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A36726	The Moral practice of the Jesuites demonstrated by many remarkable histories of their actions in all parts of the world : collected either from books of the greatest authority, or most certain and unquestionable records and memorials / by the doctors of the Sorbonne ; faithfully rendred into English.; Morale pratique des Jesuites. English.	Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.; Du Cambout de Pontchâteau, Sébastien-Joseph, 1624-1690.; Arnauld, Antoine, 1612-1694.	1670 (1670)	Wing D2415; ESTC R15181	187,983	449

of the Iesuites as in the name of the Company of Iesus granted them by Paul the 3d. at their desire with many extraordinary and unheard of priviledges as they themselves testify when they say That the Popes having said in their Bulls That this Society hath been raised by the Providence of God their judgements in these things are not subject to errour because it seems God gives his Oracles by him But the Popes infallibility is subject to contest when he censures the Books of three famous Iesuites Poza B●uny and Cellot with such brands of errours and heresies condemned that he makes their Books of the number of prohibited ones so dangerous and pernicious that they ought not to be read or imprinted and then when he darts the intire thunderbolt of Anathema against the Book of Rabardean the Iesuite saying That the Sa●●ed Congregation having maturely examined the propositions contained in his Book hath judged that there are many rash scandalous offensive to devout eares seditious impious intirely destructive to the Papal Power contrary to the immunities and liberties of the Church approaching very near the heresies of the Innovators erronious in the Faith and manifestly heretical For there is cause to believe that the Pope consults not his Oracle when he acteth against it and attributes to the famous Authors of this August Society falsities impieties and heresies approaching neer those of the Innovators And why should not the Disciples of the Iesuites piously believe that it were easie for this High Priest on these occasions to have seen false visions than that these Oracles of Doctrine and Truth should become lyers Now me thinks these good Fathers ought to reserve their humility and modesty for some occasion and not call her the Little Society when they tell us their Society is the Oracle of the Soveraign Pontife and spread through the four parts of the world Elogies that denote her of the greatest grandeur excellence and extent of all Societies in the Universe But it may be that when they say This Society fastned on the breast of the Pope they would qualifie her with the title of Little lest men should think she might lye heavy on his stomack and be a burden to him because of her greatness As for what they add that the Church loves their Society more than she ought or the Society deserves 't is a modesty not to be approved for that in Truth the Church ought intirely to love those who are not only the Restorers of the Life of Christ and the Apostles among men A Society of Angels and Heroes but are besides the Oracle of Doctrine and Truth which he who represents her Head and her Spouse carries on his breast the owes them not love only but respect Truth being venerable of it self and the Oracles of Truth deserving a double Reverence As to that they insinuate of purpose to sweeten the Envy of other Orders against their Society That other Orders of Religion are in the Church what the Manna the Tables and Aarons Rod were in the Ark of the Covenant and that they call these three things the three Oracles of the Ancient Religion to make the Title they assume of the Oracle of Doctrine and Truth more passable and currant I fear the able persons of other Orders will believe those good Fathers do but jear them making them believe that these three things were sometimes Oracles which they never were but continued shut up in the ark without use in the external pa●● of religious Worship whereas this Oracle of Judgement Doctrine and Truth was the most august and necessary Ornament of the High Priest without which he could not execute any function of Priest and Supream Judicature It seems by this that the Iesuites would reduce other Orders of Religion to continue locked up in their Monasteries as reliques in their Chests and as the Manna Tables and Rod were in the Ark and keep for themselves all the honourable imployments of the Church which can have no favourable construction among other Orders most men even those who make profession of piety not loving to be mocked with false titles of honour pretended to be given them by those who assume the true and most illustrious to themselves But though the patience and charity of good men of other Orders were sufficient to bear this mockery with simplicity it would not excuse the malignity of the Iesuites in offering the indignity The Example of Bishops who preferred that of the Society to their Character and Titles of Honour A Bishop in 1602. Declared publickly That he gloried more in the title of a brother of our Society than in that of a Bishop and esteemed it a greater Ornament than his Cross and his Myter lib. 3. c. 7. pag. 363. Not long since a Bishop of the Realm of Naples who in