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An account of the Jesuites life and doctrine by M.G.
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M. G. (Martin Grene), 1616-1667.
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revealed it in time nor used means to prevent it though he did disswade it Finally the Parliament of Paris to make the Jesuits eternally ignominious erected a pillar in the place where Catels house had stood with an inscription that might carry to future ages the infamy of Catels fact attributed to the Jesuits The pillar was erected and the sentence executed in all the Kings dominions except only the Parliament of Tolouse and Bourdeaux and the places depending on that Parliament For the Parliament of Tolouse seeing the injustice of the proceeding commanded that no town or place belonging to their judicature should obey the Act made at Paris All this is related by de Thou Peter Mathien Scipion Duepleix Spondanus and others King Henry sat not yet fast enough in the saddle to contest with the Parliament of Paris For though the Parliaments of France be nothing like our Parliaments of England ours being a representative of the Nation with whom the King can make and unmake lawes theirs only a number of Lawyers in several courts of Judicature to take cognizance of particular cases and crimes yet King Henry thought not fit to scratch the wounds of France not yet well healed by offending them who had so lately been reconciled and had during the Ligue droven a strong interest for the side they took But as soon as the first storme was over he began by little and little to shew his inclinations to the Society hearing willingly those that spoke for them and himself speaking favourably of them till at length when things were ripe for a good issue he resolved to recall them The Parliament of Paris on the contrary endeavoured might main to oppose them and to that end after many other endeavours one of the Presidents by name Harley towards the end of the year 1603. made in a full assembly before the King a long and sharp invective against the Jesuites all tending to this that for the good of the King and Kingdom the Jesuits ought not to be recalled but continue banished When K. Henry had patiently heard him out he was pleased to speak himself and plead for the Society retorting and answering all that Harley had said so dextrously that all admired his vivacity of memory and judgment and his strong nervous eloquence which made him King not only of men but of Eloquence also I mean to set down his speech as it was printed in Latine first then in English in the year 1611. I taking that to be an authentical copy For whereas in the year 1610. the calumnies against the society grew very rife by occasion of the untimely death of Henry the IV. the friends of the Society thought it necessary to reprint the speech then fresh in the memory of many and to joyne it with a declaration wherein the Bishop of Paris declared the Society's innocency and merits and a Constitution of Lewis the XIII by which the Society was confirmed in all the priviledges granted by his father Henry IV. All these were put out together and translated into many languages to confute as in effect they did and silence the calumny of Henry IV. death of which the adversaries of the society had made many stories run in most of the languages of Europe Out of this copy therefore I intend to take the speech But because I have mentioned the death of Henry IV. I will say something of that story before I set down the speech On the 14. day of May 1610 this great King was murdered in his coach by a perfidious villan named Francis Ravaillac who being often examined and tortured alwaies protested that he was never induced by any man living to this fact and further that he had not communicated his design to any Yet they who by Catels fact had triumphed over the society and procured their banishment thinking now they had a good occasion to wreck their malice against the Jesuits in the nonage of their new King whom they could not hurt whilst the father lived spreadmany libels against the Jesuits to make them seem guilty of that horrid Parricide For this purpose they voiced that Ravaillac had learnt his mischief out of Mariana and some did not stick to say that he had all Mariana without book But he being examined was found not to know so much as Mariana's name and besides he never understood latine Howsoever that which might give some colour to the noise was that the school of Sorbon renewed a decree which had been made in the yean 1413. wherein the doctrine of Killing Kings was condemned according to the Council of Constance This decree was made the 4. of July 1610. And the Parliament of Paris soon after caused Mariana's book de Rege et institutione Regis to be burnt which all reflected on the Jesuits Further the Parliament on the 26 of Novem. then following condemued the treatise of Cardinal Bellarmine against Barklay de potestate summi pontificis in temporalibus but the K. of France 4 daies after issued a contrary decree to cashiere that Act of the Parliament and publickly cleered the Jesuites of all suspition of his fathers death The King being then in his minority was assisted by the Qu. Regent his Mother the P. of Conde the Count of Soissons Princes of the blood the D. of Mayenne the L. Chancellour the D. of Espernon of Lacerdeene of Bois Daulphin Marshal of France c. this made the fathers innocency so manifest that none durst any further condemn them All this I have mentioned for two reasons the first is because I find that some English books take up the French slanders and make much of the decree for condemning Bellarmine whereas notwithstanding they might have taken notice that that decree was recalled and annulled by the King Princes and Councel and the Jesuits freed from the aspersion of the Kings death which without any the least appearance of probability was by meer calumny objected to them 2ly I take notice of this decree because it will shew what Judgment the reader make of some other decrees he may guesse by this whether that be not true which Spondanus saith ad annum 1626. numero secundo where having taken notice of the strife of Sorbon concerning Santareles book and the censures of it he hath these words Haec doctorum Sorbonicorum dissidia non aliunde procedebant quam ex occultis schismatis seminibus quae a multis fovebantur These dissentions of the Sorbon Doctours did not proceed from any thing else but from hidden seeds of Schisme which many did nourish This he doth not say nor do I as though the book of Santarel were not justly condemned since the King as Spondamus there saith signified to Sorbon that that book was already suppressed at Rome by the Pope and disowned by all learned men and therefore they needed not trouble themselves with giving their censures But the violence 〈◊〉 â—hese Doctours proceeding 〈…〉 to inclinations bent to Schisme And he addeth
