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A72111	The doctrines and practises of the Societie of Iesuites In two bookes. The first, containing their grounds and intentions, discovered by two of their owne societie, the Reverend Paulus Florenius, Doctor and professor of Divinitie, and Christianus Francken, professor of philosophy, both in the Imperiall Schoole of Iesuites at Vienna. The second, containing a detection of the secret designes and bloody proiects of that societie of later yeares; especially, since their first designes for disturbing the sate [sic] of Germanie. And may serue as a warning for vs of this iland, and these times whereinto wee are fallen. By W.F. an vnworthy minister of the Gospell of Iesus Christ.; Colloquium Jesuiticum. English	Francke, Christian, b. 1549.; Freake, William.; Camilton, John. aut; Florenius, Paulus.	1630 (1630)	STC 11346; ESTC S122937	33,931	78

THE DOCTRINES AND PRACTISES OF THE SOCIETIE of IESVITES In two Bookes The first containing their grounds and Intentions discovered by two of their owne Societie the Reverend PAVLVS FLORENIVS Doctor and Professor of Divinitie and CHRISTIANVS FRANCKEN Professor of Philosophy both in the Imperiall Schoole of IESVITES at Vienna The second containing a Detection of the secret Designes and Bloody proiects of that SOCIETIE of later yeares especially since their first Designes for disturbing the Sate of GERMANIE And may serue as a warning for vs of this Jland and these times whereinto wee are fallen By W.F. an vnworthy Minister of the Gospell of IESVS CHRIST LONDON Printed by B.A. and T. Fawcet for GEORGE GIBBS and are to be sold at his shop at the Flower de Luce in Popes-head Alley 1630. TO THE RIGHT honble IAMES CAMBELL LORD Major and the whole Court of ALDERMEN of this honble Citie true Happines in this Life and that which is to come with a gracious Preservation from all their Enemies especially from the damnable and dangerous projects of the Jesuites and their faction RIGHT HONOVRABLE TO tell you these Times are times of Danger in the matter of Religion especially and that they are indeed those later Dayes which our blessed Lord and his Apostles foretold long agoe wherein Faith should scarcely bee found on Earth because the Iniquitie of many shall abound were nothing else but to take vp the vsuall Theame of the times which euery Pulpit ringeth of and all men doe or may heare of day by day as many as liue vnder a conscionable Ministrie But to make demonstration of some particulars wherein that danger standeth and to discouer some of those closer Conveyances which are practised in that Mysterie of Iniquitie cannot chuse but be a worke acceptable to all knowing men the rather because the Doctrines and Positions of later times as one well obserueth of them like to Watermen vpon the Thames set their faces one way and row another Amongst whom the Positions and Tenents of that Society of Iesuites challenge all priority For these men aboue all others whom this last Century of yeares hath produced haue the right tricke of it as a Duke of Venice spoke wittily of them with the one hand to point vs the way towards Heaven and with the other hand to cheate vs of our temporall possessions vnder a colour of Religion and cloke of Holinesse trading for Kingdomes and Empires and Soules of Men Revel 18.13 It now draweth neare vpon an hundred yeares compleat since this Sect was first brought vpon the Stage of the Christian world by a superstitious Spanish Souldier named INIGO LOIOLA a man not more lame in his limbes then in his Religion howbeit his Disciples since his death haue Christened him a new for his and their owne further credit into the name of IGNATIVS DE LOIOLA Since which time what wonders haue beene wrought by that Societie not in Christendome onely but also in the remotest Nations their owne Annals doe relate I will not say how truely and our eyes haue seene and our eares haue heard not without astonishment for they are the Spirits of Divels working Myracles to goe therewith to the Kings of the Earth and to the whole World to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty Revel 16.14 And yet howbeit they haue power giuen them from God as a iust plague to to●ment and hurt tht vnbeleeuing and disobedient world their power and times are limited their power is to torment and hurt onely their time but for Fiue Moneths Revel 9.10 How neare they are now growne to such a Bulke as they can hardly haue either meanes or hope to inlarge all wise and vnderstanding men discerne and howeuer they flatter their great Catholicke Maister with hopes of a fifth Monarchy for they haue a King ouer them whose name is APOLLYON the Destroyer as Revel 9.11 that Vniuersall Disturber of the peace of Christendome yet we are not ignorant nor could themselues be so if ambition of Temporall Glory had not blinded them quite that a fifth Monarchie in this case is more by one then DANIEL ever Prophecied I am halfe perswaded that the conclusion of this hundred of yeares which is now expired within ten since these Iesuites first appeared in the Christian world shall shew to Christendome and to the whole world an vnexpected and incredible alteration in the Body of this Monster And I am the rather induced to thinke so because I haue here vnderstood as much in effect from a couple