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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

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

vanity enough to think to perswade the world that they exceed in vertue all their Predecessors but whatever they say they cannot be believed without new Idea's of their first Fathers 3. Iesus Christ began to do and teach This is the Image of the Society acting and when they write of their continual labours they write In this thou approachest nearer to Christ O Glorious Society which hast produced works of such Grandeur But what could be so horrible as the Idea we should have of this Society if we were perswaded she hath acted and ordered her conduct according to those maximes which her Casuists have written and taught 4. Iesus suffered a shameful death This is the image of the Society suffering but he endured a little more but boasted much less than these men do 5. Iesus Christ through suffering is past into Glory This is the image of the Society triumphant It might be wished these Fathers would not so much seek their Glory of men that they might have a greater share in that of Christ who in the Gospel hath forbidden us to seek our own Glory When the Iesuites compare their Hero's to Alexanders Hercules Po●●ies and Caesars the style is tollerable though very ridiculous 'T is not very rare for men even writers to want judgement and common sense but whatever these good Fathers say they are too well known to be taken for Angels Yet since they lift up their voice to heaven and affect altogether to compare their Society to the Church and themselves to the Apostles and to Jesus Christ whom they look upon as their companion it may do well to advertise the world how dangerous and irregular their passion is which makes them use such extravagant expressions They ought to remember that we cannot draw near to God but by humility and that the way intirely to de●ace the small remainder we have of resemblance with him is not to acknowledge our distance from his Grandeur his Holiness and his Goodness and not to lay sufficiently to heart that we are really meer nothings as he is the Soveraign Omnipotent Essence Pride being the first crime that corrupted Angels and Men is also the most deeply rooted in our nature so that there alwayes remains in us an inclination to desire with our first Parents to be like the most High and to make our selves and the things we affect Idols to be set up in the place of God 'T is true that since the light of the Gosp●l there have not appeared where Christ is adored any persons so impudent to cause themselves to be worshipped as Gods or that durst attribute that honour to any other man But we see a shadow of this disorder in Christendome it self for as soon as it falls out that we have a vertuous friend because we dare not make him a God yet this doth not restrain us from making him a Saint and if we may be believed the greatest in Paradise and if it lye in our power we extol him so high that none but Christ shall be fit to compare with him But this passion more easily spreads in communities and succeeds more happily they cover it with the presence of the Glory of God promoted by publishing holiness which is no where so resplendent as in the Saints They make it their devotion and subject of their zeal to commend the members of the Society One Iesuite thinks he merits by praising another and as that other is of his coat so he agrees in the practice as well as prof●ssion of the same rule and is his companion his brother and other-self obliged to barter Elegies and make suitable returns for the commendations received But it might have been affirmed that the ambition of these Fathers had proceeded ●urther than themselves could have imagined had they not taken such care to make it app●ar with a witness in the proud representation they have made of their company Because there are amongst them some persons reputed holy and learned they would impose on the world to have no other Idea of their Society but that it is composed only of persons no less chaste and bright than the Angels and have not a body but to ●ight and to suffer for Iesus Christ. There is nothing on Earth as they say wherewith to compare this Holy Society but the Church of Christ with this difference that the Church is obliged to continual mourning for the rareness of Vertue among the members thereof and because the wheat is almost all covered with chaff whereas in the Society there is only wheat without any chaff The Church hath this advantage that none can be saved but in her bosome but though all that live there are called to salvation yet few are saved and chosen for heaven And those few who are happy enough to be saved and persevere to the end must do it with much labour and continual combates against their infirmities and imperfections the whole time of their life They confess with St. Paul they see no good thing in themselves that the law of sin from which they are not intirely exempt causes them often to do the ill they would not as the weight of their corruption hinders them to do the good that they would they acknowledge that tho●gh they are enlightned with the Faith their light is but small and would be wholly extinct did they not constantly pray to God to increase it that they find themselves often involved in such darkness that they know not what they ought or ought not to do to perform the repentance they owe unto God and the charity they are obliged to pay unto their neighbour Lo here what men the Saints of the Church of Christ are they alwayes walk in humility in fear and in self-denial knowing they must fall when they quit this path but the Church of the Iesuites is all perfect and composed intirely of persons that are perfect there are no children nor imperfect ones amongst them they are all born with helmets on their heads they are all Ph●●nixes Heroes and men at arms they have all strength sufficient to conquer and more wisdome is necessary to govern the world Moreover they are all Saints and shall be all saved they have express Revelations which put it out of doubt that for three hundred years and to the end of the world not one of them shall dye in the h●bit of a Iesuite who shall not have the gift of perseverance They are no sooner dead but according to their prophecyes Iesus Christ com●s to meet them for to conduct them to heaven and make them reign there above all other Religious Orders whereof the most perfect are but as silver whereas by another 〈◊〉 they know that they are the most precious gold Lastly having exhausted all sort of praises and compared themselves to Angels to Prophets to the Apostles the twenty four Elders in the Apocalipse the Pharisees and Emperours having applyed to themselves all they could find in Scripture which might

