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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

had no respect for those Ornaments but furiously laying hold on them who had wrapt themselves therein they dragged away the Archbishop who holding the holy Pix in his hands fell in the crowd and wounded himself in the face So the Prelate remained alone but having five hundred Souldiers left about him to seize his person as soon as he should quit the H. Sacrament In the mean time one of the Souldiers considering the violence used to make them keep him there and that they must on pain of death execute the Governours Orders drew his sword and falling upon it said He had rather dye by his own hands than see such enormities among Christians The Arch-Bishop having continued so long in his pontifical habit found himself so weakned by reason of his great age and that he had taken no food that yielding at last to weariness and necessity and in complyance with the Advice of the wisest of the Fryars who signified to him that if he died in that manner his Conscience would charge him with it as an offence he laid by the Holy Sacrament and was presently carried away out of the City in a Coach by the Sergeant Major and Souldiers and put into a little pitiful bark unprovided of all things without permitting any Christian to give him any nourishment or any of his domesticks to accompany him but was conducted by five Souldiers whom they gave him for his Guard into a poor desart Island where he had not as much as a Cabin for shelter And when in all this time Divine Service was not said in any part of the City by reason of a solem● interdict which all the Fryars observed with the respect and sentiments they were obliged to express the Iesuites only kept their Churches open preached confessed and said Mass there and went to say Mass in the Governours house to whom they administred the Sacraments They took from the Arch-Bishop the Government of the Diocess and gave it another by order of the Judge Conservator and the Iesuites till the Arch-Bishop was re-established which hapned after they had seized all his Goods and sold them by Out-cry even to his Cross to satisfie several fines and pecuniary pains to which they had condemned him The people having with great instance demanded his restoration had it granted but not before the Fathers of the Company had fulfilled their desires by means of the Governour The Arch-Bishop sent two Fryars the one to Rome and the other to Madrid to inform the Pope and his Catholick Majesty of the Enormities committed against him and the excess of his sufferings They arrived accordingly having passed the streights of Magellan in a vessel of the Hereticks but hired and equipped by the Merchants of Manille out of love to their Pastor Not long after these passages the Sergant Major who had taken the Arch-Bishop being carried in a chair for that he was very old the people fell upon him in the place and so buffeted him with their fists that he died without Confession upon the place An Extract of a Letter from Madrid of July 8. 1653. whereby is seen the punishment of this Governour who misused the Arch-Bishop It hapned soon after that his Catholick Majesty having received secret Advice of fourteen Chests from the Indies had in a private Chamber of the Iesuites of Burgos sent secret Orders to the Seneschal of that City to take them out thence He executed his Commission so well that he went directly where they were and having broke open a lock found all the fourteen Chests he demanded of the Fathers an inventory of the Contents who answered That they belonged to Don Sebastian de Corquera Seneschal of Cordona who had been Governour of the Philippines The Seneschal of Burgos drew out the Chests from the places they were in and having opened them found a quantity of stones of very great value This Gentleman had been reputed a Saint but a Jesuitical Saint because he loved them passionately This discovery made way for some others whereby it appeared he had brought great riches from the Indies and occasion was given to call him to an exact account of his administration ADVERTISEMENT The Story of this persecution is related by the Author of the IESVITICAL THEATRE p. 230. where he gives another cause of the Governours Animosity against the Arch-Bishop whereof the Iesuites were Authors For they perswaded the Governour to send to hang a man in the Church-yard of the Augustines The Arch-Bishop not able to endure such prophanation to punish the Governour made use of the Arms of the Church and fulminated censures against him but the Governour also made use of the Arms of his Office as appears by the precedent relation It is easie to Judge sayes the Author of The Iesuitique Theatre that the Iesuites moved the Governour to execute this violence against the Arch-Bishop because the Governour who did nothing in Secular Affairs without the Iesuites Advice and Consent in all probability consulted them in this which concerned Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction which as a Secular Person he was ignorant of 2. Because the Iesuites had on several occasions had very great differences with this Prelate as they have had with the greatest part of the Bishops of the Indies and finding a fair opportunity by the Governours