not to heare the coyle and hurly-burlies which the Jesuits raise at so great a distance against me and if they write any defamatory pamphlet to humour their exasperation and in some measure to alleviate their fury it is so long ere it comes on our shores by reason of the uncertainty of navigation and the hazards of the Sea that three or foure months slip away before I can get it into my hands I was acquainted with God's raising up of Monsieur Vincent in my defence before I heard that Beaufes had put in any charge against me the preservative came to me before the poison and I have seen my adversary layd at my feet defeated by him whose very name signifies a Conquerour before ever I took up any armes my selfe It is indeed but too easy a matter to insult over a man that hath been surprized in severall falsifications and delivered up as a Detractor to the abuses of the people I know it will prove no great matter of reputation to me to pursue a wounded Serpent that hath in a manner spent all its venome and hardly hath strength enough to hisse Monsieur Vincent hath given James Beaufes such an absolut rout that there is no honour in thinking of any further engagement with him The most considerable accusation which that devout adversary had against me amounted to no more then a certaine foaminesse which that great man had dissolv'd and burst asunder or may be compared to a mist in the morning which the Sun of truth hath dispelled by the lively heat of his more powerfull raies All those that have seen the refutation have admired the prudence of the Author the sharpenesse of his Logicall abilities the solidity of his replyes the modesty of his discourses the same persons having weighed the accusations outrages of my enemy have not been a little astonished to see that a Jesuit whose employment it is to preach the word of God should fall into such palpable contradictions make so many discoveries of his imprudence and betray so much passion and extravagance And yet notwithstanding this former Answer whereby I am more then sufficiently iustified I conceive it an obligation lying upon me to vindicate my selfe by an Apologie after my fashion against this injurious Goliah who making his advantages of whatever may tend to my disparagement would no doubt take occasion from my silence to say that I am such another as himselfe ignorant and not able to haâ—e him any answer Besides it is further to be considered thaâ— Monsieur Vincent in severall places of his Râ—futation refers to me the clearing up of many thingâ— which it was impossible he should have the knâ—wledge of and which I think it my duty to declare to the glory of God and the confusion of a sect so prejudiciâ—ll to thâ— universe That shâ—ll then be the designe of this second treatise which I shall for the greater ease of my Reader divide into Chapters And in regard it is but necessaâ—y it should be known against whom I take these paines to vindicate my selfe I shall entertaine thee in the two ensuing Chapters with a true character of my Adversary that thou maist by the claw imagine what a Lyon I have to deale with If he make it his complaint that Hercules himselfe may thinke it some disaâ—vantage to engâ—gâ— against two it argues he does not much consider that above twenty thousand Jesuits have declared open hostility against me threatning me with fire and sword and that it is much more easie for him to make his party good against two then for me alone to enter the lists against twenty thousand All the confidence I have is that my honest Countrymen the French who shall read this peece will very much blame the Jesuits for having been so furious and implacable in their proceedings against me when I had done them no other injury then that which they fondly imagine they have received by my leaving of them and will consequently say so much on my behalfe that I am not to be found fault with if my answer be somewhat sharpe and speak the truth without any disguise I doubt not but God the grand protector of the Innocent will confound the designes of my Persecutors and will inspire my words with a certaine force and perswasion to their confusion and his own greater glory CHAP. II. A character of James Beaufés as to his abilities in point of Learning IF any one be desirous to know what kind of person Rousseau the Provinciall of the Jesuits hath made choice of to barke and make all this noise against me so to evaporate the violence of their indignation through the fiery furnace of his throat 't is one whose name is James Beaufés a man as to his personage bulky fat and crook-shouldered one that for some months past hath of a pulpit which should be the seat of truth made a stage whereon to represent his own passions and to find ridiculous entertainment for the people I shall not in this place hit him in the teeth with the impurities of his extraction though we have the security of the Scriptures for it that God does many times punish in the children the iniquities of their Fathers Nor shall I make it any reproach to him that his Brother was hanged for a murther committed by him on the person of Monsieur Saige in the City of Tulle No I shall only treat him as a Jesuit and in the present chapter examine him as to his abilities and in the next make inspection into some part of his life and Manners Of all those parts of knowledge which any way recommend a man and gaine him the esteem of an understanding and knowing person he hath so little that it is not â—ithout reason that he is no otherwise looked on â—mong the learned then as one eminent for his confiâ—ent ignorance though his perpetuall gagling raises in â—hose that know him not an imagination that he is â—uilty of some literature He is so little versed in Latine and Humane Learning that having taught little â—hildren for many yeares together he could never get â—ut of the classes of Grammar and being almost choak'd with the dust of the Colledges of Agen and Perigueux he was pack'd away to finish his course at the â—oble Colledge of S. Macaire upon the Garonne there â—o teach one of the lowest Classes with the assistance â—f another whose name is Salabert This pretended Refuter of the Ministers is so excelâ—ently well skilled in the Greek Tongue that I defy â—im not to interpret but to read a page of any Greek Author without stumbling thirty times and for this â—hallenge which I make to him it is no hard matter for him to refute it for there 's no more to be done but â—hat he referre himself to two knowing men But I am â—onfident he dares not put it to the hazard what bragges so ever he may make of sufficiency The Hebrew is a strange and
