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A46678	A further discovery of the mystery of Jesuitisme In a collection of severall pieces, representing the humours, designs and practises of those who call themselves the Society of Jesus.	Jarrige, Pierre, 1605-1660.; Schoppe, Kaspar, 1576-1649.; Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179.; Flacius Illyricus, Matthias, 1520-1575.; Zahorowski, Hieronim.	1658 (1658)	Wing J489A; ESTC R219108	215,027	399

Letters to and from all parts out of hopes to find in them some matter of discontent whereon to ground my leaving of them to be short they have put in inditements against me and so have for my own justification forc'd me to put in the same against them for the crimes I charge them with Had they suffer'd me to be quiet I should have liv'd obscure and unknown in a strange Countrey and they would have found it no great difficulty to have made the world believe me a person of no worth or parts but now that they have forc'd me to write people will find that I am not so contemptible as they would have me thought With this into the bargain that if ever they effect what they have yet onely in design that is remove me out of this world either by assassination or poyson as I understand from all parts they threaten all France must needs be sensible of the iniquity of their proceedings I am therefore to entreat my Reader if he be a Romane-Catholick not to consider my Religion but their unjustice and if thou art a reformed Catholick I desire thy prayers to the eternall disposer o● all things that he would be pleased through his Grace to deliver me from the Knife of the Jesuits CHAP. II. An Impeachment of High Treason against the Jesuits IT is the highest act of Ingratitude for a man to hate that person whom he is naturally oblig'd to love and to rejoyce at his losses and misfortunes even while he lives under his protection and by his Liberal ty Lewis the thirteenth of France of triumphant memory made it his perpetuall businesse to oblige the Jesuits while he liv'd The ready money which he gave them to purchase the place wh●ch they have in the city of Pau and to build a sumptuous Edifice which in greatnesse beauty and magnifi ence surpasses the Palace Royall the twelve th●us●nd Livers of yearly revenue which he assign'd them out of his own desmesne in a necessitous Country are only small items of the totall Summe of above a Million which that Monarch ha●h with an excess of liberality bestow'd on them in severall places up and down France And yet all th●s signifies not much with them nay so little that Benefits which have a certain influence on Tigers and Presents which work a change in the inclinations of the greatest enemies could never f●rce out of their hearts that litle bird-lime of the antient aversion which they have conceiv'd against the blood of the Great Henry the most affable of all the kings of France No the Act of the Parliament of Paris against them and against John Chastell for attempting the life of that great Monarch the punishment inflicted on John Guignard a pri●st of their Society who was hang'd the Pyramid of Paris and their banishment out of France have so exasperated these religious Wolves that all the good successes of the kingdome they repine at all the bad they rejoyce at I conceive my self oblig'd as a well-wisher to my native Countrey France now that I am gotten ●ut of their clutches to discover for the good of that kingdome certain criminall actions which they stand guilty of that the world may clearly see the secret aversion which may be call'd the damme-viper of all their plots and intrigues A time was when the enemies of that Crown were very successe-full under the command of John le Verth in the Frontiers of Picardy insomuch that they took the city of Corbie Newes coming thereof to the Jesuits Colledge at Bourdeaux where I then was there was so much joy conceiv'd thereat that some half a score Jesuits having secretly and without noise gotten the brooms out of their chambers and some few faggots and carried them up to the top of the steeple of their Church made a kind of a bone fire of them and in that place sung Te Deum with the victories of the Emper●ur and King of Spain by the reading of certain pieces of Poetry which they had writ in celebration of their Valour and exploits It being wh●spered about the house that the excesse of joy had transported some to that degree of insolence the Rector who was privy to it took no notice of the businesse at all and the Provinciall who was acquainted therewith by some well affected French ●an onely entreated the same party that it might take no further aire If so much had been done in a Colledge of Spaine against the King of Spaine or in a colledge of Rome against the Pope the Superiours who have a power to punish their pretended su●jects for lesse faults then this would certainly have exercised all their authority to cut off assoon as they could such contagious members from the sounder part of the body But indeed he that knowes as well as my self who have lived foure and twenty years among them that to side with the Spanyard and to rejoyce at the misfortunes of France is the formal character of the greatest part of the Jesuits will not be astonished that a crime of high treason of this nature committed in the midst of the citty of Bourdeaux in a Colledge of the society of Jesus was not punished qui ta●et consentire videtur Another time in the same Colledge waiting in the Rector's outer chamber having some