scripture meant them where 't is said to the Iesuites Every place you set your foot on shall be ●o●rs disposed of the Priory as their own In the mean time the Abbot of Cluny advertised of the death of Nicolin bestowed the Pri●ry of St. Iames on a ●ryar called Guill●t who having taken possession by Atturney d●signed to go in person to establish good Orders there but both he and they who assisted in taking the possession were so frighted by the threats of the Iesuites and all the Peasants of the village so deeply fined by the Sir Derlach at their instigation for having suffered an entry to be made that the Prior menaced with imprisonment durst not go further but returned into France So the Iesuites continued as farmers to usurp the mean profits in hopes the Arch-Duke recovering his Estates by a treaty of peace would maintain them by absolute Authority But F. William established by the Prince of Conty Vl●ar Generall of the Order of Cluny in Almaigne being provided of the said Priory 15 Iuly 1651. by the single device of Guillott and authorized by the Kings Letters addressed to the Governour of the Countrey went upon the place took possession thereof according to Custome the 7 of September the same year and established there a community of Reformed Fryars having found the Priory abandoned and almost all ruined without a Curate without Pr●est without Fryar as it had continued ever since the usurpation of the Iesuites though the Church thereof was Parochial All which he caused to be presented by Information at Law An Abby of St. Benedict coveted and almost taken away by the Jesuites This Artifice of F. Weinhard hath no small relation and resemblance to another feat which one of his Brethren whose name for some reasons shall be concealed made use soon after against a good Abbot of the Order of St. Benedict in Alm●igne after the death of the Emperour Ferdinand the 2 d. This Father went to the new Emperour and informed him of a design he had to write the Life of the deceased Emperour Ferdinand the 2 d his Father but it was his desire to compose a piece worthy the subject and for that purpose to retyre into some pleasant place where he might have good Aire and refreshment and named a fair Abby of the Order of St. Benedict excellently seated as a place fit for his designs Which the Emperour approving of gave him Letters of recommendation to the Abbot who made him all the welcome and good entertainment imaginable while he sojourned there The Iesuite was so taken with the pleasantness of the place that he was enamoured of it and resolved to begg it of the Emperour To compass this design he made it his business not only to watch narrowly and accurately observe but amplifie the smallest defects and imperfections of the Fryars and having finished his double work took his leave with all the marks of greatest satisfaction from the Abbot and Fryars who believed their Guest would serve them for the future as a powerfull Advocate with the Emperour upon occasion The Iesuite Arrived at Court and having presented his Majesty the Book he had composed of the life of Ferdinand the 2 d told him with unparallel'd ingratitude that he had been much deceived in the choyce he had made of the place to write in for whereas he thought it a House of Religion he found it a House of scandal and debauchery and had seen examples of a most dissolute life amongst men professing Religion but having nothing of it but the habit That his Majesty was obliged in Conscience to remedy it speedily The good Emperour answering that disorders must be reformed The Iesuite replyed that these disorders were arrived at such excess that he saw no other remedy but a total expulsion of those debauched Monks and that if his Majesty pleased to give the Society the management of it such good Order should be taken that the Change would quickly appear The Emperour taking this for a fit means to grati●ie and reward the work of this Author granted his request And it was resolved in Councel that all those Monks and their Abbot should avoid the place within eight dayes and leave it to the Iesuites Another Abbot of the Order who by good Fortune was by the Councel immediately dispatched an express to the poor Abbot to advertise him of the Resolution taken against him The affair being communicated in the Chapter as usual it was concluded that the Abbot accompanyed with one of the ablest of his Monks should go to Court to seek a remedy for this misfortune and to prevent their total ruine When they presented themselves to the Emperour they found him so prepossess'd that he presently rejected them telling them his word was engaged and he could

the Passages in the strange Discovery made by D' John De Santelices Guevara Councellor in the Councell Royall of the Fraud and Cheat whereby the Jesuites of the Colledge of St. Hermenigilde of Sevil concealed and detained for above 39 Years from D. Rod●rick Barba Cabera de Vaca Inhabitant of the said City Three thousand three hundred Ducats Rent left him by John de Monsalve his Vnkle one of the 24 of Sevil which all that time they enjoyed to th●ir own use and behoof giving him only 300 Ducats yearly by way of Almes THE Councel Royall of Castille having granted a Commission to the Si●ur D. Iohn De Santelices Councellor in the said Councell and President of the Audience Royall of Sevil for taking cognizance of the Process and causes of the Assembly of the Creditors of the Iesuites of the Colledge of St. H●rmenigilde of the said City to seize all the Goods and Rents of the said Iesuites to search for such Goods as they had concealed and laid out of the way and to recover them and to give intire satisfaction to the said Creditors