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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

unanimously agree in the explication not one pretending that those words favour the facility of some Confessors in pronouncing absolution to Sinners as often as they please to demand it I thought sufficient had been said to convince and gain this good Father but was deceived and saw by experience that he had a Spirit that was Reason-proof And to be rid of me he told me plainly he little valued all the proofs I could bring and that he would proceed as he was accustomed this being a common practice authorized by good Casuists and should they attempt to do otherwise Repentance would become an intollerable yoke Confession forsaken all the world forced away from the Altar and Sinners despair he should have added that it would ruine many Sacred Communities which had no better means of subsistence than this easie absolution and truly by the genius and countenance of the Father I discovered that this last was the most prevalent argument with him and therefore resolved to hold my peace for 't is to no purpose to bring the most demonstrative evidences to undeceive a man whose perswasions are grounded in reasons of interest unless you first cure the coverousness of his heart We have no more to do upon these occasions but to sigh and pray God that he would effect what to us is intirely impossible To return to the Iesuites it must be confessed that they have been very prudent in the choyce of proper and successful means to compass their design of drawing after them a great number of people they easily perceived that had they exacted from Sinners the fruits of a solid repentance intire self-denyal reformation of life serious mortification of Vice they could not have easily attained their ends and that if they treated the Sinner that should come to them according to the Rules of the Church their Churches should never have been filled nor their Confessors much imployed But judging very wisely that though they obliged not Sinners to put off the old man they would be content to put on the new if they promised men Heaven for some petty works of no weight or difficulty there could be no Sinner so hardned who would not be their proselyte on so good termes and pay them to boot for the pains they should take to send him to Hell This is the reason that moved them to pitch on these works of ostentation and exhort all the people to communicate every day in the week and to authorize their practice pretend it was approved by an Arch-Bishop of Valentia in an Assembly of Doctors and that he Ordained It sh●uld be free for all the people to Communicate every day in the year to see the vanity of their pretence of being authorized by this Arch-Bishop Observe that it hath been ever allowed for persons truly vertuous to Communicate every day But these are not the persons they understand in the Ordinance for being few in number they could not be expressed by the term of All the People So that All the People who the Iesuites say have permission to Communicate every day in the week are all kinds of persons and the common sort of men who live in such a manner that they are not worthy to Communicate once in their age and never approach the Altar but they abuse the facility of their Confessors and make themselves guilty of a new crime But let the Iesuites say what they please it cannot be denied but the face of affairs is the same it was before they appeared in the world no less Simony and Usury Injustice and Iniquity Impurity and Violence committed now than before Tradesmen cheat as they were wont Judges take bribes Souldiers blaspheme and ●ob as much as ever that which the Iesuites have done is that men commit wickedness with ease without fear or remorse they make it a sport upon the credit of these Fathers affirming it easie to get pardon and when they have chosen one of them for their Confessor they find him so apt to condescend so full of good words and of so pleasing an h●mour that as themselves say Sinners expiate their crimes with as much chearfulness and ardency as they committed them and in a moment become Saints worthy to receive the body of Christ as often as they please but the mischief is that their sanctity having cost little it is but short lived and their passions not mortified presently produce the same disorders again But these Fathers care not though the multitudes of people about their Altars dishonour Christ in pro●aning his body provided they serve to promote the Glory of the Society We read in Scripture that though the manners of the Iews were extreamly corrupt they ceased not to offer to God abundance of Sacrifices and were perswaded to it by the Priests who valued not the loss of mens souls if they could but profit by the multitude of Oblations brought to the Temple But these profane Sacrifices instead of appeasing provoked the wrath of God which makes him complain in the first Chapter of Isaiah He was weary of their Offerings and despised their Sacrifices and that the bl●od of Bulls and of Goats c●uld not expi●●e the sins in which they persisted