his life-time had more love for his Mitre than for the Society said at his Death O holy Society which I have not sufficiently known untill now nor deserved to know thee thou surpassest the Pastoral Crosier the Mitres the Purple of Cardinals the Scepters the Empires and Crowns of the world Lib. 5. c. 10. p. 667. An excellent Document for our Lords the Bishops Archbishops and Cardinals if they love their Churches and Dignities more than the company of Jesuites that is if they are more BishopS Archbishops and Cardinals than Jesuites When they appear before God Christ will not ask them whether they have loved their sheep whether they have fed and guided them aright and laboured for the good of the Church but whether they have loved his Companions the Jesuites upheld the interest and favoured the enterprizes of this Little Society of these Little and Beloved Benjamins A Bishop of France who knew the Iesuites better than this Prelate of Italy and was endued with a more Episcopal science told these Fathers That there was great difference between the Order of Bishops and theirs for that there is no doubt that the former was of an holy institution and its Authority necessary for the preservation of the Church though all were not Saints who were invested with the dignity but as for the Iesuites without examining particulars the whole body was of no value it being more than probable th●● the spirit of the world and politick respects had contributed more to their establishment than the Spirit of Christ and that the Good Ignatius brought into it was presently destroyed by the interessed Ambition of his Successors Three great Archbishops of Malines who possessed that dignity immediately one after the other and dyed reputed Saints had thoughts very different from those of the Italian Bishop For the ancientest of the three speaking of the Iesuites said These men shall flourish at first but afterwards become a Curse to all People his Successor added These men shall trouble the Church The last Propheeyed of them in these words These men shall become as the dung of the Earth To conclude the last Bishop of

the smallest matters and added thereto in his practice frequent Fasts and instead of cords made use of chains of iron in acts of Penance and Mortification his constant exercises were Prayer and Reading of Godly Books he had the gift of Prophecy was of great Wisdome and excellent Understanding whereof his Master St. Lewis Beltram and his Books give ample testimony and a clear evidence He spent fifty years in the Ministry of the Word and when he preach'd his face was often seen to shine with extraordinary lustre his Charity when Bishop made him very poor for he gave all his Goods even the Bed he lay on in Almes his Confessor assures us he never sinned mortally and in the seventieth year of his Age died at Albarazin reputed a Saint The Holy Woman speaks of a sort of men to come in the last Ages And 't is observed in the Life of St. Engelbert the Martyr Arch-Bishop of Cologne written by an Author his Contemporary That in the life of that Prelate when the Domi●i●ans and Franciscans came to Cologne to Found for themselves Houses of Religion the Ecclesiasticks murmured and endeavoured to perswade the Arch-bishop to expel them alledging for reason their fear that these were the men of whom St. Hildegard had Prophesied to which the Prelate made answer that there was no cause of complaint against those Orders for that till then they had not given other than good Examples but the time would come when the Prophecy should be fulfilled which in the Margent of this Prophecy in the Annals of Baronius is observed to be these latter dayes I shall relate the Prophecy as I find it recited in Bzovius a famous Author for though the Copy the Bishop of Albarazin followed in his Commentary differ somewhat from that Bzovius made use of yet both agree exactly in sense The Marvellous Prophecy of the Abbess Hildegard Reported by Bzovius in the 15th Tome of his Ecclesiastical Annals Anno Dom. 1415. Q. 39. under Pope John 23. THere will arise men without a Chief who shall feed and grow fat upon the sins of the people but profess themselves of the number of Beggars shameless in their behaviour studious to invent new wayes to do mischief a pernicious Order odious to all wise men and those that are faithful to Jesus Christ healthy and strong but lazy and idle that they never work pretending beggery busie antagonists against the Teachers of the Truth by their Credit with Great Ones opposing the Innocent having four principal Vices rooted in their hearts by the Devil Flattery to gain gifts from the World Envy to make them impatient to see good done to others and not to them Hypocrisie to please by dissimulation and Detraction to render themselves commendable by dispraising others Preaching incessantly to Secular Princes to procure themselves applause from the people and to seduce the simple but without Devotion or Example of true Martyrdome robbing true Pastors of their Rights to administer the Sacraments and depriving the Poor the miserable and the sick of their Almes cajoleing the populace and courting their favour familiar with Ladies and other women and ●eaching them to cheat their husbands and give away their goods to them in private