being wholly theirs thought it not fit to let it slip but with their own hands avenged themselves 3. Because all the Superiours and a multitude of Fryars attended the Arch-Bishop and left him not till forced off by violence but there was not one Jesuite with him add hereto the Common Sentiment of all the people in the Philippines The Avarice of the Jesuites in the Pearl-fishing at Cochin for which they are diven away and a curse denounced against the Lake and the Pearls We are now to declare how they were expelled Cochin in the East-Indies this City though the Territory be poor and steril is an Episcopal See and the Inhabitants and all these of the Diocess live on fishing for Pearls which they find in a Lake whereby God in his providence hath given them subsistance The Iesuites heard of this Lake and thought it for their advantage to make themselves Masters thereof to the end they might draw to themselves the whole profit To effect this two of their Fathers came from Goa to Cochin to visit the Bishop an Apostolical man and formerly a bare-foot Fryar of the Order of St. Francis They told him they were moved with compassion to see him alone without any assistant for conversion of Infidels that they were come to bear part of his sufferings and help him to cultivate the souls of those of his Diocess They offered to found a Colledge there provided the Bishop would give them aid and a house ready b●ilt with revenues to maintain five or six Iesuites The Bishoprick is very poor as the place of its residence the Bishop having nothing but what is strictly necessary to maintain him with honour The good

Godliness is hapned to them for saith the Apostle He is proud knowing nothing but doating about questions and strifes of words from whence cometh envy strife evil surmisings perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds who have not the knowledge of the Truth supposing that gain is Godliness 1 Tim. ● 3. The design of this Collection is to make appear that God by a secret order of his Providence hath abandoned the Jesuites to these unhappy Attendants of insi●cerity in Religion and to demonstrate particularly in this That he hath given them up to the two most pernicious enormities which according to the Apostle are the effects of mens infidelity and unwillingnesse to embrace the instructions of Jesus Christ which are To be puft up with pride and to imagine that godlinesse is to be used as a means to enrich themselves For by the extracts we have reported out of the Image of their First Age will appeare on the one side The pride of their hearts and to what a pitch of extravagance their self-conceitednesse hath carried them as that there is not any artifice injustice or violence they impl●y not to enrich themselves by the spoils of all sorts of persons Secular and Religious Soveraign and private They have no cause of complaint that we attribute these disorders to the Society for that though they were onely the faults of those particular persons who committed them they might neverthelesse be justly imputed to the Society as authorizing them all by the doctrine she defends and the impunity the offenders find in her bosome For where are the punishments she inflicted on them who acted such violences and inhumanities against the Nuns of Voltigerode What course hath she taken to repair the damages sustained by so many desolate families ruined by the banquerupt of the Colledge at Sevil. Let any one saith Mariana Chap. 14. have but boldnesse enough what faults soever he be guilty of he remains in the Society if he have but the wit to frame an excuse or any pretence for what he hath committed I passe by gross crimes a great number whereof is winked at under colour of want of sufficient proof or fear to have them noysed and so become publick ●or our Government seems to aim at nothing else but covering of faults like them who rake the ashe● uppermost as if the fire that lies under would not sooner or later send forth some smoke No rigour is exercised but upon those poor wretches who have neither power nor protection whereof there are instances enough others shall commit the greatest mischiefs imaginable and yet no man touch one hair of their head A Provincial or Rector shall turn all upside down violate the Rules and Constitutions of the Order squander away the Estate belonging to their Houses or give them to his Kindred without any punishment after severall years miscarriage but the rendring of his condition better than ever by discharging him of his Office Does any man know a Superior chastised for such excesses as these And afterwards having wished that there were in the Society Rewards provided for the good and Punishments for the vicious he addes 'T is a lamentable thing and permitted by God for our sins that oftentimes we practise the contrary for among us the Good are afflicted yea put to death without cause or for very light reasons because we are assured to find no contradiction nor resistance from them whereof we could produce many deplorable examples and the wicked are upheld because they are feared A conduct capable to provoke God to precipitate the Society into the Abyss of Destruction See how this Author who was a member of the Soiety deplores ●her policy that engages her unhappily to con●ive at the greatest enormities