that the Oblations of the carnal people were vain that he could not away with their Cerem●nies and Festival Dayes that he hated their Assemblies and would n●t hearken to their prayers who had wickedness in their hearts If God thus used the Iews who were subject to the Law of Moses what 〈◊〉 justice may we expect if we honour him only with our lips and instead of a real and cordial Conversion● content our selves with an imaginary and superficial I know the Iews Sacrifices were but gross shadows of the Sacrifice now in the Church but if our hands and our hearts are no less defiled than the Iews we are so much more worthy condemnation as the sanctity of our Sacrifice is greater than theirs for God respects not the Sacrifice only but the person that offers it nor can we present him an Oblation so Holy that can appease his anger while he sees abominations in our hearts and crimes in our hands and our souls unfit to be a sacrifice to him he seeks Servants to worship him in Spirit and in Truth not such as say only Lord Lord but such as do the will of his Heavenly Father I know there 's nothing so Holy as the Sacraments and that the Primitive Christians derived all their strength and their comfort from the continual use of the Eucharist but we are not to think that we are therefore arrived to the perfection of those Primitive Christians because we imitate them in this particular but that there is nothing will sooner draw upon us the anger of God than to presume to feed on the bread of Angels when we deserve not to gather the crums This makes it appear strange that these Fathers fear not to affirm That they are seldome defective in any part of Christian Righteousness

forced them away though no violence had been used Whereupon the Assembly resolved to make their address to the Apostolical Nuncio at Lucerne to desire him to inform hims●lf of the pretended violences fancying that upon the rumours they had spread they should ●ind persons enough to depose the fact they alledged and that in the mean time their F. Grandm●nt Rector of Fribourg in Swizzerland should carry their complaints to the Court of France The information taken by the new Nuncio discovered nothing more than the fictions the ar●i●ices and malignity of the Iesuites But the voyage of F. Grandmont to Paris took effect for having by the mediation of F. Paulin then confessor to the King represented to his Majesty all the falsi●ies of advantage to their Cause as that the Iesuites were expelled the said Priories unjustly and by force contrary to the tenour of the Treaty of Peace and in prejudice of the Canonical Union of the said Priories to their Colledges they obtained Orders by surprize for their re-establishment without hearing the other side in confidence to have them executed blindfold and that if they were once established by the Authority of the King no man durst molest them for these two Priories or that of St. Valentin to which they would with equal boldness and falshood aver that they had been restored in pursuance and execution of the Treaty of Peace The Jesuites 〈◊〉 to the Pope and Estates of the Empire to surprize them As soon as F. Grandmont had the Kings Letters one for M. de la Barde Ambassadour in Swizzerland and the other for M. de Charlevois Commander at Bris●ch he sent to F. Schorrer the Provincial to supersede his demands from the Emperour and Arch-Duke to the Pope for that he had obtained letters from the King for their re-establishment in the Priories in question This appears by Cardinal Colonnas Answer of the 5 th March 1652. to the Letters of the Emperour and the Arch-Duke But the Father though he thought the Orders would be executed without taking any cognizance of the Cause was deceived in his account for neither the Governour nor the Ambassadour judged it in their power to obey them for many reasons both of State and of Law declaring frankly to the Iesuites that they were willing to serve them and that the Letters were very good but their Cause worth nothing This obliged the three Rectors to reassume their first course and continue their pursuit in the Court of Rome by the favour of the Emperour to procure from the Pope a confirmation of the Union of these three benefices artificially suggested in all their addresses But the success here proved worse than in France For the Pope judiciously refused it telling them that if they had such an Union as they pretended they needed no confirmation and to grant one were to derogate from the Authority of the Holy See To omit nothing that artifice or ambition could suggest they had recourse at last to the Imperial Di●t at Ra●isbonne where they made a great noise complaining loudly but ●alily that they were outed of the Priories of St. Mor●nd and St. Iames against Right and were troubled and disturbed in their possession of St. Valentines in prejudice of the Treaty of Peace and the Canonical Union obtained from the Holy See Endeavouring thus to engage the States of the Empire to re-establish them or to break with France But M. de Vautorce his Christian Majesties Ambassador in that Assembly being well informed of the Truth