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duty_n	care_n	child_n	parent_n	3,714	5	8.8140	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87579	The Jesuites intrigues with the private instructions of that society to their emissaries. The first, translated out of a book privately printed at Paris. The second, lately found in manuscript in a Jesuites closet after his death. Both sent with a letter from a gentleman at Paris, to his friend in London.	Gentleman at Paris. aut; Compton, Henry, 1632-1713.; Zahorowski, Hieronim. Monita secreta Societatis Jesu. English.	1679 (1679)	Wing J717A; ESTC R226679	39,130	77

which end the Confessours of Princes and rich Widows must be sure to tell them that since they receive at our hands spiritual good for the salvation of their souls it is but reasonable they should make us partakers of their temporal good things We must refuse nothing that is offered us And if they promise us any thing it may be committed to writing if there be any danger of giving them distaste by over-hasty importunity We must prefer no Confessours to Princes or others but such as are able and fit to prevail with them and to reprove them now and then for not being kind enough to the Society And therefore if any of them act not their part as they should do let them be called back immediately and others sent in their room For we have found to our grief that many times persons have died suddenly and by their Confessours neglect have left nothing of value to our Church And the reason was for want of being dexterous enough to make them sooner ours whilest they lived which might easily have been done had we watched to have taken them in the humour and not waited any other opportunity We must visit the Nobility and rich Widows and sift out with a Christian address whether they will leave any thing to our Churches as well to get remission of their own sins as those of their Relations and Friends After the same manner must we handle Prelates and others of their Diocess which will bring us in no small gain Our Confessours must be sure to enquire of those that come to Confession their names and sir-names allies and friends what they intend upon the hopes of any Succession how they resolve to bestow themselves how many brothers sisters or heirs they have how old what estate of what vocation or breeding and perswade them such an information imports much to the cleering their conscience Then if there be any hopes of advantage let them be enjoined for penance to Confess every week that what was omitted in the first weeks Confession may be made out in the next Thus when all is got out of a Penitent the Superiour must have notice and resolve how he shall be managed for the future What has been spoken in the Concern of Widows must as well be executed upon rich and wealthy Merchants that are married and have no heirs and upon rich Virgins that have an esteem for Us. For if we once get into their estates we shall soon make them ours But we must by no means be too forward in driving on such a design lest we spoil all To procure any mans good will we must take our measure from his Conversation and study to humour him in his inclinations And our Provincials must send discreet persons to those places where the people are rich that a good account may be given to the Superiours of a hopeful success As soon as our people find they are got into their favour they must presently cry up their great bounty and deserts which the other poor begging Fryars never think of doing Our Receivers must take an Inventory of all the Houses Gardens Quarreys Vineyards Villages and other Emoluments in and about the Town they reside in and if they can learn how we are beloved among the Inhabitants Moreover they must find out every man's Imployment and Income what Land he has and what encumbrances are upon his Estate Which may be done easily by Confessions the discourse at several meetings by way of entertainment at Visits and by the assistance of our fast Friends So soon as ever a Confessour has discovered a man to be very rich and that there is hopes of working upon him he must immediately give notice They must likewise inform themselves exactly of such as will part with any thing considerable in exchange for their sons whom we have admitted into our Society Enquire if any of those that wish us well have any inclination to be Benefactors to our Colleges or if they have made any purchace upon condition to return it to Us after their Decease Or what better advantage we are to expect from them Every body must be acquainted with our great necessity the Debts that swallow us up and the continual great Charge we are obliged to be at When our Friends bestow any thing upon us we must get it to be upon this condition that after a little time we may have power to incorporate it into the rest of our Demains If any of our Women-friends that are Widows or marryed chance only to have Daughters we must neatly perswade them to put them into a Nunnery with some small Portion that the rest of the Inheritance may be ours So for Sons when they have any we must do all we can to get them into Our Society by terrifying them first and bringing them under perfect obedience to their Parents Afterwards we must make them despise all things here below and shew them the greater Duty of following Jesus Christ who calls them than their Parents if they regard their souls It will likewise be a sort of Sacrifice to Our Order to draw in one of the younger Children unknown to his Friends whom we must take care presently to send to some Novitiate a great way off having first given notice to the General If a Widower and Widow marry that have Children by their former Marriages and likewise by the latter Those of the last Venter must first be sent into a Cloister and then the former will easily follow If a Widow has sons and daughters that will not be induced to a Monastick Life the Superiour must for the first default blame the Confessour and put another in his room that may be more likely to bring the business about But if that fail then must the good woman be perswaded to make money of all that she has in her power and give it us for the expiation of her own sins and her husbands When we meet with a Widow that has no Heirs and is whooly devoted to us and gives her self up to prayers and is in possession of Land or any other Estate we must perswade her to assign it over to our Colleges and content her self with some small yearly allowance from Us that she may have more leisure to serve God and be quit of the incumbrances of this World Afterwards take off her pension and maintain her in Common with our selves that under pretence of mortification and poverty she may become as one of our Domesticks For we must bring her thus to our bent lest some wicked Relation of hers should take her off from so good a Work Therefore it will be very convenient to send her to some remote place to spend the remainder of her days telling her that such a course will bein the nature of an Hermitage which is held the most devout and commendable of all ways That our Friends may be the more easily induced to beleeve our poverty our Superiour must borrow of