by payment the said Sieur D. Iohn caused all the books of Accompts of the store and Chest of the said Colledge to be brought before him for the better execution of what was enjoyned him Among others he found a book intituled A Book of secret works of piety Reading it leaf by leaf he saw the manner how the Accompts were to be kept of the imploy and distribution of the said secret works of piety so called because the Fathers were Masters thereof as also the Accompts given by the Provincials at their Visitations by the Stewards or Procurators of the Colledge all ●igned with the hands of the Provincials There he findes written these very words We must temporize with Don Roderick Barba Cabeca de Vaca till the death of the Beneficiary John Segner de Velasco and when he is dead shut the door against Roderick Barba as a person we have nothing to do with And a little lower another advertisement importing That no person ought to have Cognizance of this Booke n●r of the Estate and Revenues of the Colledge but only the Procurators the Rector the Provincial and Consultors of the Province The said Sieur D. Iohn having taken great notice of this Title and the two advertisements and Articles of the Book cited before him the said De Villar formerly Procurator of the Colledge but then in the Convent of St. Francis D. Rodrick Barba and the Beneficiary Iohn Segner de Velasco And having given them their Oaths and demanded what they could say to these Articles and what this pious work was they declared as followeth and confirmed it by Oath Nine and thirty years agoe a Gentleman one of the 24 of Sevil called Iohn De Monsalve returned very rich from the Indies He was not marryed nor had any Childe but a woman sued him who pretended to be his Daughter and that he had not only begotten her before marriage but that afterwards he privately married her mother so that she was his daughter and could not be debarred from inheriting his Estate Iohn de Monsalve falling sick of the sickness whereof he dyed while this suit depended for clearing his Conscience sent for a Iesuite of the Colledge of St. Hermenigilde with whom he settled what concerned his Conscience and Testament and told him the Action this woman had brought against him was altogether unjust and the matter of fact she had alleadged utterly false and that he was obliged to dispose of his Testament so as this woman might not know after his death what he should leave behind him in Money and Moveables Whereupon this Father ordered his Testament as followeth Iohn De Monsalve hath disposed of his Immoveables which could not be concealed nor conveyed out of the way by right of eldership Heritable and made D. Roderick Barba Cabeta de Vaca his Nephew heir thereof and as to his Moveables and Money which amounted to eighty five thousand Ducats he made a Writing signed by himself and the said F. Jesuite his Confessor whereby he declared he would leave the said sum by way of Dep●situm in the hands of the said Father that in case after his death judgment were given for him in the suit or that on any occasion this woman would d●sist from her pretensions all the Estate he left in the Iesuites hands should descend by right of Eldership excepting only 800 Ducats per Ann. which he reserved out of this Revenue to be imployed in the marriage of a certain number of Maidens in the redemption of such a number of Captives and to buy provision o● Victuals for the Prisons for certain dayes Ordaining further that if any of those to whom this right of Eldership should descend had Children those works of piety should cease but so as provision should be first made for giving and founding an endowment for portions suitable to the Condition and quality of a number of maidens to be marryed and the heirs by right of eldership to be Patrons and Administrators of this work of piety Pursuant to this disposal the said summe of 85 thousand ducats and the writing were put into the hands of the F. Iesuite who assured Monsalve they should be used according to the declarations above-mentioned Iohn De Monsalve being dead his Heirs and Executors of his will soon after agreed with the woman who for ten thousand Ducats of Billon or black Money a sort of Base Coyn cry'd down surceased her proceedings and quitted her pretensions And the Woman within a short time after dyed without Heirs which had been sufficient alone to end the suit so that the Iesuite was obliged as the case stood to ha●e published the writing and have paid the money to Monsalve's heirs But all this was too little to incline the Iesuites to discover the Money and Writing either in the life-time of this Confessor or after his death And thus they detained for above 39 years this summe out of which they raised a Rent of three thousand three hundred Ducats per ann which they have enjoyed to this present when Providence hath so ordered the matter that the scandalous and lamentable Banquerupt of their Colledge hath caused the discovery of this particular Business The Sieur Iohn De Santelices forthwith caused a Copy to be made of Monsalve's Testament and annexing it to the other Papers Declarations and Verifications transmitted them to his Majesty and his Councell Royall of Castille where the suit of the Creditors of the Bankrupt Colledge depends See the Process No. 3. and 60. The Councel having seen all these pieces of Obedience ordered they should be communicated to the Attorney Generall who gave his opinion thereof On the other side D. Roderick Cabeca sent a procuration to demand from the Councell a Councellor to be named Commissioner for determining this Process The Councell thereupon sent a special Commission to the Sieur D. I●hn de Santelices to