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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

Reason compose their own Interest out of the faithful Intelligence they have of the Concerns of all Princes and of all Occurrences of State by which they do not only refresh that inward thirst of becoming Great but make likewise a mighty advantage in understanding their own emolument in prosecution of which they beat down all before them to accomplish their ends But what is most remarkable when as we have said before they are got into the hearts of Princes they are used to play them off by assuring them what excellent expedients they have for putting such a plot in practice and to bring about such a design But scarcely will they have begun in their assistance according to engagement but that upon confideration of some inconvenience this addition of Greatness to a Prince whom they have hitherto fed with fair hopes may bring to them they create a thousand delaies like Advocates in a Process at Law and then upon a sudden by some excellent sleight of contrivance turn all into confusion and so break the neck of that Plot themselves had laid He that will but reflect upon the League of France which being carryed on and concluded by them was likewise detected when they saw the King was like to get the better and upon England which they so often promised to the Spaniards will need no other proof to make out the truth of what I have said May we not then very justly draw this conclusion from the whole That the Jesuites having no real or sincere kindness for any nor will oblige the World beyond their own Interest neither Prince nor Prelate can make use of them without injury to themselves For at the same instant they pretend a like respect to all becoming Monsieurs with the French Dons with the Spaniard and so with all other Countreys as occasion serves and hopes of advantage They are very indifferent who it is they do harm or good to And no doubt it is that excessive Self-Interest and the little regard they have to any mans Concern else which makes few enterprises succeed in which they have a hand However I must allow that they have an incomparable art in concealing this indifference some of them still pretending a great zeal for the Crown of France others for that of Spain others for the Emperour and for all the rest of the Princes from whom they expect any favour But if it so fall out that some one of these Princes takes a Jesuite into his Cabinet-Counsels this fellow shall no sooner know any thing but that he will advise the Father General of it who presently sends back his result upon it in order to which he proceeds without consideration either of his Princes Will or Service And though these I have already declared are very great inconveniences I will shew you yet greater The first is That the Jesuites being fully informed of the several Interests and Counsels of Princes they amongst them that feign themselves to be of the French Faction propound to the King or his chief Ministers certain considerations of State which may be of some weight such as have been sent from Rome in their politick Letters Those which flatter the Court of Spain or any other Government where they have access make other propositions in these places quite contrary to the former or at least such as may keep Christian Princes at a distance to be in perpetual jealousies one of another which disturbs the common Peace more than can be imagined and brings a misfortune upon all Christendom For such a defiance hinders all possibility of joyning against the Common Enemy and indeed makes all Treaties of Peace between Princes signifie very little The second inconvenience is That by these subtle practices they have so opened the eyes of all people that no body minds any thing else but the Politicks So as nothing is done now a dayes that is not first weighed in this blance nor any business that is not directed by this Jesuitical Compass But all this would be nothing to what mischief would ensue if they of the Reformed Churches should take up this example and abuse their Interest with Princes after this manner For then in stead of Lutherans with whom some accommodation may it is hoped be found out one day we should have spring up a politick brood of irreconcilable Antichrists And to make it appear that I have said nothing but the truth when I have charged the Jesuites with such abominable Artifices and Collusions above all when they are upon insinuating themselves into the favour of Princes I must not forget what was done amongst them some years since upon the Concern of Great Britain One of their Fathers an Assistant of that Kingdom called Father Parsons having writ a Book against the Right of the King of Scots to the Crown of England Father Criton with others of the same Order defended the Kings Cause in a Book Intuled The Discourse of the King of Scots against the Opinion of Father Parsons or to that purpose And though you may suspect by this that they are divided among themselves yet I do assure you they do understand one another perfectly well For this Game was played by the directions of their General to the end that if the Scotch were disappointed of the Succession then should be shewed to whoever came in Father Parsons his Book or if otherwise Scotland should carry it then they should ingratiate themselves by presenting Criton's Work And so whatever came uppermost they were provided with that should make their Society acceptable By which you may judge how true it is that I told you Princes are the main object of all the Jesuites Designs and Actions and therefore reason good they should esteem their Order a Great Monarchy Nay is not this an undeniable argument of my assertion the small care they take to please any Prince when their Interest comes in competition We have have many experimental Examples that convince it beyond dispute if it were worth the trouble to set them down I will only give you one which shall be as good as a thousand Every one knows that there is none in the World that the Jesuites are in so high a nature obliged to and to whom they owe more fidelity than the Pope not only for the particular Vow of Obedience they make to his Person but for many other reasons besides And yet for all this Pius Quintus of blessed memory having a mind that these Fathers should officiate in the Chore and do all things after the manner of other Regulars they would never obey him but pretended still some great prejudice it would bring upon them Only there were some amongst them that submitted to His Holiness and did as they were commanded But how did the rest serve them Were they not by way of reproach called Aviatins or Starters aside And was ever any of them afterwards preferred in the least Just so they set themselves against that worthy

