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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

9. In the next plac we should discover every Mans Office and the Revenue of it their Professions the Articles of their Contracts which they may surely do by Confessions by Meetings and by Entertainments or by our trusty Friends And generally whenever any Confessor lights upon a wealthy Person from whom he hath good hopes of profit he is obliged forth with to give notice of it and discover it at his return 10. They should also inform themselves exactly whether there be no hopes of obtaining * It signifies Leases Purchases c. Bargains Goods Possessions pious Gifts and the like in exchange for the admission of their Sons into our Society 11. We ought to endeavour to know if any Person well affected to us intends any thing to our College and whether he may be brought to purchase on this Condition that after a certain time we should have such Rents or Purchases Gratis or whether our Society may expect a greater benefit from him and how we may come by the same 12. We ought to let every one know the great need we have the debts which oppress us and the great expences we are forced to make 13. If our Society sells any thing to our Devotes Men or Women it ought to be only upon this condition that within a certain time it shall return gratis to us and be reunited to our Revenues 14. If the rich Widows or married People who are well affected to us have Daughters only we ought to persuade them with great art to cause them to enter into the Religion leaving them a small Portion for that end and so we may gain the remainder of their Estate as Countrey-Houses Mannors and other Possessions And so likewise on the part of their Sons to put them on with great care to imbrace our Society to fright them and make them obedient to their Parents teaching them to despise all low things and making them know they are more obliged to follow Jesus Christ than their Parents if they will have a due care of their Souls for this will be to offer a kind of Sacrifice to our Society to persuade the last Heir of a Family to enter it without the knowledg of his Parents who should be sent to make his Nouiciate in a place of some distance our General being first advertised of it 15. If there be a rich Widow our Friend who hath Sons and Daughters and there be no hope of getting the Daughters into a Monastery nor the Sons into our Society the Superior should ever lay the blame upon the Confessor and therefore he ought to change him and put another in his place who may manage the Plot better and if yet it succeed not then he ought to persuade their Mother to leave them some small Pension and then selling what came by her and her Joynture raise a considerable sum of Money and then try if we can induce her to give the whole to our Society that she may obtain pardon and expiation of her Sins and her Husbands 16. If a Widow hath married a Widower and hath by him Daughters or Sons or only one Son with Sisters by a former Husband let first the younger Children be sent to a Monastery and then the elder that we may the easier get their Pstate 17. If any Widows very much affected to our Society and careful of their Salvation having no Heirs possess two or three Manors or other Inheritances we ought to persuade them to leave their Estates to our Colleges and persuade them to receive some small annual Pensions from us that they may serve God with the greater freedom being released from the troubles of the World and so by degrees bring them from an annual Pension to live as we do that under pretence of Mortification and voluntary Poverty they be as it were our Domesticks being as it were resigned up to our Wills And for fear by the direction their kindred they should be brought to recal their Bounty it is fit to send them to spend the rest of their Lives in some distant place and in the interim tell them this sort of Life is an imitation of that of the Hermites which is the most devout and humble sort of Life that is 18. That our devout Persons may think us poor our Superiour ought to borrow Money upon promises entred before Notaries it may be that upon their Death-Beds they may order the Notaries to put the said obligations into our hands for the Salvation of their Souls for it is more easy to give in our Bonds then to give us a considerable sum of Money 19. It is fit to borrow a considerable sum of Money on Mortgage and then persuade them to assign the Interest to some other College that so one Revenue may increase another and so in their last sickness in compassion to our Poverty if they do not give us the entire sum yet at least they may be brought to assign a good part of it for the building of some new College 20. We should procure the friendship of some excellent Physician that we may be called to visit the Sick and assist at the Passage of those whom he serves 21. The Confessors ought not to be negligent in visiting the Sick especially those that dispair representing to them the pains of Purgatory and Hell telling them they cannot be saved without Charity for those who before were Covetous use then to be most liberal to us and it may be will presently give all they have into our hands which ours should solicit all that ever they are able for fear this favourable opportunity slip them And if a Woman in her Confessions accuse the vices and ill usages of her Husband towards her of being the cause of her not submitting to our Discipline and that she is much our Friend we ought then to tell her she cannot do God a more acceptable Service than to give us a good Sum of Money without her Husbands knowledg for the relief of our necessities that this is the best way to live for the future in repose and obtain Pardon both of her own and her Husband's Sins for we have often known that by this means the ill Nature of Husbands have been changed into better Conditions CHAP. X. Of the Rigor and Discipline of our Society SUperiours should tessifie that the Severity of this Discipline is such that besides the reserved Cases whosoever of our Society of what Age or Condition soever he be shall divert any of our Devotes or Friends from doing us good persuading them to embrace any other Religion but ours and who in any intended Resignation of their Estates to our use shall have exprest any Tenderness or Coldness or shall solicite them to assign them to any other Order or put them upon the bestowing them upon their poor Kindred or others that all these shall be esteemed the Mortal Enemies of our Society And shall not be taken suddenly into favour again but for sometime at