with the Crown of Spain do just the same with them and so with the rest From which carriage of theirs ariseth this mischief that it causes such distrusts in the hearts of Christian Princes that they cannot credit one the other which is a great hindrance to the publick peace and the universall wellfare of Christendome Besides this diffidence of theirs is that which makes it so difficult a thing to conclude a league against the common enemy and the precious enjoyments of peace to be of so little value among Princes Furthermore with these circumventing devices though they have so opened the eyes of the world and so sharpened mens wits in matter of State that they are notorious to all yet even at this very day to the great prejudice of the Church they are wholly taken up with matters of policy and ballance all their actions according to their worldly and selfish concernments But that these Jesuiticall Mysteries and Stratagems may be made yet more manifest I cannot here conceale the means whereby they inveigle Princes to their party There are some years now past since one of these Fathers called Father Parsons the Assistant of England wrote a book against the succession of the King of Scotland to the crown of England And another Father of the same Society called Crittonius with some others in a Book which they wrote defended the Title of the King of Scotland opposing the opinion of Father Parsons and pretending to be at difference among themselves But the truth was that all was cunningly contriv'd and carryed on by the command of their Father Generall onely out of this design that whosoever should succeed in the Kingdome of England they might have an excellent argument to work in him a great good opinion of their Society and so as much as may be make their advantages of him What more pertinent example can we desire to shew that Princes and their interests are the objects of all Jesuiticall actions and determinations and consequently to make good their own assertion That their Society is ae grand Monarchy Again that this truth may also be made manifest That the Jesuits regard not whether they please or displease any Prince when their own commodity lyes at the stake though the experience of infinite things past make it as clear as the Sun yet the particular instance I shall now adde wil make it somewhat the more conspicuous There is not any person in the world whom they are more bound to serve or indeed for whom they themselves pretend greater submission then the Bishop of Rome were it not for other particular reasons but out of a consideration only of the solemn vow they make to obey him Yet when Pius Quintus would have brought in something of reformation amongst these Fathers by reducing them to a performance of their duty in the Quire they submissively refused to obey him as conceiving it a notorious prejudice to their Society to be reduced to any thing suitable to the practise of other Monkes And for those few among them that conscientiously did comply with the Popes pleasure they were ever afterwards called by way of derision Quintini and made so contemptible that never any of them could be admitted to the least preferment among them After the same manner did they oppose glorious S Charles Archbishop of Millaine when in the quality of Legate à latere to his Holinesse he endeavoured to reduce them to Religious discipline But to what end do I mention these when they think it a scorn to submit to the sacred Canons themselves but contrary to the provisions made therein make merchandise of Jewels Rubies and Diamonds which they trade to the Indies for Nor is that opinion altogether groundlesse that the greatest part of the precious stones sold in Venice belong to the Jesuits since the report took its first rise from their own Agents and Brokers whom they employ'd in the sale of them But that they are no faithfull Servants to the Bishop of Rome what ever they pretend I need onely the acknowledgement of those Fathers who for no mean default were called by processe to Rome I neither can nor would if I could name them nor am I much inclin'd to wade any farther into this businesse partly to avoid the bringing of any Prince upon the stage that might take offence at my discourse it being my desire to please all and not to disoblige any and partly that it might not be said I were guilty of an humour to inveigh against the Jesuits my purpose only having been to give a short and plain account of their courses and customes For as it many times happens that we see a person afflicted with some grievous infirmity betraying the extremity of his sufferings by such lamentations and cryes as reach heaven it self and it is apparent to every one that the man suffers no small torment yet there is not any able to discern the originall cause of his indisposition So the world is full of complaints against the Jesuits some for being persecuted by them others for being treacherously served by them yet the mischief still remains among us Nor is the cause thereof easily discovered though it is conceived it does not proceed from any thing so much as from that prodigious and indeterminate desire which they have still to encrease their power This is the apple of their eye which if it be but ever so little touched they make no difficulty to disgust any man whatsoever to circumvent and over-reach Princes to oppresse the poor to force Widdows out of their estates to ruine whole Nations nay many times by their interloping into affairs of publick concernment to raise jealousies and dissatisfactions among Christian Magistrates Now as there would happen a great inconvenience if that part which according to the designe of Nature was last formed as an instrument to serve the rest that for their precedency are the more noble and should attract unto it self all the purest blood and vitall spirits for it were the way to bring the whole to destruction So is it no lesse inconvenient that the Jesuits an Institution lately graffed into the body of the Church to be instrumentall as they themselves pretend in the conversion of Hereticks and the reduction of Sinners into the ways of Repentance should grasp into their power and presume upon the management of all the most weighty and important affaires of Prelates and Princes drawing from them the very life and spirits of their interests to make their own advantages thereof From this source springs all publick and private disturbances many are depressed who were their worth consider'd should be exalted many advanc'd who were more deservedly trod under foot with thousands of other inconveniences consequent thereto Many reasons might be produc'd drawn from experience it self to make it apparent what an insatiable ambition the Jesuits have to encrease still more and more in greatnesse It shall therefore suffice to make it appeare out of
since that they have without any reason egged me on and forced me upon a necessity to beat them Did but the one halfe of Europe concurre with my judgement and the other were onely distrustfull that these conscientious Hypocrites are prejudiciall to Common-wealths the other parts of the World that have not yet heard any thing of the Jesuits of Gascony would haply make some difficulty to give credit to my discourse but the experience the world hath of the disturbances and conspiracies they are guilty of in all Countries will be a perpetuall confirmation of the truth of those they are charged with in Guienne For those noble and triumphant Provinces I have this to say in particular to your Highnesses that these are the men who make it their businesse to bring an odium on the Allyances which the greatest Monarchs contract with you these bring it into dispute whether it be not lawfull to break the faith they have sworn to you those are they that conclude all that fight under your Banners damned nay if it lyes but in their power the glory of your triumph shall be buried in dishonour it being their greatest designe onely to doe mischief and their maine intention to betray the United Provinces They have their Emissaries in your Territories and there met so considerable a number of them lately at the publication of my DECLARATION as might make a just Assembly at the Hague to consider whether it were fit to answer me These ravenous Wolves disguised like sheep wander up and down both within and without your Cities to devoure the Inhabitants thereof and will still be seeking out their prey if your seven-arrow'd Lyon do not teare them in pieces They will shortly have their Conventicles among us as frequent and numerous as they have