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A01233	Tvvo spare keyes to the Iesuites cabinet· dropped accidentally by some Father of that societie and fallen into the hands of a Protestant. The first wherof, discovers their domestick doctrines for education of their novices. The second, openeth their atheisticall practises touching the present warres of Germany. Projected by them in the yeare 1608. and now so farre as their power could stretch, effected, till the comming of the most victorious King of Sweden into Germany. Both serving as a most necessary warning for these present times.; Colloquium Jesuiticum. English	Francke, Christian, b. 1549.; Freake, William.; Camilton, John. De studiis Jesuitarum abstrusioribus. English.	1632 (1632)	STC 11346.3; ESTC S102623	30,485	64

forward enough to serue the Pope at all times and as good Catholickes as could bee wished in the matter of Religion yet for theyr too much Ambition and Couetousnesse whereby they became insupportable they were by the consent of all Christian Princes and not without approbation from the Pope himselfe put to the Sword all at an instant and vtterly rooted out almost in a moment as sometimes were the Pythagorians those very Iesuites in effect among the Heathen serued throughout Italy and the Provinces adioyning Now the reason wherefore they doe make choise to lay vp their Armes and munition in their Churches is onely this For if when any Insurrection or rebellious tumult ariseth in a Province the Papists come thither to helpe and assist them by this meanes they haue Armes for them in a readinesse vpon a suddaine but if any who are of contrary Religion come thither to doe them wrong or to steale any thing from them they haue munition and stones aboue head to destroy them withall before they be aware And is not this I pray you he ready way to make the House of Prayer a Den of Theeues And yet by your patience if you will but attend I shall relate things more strange and horrible then these in respect whereof the things I haue related hitherto may well see me tollerable I may almost say Innocencie Vnder the Pauement of their Church at Gratz and elsewhere to my knowledge are Vaults and buildings vnder ground whereunto there is no way but by staires and steps Here haue they hoorded vp like to that Cacus whom Virgil speaketh of all theyr prey and treasure and doe obscurely conceale a world of wealth so professing pouertie not onely with publike consent but also with incredible pleasure suffering the same with admirable patience and Cursing to the pit of Hell all such as are poore against their wils as vnworthy of so blessed a Crosse But as for this their treasure for the most part it is so contriued that it is buried directly and perpendicularly vnder their greatest and chiefest or most eminent and highest Altar and so they shall be sure that when they Chant Masse they shall Sacrifice to MARS aboue head and to MAMMON below Now furthermore in their Vaults vnder ground they maintaine a very strange Library of Cords Halters Rackes Swords Axes Iron-pincers Stockes Torches Pillories and souerall Instruments of Torture wherewith and whereunto poore wretches being tyed fast are joynt by joynt torne a sunder as many as fall into the hands of these Tyrants who are farre more cruell in this kind then MEZENTIVS or PHALARIS ever were Nor are they without a Divels coate and a long steeple crown'd hat with blacke feathers a jagged doublet cut and slashed breeches puffed out and bagged like bellowes downe to their anckles such as would euen make a man affrighted to looke vpon them But perhaps he that readeth this Relation will wonder to what end Religious persons who professe themselues the Disciples and followers as they would haue all men to beleeue of our most meeke Saviour IESVS should make such provision I will resolue you this question also if you please to attend With such instruments as these doth the Societie captivate the vnderstanding of their Disciples vnto Iesuiticall obedience For if in the least matter they get any hinte of suspition against any of theyr Novices that he will not be constant or that he desireth to escape from them and that he is likely to betray the secrets of their Societie they clap vp such a fellow in a faire paire of stockes and having macerated him a long time with hunger and cold and want of all bodily comforts at the last they make an end of him with some exquisite tortures and killing torments I doe not belye them I write nothing but a truth There was at Gratz about three yeares agoe a young man named IACOBVS CLVSSEVS a youth of an excellent and pregnant wit this man did they lay hands vpon and miserably tormented him by whipping and scourging for a matter of no moment and because hee told them plainely that hee would renounce their Societie and complaine publikely if ever hee got libertie for this and other such wicked dealings towards him they clapped him vp into such a Prison vnder ground as aforesayd from whence hee was neuer seene to come out againe aliue Nor did any of vs that were Novices make question but that hee was made an end of with most exquisite torments Which vnparalell'd piece of tyranny I purpose in due time to divulge to the whole world with relation of all circumstances beeing the thing which the poore wretched Clussaeus had a purpose to haue done himselfe if hee had not beene hindered and preuented by death I shall withall make publike vnto the world another such piece of Villanie committed by the Iesuites of Fulda in Germanie vpon the body of one MARTINVS whom they stole away most basely from his Parents who are yet liuing at Miltenberg or Milberg And how many women thinke you haue beene deuoured and eaten vp in the same Gulfe How many young Children slaine How many young men that haue beene sole Heyres of very large and ample Patrimonies haue beene made away by them I doe not say I thinke but I beleeue and am firmely perswaded so often as shrikes and cryes sighings and most woefull lamentations were heard in the night season the hearing whereof would put a man into a cold sweat all over and make his hayre stand on end though our simpler Novices beleeued them to bee the Soules of some lately departed it was nothing but the shrikes and mone of children lately murthered or then a murthering Moreover that the extreame and Diuelish malice of Iesuites may be in nothing defectiue they are accustomed diuers times in those their Vaults vnder ground to make the Diuell very fine sport putting on terrible disguises they cause some of theyr Novices to be called downe to behold theyr Tragedie vpon whom they will rush suddainely with an horrible yelling noyse to make tryall forsooth of theyr courage and constancie For if they find any to bee timorous and fearefull they admit not such a man to the secrets of Magicke as accounting them cowardly and degenerate but appoint them to some of the inferiour Arts but such as appeare to bee of bold and vndaunted Spirits they take especiall notice of them and reserue them for serious imployments And yet they are not alwayes successefull for all this as appeared by that which happened at Prague in the yeare 1602. For whereas there were fiue principall Iesuites who being habited as Devils made sport with their youth It so fell out that there was found to bee a sixth in their company before they were aware and hee questionlesse was a Divell indeed who catching vp one of the personated Diuels in his Armes gaue him such a kindly vnkind embrace that within three dayes after hee dyed of it The fact was common