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A31633	The cabinet of the Jesuits secrets opened in which there are many things relating to the church and clergy of England : as also the ways by which they encrease the number and wealth of their society on the ruines of kingdoms and families : in part began by Dr. Oats from an Italian copy, but now more largely discovered from a French copy printed at Colon, 1678 / made English by a person of quality.; Monita Secreta Societatis Jesu. English.	Person of quality.; Zahorowski, Hieronim.; Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing C189; ESTC R18321	39,724	49

Society called Father Person the Assistant of that Kingdom having wrote a Book against the Succession of the King of Scotland to the Crown of England Father Critonic with others of the same Order defended the Right of the said King by a Book entitled The Reasons of the King of the Scots against the Opinion of Father Person Now though they seemed to be divided among themselves yet they were in truth very well agreed for this Comedy was acted by the commandment of the General to the intent that if the House of Scotland had been excluded from the Succession they might have produced to him or them that had the Government Person 's Book or it on the contrary that House happened to be settled upon the Throne they might yet gain the King's Affection by shewing him Critonic's Book And so how ever the matter fell out they might quit themselves and be provided of a fit means to increase their Society By which we may observe also the truth of what I said when I affirmed that Princes were the ordinary and usual Objects of the Resolutions and Actions of the Jesuits and how much reason they have to say that their Order is a Great Monarchy And is not this also a convicting Instance and proof of the little fear they have to discontent Princes when it is their Interest Experience furnisheth us with a number of other Examples which would make this as clear as the day but I should be too long and troublesome if I should repeat them here I will therefore instance in one which is worth a thousand it being most remarkable Every one knows there is no Person in the World whom the Jesuits are more obliged to serve faithfully and obey than the Pope and that not only in respect of that particular vow of obedience which they make to him but also for a multitude of other reasons Yet nevertheless when Pope Pius the fifth who can never be enough commended had by the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit commanded them to officiate in the Quire and make their profession in the same manner as all the other Orders do they never would obey him it seeming to them that they should thereby receive a considerable prejudice There were only some few who yielded their Obedience to his Holiness his Will and who consented to accept the profession in that manner which he had propounded But how were they treated by the rest were they not in contempt call'd Avatins And was there ever any one Person of these who could obtain the least preferment from the Society After this manner also they opposed the famous Charles Borromee Arch-Bishop of Milan who in quality of Legat à latere would have brought their Company to the observance of a Religious Discipline But what is this They obey not the holy Canons seeing contrary to their Decrees they trade in Pearls Rubies and Diamonds which are brought them from the Indies and it is a common Opinion that the greatest part of the Jewels of India which are sold at Venice pass through the hands of the Jesuits and we cannot imagin this is a meet Report which hath been spread by their Enemies the very Posts themselves whom they use have taught it us And I could here report some other things which would prove as evidently that they are bad and unfaithful Servants to the Pope but because I cannot do it without speaking of a Prince who will be offended at it I will pass it in silence my design being to serve the World without offending any Man no not the Jesuits whom I honour otherwise and pretend not here to make an Invective against them but only to abate their Pride and teach them if it be possible a more tolerable way of acting For who is it that hath not just cause to complain of the Jesuits Yet as it often happens that sick Persons send up their crys to Heaven and are beheld by others in the interim with Wonder every one perceiving they are afflicted with this or that Malady and yet but few discern the true origin and fource of them So though almost all the World complain of the Jesuits some because they are persecuted by them others for that they are not served by them with a Fidelity becoming their Habit yet the evil continues nevertheless because most Men cannot perceive the true cause of so great a disaster But if they would examine the thing a little more exactly they should easily find that it is the vast and boundless desire they have to aggrandise themselves which makes them think it a thing of no moment to discontent Princes or deceive them to oppress the poor to spoil Widows and ruine most noble Families to raise Jealousies and make Discords amongst Christian Princes that by that means they may insinuate themselves into their greatest Affairs But would not this be a strange disorder in Nature if one of the least Members of the Body and that formed to no other end than to serve as an Instrument to the more Noble should yet draw to it self the purest Blood and the greatest part of the Vital Spirits the disorder without doubt is not less in the Civil or Ecclesiastical State while the Order of Jesuits which was one of the last that was admitted into the body of the Church to the intent that it should serve her in the Conversion of Infidels and particularly in exhorting Sinners to repentance on the contrary draws to it self the greatest affairs of Princes and Prelates that is as I may say the most pure and Vital Spirits of their Interest to the end this Order may appropriate and apply them to her self though she cannot do this without troubling the repose of Families and Kingdoms without oppressing many whose rise should rather be desired and raising others who deserve rather to be abased and finally without thousands of other inconveniencies which arise from hence I could easily produce here a great number of other reasons drawn from experience besides those I have already alleged to manifest That the Jesuites ambition is of a vast extent and that they have entertained an Appetite of Greatness which can suffer no Limits or Bounds But because I affect brevity in these Reflections it shall suffice to report the Project of Father Person upon England in that manner he discovers it in his Book intituled the Reformation of England where having blamed Cardinal Pool a Prelate worthy of an eternal memory not only for his Vertue and Sanctity of Life but also for his other merits to the holy Church and observed certain faults and defects in the Council of Trent at last he concludes That supposing England should return to the Catholic Faith he would have it reduced to the form and State of the Primitive Church that to that end all the Church Revenue should be held in common the Administration of which should be committed to seven Sages drawn out of the Society of the Jesuits that they might distribute