and of the Justice of the Benedictines Cause inseparable from that of the Abbies of Cluny and Chesy and the inter●sses of France rendred these new attempts of the Iesuites ineffectual and vain Their recourse to Heretical Officers of War and of Iustice their Calumnies and recommendations to promote their injustice They were not daunted for all this but though their Cause was so unjust that they failed of their hopes in Germany and in Italy from the Emperour the Apostolical Nuncio and the Arch-Duke of Inspruch they resolved to try the French King once more and sollicited new Orders from him on the same suppositions they had procured the former and because they could not incline the Si●urs De la Bard and de Charl●vois to favour their injustice they laboured with all their might to have these second Orders dispatched and directed to Major General Rose their particular friend though an Heretick judging him proper for the execution they needed having disposed him before by the great treats they had made him in their Colledge of Ensish●im where they had lodged and entertained him with all Almaign Civilities in the beginning of the year 1652. the ●●rrain Troops being then in their winter quarters in A●s●●ia But they could never obtain at Paris the Orders they desired this made them play other pranks to compass their designs They slandered F. Paul William the Benedictine for defending himself against their unjust usurpations as a villain a cheat and notorious impostor These are the very terms in the Latine Letter from the Rector of Fribourg to the Warden of the Capucines of Brisach dated Iuly 25. 1652. and inserted at large in the memorial abovementioned By the same letter it appears that they procured from several persons of Quality their friends at Paris Letters of Recommendation to Madam the Countess of H●rc●ur to M. the Count of Serny and to the Baron de Mele at Brisach to desire their favour for the Jesuites But their Cause was generally judged so bad upon the place that no person would be perswaded to undertake their d●●●nce except the Audit●r General who not able to maintain them in possession of the P●iories of St. Iames and St. M●rand granted them a sequestration in August 1652. without taking any cognizance of the Cause without hearing or summoning the defendants to the prejudice of the Suitors and against the prohibitions of the Privy Council who had retained to themselves the whole cognizance of this affair Their Rapine and Dilapidation of Benefices By the favour of this Judge and several artifices the Iesuites turned the deaf ear to the frequent demands made for restitution of the Deeds Evidences Reliques Plate and Ornaments they had carried away from the said Priories though obliged to restore them not only in Conscience but by an express Article of the treaty of Peace pag. 82. importing That all Records and Wri●ings whatsoever and other moveables found in the said place at the time of the possession taken should be restored so that their refusal obliged the Benedictines to commence new Suits and obtain judgements against them for recovery of their goods That which is most lamentable is that while they were in possession of the three Priories of St. Iames St. Morand and St. Valentin they left nothing intire but what respect hindered them to demolish or interest obliged them to preserve And they who so often pretend to the injury of others that the Divine Service is ill managed or

as much as they all should give together The Commissioners made use of this answer of the Iesuites to make the greater instance to other Orders and perswaded some to contribute beyond their ability After this they returned to the Iesuites and r●quired them to perform their promise the I●suites answered they would give his Majesty three Advices by means whereof his Majesty might gather above twelve millions of money This made the Conde D' Olivarez look about him who thought he had already sufficient to remedy the pressing necessities of the State and was very inquisitive for the Counsels of the Iesuites which they gave him The first was That if the King would give them all the Chairs of Professors in the Universities of the Kingdom they would not desire any Salary for their Lectures but his Majesty might impropriate or sell the Salaries of the Professors which amount yearly to above four hundred thousand Ducats and were worth to be sold above eight Millions The second That the King should prevail with the Pope to reduce the breviary to a third part of what it is when this should be obtained they would print Breviaries and Diurnals of the new model to be used but that they who would make use of them should pay in acknowledgement of the pleasure they had done them in abridging their Office ten Ducats for every Breviary and five for every Diurnal as every Clergy-man payes yearly four Rials for his Bull of permission to eat white meat in Lent By the calculation they made the profits of this exceeded the former The third That whereas they were not permitted by the rules of their Order to receive money for their Masses his Majesty should take all the money