had for some years past in England Fifty of them clad in severall habits having met together at a Councel in London deputed a publick Agent to Rome The presumption they are guilty of may well engage them in such attempts here also and by that means make that advantageous peace whereby even your Frontiers enjoy their quiet subservient to the carrying on of a war in Religion and this seems to be the principall aime of these enemies â—f your State and what they so much the more dangerously do insinuate when they put the rebellious into hopes of Paradice for their reward The multitude and varietie of the crimes wherewith I charge them and prove them guilty of both in this and the other Treatise will give you such an idea of them as must needs put you upon thoughts of preventing these inconveniences I take off their faces the veils of their hypocrisie which hid their deformities and bring them upon a Scaffold that they may be the more commodiously seen in their ignominy If the incomparable moderation of your spirits conceive my manner of proceeding somewhat too violent I beseech your Highnesses to pardon it as proceeding from the zeale of my Religion and to consider that after their bloody prosecutions upon my change I neither could nor ought to have any tendernesse for them without leaving innocence under oppression and declaring my conversion blame-worthy The indignation which swells them so much against me hath made them stark mad and the rage they are in at my conversion hath put them upon such courses that they think fire and sword ordinary things to persecute me withall If the DECLARATION of my Faith lately made with all Christian modesty not casting the least dirt upon them hath stung them so as that they endeavour my death for it what will the SCAFFOLD do upon which I now bring them and the advice I have given your Lordships to beware of their traiterous attempts No doubt but they will use all the means possible to compasse my destruction that is will go on suitable to what they have already begun But my Lords I yet live through the infinite mercy of God under the security of your Lawes and your particular protection over me which I humbly implore may be my buckler against the persecutions of all my Adversaries If therefore your eminent Lordships will be pleased to remember a persecuted Wretch who hath his pen constantly in hand and his thoughts alwayes taken up to vindicate himself against those that pursue him to death upon no other account then that he is enter'd into the same communion with you as all our Brethren of France can satisfie you I shall ly secure under the shelter of your Palmes and under the Authority of your glorious Name shall be not onely couragious but invincible making it my perpetuall suit to the Lord Jesus for whose sake I suffer all things that he would both here and hereafter crown your Illustrious Highnesses with all blessings as I am obliged by the quality of My Lords Your most humble most obedient and most faithfull servant PETER JARRIGIUS A TABLE Of the Chapters of the first Treatise Chap. I. Discovering a custome fatall to themselves which the Jesuits have ever to meddle with those who they fear will reveale their crimes page 1. Chap. II. An Impeachment of High-Treason against the Jesuits 5 Chap. III. An Endictment of Encroachments and Antidates put in against the Jesuits 11 Chap. IV. The Jesuits arraign'd at the Barre for the murthering of abundance of little children whereof they have the oversight 17 Chap. V. An information put in against the Jesuits of the incontinency they are guilty of in their Classes 24 Chap. VI. A second Bill put in against them for their impurities in their Visits 29 Chap. VII A third Bill of Villanies committed by the Jesuits in their Churches 35 Chap. VIII A fourth bill of venereall uncleannesses committed by the Jesuits in their Houses p 41 Chap. IX A fifth Endictment of the Lascivious villanies committed by the Jesuits in their Itenerancies and Countrey-houses 47 Chap. X. A sixth charge of Obscenities committed by the Jesuits in their conversations with Nuns in their Convents 55 Chap. XI A Bill of enditement brought in against the Jesuits for coyning 60 Chap. XII Discovering the ingratitude and exasperation of the Jesuits against those that had highly oblig'd them 65 Chap. XIII Reflections upon the twelve precedent discourses 71 Of the second Treatise Chap. I. Shewing the reason of my writing after the excellent refutation published on my behalf by Monsieur Vincent p. 1 Chap. II. A character of James Beaufes as to his abilities in point of Learning 4 Chap. III. A character of the same James Beaufes in relation to his life and manners 8 Chap IV. Giving an account of the proceedings of the Jesuits against me 13 Chap. V. Discovering the cheats and evasions of the Jesuits in their prosecution 16 Chap. VI. Containing an Answer to the accusation put in against me by the Jesuits 21 Chap. VII Discovering the childish inventions of Beaufes to make my Letters contradictory one to another 27 Chap. VIII Discovering how that in the Society of
upon the Empire and that there would have happened great revolutions if God had continued his life a little longer ita est sayes he in Latine sed per dei gratiam et bonorum curam culter obstitit That is to say 't is true but through the grace of God and the care of good men a knife prevented it Had there been a rack provided upon this hint he would possibly have said the truth not by halvs but absolutely and had discovered to posterity what France hath much suspected but never could clearly finde out May it please God to let the Grand-child of the great Henry know who these good men are who as the Jesuit said put France into mourning and sent out of this world his Grand-father of famous memory when he was preparing a triumph for his dearest spouse The Jesuits are afraid God should take them at their words if in their devotions they should say what all France does in that particular prayer which is made for the K ng Vitiorum monstra devitare hostes superare that is to say to shun the monsters of vices and to overcome his enemies The Provincial Pitard caused to be razed out of their Litanies which they say at eight of the clock these words printed HOSTES SUPERARE TO OVERCOME HIS ENEMIES the reason is for that the greatest enemy of the Crown of France since Charles the fifth being the Spanyard it would trouble them extreamly to wish any victories to the King of France to the prejudice of the King of Spain I have been my self and have seen others very grave persons reproved by the Superiours for having after the prohibition made added the fore-recited words To which these making answer that it was lawful for them as French men and according to the order of Cathedral Churches that prayed so to pray to God that the King might be victorious over his Enemies you must replied they to hide their malicious treachery under the veyl of Piety conform your selves not to the Gallican Church but to the order of Rome which does not demand victories for Kings If there be any one that out of curiosity would surprize them in this he may make speed to see the Litanies which they have in the Oratory of their Hall of recreation and he shall finde in those little books if they are still used that these words Hostes superare are dashed out with a pen. It must needs be that the wills of these Zealots are very corrupt since they distil venome even into their devotions The King of France founds Colledges for these Hypocrites to the end they may pray for the prosperity of his arms and the Superiours of Guienne by