business to speak with him about and wanting something to do to elude the time during my attendance I cast my eye on a Map of Flanders that hung there I observed that the Graver had round about the Belgick Lyon drawn the several Princes that had g verned the Low cou●tries and found that some Jesuit had maliciously blotted out the effigies of one of them this raised in me a cu●iosity to find out who it should be that that bold hand thought unworthy to be of the same illustrious rank with the rest and I discovered by the Letters that were left of his name that it had been the effigies of Francis de Valois Duke of Alancon I was not a little mov●d at it and without mentioning the thing I came to propose to the Rector I shewed him the blotted picture saying that those insolent persons that must needs wreak their malice on the images of our Princes were not to be endured and that he was obliged to make such secret and serious enquiries into the business as that the society might be cleared of those enemies of the Blood-royal To this that over-mild and fearful man shrinking up his shoulders made this answer you see how extravagant some among us are what course w●uld you have taken in it they cannot endure the very pictures of the Princes of France This signifies not much you'● say and is not haply worth urgi●g 'T is true but it is enough to discover what a sort of Vipers France nourishes in her bosome I believe this map may be yet found in the said chamber if what I now write hath not given them occasion to remove it thence or to change

wi h ●hem Pa●ag 97. Nam praesumptio elata vos decepit for an insolent presumption hath deceived you Presumption is indeed an enemy to study and hinders the progresse of science Nor is it onely ● hindrance to the advancement of Learning but also to the improvement of Piety and the works thereof for where presumption and that attended by insolence hath planted it self in the mind of a man it debars true Learning and the acknowledgement of Christ from being entertained there The Jesuits indeed have that opinion of themselves and would have all others think no lesse that they onely have admission to the divine Mysteries they onely hold a nearer correspondence with JESUS to them the Blessed Virgin communicates her self and dictates their books as Mascaregnas professes of himself in that Treatise published by him in the yeare 1656. whereof there are some propositions laid down among the Additionals to the Mystery of Jesuitisme that they onely and no other are to be heard but this arrogance this presumption is that which hath deceived them and whereby they have deceived and will deceive others till it be discover'd Parag. 98. Et insatiabilis concupiscentia subvertit erroneum cor vesirum and an insatiable concupiscence hath subverted your erroneous hearts Covetousnesse is indeed the root of all evill this hath been the destruction of many Cities and Countries and will be the ruine of all addicted thereto Besides the covetousnesse of wealth there is also a covetousnesse of honours dignities preheminence commonly known by the name of Ambition and this is a disease the Ignatian Fraternitie are as deep in as ever Myriam Moses sister or Gehazi the Prophets servant were in the Leprosie Hence proceed their insinuations and courtings of Kings and Princes their consultations and communications with the people To these may be added a third sort of covetousnesse which is concupiscence or the insatiable pursuance of fleshly ple●sures And this is div●ded into two branches one relating to things appertaining to the Belly the other to what is not much below it of their performances as to all which how well they acquitted themselves may be seen by what is alledged in the precedent Paragraph But the holy Prophetesse saith that by these severall kinds of concupiscence their erroneous hearts are subverted Nor indeed could it be otherwise for where Covetousnesse Ambition and the pleasures of the flesh are predominant it will inevitably follow that a mans heart must be subverted They cast a darknesse over the intellectuall part eclipse that particle of Divine inspiration that should illuminate a man and put out those sparkles of Vertue that they lye under the embers of humane Reason Parag. 99. Et cùm in altum ultra quàm decet ascen●ere voluistis justo Dei judicio de●rsum in opprobrium sempiternum cecidistis And when you would have ascended higher then you should have done you fell down by the ●ust judgement of God into eternall reproach What can ●e said lesse of those who pretend to reform God in his ●ord who preferre themselves before all learned men ●nd spend their censures on them who vent their sa●yricall humours against Popes and Empero●rs who ●ould regulate Kings who assume to themselves an ●uthority over mens consciences and make what they ●lease to be sinne or not to be sinne who would grasp he whole world's wealth who build royall palaces ●ho reforme studies and books and presume to tosse ●nd turne all things as they please themselves what can ●e said lesse of such men such as are formidable to the ●ighest as well as lowest then that their aimes are too ●igh and that according to the just judgement of God they should be tumbled down into sempiternall reproach to the finall ruine of their temerarious pretensions For so shall the certainty of the divine sentence long since pronounc'd against such be made manifest that whosoever exalteth himself shall be brought low and that of the Poet confirmed Tolluntur in altum Vt lapsu