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A38918	An exact discovery of the mystery of iniquity as it is now in practice amongst the Jesuits and other their emissaries with a particular account of their antichristian and devillish policy / composed in the Italian tongue by one of the Romish religion ; translated into English, and now newly published by Titvs Oates ...; Instruttione a' prencipi della maniera con la quale si governano li padri giesuiti. English.	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing E3644; ESTC R11385	15,645	36

Father-General by this means to procure them their Favour and attain some Dignity which by any other means they could never have obtained For amongst them none are preferred to any Office of Importance but only those whom they know prone to Advance their Society to that height of Greatness to which they Aspire and consequently none but such as are known to be sufficient in the Managing of State-Affairs Ninethly As from divers Flowers and Herbs by means of a Limbick a Man may draw such an Oyntment as is fit to Heal a Mortal Wound And as from several Blossoms Bees suck Honey so these Jesuits from the Infallible Relation which they have of all Princes Affairs and of all Accidents that do happen in every State by the Politick Power of their own Discourse they Extract from them their own Commodity which is the only Remedy to Cure that their Abominable Wound of Covetousness and Ambition and they compose a certain Art of their own Profit by which they obtain their own Ends as well from the good of some as hurt of others but more often from the latter than the former Thus they usually shackle with their Fetters that Prince into whose Secrets they have Crept propounding to him that they have the only and most Excellent means to make him the Master of his Desires but when by this means they have drawn their own purposes from him considering that the too swelling Greatness of that Prince may one day prove prejudicial unto them as Lawyers do their Causes they prolong as much as they can the success of that Affair and afterwards by Politick Plottings and various Iuglings they utterly Ruin those Designs to which they had given a beginning The League of France Treated and Concluded by them not long after they abandoned when they saw things prosper on the Kings side And England so often promised by them to the Spaniards yet in such manner performed so confirms this my Discourse that there needs no farther Proof Tenthly From what hath been already said it necessarily follows That the Jesuits have no good Intentions towards any Prince what-ever either Temporal or Spiritual but only serve them so far as they may serve their own turnes Nay It followeth yet farther That no Prince much less any under Prelates can make the like use of them because they shew themselves at the very same time equally Affected to all making themselves English with English-Men French with French Spaniards with Spaniards so with all other Nations and Countries according as their Occasions require from which they do intend to Extract their Profit They have no regard to the Prejudice of one more than of another and therefore those Enterprizes in which they have intermeddled have seldom times succeeded well because they have no purpose to serve farther than their own Interests dictates tot hem And in this the Artifice which they use is most Notorius Some of them faining themselves to be Partial to the Crown of France others to Spain others to the Emperour and some to other Princes of whom they desire to be most Favoured And if any of these Princes please to make use of some Jesuite whom he holds for his Confident Friend he immediately writes to the Father General of the Affair which he hath to Treat on and expects his Answer together with Order what he shall do and conformable to that Commission he Rules himself Never regarding whether that Order be Conformable to the Intention of the Prince who commits the Care of that Affair to him But if the Society be served he takes little care what service he doth for the Prince Besides this because the Jesuites understand the Interest of all Princes and are most knowing in all Thiings daily Treated upon in Secret Councils those who pretend to hold with France Propound to the King and his Principal Ministers certain Conditions of State and Important Considerations which are sent to them from their Politick Fathers at Rome And those that pretend to hold with the Crown of Spain do just the same with them and so with the rest From which Course and Cunning of theirs there ariseth such a Diffidence in the Hearts of Christian Princes that none will Soarce give Credit to each other which is a main Prejudice to the Publick Peace and Universal Welfare of Christendom The which Diffidence of theirs is that which makes it so difficult a thing to Conclude a League against a Common Enemy and Precious Peace to be of so little Value amongst Princes Furthermore With these Artificious Devices they have so opened the Eyes of the VVorld and sharpened Mens VVits in Matters of State that to this Day tot he notable Prejudice of the Holy Church they attend to nothing else but Matters of Policy and poize all their Actions in that False Ballance But to the end that these Jesuitical Stratagems may yet appear more plainly I cannot here conceal the Means by which they inveigle Princes to be of their Party There are some Years now past since one of these Fathers called Father Parsons the Assistant of England wrote a Book against the Succession of the King of Scotland to the Crown of England and another Father called Crittonius with some others of the same Order in a Book which they wrote Defended the Title of the King of Scotland opposing the Opinion of Father Parsons and feigning under a Specious Pretence to be at Discord