an express command forbid those that are under them to desire even in their publick prayers that he should overcome his enemies This hatred against Kings which in many among them is become another nature is not satisfied only with Blood royal but engages them further to wish ill to all those who by their wise councels and high enterprises endeavour the greatness and dilatation of the state When the news came of the general revolt of all Portugal they immediately conceiving that a revolution so fatal to the Spanyard had been brought about by the policy of the most eminent Cardinal Richelieu I have known for certain that four Jesuits discoursing of it that night very confidently and privately in a chamber on that side where Theology is taught in Bourdeaux one of them was so enraged to hear that so considerable a loss had befallen the Crown of Spain that out of madness he took a picture he had of the Cardinall 's and having run it through several times with a pen-knife at the eyes and the heart put it into the flame of the candle and burnt it The wounds given the paper did that great Polititian no great hurt but had he ever discovered the exasperated inclinations of these creatures of Spain he would have taken a little more heed of those who under the name of Jesuits would make the world believe that they live out of it Another of the same society having observed that an unskilful Graver had made a very wretched draught of that great Minister of state bought up abundance of them and having made them up into packets sent them to diverse Colledges in Spain and Germany saying that he would have his Brethren to see the Picture of that Devil These sallies do indeed speak something that is childish but they are withal conclusive Arguments of their malice against the Crown under which they live When some Bishops have ordered Te Deum to be sung and publick devotions to be made in acknowledgement of the happy success of his Majesties Arms I have often heard sometimes one sometimes another say I am content to pray heartily to God not that he would prosper his Majestie 's Arms but that he would stay the course of their bloody victories and confound the counsels and designs of the Cardinal who sets all Europe on fire to satisfie his own vain glorious humour What will all well affected French men say of those that persecute the state even in their prayers If they consider their proceedings ever since their first comming into France they will find that if this hypocritical Body ever discovered any respect to the Princes thereof it hath been meerly in order to its own concernments and is no longer dutiful and obedient to the soveraign power then it is flattered aâ—d loaden with benefits thereby From the acts of hostility which they exercise against their lawful superiours the Bishops when they are countenanced by the Court you may imagine how violent and furious they will be against the civil Magistracy when ever the Pope shall think fit in their particular quarrels to protect them I shall say more when in a book it is in my thoughts to write concerning their Institution I shall take occacasion to explicate the Rule which obliges them to stick to one or the other party in the differences that happen between Christian Princes In the mean time I wish France may open its eyes that she may take heed that this generation of Vipers which she feeds in her breast do not at last to her destruction eat out their way through her belly and her bowels CHAP. III. An enditement of Encroachments and Antidates put in against the Jesuits THose things whereof most men agree in their judgements are commonly grounded upon some truth Of a thousand people in France that shall take occasion to speak of the revenues of the Jesuits nine hundred shall accuse them of being too much inclined to the things of this world and I dare affirm without running the hazard of doing truth any injury that to procure them they make nothing to supplant Orphans and Widdows nay think it not much to oppress by false contracts tradesmen and the poorest sort of people When I was sent to preach in their Priories and was accordingly obliged to
full of mystery and the management thereof is confined to a very few hands And yet it is not hard to imagine that they make use of severall inventions to put them to death and this is so obvious that the meere examination of the businesse by the Magistrate when ever it happens will clearly discover them to be either the formall Murtherers of them or at least the occasions and instruments of their death Of whether of these two they be convicted it matters not the crime is infinite considering the great number of children that are destroyed I was never I must confesse but once employed to bestow Christian buriall on one of those children for to smother the mischiefe as much as may be and to prevent all suspition it is the businesse of one certaine Priest to stand ready to put on his Surplice and Stole and to bury them with the ordinary ceremonies but I here speak it conscientiously and at the feet of Jesus Christ I perceived that very time that the cloath it was wrapped in was all bloody Seised with compassion at the sadnesse of the spectacle and desirous to understand whence it came to passe that the litle body was bloody Huguet a Master Shooemaker by his profession who was the keeper of the Hospitall and was present at the enterrement with a Lay-Brother named Philoleau made me answer that the woman that nursed it one that had not many dayes before reformed her self of her naughtinesse and resolved tâ— lead a better life making a vertuous resistance againâ—â— certaine Ruffians that would have had their pleasure 〈◊〉 her they were so exasperated at her refusall the blinded with fury they crushed the legges of that little child and so murthered it to be revenged of the Nurse I could not be satisfyed with this answer for afteâ— I had done the last offices of Christianity to that little one I went my waies to Francis Irat then Rector 〈◊〉 the Colledge and gave him a faithfull account of whâ—â— I had seen with my eies adding that the Syndic wâ—â— obliged in conscience to make inquiry about thâ— crime and legally to prosecute those that were guilt of the murther committed on the body of an exposeâ— child for whom we were engaged to be accountable Answer was made me very much to this effect That were to take too much upon us this little one is noâ— in Paradise and therefore what necessity is there to squâ—â—der away the revenue of the colledge to revenge a crime the hath delivered it out of the miseries of this world I haâ— made too much noise to be called a second time to anâ— such service I spoke too loud the lay-Brother wâ—â— charged not to call me any more so that ever from thâ— time they have employed in this last ceremony â— certain antient man named Ignatius Lentillac who iâ— since dead of an Apoplexy One single circumstance is enough to discover enormous crimes and put the civil Magistrare into the track of Truth One drop of blood scattered by chance upon the cloths of a murtherer gives much light to find what he hath committed What I have said deserveâ— to be taken into consideration and certainly there is 〈◊〉 Cittizen of any worth or that any way concernes himselfe in the publick good but will cry out that thâ— Magistrates are obliged to take notice of what passes in the administration of that Hospital I dare undertake that if things were legally and strictly examined 〈◊〉 they ought to be in a businesse of this consequence 〈◊〉 â—ill be found that of thirty innocents that are receiâ—ed into that house no