of their owne men for learning and ingenuity second to none for any thing I can perceiue that euer that Societie bred Who hauing beene educated many yeares together euen from their youth vpward in that Sect and being euen when they began to grow into yeares illuminated by the beames of Gods more fauorable and blessed spirit forsooke that Society vpon mature deliberation not for want of meanes or preferment or any such Temporall discontentment but meerely and onely Motu Divino as may sufficiently appeare by their ensuing discourse and that no lesse then 50. yeares agoe as the date thereof testifieth when the greatest part of those Mischiefes which now ouerspread the face of the whole Christian world were but in the shell and those spirituall wickednesses which at this day rule in high places were onely Conceptions and a meere Embryo Now the same reasons which caused these two most learned and graue Fathers to renounce that double faced Societie in those times may now doubtlesse much more preuaile with vnderstanding men to whom I desire to Minister this Discouery as an Antidote against Iesuitisme forasmuch as our eyes haue now seene those things or the greatest part thereof punctually fulfilled which these men by obseruation of the Designes of that Society haue so long since foreseene and so truely foretold Witnesse Bonemia Germany part of Denmarke and part of France with their late atchieuement at Rochel the Towne wherein that Copie was printed out of which I haue extracted some part of this Discouerie But I will not forestall the insuing Relation with a tedious Epistle For I dare say that your Honours and Worships are not ignorant that as to particularize the Impostures of these times in Divine things is a labour not fit for mortalitie to vndertake seeing the Pen of such an one as might be accounted a Saint for his labour would hazard to be blunted in the performance thereof So to anatomize the Multifarious and intricate subtilties of that pragmaticall Societie of Iesuites were a worke almost of equall difficulty and might beget no lesse wonder What I haue beene enabled to doe herein I doe humbly praise God for and doe as gladly and freely dedicate to your Honors acceptation hoping that where the language shall seeme to sound harshly you will fauourably pardon it and consider me as little better then a Translator bound to tread in the steps of another And if hereby you shall

a long time with hunger and cold and want of all bodily comforts at the last they make an end of him with some exquisite tortures and killing torments I doe not belye them I write nothing but a truth There was at Gratz about three yeares agoe a young man named IACOBVS CLVSSEVS a youth of an excellent and pregnant wit this man did they lay hands vpon and miserably tormented him by whipping and scourging for a matter of no moment and because hee told them plainely that hee would renounce their Societie and complaine publikely if ever hee got libertie for this and other such wicked dealing towards him they clapped him vp into such a Prison vnder ground as aforesayd from whence hee was neuer scene to come out againe aliue Nor did any of vs that were Novices make question but that hee was made an end of with most exquisi●e torments Which vnparalell'd piece of tyranny I purpose in due time to divulge to the whole world with relation of all circumstances beeing the thing which the poore wretched Clussaeus had a purpose to haue done himselfe if hee had not beene hindered and preuented by death I shall withall make publike vnto the world another such piece of Villanie committed by the Iesuites of Fulda in Germanie vpon the body of one MARTINVS whom they stole away most basely from his Parents who are yet liuing at Miltenberg or Milberg And how many women thinke you haue beene deuoured and eaten vp in the same Gulfe How many young Children slaine How many young men that haue beene sole Heyres of very large and ample Patrimonies haue beene m●●e away by them I doe not say I thinke but I beleeue and am firmely perswaded so often as shrikes and cryes fighings and most woefull lamentations were heard in the night season the hearing whereof would put a man into a cold sweat all over and make his hayre stand on end though our simpler Novices beleeued them to bee the Soules of some lately departed it was nothing but the shrikes and mone of children lately murthered or then a murthering Moreover that the extreame and Diuelish malice of Iesuites may be in nothing defectiue they are accu●o●ed diuers times in those their Vaults vnder ground to make the Diuell very fine sport putting on terrible d●sguises they cause some of theyr Novices to be called downe to behold theyr Tragedie vpon whom they will rush suddainely with an horrible yelling noyse to make tryall forsooth of theyr courage and constancie For ●f they find any to bee timorous and fearefull they admit not such a man to the secrets of Magicke as accounting them cowardly and degenerate but appoint them to some of the inferiour Arts but such as appeare to bee of bold and vndaunted Spirits they take especiall notice of them and reserue them for serious imployments And yet they are not alwayes successefull for all this as appeared by that which happened at Prague in the yeare 1602. For whereas there were fine principall