receivers of ill gotten goods saying give them to us and we will pray for you and obtain pardon for all your sins making these they Confess to forget their kindred receiving goods from ●obbers on the high-way extortioners sacrilegious persons usurers fornicators adulterers hereticks schismaticks apostates lewd women perjured tradesmen corrupt Judges cashiered souldiers tyrants and all other miscreants led by the Devil living deliciously passing this transitory life in society and at last falling together into damnation having the world at will but the people will by degrees grow cold towards them and having by experience found them seducers cheats and impostors will hold their hands from further gifts then will they run about their houses like famished or mad dogs with their eyes to the ground shrinking their necks like 〈◊〉 seeking bread to satis●●e their hunger but the people will cry out Woe be to you ye children of desolation the world hath deceived you the devil is seized of your hearts and mouths your minds are gone astray in vain speculations your eyes were delighted with beholding vanities your delicate palates have searched out the most pleasant wines your feet were swift in running to mischief and you may remember you never did good you were the fortunate malignants pretending poverty but very rich and under colour of simplicity of great power devout flatterers hypocritical saints proud beggars offering petitioners wavering and unstable teachers delicate martyrs hired confessors proudly humble piou●ly hard-hearted in the necessities of others sugred slanderers peaceable persecutors lovers of the world sellers of indulgencies disposing all things for your convenience admirers of luxury ambi●ious of honour purchasers of houses sowers of discord building still higher and higher but not able to attain a height equal to your desires and now ye are fallen as Simon the Magician whose bones were bruised and his body struck by God with a mortal plague upon the Apostles prayer so shall your Order be destroyed by reason of your impostures and iniquities Go then you teachers of sin the Doctors of disorder Fathers of corruption Children of wickedness wee 'l no longer follow you for Guides nor give ear to your doctrine An Expository Comment upon this prophecy by the Right Rever●nd Don Jerome Baptista de La Nuza Lord Bishop of Albarazin and afterwards of Balbastro whereby it appears that 't is ●o be applyed to those who call themselves the Society of Jesus though their actions and opinions b●speak them his enemies being con●radictory to His which they profess with their month but deny in their works Reported by the Author of Theatrum Iesul●i●um pag. 183. as a true Copy of the Original under the Prelates hand remaining in the Convent of Dominicans at Saragosa 1. There will arise men witho●t a Chief who shall feed and grow far upon the sins of the people but profess themselves of the number of Beggars FIrst It appears this is spoken of Ecclesiasctical persons for of them the Prophet said That they did eat the sins of the people which is the same with the Holy womans expression in the Prophecy Secondly They must be of a begging Order which she confirms on another occasion by express words to that purpose Assumentes potins exemplum mendicandi And though the Iesuites are not comprehended in any of the four Orders of Fryers Mendicant yet have they Brieves like theirs whereof they glory in their Books and make use upon occasion Thirdly That they shall be an Order which shall not bear the name of their Founder or chief which is the meaning of those words Sans Chef and denotes what is afterwards intimated in the name La Companie which Hildegard uses where she saith That they shall live deli●iously in the Company or S●ciety a

make for their Glory to end all they compare this great body to Christ Iesus himself as if all other perfections but that of God-man were unworthy of them They are strongly possest with a fancy that their Company is like unto Christ and that as there is nothing in Christ but what is Holy it follows in their imagination that all is holy among them too There is nothing so corrupt in their manners so extravagant in their devotion so false in their Theology which they maintain not as the Sentiments of the Church Many of their Divines invent fanatick opinions and the Universities have been often obliged to censure their Authors But these Fathers persist in their principles and thinking it necessary to maintain themselves to be infallible as the Church they never recant and have all in their hearts what one of them sometime stuck not to pronounce That the opinion of a Iesuite is alwayes Catholique dogma Catholicum Iesuiticum convertuntu● And thus supposing alwayes this Society to be all holy all luminous all perfect without spot without infirmity without malady they believe it impossible to praise it excessively as a work of God beyond all praise and that these holy companions of Iesus Christ are so united to him that all that may be said to their advantage returns unto God In so great a measure doth he partake of all that concerns them But while they admire themselves in this manner they perceive not the misery of the condition they are fallen into which we cannot better express than to say