longer a house of charity but â— slaughter-house of cruelty there shall not be three â—ive at the years end I appeal in this case to the â—onsciences and sound judgements of the Judges wheâ—â—er without a generall mortality it is possible so maâ—y children should perish and not be either cruelly â—illed or dispatched hence more gently by some secret â—â—vention which after they have pined away for cerâ—â—in daies carries them insensibly away It would be â—hought that according to the ordinary rate of morâ—lity of ten children that are born in the Common-â—ealth the better halfe should live some years and â—o speak suitably to the common course of humane â—ccurrences it may be said that of ten there do not â—ie three within the year It is further to be considered that these litle exâ—os'd ones are the more to be pitâ—ied for that it was â—ot long before that they had with some difficulty eâ—caped death in their coming into this world for had â—hey been weak and unlikely to live their mothers had not exposed them in the streets I never heard â—f any that they found dead The shrill crying of many â—f them who thereby awaken those that have their Cells â—owards the streets is an evident argument that they â—re strong and lively The swathing-cloaths wherein â—hey are found very handsomely wrapp'd their names written and put into their bosomes or instead thereof â—alt if they have not been baptised and other little circumstances arguing that the Fathers and Mothers â—â—id all they could for them do sufficiently signifie â—hat though they are forced to forsake them yet they â—oubt not but that they are safely dispos'd into a good â—nd charitable house Whence comes it then that they die in such great numbers and that at this day the Jesuits if they were called to account cannot hardly shew one of them unlesse they be by some great chance the children of those who have sent considerable summes oâ— money by some faithfull Mediatour to the Procurator or to Brother Philoleau and had entreated then secretly to have a care of a child that should be brought with such and such markes For these having no other design then to conceale their loves aâ—â— a certain tendernesse for the reputation of those maidâ— whom they have had their desires of are content tâ— be at the charge of all things necessary for the entertainment of the fruit oâ— their own bowels and 〈◊〉 such cases the Jesuits are not onely no losers bâ—â— great gainers at least so far as the obliging of a good Nurse amounts to It is not for a person of my quality to read Lectures to the Magistrates but to discharge my conscience into their breasâ—s for the publick good One of the wayes which these covetouâ— horse-leeches make use of to remove out of this world so many innocents is to make choice of very poore and necessitous women who forc'd by their necessities to embrace any course to get a little money undertake to suckle and nurse up these little ones at such a pittifull rate that it is impossible but that both nurseâ— and children must starve Hence comes it that within a little time after out oâ— pure want of nourishment the foreheads of these little wretches are full of dirt and earthinesse their eyes sink into their heads where there should be cheeks there are onely pits to be seen
in the maide was resolv'd to bring her lewd sollicitations to some effect when they were gotten close into a chamber in the Inne For having by thousands of sleâ—ghts and wanton insinuations somewhat enflam'd them both she took occasion to leave them together under pretence of taking some order for Supper But as the Jesuits ill fortune would have it he met with a Susanna that maintained her chastity very resolutely for having through feare suffered thousands of kisses and caresses she at last bethought her of God and the dishonour she was ready to fall into and so frustrated the Stallion of his expectation in such manner that he was forced to satiate his lust by an evacuation with the Bawd Upon her therefore he satisfied his brutish passion even in the presence of the Maid with such expressions of Lust on both sides as might have forced impudence it self into a blush The heat being over he comes a little to his wits and would needs lay a strict charge upon the maid to keep all secret whatever she had seen Shee did so for the space of fifteen dayes but at last being much troubled in conscience that she had given way to some lasciviousnesse she went and discovered the whole businesse to the Superiour of the professed House And this was the first pranke he played in that journey But one depth calleth upon another Those that once suffer themselves to be enslaved and trampled on by that tyrannicall passion never leave sinning Let us see what becomes of our Confessor after this excellent and devout pilgrimage we find him travelling towards the City of Pau. Being come there to the House of Madame de Mommas or Mombas a family of as great blood and Nobility as any in Beard with John Francis Marin who had overtaken him at Macaire the wayting gentlewoman of that Lady raised such flames of Lust in him that he watched his opportunity to get any one of them aside as a cutpurse would do the criticall minute to give a man a cast of his office He that hath a mind to do a mischief layes hold on all occasions conducing thereto The first exploit of impurity which this shamelesse man did was just upon his coming from Masse to run up his hand under the smock of one of the Maids that was going up staires before him saying to her Take heed fairest you lift up pour legge too high The second was more dangerous considering the discreet mannagement of the businesse For having understood by some questions he had made to another that she was to goe away from her Mistresse Come said he to her bring me pen ink and paper I will recommend you to the service of a President 's Lady in Bourdeaux that shall be a thousand times more to your advantage then that which you now are in The poore innocent wench who thought her happinesse indisputable brought him what he called for and was cajoll'd by him into another Roome where the cunny catching companion writ a Letter so full of recommendation that the wench was over head and eares in joy at it Whereupon taking his advantages upon the reading of it Does not this said he to her argue an extraordinary affection in me towards thee upon the first sight What canst thou refuse to do for so cordiall a friend who would give thee a Letter not written with inke but with his own blood to put thee into a good condition His action during all this fine discourse was to kisse her forehead her eyes her mouth and to embrace her in his armes with so much fire and violence of passion till that at last the wench sensible of the danger she was in getting from him as a serpent that were grasped too hard I do not intend Father said she to him to purchase recommendations with the hazzard of my salvation The noise which these strange sallies of incontinency made in the house was at first the diversion onely of the Servants but afterwards coming to the Lady her selfe she very angrily expostulated the businesse with his companion Francis Marin asking him What Harlot hunter is this that you have brought to my house who hath already attempted two of my Mayds If any man's judgement be so overgrown with blind zeale as to imagine this story to be no other then a calumny be it so but this I am sure of that Madame de Mombas or Mommas and her servants shall acknowledge that the Jesuits never could salve with any credit this act of brutality Those who are returned to their Colledges