Iesuites who being habited as Devils made sport with their youth It so fell out that there was found to bee a sixth in their company before they were aware and hee questionlesse was a Divell indeed who catching vp one of the personated Diuels in his Armes gaue him such a kindly vnkind embrace that within three dayes after hee dyed of it The fact was common talke at Bake-houses and Barbershops and at euery table discoursed vpon all over Prague And yet for all that the rest of them as nothing amazed with this Tragicall event dare still in an height of obstinacie proceed in that most vngodly and Diuelish study of Magicke Now amongst that whole Societie the prime man for a Magic an a French Iesuite whom the King of France himselfe had in so high estimation that hee admitted him not onely to his Princely table but also to familiar conferences in priuate concerning whom the Iesuites themselues did make their boast that he had a glasse made by Art Magicke wherein hee could plainely represent vnto the King whatsoeuer his Maiestie desired to see insomuch that there was nothing so secretly done or consulted vpon in the most private Roome of of any Cloyster or Nunnerie of other Orders which hee could not easily and instantly discouer and disclose by helpe of this his Inchanted or rather Diuelish glasse And indeed it was by the Art and meanes of this Magician Iesuite that their Societie was confident that they should bee able to draw on theyr side one of the most potent Princes of the Empire albeit a Protestant forasmuch as hee was observed to bee somewhat delighted in the Study of Magicke Now as for those whom they take in as Nouices to be instructed in this way they expound vnto thē those nine hundred Propositions which PIOVS Earle of Mirandula published at Rome as also the Booke of Iohannes Tritemius together with a Tract or Treatise touching abstruse or hidden Philosophy written by Cornelius Agrippa Likewise Theophrastus concerning the Constellations and Seales of the Planets with the Steganographia of I know not what Abbot and the Art of PAVL to procure Revelations meaning Saint PAVL whom they affirme to haue beene instructed in the Art Magicke and thereby to haue vnderstood such high Revelations and profound Mysteries Yea they blush not to affirme that Saint IOHN was an excellent Magician Nor doe they sticke to say that euen our blessed Sauiour CHRIST IESVS himselfe was a most absolute and perfect Magician as mine owne eares haue heard it oftener then once or twice related by some of that Societie and such as I am able to nominate And thus much for the Iesuites Church Onely take this direction along with you those Vaults and Roomes vnder ground which I mentioned euen now those secret conueyances and Circean Dennes are for the most part contriued to be vnder the Quire or Cloister not where the people doe walke or stand And now when thou shalt passe from their Temple into theyr Studie for I will say nothing touching theyr Parlour or Chambers Refectories or places of Recreation instruction of Novices who are newly admit●ed and the trayning vp of other Schollers committed to the Iesuites tuition nor yet touching the Methode and Order of their Studies but will reserue that for another Discourse seeing those passages are for the most part knowne abroad already being discovered by another When I say thou shalt enter into their publike Library thou shalt finde a most exquisite choise of Authors of all sorts all of them most curiously bound vppe in Leather or Parchment with fillets of Siluer or Gold and as for such whereof there is daily vse they are layd in order vpon Deskes fastened with chaines vpon a long table But as for the inner Librarie that is onely reserued for the Fathers of the Societie it is free for none but them to goe in thither and to borrow thence what bookes they thinke good Those ordinary bookes are onely free for the Iuniors

the societie of Iesuites in the first yeere of my admission thereunto But this other yeere when by chance I met with our Iapan-Letters and there amongst other things had read not without astonishment that among them of Iapan being our Antipodes there are certaine religious men whom they call Iamambuxa or Souldiers of the Vallies who purposely to attaine an opinion of Sanctimony doe punish themselues grieuously doe watch very much doe Fast exceeding long and doe giue themselues wholly to certaine Meditations composed of their owne heads and that they preuaile so farre by these things that they are beleeued many times as inspired with an holy instinct to speake Oracles and are accounted by all to bee perfect and Holy men then especially when as they make no bones of it to kill themselues voluntarily for their Idoll When I had as I said vnderstood these and many other like passages out of Letters written not onely by men of our Order but also published in Print I assure you I was amazed and did so shake as if I had newly fallen from Heauen to Earth For vpon a sudden it came into my minde to thinke that nothing could bee deuised more like to our Religion and that therefore it was vehemently to be suspected least all this our Spirituall course of life should not proue Divine but Humaine onely and Pharisaicall Forasmuch as very Idolators and Heathens wanting the light of the Gospel doe attaine thereunto