graviore ruant And thus much shall suffice by way of descant upon this authentick Prophecy of Saint Hildegard Many other things might have been alledged but have purposely been omitted parly for brevity sake partly out of modesty and a tendernesse to the persons here characteriz'd out of a hope that upon so moderate a discovery they may tak● occasion to reform the miscarriages laid to their charge and if it be possible by a surprising change of deportment stop the mouths of all Adversaries and make it appeare that they are not the men but that we are to expect others in whom this Prophecy may be absolutely fulfilled What hath been said is onely by way of remark or short annotation and not as a Commentary which would have swell'd into a just volume as done out of no other designe then to lay the Prophecy at their doores who in the apprehensions of most and upon serious consideration of what is produc'd against them to justifie it are the more justly chargeable therewith nor hope of other effect then what is laid down by Saint Augustine contra Faustum lib. 1 cap. 3. Sicut vestra intentio est Semi-christianos quos decipiatis inquirere sic nostra intentio est Pseudochristianos vobis ostendere ut non solum Christiani peritiores vos convincendo prodant sed imperitiores vos cavendo proficiant FINIS Errata page 1. l. 8. r Ligue p. 14 l. 34. r. as p. 31. l. 12. r. related p. 36. l. 28. r. thousand p. 52. l. 21. r. Gentlewomen p. 75. l. 8. r. concern'd them P. 6. l. 21. dele that p. 12. l. ●2 r Provinci●lat of ● 14 l. 3● for prest r. pass'd p. 16. l. 21. r. evasions p. 1●● 3. r. wash his p 23. l. 21. for an r. and. p. 25. l. 13. for of ● in p. 30. l. 22. for Nor. r. Now. p. 40. l. 36. for are r. as p. 45. l. 15. r. stuck fill the blanck in the fourth piece p. 19. They affect to wrest their necks in the preface to the fifth Treatise for Justification r. Institution in the last piece p. 22. l. 34. r. All all all How serviceable the Jesuits have been to the Church and Catholick Religion A Character of the Jesuits at their first Institution They are odious for their Aulicisme and monopolising the favours of God and Princes A way for Courtiers to insinuate into the Jesuits favour How farre they may be wicked and Tyrannicall in the employments they get into by their recommendation The several affections of men women and children towards the Society The unfitnesse of the Jesuits to medle with Court-affairs The example of S. Peter should deter them from Palaces They are odious sor their insatiable covetousness They care not how burdensome they are ta Princes and Provinces 2 Paedag. 12. How the Jesuits first behaved themselves among the Indians How among the Europeans The end and means of the Jesuits Whence it comes that the Jesuits do not work miracles This passage agues the piece written before the canonization of Ignatius Loyola and Xaverius Why God sometimes heard not the Prophets Their teaching gratis no great advantage to to any They are prejudiciall to many A scandall to Hereticks Sene● de Vit. Beat lib. 2. They are odious also for their pride Would monopolize wisdome and learing Contemne and slight all others How they abuse the favours of Princes in the protection of ma●efactors They hated for their pragmatical intermedling in all mens affairs The Jesuits Procurat●r a great Favourit● of Paul the fifth Why so gratious Better Projectors then Pastors A Christians wish The Pope cannot dispense with the Jesuits How they at the same time serve both God and Mammon The examination of the young men upon their first admission to the Jesuits schools The advantages they make of the said examinations The Jesuits Schools dangerous places for young L●ds The impudence of the Jesuits Women make diurnal confessions to the Jesuits A Jesuitical insinuation betrayed The frequent visits made to them The great advantages of the Generall of the Jesuits in point of Intelligence A character given of the Jesuits above 500 years since Their restless curiosity Their earnestness in reforming Monks and Clergy-men Their encroachings upon the monasteries Their professiont are good But their hypocrisy intollerable An instance of their Love to the Church They have somewhere in Spaine a Stable where the body of Christ had formerly been kept

a suspicion that they studied Alchymy and having since that seen in the hands of Marsan a little ingot of silver and pieces made exactly round but not stamped they were confident they intended them no other impression then what the King put upon those of the same preparation To this may be added that James Bocherel one of the Coadjutors of the Society h●d observed that Clumac had spent a whole day at the Crown-Abby in taking the figures of severall pieces of silver in Sand and since that time when they were both seized there were found about them many new pieces like those that are but just brought from the mint I suppose the Reader is by this time satisfyed that I have not only insisted upon conjectures such as may be thought sufficient to bring these criminalls to the rack but that I have produced certaine and convictive prooffs such as might bring Barons and Marquesses to a great hazard of their necks if they were brought to tryall for such a crime The Scholer whose industry and simplicity they wrought upon to prepare the materialls was a young man named Ville-neufue borne in Rochefocaud and was a student in the second classe in the yeare aforesaid 1641. He who was the principall instrument to bring the businesse to light and put in an