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 Licensed Feb. 14. 1678 9. LONDON Printed for Jonathan Robinson and George Wells in St. Paul's Church-yard 1679. To the READER THese Papers were not originally intended for the Press but for the use of an intimate Friend and had possibly never gone further if they who are the subject Matter of them had not made it necessary to give my dear Country-Men this insight into their designs upon us and the methods by which they hope to attain their ends upon us There is scarce any sort of Persons in the Nation to whom the knowledg of these things may not be useful the Recusants themselves not excepted and it is most certain the Book was first printed by and for such But then it is most necessary for the Country-Gentry and for them I chiefly design it that they may be no longer cheated by the fair Carriage and insinuating Behavior of these Men and their Disciples They are said to be good Company and civil Men and which is more that they seldom spoil the Mirth and Pleasure of the rest of the Company with Disputations but rather make themselves agreeable with Stories and News But for all that these Men have a design if not upon your Lives and Persons yet upon your Families and Estates and you shall one day pay dearly for their Acquaintance or else they will miss what they most intend They rarely seek the Acquaintance of any but Persons of great Estate and of such as have same Authority in their Countrey and these they flatter and caress with all the little Arts of indearments imaginable but especially if they find them ignorant of the World and not too much verst in or fixt to the established Religion for with these they care not to associate Except it be in order to seduce their Children and herein they often prevail by matching their Daughters to them for they will not willingly marry a Son to a Protestant Woman And the stopping this Gap which hath seduced many great Families is a work as well worthy the thoughts of the Parliament as any other whatever But the use they make of Persons in Authority is yet more pernicious by their power they awe and curbe the inferior People that they durst not offend them and the late Plot had never come so near its execution had it not been for this For their preparation of Arms was clearly enough discovered to have put us upon our guard but that they used the Authority of some Justices of the Peace to punish those People who had seen and observed them and had also courage enough to report their Knowledg By this means also they baffle the execution of all Laws against them and doubtless in private deride and scorn those whom they thus cajole in publick And here let not the Dissenters flatter themselves as if they of all others had least conversation with them Their new virtue of Toleration hath done these Men more service than is thought of And Coleman was no Fool when he told the French King's Confessor That if they could once obtain an Act of Parliament for a general Liberty of Conscience They should afterwards do in effect what they list and a little after in the same Letter * The Trial of Edward Coleman page 54 That this would give the greatest blow to the Protestant Religion here that ever it received since its Birth They may see by this who are to reap the benefit of their Labours for a Toleration And Mr. Oats would infinitely oblige the World if he would publish an account of the Cheats of this sort he hath seen practised amongst them As for the Translation I shall say but this it is faithfully done and I have used as much as I could possibly the very words of the Original And now if God may have Glory and the Church and Nation Service by it I shall never wish for more Farewel THE SECRETS OF THE JESUITS THE Laws and Constitutions upon which the * Order This Author useth words indifferently viz. the Religion Order and Company of the Jesuits which they call the Society themselves Religion of the Jesuits was established make it so clearly appear that it was by the Inspiration of the Holy Ghost that Ignatius planted it in the Vineyard of the Lord that no Man can justly doubt thereof For whoever had considered it in its first rise would have had great reason to hope that it was the Tree that should produce the Antidote against the venom of Heresies and that it should send forth those blossoms of Christian and Religious Works which being once scented by Sinners should compel them to abandon the stench of Sin and follow the odour of Repentance And truly so long as those good Fathers from whom it deriv'd its Birth bedew'd it with their Charity and that it was cultivated according to their Intentions it is certain the Fruits which arose of it were fair and large to a Wonder as well in relation to the excellent education of Children as the Conversion of Souls and the propagation of the true Faith of the Catholick Religion But the Devil who imploys as much subtilty in the destruction of the works and designs of God as good men do labour to advance them took occasion even from the Grandeur of this Religion and the marvelous progress it made in a short time to pervert the end of its Institution for by a subtile Artifice instead of the first branches of Charity which are now almost quite withered he hath ingrafted the two most pernicious Affections in the World Ambition and Avarice which cause so great a mischief to Christianity that it is scarce possible to imagine a greater as I hope I shall demonstrate in this discourse In the entry of which I protest before God that it is neither Interest nor Passion moves my Pen but simply the zeal of the publick Good to the Advantage of which I believe my self obliged to use my utmost endeavours hoping that their Dissimulations and Arts being once known by Princes there shall in time be a remedy provided Now the first thing which should be considered is that the Religion of the Jesuits being solely provided for the education of Children of which there is neither Kingdom nor City which stands not in need it was at first desired on all hands and favoured by most Princes so that it made a greater progress in a few years than most others have done in many Ages But this greatness which for the most part introduceth a change of Manners kindled in these Children of Ignatius so