and indeed such Heathens as are said to be wondrous like both in Nature Manners and Disposition to our most ingenious Europians I meane our Italians and Spaniards so that now it is apparant that the like Religions haue bin devised and established by men of like natures and inclinations And what a strange thing is it that among those Ethnicks of Iapan not onely our profession of Iesuitisme but in a sort the very entire Gouernment of the Romane Hierarchy may be seene apparantly founded and established by an Heathen Spirit For in the same Letters it is related that one chiefe man throughout the whole Empire of Iapan doth hold the chiefe place of a supreame Iudge in matters Ecclesiasticall who is little lesse then worshipped as a God and generally reputed so Holy a man that hee may not be suffered to tread on the ground and Cōmandeth farre wide many times vpon occasion euen contesting with those heathen Princes Moreouer this man hath the ordering and making of all the Tundi among them who are in effect the Byshops of that Nation albeit the nomination of them as it is reported be in some places in the Gouernours power which Tundi are thereupon in great and singular esteeme both with high and low and doe conferre Priesthoods doe appoint Fasting dayes and grant Licences for eating of Flesh to such as vpon Holy dayes goe on Pilgrimage to the Chappels of theyr Saints and Idols Yea and further the sects of the Bontij which arise among them and are nothing el●e but the Monkes of Iapan haue no authority or estimation among the people vnlesse this great man haue approued him by his letters Patents and testimonials Furthermore these Bontij are said to inhabite very large and spacious Colledges after the manner of our Monkes to liue a single life to erect an Altar in the middest of their Chappell wherevpon they place a woodden representation of Amida sitting vpon a golden Rose very gallant to behold Also that they haue very great Libraries with places wherein they eate and drinke together after the manner of our Refectories and certaine Copper workes which serue them insteed of bels to cal them vp to their houres of prayer Againe euery euening their president or chiefe man among them propoundeth to euery one his particular subiect for his meditations that night and presently after midnight they doe before the Altar in their Chappell dancing by turnes say ouer their deuotions out of the last booke of Xaca Also that euery morning each of them spendeth an houre in Meditations that they build faire Cloysters in their chappels for their Fotoquij who are a certaine sect of religious persons amongst them that are shauen vpon their heades and chinnes and doe obserue a great number of holy dayes in the yeere And yet for all this they write that these Bontij are most base fellowes in their liues and conuersations and as coueteous as any men liuing vpon Gods earth and as well acquainted with all deuises how to rake vp money That these Bontij doe make sale vnto the people of many writings vnder their hands by helpe whereof the common people are perswaded that they are protected from the Deuill Also that these Bontij haue a custome to borrow money in this world which they promise to restore with large interest in the world to come for which they giue the Creditor bils of their hands as security which he at the time of his death carrieth with him into the other world And lastly that these Bontij are for the most part the sonnes of Noblemen in regard that the Nobility of Iapan being full of Children do vsually take a Course to procure these sonnes of theirs entered into the Order of the Bontij for whom they are not able to prouide otherwise You might stile these men Christian Monkes or if you please hauing respect vnto their qualities Clergy men and Prelates of the Church of Rome if euer the light of the Gospell had in any measure shined vpon them before the comming of our men amongst them or if euer any Christian at all had gone so farre as vnto them whereby they might haue heard of these things and haue imitated them Neither is prayer for their dead wanting among these Iapanezes howbeit in that they are a little more superstitious then wee For in the moneth of August they are obserued to set aside 2. whole daies for Adoration of the Spirits of the Dead And that a little before Night they set vp a great number of Lampes and other Lights about the doores of their houses with much varieties of Paintings and trimmings That afterwards they walke round about the Citie all night long partly for Deuotion sake and partly to looke about them Also that towards the Euening a great sort of people doe walke out of the Citie to meet the Spirits of their Dead friends now comming towards them as they forsooth imagine When they are at a certaine set place where they suppose that the Ghosts of their deceased Friends doe meet them first they salute them kindly euen as if they saw them saying you are heartily welcome wee haue wanted your good Companie long I pray you fit downe a while and refresh your selues with some victuals for wee know you cannot chuse but be wearie Then they set vpon Tables as a banquet for the Ghosts to feed vpon Rice Fruits and other Viands and when they haue demurred about an houres space as if they thought it high time to make an end they invite