information against them to the Provinciall Pitard was one Michael Brunet then Regent of the fifth Classe in the Colledge of Engoulesme and now a Counseller of the King in the Presidial Court at Rochell otherwise called Monsieur de Ronsay who not able to endure there should be a crime of that nature among persons who make so great a profession of vertue thought himselfe obliged in conscience to reveale it He is a person of too much honour not to beare witnesse to the truth it being supposed that he be jur●dically interrogated and as in the sight of God Monsieur Guithen who was then Regent of the third classe brought me among diverse others to see the charcole and the linnen cloathes which these Coyners had made provision of and disposed under the second classe having to that pu●pose taken up one of the plankes Stephen du N●yer then Rector and Bertrand Valade digg'd up the instruments such as hammers bellowes and other uten●●ils which they had buried under ground the more to conceale the crime which yet God in his justice hath sou●d out a means to bring to light to the confusion of a Body which imposes penances upon its members for speaking at night after Letanies and yet fosters in its bosome Coyners and casters of counterfeit mony In a word though all things seeme to speake and cry out against these ungracious villaines and that the crimes wherewith they are charged be of the highest nature yet are they not only suf●ered to live in France but to raise up their heads above all others even in those great Cities which they defile with their abhominable attempts Whence we may well inferre that there must needs be some other Tribunal some other world some kind of life after this wherein the crimes committed here may receive their punishment and the vertues that are now slighted their recompence otherwise it is to be conceived that it is the fate of vertue to be alwayes in chaines and the Prerogative of Vice to be ever upon the Throne May it please that God who hath the hearts of Kings in his hands to illuminate the understanding of our great Monarch that when he is arrived to Majority he may cleanse the Kingdom of the Lillyes of so many filthinesses and abhominations if our incomparable Queen do not before ease her beloved Son of that trouble CHAP. XII Discovering the Ingratitude and exasperation of the Jesuits against those that had highly obliged them THat famous man who describing the ungratefull and the vindicative said of the former that the good turne made no greater in●pression on their apprehensions then the lightest feather does on the harde●t substance and that indignation was a massy weight of lead in the minds of the latter hath in two words given a most pertinent character of the manners and dispositions of the Jesuits Revenge is a serpent that hath dispersed its venom through this Scciety to such an uncurable degree that when they have received any discourtesy they would gladly eat the flesh suck the marrow and drink the blood of their Enemies if it lay in their power The excesse of their choler does somtimes force them into such furious transportations that they would go into Church-yards were they not deterred by shame to dig out of the ground the c●rkases of those who had any way disobliged them in their life time for so poore a satisfaction as that of exercising their cruelty on rotten and corrupted bodies Do but consider what mercy they have had on the ashes of the Surin's and Pasquier's that had some time incens'd them and whether they have not written bookes to blast their memories after their death out of a reflection on the feare they were in of their writings while they lived Read but the book called Recherches des Recherches or the Inquisition of Inquisitions written by Garassus and you will find that it could proceed from no other dictation then that of Brutality to write to a person departed this world that he was assured of his damnation The calumnies invented by him to defame that great man are so many demonstrations of the implacability of their ●ury insomuch that they seeme to have an execration for all those excellent things which made their adversary so famous and their malice is equally directed against his children and his Friends Should a man but see them crowching at the feet of Bishops nay so far as to take oft their night-caps to kisse their hands he might haply thence imagine that in point of respects they so much exceed all other Ecclesiasticks as their knees are bent lower and their reverences speak more externall humility But when he comes on the other side to consider the oppositions they make to their Regulations the secret persecutions they perpetually raise against them the paines they take and the insinuations and sycophancy they make use of to bring them into an odium in the spirits of Kings he will easily find that they have no other designe then to bring them into the greatest contempt imaginable Was it not the Jesuits that egged on the Regular Orders to unite in a plot to violate the priviledges of the Clergie and to dilate the power and heighten the authority of the Pope to their prejudice Was not F. Sabbatheri Procurator of the Assembly held at La Mercy in Bourdeaux against the Arch-bishop When some Bishop or other makes choice of them to preach in his Cathedrall admits a Rector or some professed man of the Society into his congregation or haply unites some fat benefice to their house that Bishop shall be a person of some worth in their apprehensions and it is not impossible they