both become the Spies of the General to whom they give an exact account of the most secret Affairs And from hence it comes to pass that what was thought most secret is become most publick when the means of its so being can not be discovered and Designs of the greatest import are prevented when it is impossible to conjecture who hath discovered them and which is worse they are most often suspected who are least guilty VIII The eighth thing which we should consider here is That as Subjects do naturally follow the Inclination of their Princes so all that pay obedience to the General observing his Affection and Application to State-Affairs and that he useth his utmost endeavour to enlarge and enrich by this means the Society they by his example study Politicks that they may be able to serve him in this glorious Design as they esteem it And to this purpose they employ their Kindred and Friends to search the Hearts of Kings to discover their most secret Intentions never failing to give advice of them to the General and his Assistants so soon as they can learn the least particular For as they know this is the only way to gain the good-will of their Superiours and bring themselves to preferment which is never given amongst them to any but what are known to be fit to elevate the Society to that Grandure they aspire to So they do what they can to render themselves recommendable by some Politick Act and so gain the esteem of being thought capable of the Management of greater Affairs IX So that as by the force of Fire the Chymists can draw Oils which can cure almost mortal Wounds and as the industrious Bee extracts her Honey from the Juice of most different Flowers so the Jesuits by the force of their Reason extract their own Interest out of the assured Relations are made them of all the Interests of the Princes no less than from the several Accidents which happen in the several States by means of which they not only allay for the time the Head of their Thirst after Greatness but gain an exact knowledg of their own Interest by the help of which they obtain their end by the good or evil Fortune of others But that which is yet more remarkable is that having thus stollen into the heart of any Prince they have a custom of bringing them into play or as others say setting them a dancing telling them they have excellent Abilities of doing such a thing or effecting such a Design or finishing such an Enterprize But so soon as they have began to employ themselves in favour of these Jesuits in conformity to their Promises coming at last to consider that such an increase of Power in that Prince they had thus encouraged may be disadvantageous to them they then retard as much as they are able the Conclusion of that Affair just like Lawyers who prolong as much as they are able the Suits of their Clients and then on a sudden by a surprising Artifice and malicious Address they perplex the Court and entirely ruin those Designs themselves had inspired Whoever shall reflect on the League of France which was treated and concluded by them and yet was abandoned when they saw Fortune favoured that King and upon England which they have promised so often to the Spaniard shall be so convinced of the truth of this that he shall never need a stronger proof May we not then draw hence this Conclusion That the Intention of the Jesuits being neither right nor sincere towards any they serving the World no further than their own Interest will permit them neither Princes nor Prelates can employ them as Counsellors without great dammage because pretending themselves to be equally affected to all feigning themselves French with the French and Spaniards with the Spaniards and so with all the other Nations as occasion serves and as the hopes of making advantage puts them on they care not in the interim to help or hinder the one any more than the other It is without doubt their irregular Attention to their private Interest and the Neglect they have of the advancement of any other Person which are the Causes why all those Enterprizes wherein they are concerned have rarely succeeded But then we must confess they have a rare Art in dissembling this Indifference some feigning themselves very zealous Partizans of the Crown of France others of that of Spain others of the Empire and so of all the other Princes whose favour they seek But if among these Princes any one makes choice of a Jesuit for his Confident this man can no sooner learn a Secret in any Affair but he gives the General advice of it who thereupon sends him order how he shall proceed without any regard had to the intention of that Prince or whether they be for or against his Service Now though all the Inconveniences I have hitherto set forth be extremely dammageable to the Publick yet there are others much more so As first is That the Jesuits being thus exactly informed as I have said of the Interest and what ever else passeth in the most secret Counsels of Princes those that pretend to be of the Party of France propose to the King or to his principal Ministers certain Reasons of State of great import which have been sent them from Rome by their great Masters of Policy Those that pretend to be of the Party of Spain or in any other Court where they have any access propound others there directly contrary to the first or at least which can serve to no other purpose but to entertain distrust amon●st the Christian Princes so that they are kept in perpetual fear of each other which disturbs the Publick Peace more than can be expressed and causeth great Miseries in all Christendom such a Distrust being almost an invincible Obstacle to the Conclusion of a League against the common Enemy and rendring those Treaties of Peace which are made among Princes very uncertain The second is That by their cunning way of acting they have so enlightned the World that every Man seems to apply himself mostly to the points of State Policy so that now there is no Action which is not poized in this Ballance nor scarce any ordinary Affair which is not managed according to the Jesuits Subtilty But that which is yet worse the Hereticks perceiving and imbibing the Maxims of this Society use them to our great dammage with those Princes which protect them So that whereas heretofore there were great hopes the Lutherans at least should one day acknowledge their Errors now there are excellent States-men among them and Politicians hard to be converted And now that I may make it appear that I have said nothing but the Truth when I attribute extraordinary Craft and Dissimulations to the Jesuits especially when they designed to gain the favour of any Prince I must not omit what they did on that account in relation to Great-Britain One of that