of the Ecclesiastical Fraternities of Spain and the Indies and oblige them to say Mass Gratis as the Jesuites 'T is evident by these three Advices that the Jesuites aimed only at their convenience and interest and to express their hatred against other Religious Orders under pretence of doing the King service The execution of the first Advice was attempted but the Universities made a generous opposition and F. Bas●le Ponce de Leon Professor of the evening Lecture in the University of Salamanca composed a learned Memoire which I have seen in the hands of Doctor D. Michael Iohn de Vimbodi Secretary to his Eminence the Cardinal Spinola then Arch-Bishop of Granada wherein he convinced the Iesuites of all manner of Heresies and concluded that it was their intention to possess themselves of all the Chairs of Professors that they might discard all men of Religion and afterwards establish their pernicious maximes without contradiction The Pope would not enter upon the second and third expedient but said that the iniquity of our times should incline us rather to augment than diminish our prayers And as for the Almes for Masses they would be of use to maintain poor Priests and poor Fryars But the Iesuites gave the King nothing The Jesuites of the Indies alwayes for the Governours against the Bishops they persecute the Archbishop of St. Foy Absolve those he had excommunicated and teach there are two Gods P. 260. Don Ber●ardin de Almansa a very holy man being chosen Archbishop of St. Foy of Bogera in 1633. went thither to take possession of the Dignity D. Sancho Giron President of the Audience and Captain Generall of the new Kingdom sent him two Iesuites Iohn Baptista Coluchini and Sebastian Morillo as Embassadours The design of the Embassy was to perswade the good Bishop to make submissions to the Governour utterly unworthy of the Character he bore The Prelate would not consent but having taken possession of his See did vigorously defend the rights of the Bishoprick against the incroachments of the insulting Governour whom he excommunicated and his Officers for having Arrested those workmen who were guilty of no crime but labouring in the Church and preaching the Gospel The Governour and his Officers being declared excommunicate by Papers publiquely affixed the Jesuite Sebastian Morello whom we mentioned before had the insolence to tell the Governour He ought not to be troubl●d for these Excommunications from which he would forthwith absolve him on the place saying the Society had the priviledge to do so This was the occasion of very great scandall and induced the Governour by advice of the Iesuites to name a Judge Conservator against the Archbishop And these Fathers in the mean time lodg'd secure and Regal'd in their Colledge The Dean of the Church of St. Foy found means to take away this Judge Conservator and put him in Prison in the Arch-bishops house But the Jesuites came in Arms to the Prison broke down the walls and took out the Judge and led him back to their Colledge To recount all the passages in this rencounter would swell up the story to a very great length But they are set forth at large with all the insolences of the Iesuites in the 4 th Chapter and so to the 11 th of the life of this Archbishop written by the Batchelor D. Pedro de ●olis and Valencenela where is also described the miserable end of some Jesuites who did more ●ignally abuse the holy man his words are these Though the Fathers of the Society who assisted the Governour against the Archbishop changed their habitation in going to Quito yet they could not escape the chastisement of God for one was killed by a Mule on which they carryed him into the Town between two sacks of Cha●●e another dyed at Tunia a third of the Plague in the Port of Onda and was buryed in a deep pit with his Books and his baggage and a fourth became distracted at Popayan Father D. Burno de Valeneuela a Chartreus known to me at Paular is Brother to this Pedro De Solis and hath in his custody a Manuscript of the life of this holy Archbishop But when he speaks of the difference between this Prelate and the Jesuites he relates matters of so much amazement that they would be incredible but that the sanctity and vertue of the Author who was an ocular witness of them doth warrant the truth thereof and render it un●uestionable Among other things he tells us the Jesuites taught the Indians That there were two Gods one of the Poor and another of the Rich that this was farr more powerfull than the other that the ArchBishop served the former and the Governour the latter He reports other like things taught by a whole Colledge which being established for the instruction of Youth shews by these pernicious maxims that the Society aims at nothing but to uphold it self by credit with men of power and affects a strict alliance and union with them so that it appears an extraordinary thing to see a Vice-roy or Governour in the Indies not engaged in their Interests which is the cause of their chasing Bishops from their Sees and dragging them before all the Secular Tribunals Don Mattheo De Castro Bishop in the East-Indies ill