amongst themselves Although all this was indeed cunningly done and by the Special Command of their Father General only for this purpose that whosoever should Succeed in the Kingdom of England they might have an Excellent Argument to work in him a great and good Opinion of their society and so to Extract their own Ends from him A fair Example to shew us that princes are the Objects of all Jesuitical Actions and Determinations and by Consequence to make good their own Saying That their Society is a Grand Monarchy Again That the Truth of this may appear That the Jesuites have no Regard whether they Please or Displease any Prince where their own Interest is most nearly concerned Although Experience of infinite Things past makes it as Clear as the Sun at Noon-day yet the Particulars which I shall here subjoyn will render it every way most Evident There is no Person in the VVorld whom they are more bound to Serve and Obey than the Bishop of Rome not only for many other Reasons but especially because they make a Particular Vow to obey him Yet when Pius Quintus went about to Reform some of these Fathers reducing them unto the Performance of their Duty in the Chair they would not obey him esteeming that a Notorious Prejudice to their Society And those few who yielded themselves to the Pope's Pleasure accepting that Profession were alwayes afterwards mocked and jeered and called by their Fellows Quintini Nor could ever any of them get the least Preferment amongst them In the same kind they opposed

Glorious Saint Charles Arch-Bishop of Millain who as Legate a Latere to his Holiness endeavoured to reduce them to a Religious Discipline But what should I speak of these since they obey not the Sacred Cannons themselves but against their Decrees make Merchandize of Pearls Rubies and Diamonds the which they bring from the Indies And there is an Opinion that the greatest part of Precious Stones which are sold in Venice belong to the Jesuits the ground of which Opinion hath been received from their own Brokers whom they have employed in the Sale of them But that they are no faithful servants to the Bishop of Rome those Fathers well know who for default of their Service were called by process to Rome I need not Name them nor will I wade farther into this matter as well that I may not be compelled to speak of some Prince whom my Discourse may not very well please my self designing to do Service to all and to Offend none as because I intend not here to make so large an Invective against the Jesuits as they deserve but only to give a short and plain Draught of their Courses and Customs For as many times we behold one Afflicted with some grievous Infirmity sending forth such lamentable Cries as reach Heaven it self and every one perceived that the Man is terribly indisposed but no man is able to discern the Original Cause of his Evil so the whole World Complains of the Jesuits some for being Persecuted others for being Tortured and some for being Treacherously served by them but the Mischief still remains amongst us nor is the Cause thereof easily Discovered which is nothing else but an immense desire which they have to Increase crease their own Power in respect whereof they esteem it nothing to Vilifie or Murther any Man or to deceive Princes and to Oppress the Poor to Extort from Widows their Estates and Wrong the Fatherless What shall I say to Ruinate most Noble Kingdoms nay many times by their Intermedling with all importaut Affairs in matters of State it causes Jealousies and Despite amongst Christian Princes Now as there would follow a great Inconvenience if that part which was last formed by Nature as an Instrument to serve the rest that were more Noble should attract unto it self all the purest Blood and Vital Spirits because this I say were the way utterly to dissolve the whole so it is as inconvenient that the Religion of the Jesuits planted into the Body of the Holy Church as Instruments for the Conversion of Hereticks and the perswading of Sinners to Repentance should bring within their own Power all the most weighty and important Affairs of Princes and Prelates and Extracting from them the very Life and Spirit of their Interest should convert them unto their own purposes Because from hence both private and publick Peace is Disturbed many Depressed which were worthy to be Exalted and many Exalted which deserve to be Depressed with a Thouand Inconveniences which would follow upon it I could produce many Reasons taken from Experience it self to demonstrate what an ingorgeous Ambition the Jesuits have to increase their Greatness but it shall here suffice to make it known from Father Parsons own words recorded in a Book of his composed in the English tongue and InTituled The Reformation of England where having first blamed Cardinal Pool and having also observed many Wants and Imperfections in the Council of Trent at length he concluded That when England should return to the Roman Catholick Faith he would reduce it to the Form and State of the Primitive Church making common all Ecclesiastical Goods and assigning the Charge of them unto seven Sagii or Wise-men which should be Jesuits and they should make Distribution of Goods at their pleasure Nor is it his will nay he forbids it under a grievous Penalty that any Religious person of what Order soever should return into England without their License Resolving that none should enter there but those who should be Maintained by Almes But as it oft falls out that Self-Love blinds the VVisest Man that he becomes the greatest Fool it is most Ridiculous which the same Father subjoyns in that place When England sayes he shall once be reduced to the True Faith it will not be Convenient that the Pope at the least for Five Years space should look to receive any Fruit from the Ecclesiastical Benefices of this Kingdom