after the absence of some time in travell or otherwise passe for three dayes after their arrivall for Pilgrims The ensuing story shall be the consummation of that notorious journey of Petiot Of all acts of unchastity those in common apprehensions are thought the most execrable which do violence to the chastity of children Heaven certainly would not have thunderbolts but to crush the committers of such impurities nor the earth abysses but to swallow them up Our Sardanapalus went the next day after his coming home to divert himself into a place not far from the house called Lewis's wood and to make his diversion criminal in all the wayes imaginable he inveigled to him by litle Agnus dei's the Overseer's daughter a girle of about nine or ten yeares of age under pretence of making her say her prayers and so brought her into the thickest part of the wood Here my heart beats and my hand trembles with the horrour which I cannot but conceive at the very remembrance of the crime This ineffably wicked man put himself into a posture of forcing the little child and with his defiled fingers dilatabat illi foemineum vas when her Father hearing her crying and complaining came seasonably to her rescue and delivered her out of the clawes of that uncleane bird The disorder wherein he found that infamous Jesuit and the posture of his daughter whom he found layd all along rais'd such an indignation in that afflicted Father that in the heat of his passion he ran immediately to the Colledge and accus'd him What answer will these celestiall Eunuchs who would perswade the world that they imitate the purity of Angels make to these things Disclaime the story Truth will dazzle their eyes Will they acknowledge it T is somewhat indigestible The stars will these sincere men say fall out of heaven T is true but then they never get up again into their spheares and yet this great one that is now fallen after it had extinguished its light in the common-shore of thousands of uncleannesses is gone to shine again in another horison Does any man imagine that Petiot in some measure to expiate so many transgressions should have been eternally silent and never appeared in the pulpit again he is mistaken Be it known to him that so thinks that the said preacher is as much employed as ever he was and that he hath onely made an exchange of provinces till that Time shall
a Priest and Clerk of the Society of Jesus makes himself a Judge of life and death upon me in his book pronounces and signes the sentence of death against me and racks his wit to find out new torments to make my departure hence the more cruel and insupportable His accusation is that I have celebrated their Masse after I had engaged my self in the design of my Conversion and did not forbear preaching in their pulpits even while I was in treaty with the Reverend the Ministers of the reformation to find out some safe course to make a publick profession of the Faith which I had already embraced in my heart This enrages and exasperates the man so farre that he turns a prodigall and spends on me without the least regret all the injurious figures and all the scandalous termes which his imagination can furnish him with In every page he finds out some new clawes to fasten on me withall I am in his judgement a Judas among the Apostles and a Deâ—il in the house of God The words execrable detestable abominable are too gentle to make any deep wounds nay he employes the malice of his wit and makes all his Rhetorick sweat again to find out such as are more stinging and more venemous Not thinking iâ— enough to thrust in one or two into every period he musters up thirteen or fourteen altogether aâ— when he sayes page 25. This man was vaine proud envious refractory hypocriticall sacrilegious perfidious desperate a prevaricator an impostor carnal treacherous worldly-minded c. In a word he does as much as lies in his power to make me the object of an universall persecution and it shall not be his fault if the particular animosity of the Jesuits passe not through all the Christian world for the publick cause I am not to learn that the Law of Grace under which we now live does not require an eye for an eye nor a hand for a hand as that did which God had given from amongst the thunder and lightning Nor am I ignorant on the other side that the Christian Lenity whereof you make so great profession and that mildnesse and modesty which distinguishes you to be true Pastors different from those wolves and hirelings may haply oblige you to disapprove these refutations as such as betray too much gall and Satyre But I shall entreat your Reverences to give me leave without prejudice to the Law of Jesus to do in my own defence that which nature teaches the very creatures God forbids not and reason allowes in the prudent I do not desire the death of Beaufes as the reward of the crimes he hath committed though he wishes nothing so much as mine and that for no other reason then that I have done a good work no I heartily forgive him and blesse the wounds whereby he endeavours to assassinate me But since necessity hath forced me to take up arms for my owne just defence it cannot be expected I should answer so exactly as that I should return flowers and complements for calumnies and invectives If therefore when I oppose my buckler to the stones he casts at me their recoyling hurts them in the tenderest places the mischief caused thereby is to be attributed to his insolent and inconsiderable attempt since that God neither forbids nor hinders the effects proceeding from a rationall resistance I should have answered him in terms sufficiently civil and obliging had my calumniator any way deserv'd an honourable treatment but civility exasperates him and mildnesse irritates him he is much of a nature with the cantharides converts into poyson the juice of the fairest flowers and experience hath convinced all the faithfull at Rochel that he grows so much the more insolent against the truth by how much the Pastors endure his extravagances with the greater modesty I therefore humbly beseech your Reverences not to take it amisse if being to refute a furious and inconsiderate man I do not confine my self to a scrupulous reservednesse an over-ceremonious observance and respect would prejudice the purity of my cause and might raise difficulties among the simple I ought not nor indeed can without great danger flatter an enraged mastiffe whose teeth where-ever they fasten are venemous If I discover many passages of his life as occasion serves whereat he may be troubled I assure you that the worst I shall do will be simply not to flatter him I could never approve that irrationall custome of the Persians to whip their Soveraigne's robe when he had offended without touching his person no it is but just every one should beare with the penalty inflicted on him for his crimes and detractors ought to endure the truth when it is told them Were I cited to a higher tribunall then yours it would certainly be lawfull for me to do what the holy Spirit allows by the mouth of David Be angry but sin not and to follow the advice of the Wise man Answer a fool according to his folly But if notwithstanding all I have said my discourse seem too sharp to you be pleased to remember that I have lived too long among the Jesuits and too short a time among you to be dismantled of those passions which are garrison'd and fortifie themselves in persons of that Society I therefore most humbly make it my suit to you that you would without prejudice read my Apology and that with a spirit of love towards a person who dedicates it to your