give a true notion of their lives and Doctrine True it is their adversaries are many which gives them great occasion of practising vertue according as it did to the Apostle who said 1 Cor. 16.9 Ostium mihi apertum est magnum adversarii multi a great door is opened to me and many adversaries But there is main difference betwixt their Friends and their Adversaries Their adversaries excel in number but their Friends in quality Their adversaries are for the most part enemies of either vertue or learning or both their friends persons of the best repute Their adversaries act in private by Libels in publick by clamours and tumults Their friends give them juridical testimonies in the face of the world and publick courts Their adversaries are carried on by passion their friends by reason Their adversaries are moved by private disgusts and self ends their friends act for the general good and common interest All this I could prove by instancing in every particular several praesidents in all the Nations of Europe Africa Asia and both Indies as far as the name of Christ is known But I will not commend the society as not having undertaken that task Only I say that there is no Nation under the cope of Heaven where Catholick religion is tolerated but that the Jesuites are also allowed as well as other Priests I come therefore to the Objection and say that the examples of Venice and France are no motives to make England banish the Jesuites but rather arguments of the contrary It is good to be wise at other mens cost Venice and France have repented their acts and surely he cannot be a good friend and good counsellour that advises England to do what other nations repent they have done that is exhorteth us to imitate other mens faults The matter is plain yet because nothing is too plain for them that will not see and do besides indeavour to cast a mist before other mens eyes Le ts look at both the passages And first for Venice Spondanus then in the second Tome of his continuation of Annalls an 1606 relateth how pope Paul the fifth was offended with the Venetians The cause of the disgust was that the Senate had made some lawes whereby they took to themselves power over the Clergy in punishing their crimes as also they forbid the giving of any immovable goods to pious uses as to build any Churches or Hospitals in their State without having first obtein'd leave of the Senate Pope Paul admonished the Senate of this they sleighted his admonitions and maintained that they did nothing but what they had just authority for After several replyes to and fro the Venetians persisting in their opinion the Pope proceeded to censures He sends a Breve with the sentence of Excommunication and Inderdict to all the Bishops and Prelates of the state of Venice with command that if the Senate did not satisfy within 24 dayes then they should publish the Breve whereby the Senatours were to be Excommunicated and the State interdicted The Senate on the contrary sends to all the same Bishops and Prelates a countermand not to publish the said Brief Yet some Prelates obeying the Popes authority the brief waspublished when the time elapsed And so the Duke and Senatours were Excommunicate and an interdict laid on the whole State Many contemning the interdict celebrated divine offices some obeyed it Among these were the Jesuites and the Capuchins and some others for which they were at the instigation of one Friar Paul banished the state The next year matters were compounded the Senate took off their lawes and the pope his censures All others were restored but only the Jesuites whom Friar Paul particularly maliced So the Jesuites remained out of that State pope Paul and his successours for the publick good letting their cause fall till pope Alexander that now sitteth For this pope together with the Embassadour of the Emperour Spain France and other princes dealt with the Venetians to readmit the Jesuites The Senate then looking back on what they had done cancelled their own Act declared it null and invited the Society their republique restoring them all their houses and colledges with much honour This is the story which I think no man will take for an argument that the Jesuits are to be banished England The occasion of their banishment was the obeying the Popes censure of Interdict and Excommunication which King James doth not deny but that the Pope may inflict as Patriarche of the West The event was that the Venetian Senate retracted their sentence and acknowledged the Jesuits innocence Now for the story of France it happened thus In the year 1594 on the 27 of December one John Catel a persidius miscreant attempted on the life of Hâ—â—ry the Fourth presently after his reception at Paris in the closing of the long Civil warrs of France But by the blessing of God the Felon missed of his wicked design For whereas the King was stooping to salute some of his Nobles the wound light on his upper lip and only struck out one of his teeth with much effusion of bloud Catell being presently taken was racked to confess his complices and who had set him on He never confessed any thing that might concern any Jesuit neither in nor out of the torture Yet the Calvinists and other enemies of the society would needes have it that the mischeif was of the Jesuites plotting grounded on this only argument that Catell though then a Student at law had formerly studied his philosophy under the Jesuites Presently therefore they runtimed to the Colledge seize on all thâ— Jesuites search their house and ransack their papers Father Gueret was the Master under whom Catell had heard his philosophy him therefore they tortured but finding nothing by his Confession on the rack or by any witnesse they banished him for ever out of France And whereas among the papers belonging to one Father Guignard they found something which had been writ during the time of the Ligue and it seems might be interpreted treason they presently took him condemned him and hanged him Then they made an act saith Monsieur de Thou Hist lib. 132. without order of Judgement without hearing the partyes as in a publick sedition Non servato juris ordine neque partibus auditis ut in seditione publica grassatione They are the words of Harley the President In this Act Catel was condemned to death and all the Jesuites of France as far as it then obeyed Henry the fourth sentenced to perpetual banishment and their goods confiscated to pious uses and further in the same sentence it was made high treason for any to send their children out of France to study in thâ—â— Jesuites schools And that they might not seem to be severe only against the Jesuits they banisht for nine years the father of Catel a Merchant of cloth his fault was that whereas his son had acquainted him with his design of killing the King he had not