but remit all into the Hands of those Seven Wise Men who should Dispense them as they conceived best for the good of the Church This being his Designe that the first Five Years being past by some other Invention of which they are very full they would re-confirm the same Priviledge for Five Years more and so onwards till they had utterly excluded his Holiness from England Now who seeth not here as in a Table the Covetousness and the Ambition of the Jesuits naturally describ'd together with the hearty desire they have to make themselves Monarchs And who seeth not with what Cunning they endeavour to promote their own Designes procuring it either from the Good of some or Ill of others VVhat should I say more of them In the time of Gregory the Thirteenth Did they not make it their Request that they might be Invested of all the Parish Churches in Rome That they might there lay a Foundation of their Monarchy And that which they could not get in Rome Have they not finally obtained in England VVhere they not long since have chosen an Arch-Priest one of the Jesuits in Voto who instead of protecting the Clergy like a Ravening VVolf persecutes all such Priests as are not depending upon the Jesuits driving them to terms of Desparation and depriving them under a great Penalty of mutual Communication so that by this time almost all the English-Roman-Clergy are Jesuits in Voto Nor do they accept any into their Colledges who hath not pass'd his VVord to become a Jesuit so that when that Kingdom shall return to the Antient Faith England will be like to give a beginning to an absolute Jesuitical Monarchy because all the Ecclesiastical Revenues all the Abbeys Benefices Bishopricks Arch-Priestships and other Dignities shall be conferred only by the Jesuits I here let pass many things as the pretensions which they make concerning other mens Estates how jealous they are of their VVelsare and desirous of their Prosperity as the Favour which they endeavour to gain from Princes by making them believe that their Subjects are most Devout to their Religion and consequently that they are able to make them well-affected to the person of their Prince Such evident things as these I leave to every one to observe and with Four brief Considerations I will conclude this present Discourse First That Men of such High Spirits such reaching Designes are alwayes Lovers of Novelty ever searching for it begetting it because without some new-raised Motions it is impossible they should attain their Ends And therefore the Jesuits cannot be helpful to any Prince that either loves Peace or the Conservation of his own State since they are more likely to be the Cause of much Trouble and Commotion Nay happily to Deprive him of his whole State if he Favour not their Party or be not partially governed by their Counsel Secondly If these who have not Temporal Jurisdiction are able to cause such great and prodigious Disturbances in the World What think ye would they do if one of them should by Chance be created Pope First he would stuff the Consistory with Jesuits and by that means perpetuate the Popedome to them and then directing themselves by their in-sight and interest of State and having the Arm and Power of the Pope they would be enabled to put in Danger the State of many Princes especially of those who are Neighbours and Confiners Thirdly It would be the Design of that Pope if he could by any means to Invest their Order of some City or Temporal Jurisdiction with the which they would afterwards make way for a Thousand other Designes which they could never Effect without the Damage of other Princes Fourthly When the Consistory should be entirely Jesuited the whole Patrimony of Christ would be in their Hands And as one that has the Dropsy The more he Drinks the more he Thirsts so their Ambition growing with their Greatness would occasion a vast Inundation of Trouble in the World Now because there is nothing more subject unto Change than matters of State These Fathers with all their Power and Crafty Cunning would endeavour to Alter the whole Course of Government that they might finally introduce the Form and Project of their own Government and by that means absolutely Immonarchize themselves They have had it long in their Heads to gain into their Society the Son of some Prince who should absolutely invest the Company of his State and this they had long since Attained if some others wisely Spying out their Design had not prevented them but had they once obtained that they would without any Difficulty have made themselves Patrons of the State-Ecclesiastical And as they are very Invective and Subtil they would afterwards have found out a Thousand Wayes how to enlarge it Thus they would have wanted no means that might make them Masters of their Projects And if nothing else would have done it the Jealousios which they would have raised in the Minds of their Confining Princes would have done them no small Service It is therefore most necessary that for the Preservation of Publick Peace and for the Maintenance of States for the encrease of True Religion and for the Common Good of the whole VVorld that they be utterly Rooted Out of all Christendom whose desires are so extreamly inordinate lest haply that follow which was Anciently effected by the Davidi whose Courses the Jesuits seem to Imitate who were not Destroyed till the time of Claudius the Emperour And when I shall be commanded to VVrite my Opinion concerning an opportune Remedy how to Rectifie These Fathers and to Convince them of their Erroneous Opinions desiring rather that they may be good Pastors of Souls which are the Treasury of Christ and not of the VVorld or of the Profit of the VVorld which is nothing else but vile Dung I am ready to perform it with Charity and with all that Ability which it shall please God to bestow upon me FINIS