Reverences with the greatest submission imaginable And you will find that I signe an eternall bill of divorce from them and that since I have discover'd such truths to the world I am oblig'd out of a consideration of my own safety ever to look on them as the implacable seekers of my life This demonstration of the sincerity of my conversion and the obligation there is of my perseverance shal be a certain earnest-piece of my reall and hearty embracing of our Religion as also of the respects I owe you as being REVEREND SIRS Your most humble and most obedient Servant Peter Jarrigius AN ANSWER TO THE CALUMNIES OF JAMES BEAVFES A JESUIT CHAP. I. Shewing the reason of my writing after the excellent Refutation publish'd on my behalf by Monsieur Vincent IT was ever accounted justifiable that an innocent person should vindicate his reputation against calumnies But if it happen that he sayes not a word in order to his own justification and that God out of his infinite mercy raise up some Daniel that undertakes to plead his cause confound his adversaries and discover the inconsistency of their testimonies by the manifest contradictions they fall into it raises in the people an admiration at the judgements of God who never forsakes those that suffer persecution upon the account of vertue and takes a certaine pleasure to see injustice and detraction overthrown at the feet of Innocence A broad and troublesome sea of three hundred Leagues which lyes between me and the Inhabitants of Rochell suffers me
no other subscription then that of my own name to the act of Profession there are three Pastors the Ancients and the Secretary of the Consistory Is not this enough to unplaister the eyes and hearts of the Judges if so be they are blinded by the importunate sollicitations of the Jesuits wherein they sufficiently play their parts or regard the metaphysicall ratiocination which they make use of to prove that a secret writing ought to passe for an authentick and solemne profession God of his infinite mercy preserve me for ever falling into the hands of these phariâ—aicall Monkes who desire only comma's and punctilio's to ground an endictment against a man who hath ever done them good never hurt and hath not left them out of any other motive then that of putting himself into the way of salvation and an unwillingnesse to consent to their mischievous machinations All therefore that now lies on my hands to do is to shew in what sense I could have treated of my conversion and in the mean time not forbear saying of Masse I must needs acknowledge that to conceal my design I was forced to exercise the functions which I was obliged to before I was illuminated Could I have got away on the very day whereon I was first inspired with that resolution I had done it but the season proved so bad and the weather so rainy that I had but that one faire thursday on which I shook off my chaines Could I further have made a publick profession of my Faith in the midst of Rochel I would have gone that very day among them and embraced their communion but all the world is sensible that it was impossible for me to do any such thing without exposing my â—ife to imminent danger During therefore the time of that intervall it being not in my power to exempt my selfe from saying masse for feare of a surprisall I considered with my self that in conjunctures of so great consequence it was lawfull for me to dissemble according to the generall maximes of the Divinity I had learned among them To the end therefore that I might be as little as possible might be injurious either to the Romane Religion which I was ready to shake hands with or the Reformed which I was upon the point to embrace I had no other intention of celebrating Masse then that of doing in generall what our Saviour had instituted So that if Jesus Christ hath instituted any such thing as Transubstantiation the Romanists cannot charge me with being an Impostor and false to them if he hath instituted only the Symbols of bread and wine to be received by Faith as if they were his body and blood those of the Reformation have nothing to quarrell with me for The Holy Spirit in whose presence I write these lines can bear me witnesse that I speak but the truth If God had been pleased to afford me a greater measure of his grace I might have generously declared to the Rector the reasons upon which I had resolved not to say Masse any longer but I desire the world to judge from the exasperation and fury they have betrayed in their pulpits and the prosecutions they have worryed me with what treatment I must have expected from them in case I had discovered my designe Alasse Had I made but the least discovery I had been six moneths since in the other world and this is so far certain that they have publickly acknowledged as much affirming openly both in their discourses and writings that if I were so desirous to suffer for my beliefe I needed no more then to give them notice of my intention The feare which a constant mind fals into is accounted in the law for an allowable excuse I hope the Judges will pardon my weaknesse and condemn that rigour which at this day is the occasion that there are so many hypocrites in that unhappy Society If all those of their Order who prophane the sacrifice which they call that of the body of Christ were dragg'd to the tribunals of the Civill Magistrate to answer for their Sacriledges what shall become of those who not forbearing the diurnall celebration of Masse procure the death of little children are guilty of forgeries and falsifications in Contracts coyne mony bandy against Kings secretly entertain in their Chambers wenches disguised in mens cloaths and commit monstrous Sodomies with young Schollers as I have sufficiently discovered in the former Treatise Should this happen the cities they inhabit would find it no small work to provide prisons and erect scaffolds and Gibbets for Jesuits There you should have one accus'd for his impious approaches to the Altar coming piping hot out of the Confession-seat where he had spent the time in amorous entertainments with some crack'd commodity You should have another brought to the bar when he had just before sealed up his Letters wherein he had sent some intelligence prejudiciall to the affairs of his Prince and so consequently a many others for having committed severall other crimes not half an houre before The reason is this that these wretched Galley-slaves of Religion are forced to comply with the Custome which they have taken up to say their Masses what condition soever they may be in Which if they do not the Catamites and Zealots whereof the Communities are full very suspiciously question whether such and such be not sick since they had not said their Masses And thus much I thought fit to say in order to my vindication from the crime which they would impose upon me CHAP. VII â—iscovering the childish inventions of Beaufes to make my Letters contradictory one to another THere is not certainly any thing proves more dishonourable to a man that stands much upon the â—â—putation of sincerity then to be surpris'd in triviall â—â—d childish evasions Now according to the present â—ostures of Affaires I see not how Beaufes can avoid â—â—nominy two manner of wayes one by incurring the â—â—putation of a cheat the other in discovering want of â—â—dgement to carry on with successe and with a certain â—â—rcumspection to conceale his circumventions For â—â—ough his beard be powdred by the age of above fifty â—â—ares yet hath he not yet put off the swathing clouts â—â—d weaknesses of his infancy and in two things he â—â—trayes himself more particularly One when he â—â—nyes that I writ two Letters that have come abroad â—â—der my name The other when he would refute â—â—em by certain shreds and fragments of a Letter I had â—â—itten five moneths before my coming from among â—â—em to the Provinciall We shall not think it much to divert our selves so â—â—re as to surprise this bearded infant in his childishâ—esse If you read the advertisement to the Reader you â—â—â—ll find these words The charge which the Jesuits have â—â—ainst M. Vincent is purely civil to oblige him to produce â—â—fore Monsieur the Lieutenant Generall of this City the â—â—â—ginall copy of the book he hath published to be compared â—â—th the Letters whereby
