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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

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

Fathers do effectually represent that all they have of good must be applyed to their salvation and to set their Conscience at rest they must make their Wills wherein they provide alwayes a good Legacy for themselves and if it be possible perswade them to make a deed of gift to the Iesuites instead of a Testament As it happened at M●laga in 1643. where a poor man resolved to retire from all secular affairs put intire confidence in a Iesuite for drawing his Will and signed it as presented without reading or hearing it read But was strangely surprized when by the end of four dayes he was turned out of his house by the Iesuites for thinking he subscribed a will to take effect after his death he had signed a deed of Gift whereby he past all his Estate to the Iesuites in his life time The man sued them at law but where judgement is given on what is produced in writing tears could not prevail and the Iesuites continued in possession of the Estate and he the right owner reduced to beggary Purgatory according to the Jesuites like Mahomets Paradisefull of all sorts of sensual pleasures P. 22. Esclapes the Licentiat who made an Extract of the wicked maximes of the Iesuites in his 8 th proposition reproaches them with an affirmation that it is probable that besides the Purgatory generally believed there is another very pleasant full of flowers and sweet scents where the souls that are purified endure no pain of sense nor are afflicted that their entry into bliss is deferred so that this place is to them as a noble and honourable prison Bellarmine the Iesuite lib. 2. de Purg cap. 7. refuted by Malvenda the Dominican in his Book of Paradise cap. 92. Observe if there be any difference between this Purgatory and Mahomets Paradise Doctor Aquila who undertakes the defence of these maximes of the Iesuites answers That this Opinion is a revelation which venerable Bede delivers as true and approves lib. 5. Hist Cap. 13. and that there are many other revelations to confirm it reported by St. Gregory Lib. 4. Dial. Cap. 36. Bellarmine relying on his Authority sayes 'T is not improbable these Revelations are true and that by consequence there is such a place as they report where souls are purified Vbi licet nulla poena sensus sit tame● poena damni If the Iesuites reviled him who said a Revelation delivered as true by St. Thomas was not improbable we have as much reason to pay them in their own coyn on this occasion Let the wise judge now whether the I●suites are wronged when we say they assert the Paradise of Ma●omet The Author of the Iesuitique Theatre on these words of Aquila sayes it must be supposed the Paradise of Mahomet was a place feigned by that wretch wherein were all pleasures that men may enjoy without desiring Divine because by his tenets beatitude consists in eating and drinking and other pleasures of sense Let the wise judge whether he who dares affirm that there is a purgatory where men desire not the vision of God where there is not any grief or pain but sweet scents pleasant and flourishing fields makes any difference between this Purgatory and Mahomets Paradise It is cause of astonishment that these Authors would corrupt the sense of the Saints to Authorize their perverse Opinions for there is a vast difference between their Revelations and the Errour which Dr. Aquila would introduce and defend under the title of an Opinion The Saints said no more but that in their prayers they smelled sweet savors and saw pleasant fields wherein were mens souls which denotes the comforts they received from the prayers of the faithful When parables are used to express any matter we must not stick at the shell but enucleate the meaning as when our Saviour compares the Kingdom of Heaven to a grain of mustardseed it is not to be literally understood for he speaks by a Metaphor My judgement of this opinion is agreeable to that of Suarez concerning it whom the Iesuites so often call The thrice Sage Suarez who sayes Tom. 4. 3. Part. dis 46. Sect. 1. n. 13. that this Opinion is contrary to the sense of all Divines the Truth and the Holy Fathers F. Gabriel de Henao the Iesuite differs little from this Opinion when he sayes in his Empirology that there shall be musique in Heaven with material instruments as upon Earth Nor is F. Lewis Henriques far from their sentiments having made a Book Entituled The business of the Saints in Heaven which is not a Book secret and unlicensed but Authorized with the approbation of F. Francis de Prado then Provincial of Castille Dat. at Salamanca Apr. 28. 1631 He proves in the 22 Chap. that every Saint shall have his particular house in Heaven and Christ a Magnificent Palace That there shal● be large streets and great piazza's strong house and walls to environ and defend them He sayes in the 24 th Ch. That there shall be a Soveraign pleasure in kissing and embracing the bodies of the blessed that they shall bathe themselves in one anothers sight that there shall be pleasant bathes for that purpose that they shall swim like fishes and sing as melodiously as Nightingales He affirms in the 58 th Ch. that the Angels shall put on Womens habits and appear to the Saints in the dress of Ladies with curles and locks with wastecoats and fardingales and the richest linnens He sayes in the 47 th Ch. That the men and women shall delight themselves in muscarades feasts and ballads In the 27 th Ch. That the streets of Paradise shall be adorned with Tapestry and all the Histories of the world engraven in the walls by excellent sculptors He tells us in the 60 th Ch. The Angels shall not have particular houses but that it is better for them to go from one quarrer to another for diversity Ch. 65. That women shall sing more pleasantly than men that the delight may be greater Ch. 68. That wom●n shall rise again with very long hair and shall appear with ribbands and laces as they do upon earth In the 73 th Ch. that married people shall as in this life kiss one another and the pretty mignons their children which will be very pleasant See what he says of the general judgement n. 50. where you will find the origin of all this and how the whole Society had then approved it and the Provincial having afterwards allowed of it by order of the General Mutius Vitteleschi 't is no wonder D. Aquila appears in its defence In the Indies and at China they carry on their breasts the marks of Idolatrous Sectaries publishing falsly that the Pope had declared it allowable P. 401. Behold another story I heard of F. Iohn Baptista de Morales the Dominican my friend Missionary to China which past at Macao The Iesuites in the Indies serve a Nation called Bramins who being of a different Sect from other Idolaters do for distinction