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A46678	A further discovery of the mystery of Jesuitisme In a collection of severall pieces, representing the humours, designs and practises of those who call themselves the Society of Jesus.	Jarrige, Pierre, 1605-1660.; Schoppe, Kaspar, 1576-1649.; Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179.; Flacius Illyricus, Matthias, 1520-1575.; Zahorowski, Hieronim.	1658 (1658)	Wing J489A; ESTC R219108	215,027	399

Greek Tongue that I defy him not to interpret but to read a page of any Greek Author without stumbling thirty times and for this challenge which I make to him it is no hard matter for him to refute it for there 's no more to be done but that he referre himself to two knowing men But I am confident he dares not put it to the hazard what bragges so ever he may make of sufficiency The Hebrew is a strange and barbarous language to him for not to injure or bely the man he was never yet acquainted with either the points or Letters and it is much to be questioned whether he can turne the Bible the right way Having the last yeare received from one of our Ministers a Letter in Hebrew he runs hare-brained from Ruffec to Engoulesme a whole night's journey to get it interpreted and answered by Monsieur Thomas de Maisonnette a knowing person and well skilled in that Tongue That excellent person cannot deny what I say to be true History and Chronology are those unknown parts of Learning which were never discoverable to him and if he sayes any thing of them he does it upon the credit of another and the security of citations which he meets with in certaine collections of Controversies Since he is so unfortunate as to all these it would be thought that those shreds of Logick he hath made a shift to get together might find him some employment as to that Science but the course he was put upon at Bourdeaux purely indeed for want of another discovered the weaknesse of his dialecticall faculties That employment bestowed on him not out of any consideration of his desert but upon the recommendation of Monsieur Jrat who had an affection for him proved so unfortunate to him that his Schollers to shew what account they made of such a master brought an Asse into the Schoole got it up into his seat and there fastened him in such manner that the two fore feet hung over it as it were to represent Doctor Beaufes and indeed there wanted only speech to say Nego with as much judgement as our Logick-Lecturer could That honourable Substitute putting him to a little losse when he was come in to read his Lecture the Scholers hissed him out of the Classe and thereupon breaking of that unfortunate course that stayed till the next year to begin it againe under a more able Master That Minister who writing to a friend of his told him that this Antagonist was guilty of a little Logick had not certainly heard of this glorious accident which yet was generally known all over Bourdeaux notwithstanding the great zeale and earnestnesse of Pabot then Prefect to smother the businesse For had he knomn any thing of it he would have given another account of him and might have said more truely that as to Logick he was Master of no more then was requisite he should have that deserved to have his place supplyed by an Asse His perfections in Divinity I refer to the test of their judgements who heare his Sermons Only I shall presume so far as to say that it is levelled to the capacities of those that are the most remote from Citties and civill conversation For having given through his notorious rake-heilizing very great scandall in the Colledge of Bourdeaux where I then was the Provinciall was forced to pack him away thence to Pau in Beard there to prosecute his studies after he had caused him publickly in the Refectory to receive discipline during the whole time that a Miserere was read The employments he is put upon are proportionable to the account they make of him All his businesse in Ruffec for foure yeares together was only to run up and downe the Villages thereabouts and were it not that he makes it so much his businesse to gaine a litle reputation by endeavouring the refutation of the Ministers he would be thought absolutely unworthy to speak in publick Those of their Society who know him as well as I do wonder not to see him kept so low insomuch that it was never asked by any one whence it came that he was appointed to preach in the Advents and Lents at Sauue-terre a paltry towne in Bazadois at Vieille Vigne a village of Brittany at Ruffec two years together while other preachers that were his Juniors by nine or ten years preached in the greatest and most considerable Citties Both Secular Priests and Regulars are astonished to find him admitted into the pulpit at all considering the imprudences and impertinences he falls into in his Sermons Some Jesuits were of opinion that he had some gift in the businesse of Controversies not that they thought him sufficiently skilled as to the understanding of the Scriptures or furnished as to matter of ratiocination but only because he hath a bitter satyricall faculty such as easily makes the audience laugh by an humour he hath of making sport with our maximes 'T is the generall acknowledgement that he maintaines his cause rather like some jugler then a Preacher and a Divine I have had the diversion to see this modest and regulated Orator with his Jesuiticall cap one while hanging over one eare another pulled down over his nose stamping with his feet shutting his fists gnashing and g●inning with his teeth with his surplice r●l●ed up like a dish-clout under his ●me If the teares of the Audience sp●ake the praises of the preacher as St Hierome saies this man can pretend to very little for thousands have seen him laugh very gravely himselfe after he had with cackling pronunciation of his words shot out some foolish expression purposely to excite others to laughter The town of Fontenay shall confirme what I say where our Lecturer preaching the last yeare he would needs in the midst of his Sermon ridiculously fall a singing as it were to personate some poore old woman that were singing of a psalme porters and tradesmen laughed at the humour of that harmonious crow while some persons of quality said at the same time to his Rector whom I was in company with These sallyes of simplicity and impertinence Sir are not to be endured In the s●me Sermon he made very di●igent enquiry and that in very unhandsome termes by what m●rkes it might be known that women stood in need of men and foolishly demanded of the Audience whether it were by the eyes by the hands by the Legges or by the end of the nose Pardon me if I fo●beare the rest my writing blushes at his impudence but let it be observed by the way how much his capacity in order to preaching ●mounts to and what degree of prudence he is of to speake in publick CHAP. III. A character of James Beaufés in relation to his life and manners God hath not bestowed the gift of preaching equally upon all but it is his wil that al should so lead their liv●● as that they might give others good example Did the Je●●its of Guienne think it their duty