ruinate Then will I bring My offering And thy great acts relate Thy name for ever praised bee Who from those snares hast set me free For loe these eyes My enemies Desir'd subversion see THE END SECRET INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE SVPERIOVRS OF THE SOCIETIE OF JESUS Faithfully rendred out of the Latine Of the strange discovery of these Secret INSTRUCTIONS VVHen Christian Duke of Brunswick who also pretended to the Bishoprick of Halberstadt ransack'd not many yeares since the Jesuits Colledge at Paderborn he bestowed their Library and all their writings whatsoever upon the Fathers Capuchins who among the Archivi of the Rector found these SECRET INSTRUCTIONS And that the like accident happened at the Jesuits Colledge at Prague there are creditable persons that will testifie Nor indeed can any man well doubt that hath the least acquaintance or familiarity with the Jesuits but that the principall persons of the Society do manage all things according to some private directions of this nature received from their General when there is nothing fo manifest as that the behaviour of the Jesuits is in all things suitable to the present Collection On the other side it is certain that they are not any way consistent with those Rules Constitutions and Instructions of the Society that are printed insomuch that it does not require an excesse of Faith to believe that the best part of the Superiours among the Jesuits for some it is granted they may not have the least knowledge thereof have not onely a double habit but also a double Rule one domestick and private the other fitted for Courts and the publick that they are Introrsum turpes speciosos pelle decorâ or such as our Saviour describes the Pharisees when he said ye are like to whited Sepulchres fair to the sight of men without but within full of rottennesse and dead mens bones So the Jesuits make great shewes to the world of justice and Sanctimony while they are within full of iniquity and Hypocrisie Which character of them that it proceeds rather from truth then any spirit of envy or aggravation there needs no other conviction then that a man call to mind how that Claudius Aqua viva their own Generall charged the greatest part of the Superiours with a◠over pragmaticall frequentation of Princes Courts too much m ling with temporall affaires and Hypocrisie as being such as under pretence of Gods glory and the furthera ce of their Neighbours welfare sought onely themselves and their own advantages Be it therefore left to the judgement of the Christian Reader to consider whether these short Commentaries of secret Admonitions be to be taken for that DEPOSITUM whereof Saint Paul puts Timothy in mind where he sayes O Timothy Keep that which is committed to thy trust and the things that thou hast heard of me the same commit thou to faithfull men c. The Principall Heads of the Instructions SECT I. Discovering how the Society ought to behave it self immediately upon some new Foundation granted them in any place SECT II. What course is to be taken to insinuate into the Favour and familiarity of Grandees and Princes SECT III. What we are to expect from such Grandees as being much behind hand as to matter of money are neverthelesse of great esteem and authority in the Common-wealth and may otherwise very much oblige us SECT IV. Of the principall designe of such as are Preachers and Confessors to Princes and Great men SECT V. How we are to behave our selves towards those Religious Orders which pretending to the same design with us do very much derogate from us SECT VI. How to cajoll rich Widdowes into a veneration of the Society SECT VII Of the wayes of perswading Widowes to perseverance in a single life as also of the disposall of their Revenues SECT VIII Of certain expedients whereby it may be effected that the Sonnes and daughters of such women as have resigned themselves to the conduct of our Society may embrace a Religious kinde of Life SECT IX Of the wayes whereby the Revenues of our Colledges may be improved SECT X Of the necessity there is to make some ostentation of the severity of discipline in the Society SECT XI How the Fathers of the Society are generally to behave themselves towards those that are dismissed SECT XII Of the choice of young Lads for the Society and the wayes whereby they are to be retained SECT XIII Of the Nunnes SECT XIV Of reserved cases and other causes of Dismission out of the Society then what have been mentioned before SECT XV. What persons of the Society are most to be cherished and encouraged SECE XVI Of the contempt of wealth Conclusion SECRET INSTRUCTIONS For the SVPERIOVRS OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS SECT I. Discovering how the Society ought to behave it self immediately upon some new Foundation granted them in any place The Society is to endeavour to ingratiate it self as much as may be with the Inhabitants of the place where they are enterta ned especially upon the allowance of a new Foundation This may be advantageously done by an explication of the end an design of the Society as it is layd down in the second Rule of the Summary namely To be as tender of the wellfare of our Neighbour at their own Upon this account are the meanest things to be underg ne Hospitals are to be visited the poorest ministred unto and advised the Fathers are to go to places at no small distance if need require to receive the Confessions of all whatsoever charitable collections are to be made and those to be disposed of to the poor in the presence of many to the end that they edified and stirred up by our example may afterwards prove the more liberall towards us Let there be remarkeable generally in all a great observance of externall modesty such as may prove matter of edification to others If any among us fail but as to that very point let them be dismissed the Society SECT II. What course is to be taken to insinuate into the favour and familiarity of Grandees and Princes THis is above all others a thing to be endeavoured with the greatest earnestnesse possible T is a lesson learnt by experience that Princes do ordinarily conceive an affection for spirituall and ecclesiasticall persons when their actions are not Baptistically censured and reproved but with as much favour as may be all viated This is apparent in the marriages of Princes with their nearest kindred there arising alwayes great difficulties in the negotiation thereof by reason of the vulgar opinion which fastens something of execration on such contracts When therefore we see Princes resolved on such things it will be our duty to encourage and assist them in their incestuous inclinations Let such reasons be insisted on as may heighten their desires as for instance that Matrimony with those circumstances might prove the occasion of a stricter allyance and contribute more to the glory of God In like manner when the Prince