that the extream desire they have had to pass for the wisest and most illuminated in the world hath rendered them foolish and senseless that they have lost themselves in their vain Ratiocinations that their minds and their hearts having been covered with darkness they have transferred the honour due only to the incorruptible God unto their Society full of corruption and misery and as the Pagans having chosen for Gods men subject to all sorts of passions and vices were in pursuance of that folly obliged to sanctifie those disorders so the Iesuites alwayes supposing themselves Saints take no care to purifie themselves from those faults which are common to them with other men but labour to sanctifie those faults in giving the greatest vices of a I●suite the golden titles of vertue and goodn●ss so that though they are ambitious covetous inter●ssed revengeful as other men they are still innocent for considering themselves under no other notion than that of one of the most excellent works of God they fancy that in praising themselves they but praise God that in exalting themselves above the world they do but establish the Empire and Authority of Christ that in heaping up riches and scraping wealth together all the wayes they can devise they serve not their interest but Iesus Christ for as for them though they lodge in magnificent houses and amass all the estate they possibly can by ●e●●aments and donations by trafick by borrowing money and then proving bankrupts they pretend to be poor and alwayes without money because they have nothing whereof they devest not themselves speculatively into the hands of Iesus Christ. As they pretend they have no enemies but those of God they think it permitted them to oppress them as they please and as if their power were as Gods inseparable from Justice they never shew the least scruple or repentance for any evil they do them who oppose their most wicked designs Lastly though their Authors are guilty of almost infinite errours and fill their books with detestable maximes they forbear not to regard them with such respect and submission as if they alone were the Rule of the Truth and as if every opinion written in their books must of necessity be holy and good St. Augustine teaches us that God serves himself sometimes of the most shameful miscarriages of proud men to make them see their corruption to humble them and oblige them to have recourse to repentance but it seems this remedy is of no use for the Iesuites those remarkable and most shameful falls so frequent in their Society having not been yet able to open their eyes nor to perswade them that they are not impeccable So great is their passion to make their Society pass for a Virgin without blemish that they have intirely abolished repentance amongst them and all the marks of it as a superfluous thing I cannot but report on this occasion the complaint made to me by one of their brethren for some few there are who mourn for these horrible disorders and begin to open their eyes He told me that as soon as any of them is Priest if he be unhappy enough to fall secretly into a mortal sin he must of necessity dye in impenitence for they are indispensably obliged to say Mass every day which supposeth them all saints or that a simple confession can in a moment re-establish them in the sanctity they had lost and restore them to the dispositions necessary in them who approach the Altar what crime soever they have committed I enter not the secrets of the heart and of the consciences of particular men but if we may be allowed to guess in general at their weakness and infirmities by those of many who publickly fall into infamous Actions I think it may be said without passing rash Judgement that 't is very possible that some of them fall into sins that oblige them to repentance and that it is so much the more possible that they are of a very great number that they live without any Austerity and great liberty of converse with all sort of people besides that their ordinary imployments their Preaching Confession and Classes are oftentimes neer dangerous occasions of falling into sin so that it being very probable that some fall into those precipices which all are so neer 't is strange that the passion they have for their Glory should so harden them in their Crimes that it hath never been seen that any of them that have fallen came out of that state by a true and compleat repentance This love of Glory is so great amongst them that it hath not only made them abolish repentance for fear of giving any colour to think they need it but hath carry'd them sometimes to the doing of extreme violences and great injustice for covering those faults whereby they might receive any dishonour and the better to conceal them they labour with all Artifice to justifie the persons who have committed them We have an instance of this Excess in the Theatre of the Jesuites p. 396. so horrible that the Author durst not report it But the world knowes it by other means and Mariana acknowledges that it is their custom when they fear the fault of any Father not yet discovered may come to light to transport him presently into another Province And when some disorder appears in a Superiour whose reputation they would maintain in the world whom notwithstanding