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 The Second Edition LONDON Printed for Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard M DC LXX IX A LETTER sent from a Gentleman in Paris to his Friend in London SIR I have taken this opportunity of my Friends going over to send you the enclosed Papers which if you think to find your account by it you may publish only I would have you by no means to disclose my name while I continue abroad for reasons you may easily guess THE first of these two little Tracts I met with here at Paris printed in French If it be not so quick and smart as should Answer the reproof of so great Offenders at least I am sure the length of it cannot be tedious It is in a manner but a Table of the Jesuites Conduct in managing their Worldly Interest and so you ought rather to expect truth in it than wit The Other is what I met with in Manuscript and I believe never yet Printed The Copy I made use of was written in French and not very Correct But however there may be mistakes in some little words I dare undertake in the whole it is true not to be denyed but by an impudence whose practice will give it self the Lie at the same instant It was found amongst the Papers of a Jesuite that Died not so near his Friends as he might have wished And therefore he that found it placed this Text under the Title of it There is nothing covered that shall not be revealed and hid that shall not be known It may be some who either have not so well Confidered the general Transactions of the World or are partially devoted to the Society will judg these accounts too extravagant for the Jesuites ever to undertake But if they please to go along with me a little further I make no doubt but they will change their minds Let us then but look round Christendome and see in what posture these good Fathers stand The Emperour is by the confession of all men beset with them whose head they fill so full of Musick That by their good will they would leave room for nothing else The King of Spain is a Child but his Mother the Queen Regent has taken care that the Jesuites shall not lose their share in him having placed Father Nidard her Confessour the first in her Council as Chief Minister How well he has answered that Trust let the Revolt of Don John and the high discontent of all the Nobility witness now in a time when the lowness of Spains fortune lays them open for a prey to all their Neighbours The King of France his last Confessour was Father Anat whose peaceable and quiet behaviour appears sufficiently out of the Writings of the Jansenists Flanders is wholly rid by the Jesuites England gives as great a Testimony of their busy spirit as any other Countrey where by their Rule of not suffering any of another Order to succeed Confessour in the room of one of them they have almost thrust out all other Regulars as well as Seculars Of which there is no small complaint made in these and other parts Nay the late Pope himself had a Jesuite his Confessour Cardinal Palavicino without whom he would resolve nothing of Religion or Conscience which were managed accordingly as may be seen in several Accounts of his Worthy Deeds It would be too much to set down their present Condition in every little Court and Common-wealth since it is manifest by what has been said that they insinuate themselves into Princes and other Great Men for no other good but their own I had forgot the King of Poland who was brought up a Novice among them However to give light into their particular actions I will only make bold to hint at two or three passages The first shall be that of their dealing with the Dominicans in Spain concerning the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary The Dominicans as more addicted to truth denied the thing upon which the Jesuites took occasion to shew that hatred they had always bore them under pretence of their zeal for so considerable a Superstition And therefore they have recourse to the Pope pressing him to decide the Controversie on their behalf He not willing to determine a point that had so little reason and no Antiquity for it would not resolve but only in some measure to gratifie their importunity sends a kind of Declaration into Spain That though it was true The Immaculate Conception could not be made out so as to enjoyn the Believing of it yet he esteemed it as the more reverend Opinion and could wish all Christians rather to be of it But though his Holiness would not speak out himself the Jesuites made him For upon these very words they raise a persecution against the Dominicans telling the people that though the Pope had not in express terms Condemned the Dominicans yet Implicitly he had by declaring his own sense so much for the other Thus did they put the cheat upon the peoples understandings But that their Industrious influence may appear the more you shall see they will not forbear to pick pockets when time serves For in Sivil they set up a Bank where any man might put in his money to be remanded again at pleasure This they kept in great credit and maintained by their Trade in the West-Indies At last when they perceived most of the stock of City Country was got into their hands presently they returned all over into the Indies and broke The people came upon them for their money They as Church-men pretend exemption from the Civil Courts and have so baffled the deceived people that I believe e're this they are in despair of recovering one farthing And now I have taken notice of their traffick in India let me refer you to the Letter of John Palafox de Mendoza Bishop of Angelopolis in America c. to Pope Innocent the X. dated the 8 th of January 1649. And the Memorial presented to the King of Spain in Defence of Don Bernardino de Cardenas Bishop of Paraguay in the West-Indies c. against the Jesuites both put out in French In both which the insolence ambition and wickedness of the Jesuites is so discovered that were it not recorded upon such publike Acts the proceedings would be Incredible For it appears there that to serve their own ends they made use of Pagans to shed Christian blood endevoured to murder their Bishop and such other horrid attempts as must no doubt render them odious to all posterity The Eighteenth Canon of the Council of Calcedon was so little in their minds that they did not so much as observe the common