as we see at this day in Spain and do nothing but to promote the Glory of God we must not question but they have an express command from Christ to war●ant their Actions Besides it were an unpardonable injury to look on their General as those of the Ia●obins or Augustine Fryars who govern only men of Religion but if you will frame your Idea suitable to the Grandeur of the Subject you must conceive him a Soveraign no less Secular than Ecclefiastick that affects the Government of the world no less than that of the Church 'T is not long since that a French Lord had this confirmed from their Generals mouth telling him That from his Chamber he Governed not Paris only but China not China ●●ly but the whole world yet no man knew how VI. Priviledge That Christ comes to meet every Jesuite at his death to receive him to Glory 'T Is one of the Priviledges of the Society of Iesus That upon the death of each Iesuite he advances to meet and conduct him to bliss Happy Souls assured to pass from the prison of mortality into the immortal bosome of our Lord Iesus the verity of this proposition depends not on my authority but of the Oracle that delivered it F. Crifoel the Iesuite tells us that in 1616 in the vision of Saint Therese a soul on her way to Glory in company of many more told this Saint A Brother of the Society of Iesus is our Guide how happy are we in such a Chief to whose vertue and prayers we owe our deliverance this day out of the pains of purgatory Wonder not that the Almighty comes to meet us 't is no new thing the brethren of the Society of Iesus have this Priviledge that when one of them dies Iesus comes to meet and receive him to Glory lib. 5. c. 8. p. 648. These Visions may be proper entertainments for the vanity of these Fathers who may need humility and repentance to bring them to Heaven As for the Vision it might appear in the fancy of a Jesuite but never to St. Therese who never related it and was so far from regarding such Apocryphal Revelations that she gave small encouragement to rely on any at all now adayes VII Priviledge That no Jesuite shall be damned that the Society hath no cause to fear corruption ALphonso Rodrigues had it revealed by Vision that not only his Companions then living but those that succeeded many years after should live with him eternally in Celestial bliss These are great favours but loe here a greater Francis Borgia told Mark his Companion with tears of joy Know Brother Mark that God hath extream love for our Society and granted it the Priviledge formerly given the Order of St. Benedict that for the first three hundred years no person that perseveres to the end in the Society shall be damned See the express terms as here rendred pag. 649. I heartily desire the salvation of these Fathers but must advertise them that nothing exposes them more to damnation then this false confidence that they cannot be damned Let them remember their Emblem Time ne tumeas fear the judgement of God and damnation of Hell lest the pride of our heart link us into it Where presumption hath banished fear from the Soul it becomes more bold to commit all manner of wickedness but where a servile fear ends in a filial this will make way for Charity to enter which when perfected will expell all fear A Fryar of another Order but Anonymus at the point of death sent for F. Matres the Jesuite Confessor to the Vice-Roy of Barcelona to tell him these words Happy are you O Father to be of an Order wherein whoever dyes enjoyes eternal felicity God hath revealed it and commanded me to publish it to the world The Jesuite confounded with admiration and modesty and asking him whether all of his own Order should not be likewise saved the dying man answered him with a groan That many should but not all but that all of the Society of Jesus without exception of any who persevered therein to the end should be crowned with eternal beatitude ibid. How great how divine was the wisdome of Ignatius who hath so armed the Society against the injuries of time and built on supporters of such strength that 't is an instance to the world to prove that all things are not the supplies of time But that Vertue and Religion may be so guarded that the course of Ages cannot corrupt them and what brings other things a decrepit age or certain death promises the Society ● perpetual youth so verdant and flourishing that she shall feel the revolution of ages without these effects of decay and ruine that usually attend it pag. 104. Thus their Society shall be more priviledged than the Church and other Orders of Religion which being like theirs mingled with the world are not exempt from its corruption but this Priviledge of incorruption is proper to these extraordinary Saints who are all Phoenixes and birds of Paradise Since then all the brethren of this Holy and ever flourishing Society shall be saved without exception according to the vision of that Anonimus Fryar they quote the first purity of this Society must endure to the end and surpass the Sanctity of that Fryars Order who though he observed a severe and most pure Discipline as they tell us lib. 5. c. 8. assures us that all of his Order could not be saved Thus pag. 147. they tell us the Society hath no cause to fear corruption though they confess the spirit of Ambition the greatest of corruptions seized them so soon that immediately after the death of Ignatius in 1565. being only twenty five years after their Institution Rashness and Ambition animated Nicolas Bobadille two of their first ten Brethren and four m●re of the prof●ssion against two of their first Fathers and the rest of the Society they Solicited Cardinals rose eagerly against Laines then Vicar-General and afterwards General and violently questioned the Constitutions of the Order This they call The fate of Kingdomes and Republicks which erected with great pains turn their Forces and their Power against themselves the Dispute was for the Generalship which Laines by subtlety carried from the rest If you read Mariana of the Defects of the Society you may judge with what appearance of Truth they tell us their Society needs fear no corruption Let them beware that for want of judging and condemning themselves they be not at last condemned of God VIII Priviledge That the Blessed Virgin is intirely theirs THe Mother of God hath declared not only that the whole Society is hers but that she is wholly the Societies Platus a Brother of the Order Reports a Vision wherein the Virgin appeared with the Society under her Mantle The Society covered with this Mantle of the Virgin shall abide firm against all the furies of Hell the menaces of Tyran●s and the attaques of her Enemies as the immoveable stone of

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