of the persons of whom she consists And how farre she is answerable for their greatest extravagancies by cherishing and maintaining them and making it her Choyce to tolerate in them all sorts of Corruptions rather than discover to the World any thing that may induce the people to believe the Society is composed of any but Saints It were easie to prove that the Greatest part of the Maxims of their Moralls are grounded on nothing else but the libertinage of the members whose justification the Society undertakes When one of the Company had seduced his Penitent and made use of pretended Revelations to cover under the name of marriage his impurities and sacriledge Another of the Society to justifie the Crime fails not to teach That a Fryar profest may marry upon a probable Revelation If one publish Calumnies against the most innocent persons because he imagines they did the Society prejudice Another will teach That a Fryar may not only destroy the reputation but slay the person of any he foresees may annoy the Glory of his Order Lastly if some be so wicked as to inspire the Subjects of best Princes with designs against their Lives and the quiet of their Estates Others will compose intire Volumes to justifie those Assassines and Murtherers and the Society will Canonize them for Saints and Register them in the Catalogue of Martyrs especially if they be of her Children May it not be truly said then that the Members of the Society commit not any disorder that may not justly be imputed to the Society it self But 't is not our purpose in this Collection where we shall report nothing but what hath been done by whole Houses and intire Provinces and the Society it self appeared highly in defence of So that we shall omit a great number of stories whereof we have most ample and Authentick Memoirs in our hands with the Names and Surnames of the Persons the Houses the Provinces and the Circumstances of their Crimes specified so particularly that there cannot remain the least doubt of the truth of the facts alleadged which yet shall one day see light if these Fathers force us to publish there is not any enormity in the Catalogue of Vices which is not practised amongst them that they abuse their Missions into strange Countreys to lay snares for the Chastity of the Inhabitants their Conversation the Word of God and surintendence of Monasteries to corrupt Virgins consecrate to God Mens Daughters and Wives the Sacrament of Penance to pervert mens Consciences and pollute their Colledges and Congregations by Enormities not to be named There is evidence sufficient for this in the book F. Jarrige the Jesuite of Rochell published against them wherein the matters of fact are set forth with all their particular circumstances that not to believe them were to offer violence to our senses 'T is true the Book was published during his Apostacy but 't is as remarkable that after his return to the Church of Rome and his publishing at Antwerp in the Jesuites Colledge the causes of his return and discoursing at large of that Book he charges himself with too much heat in the writing but doth not particularly disavow any one of those scandalous stories he reported therein This

the Offerings and Liberalities of the people upon the occasion of the Great Miracles wrought by the Martyr Bishop of Soissons when those Monks in their return from Pilgrimage to Rome arrived at Ruffach enriched with his Reliques by hte Gift of the Abbot of St. Potentience of the same Order in the City of Rome so that in a short time they built that Priory which continued alwayes in the possession of the Monks and Abbot of Chesy though the Iesuites have not omitted any artifice from the beginning of their institution to make themselves masters thereof contrary to the Bulls of the Popes Lucius and Alexander 3 d who excommunicated all those that should attempt any thing concerning the said Priory in prejudice to the rights of the said Abbot and Monks For after the year 1578. they procured and obtained from time to time Bulls upon Bulls but so voyd and null they durst not produce them And in 1618. they huddled up all the nullities and obreptions of the precedent Bulls into one suggested by them to have been obtained for the benefit of the Colledge of Selestat founded some 3024. years before wher●in they set forth contrary to the truth that it was a simple Priory without a Convent and aliened long since from the said Order with the usual formalities and consent of all parties interessed In pursuance of this Bull these Fathers having by strange precipitation and extraordinary haste outed the Prior Nicolas Verdot Monk of Chesy with unheard of vexations possessed themselves timely of the said Priory in 1618. without any form of Justice and 18 years before the time prescribed by the pretended Bull that is before it became void by the death or cession of the said Prior who was Canonically possessed of it ever since 1610. and never juridically deprived thereof Letters gained by surprize from the King a●d ● Mandamus from the Bishop of Strasbourg The dependance of the three Priories This violent intru●ion notwithstanding the Oppositions complaints Protestations and pursuits of the said Prior with the interposition of the Authority of the Crown of France endured till God himself brought the remedy by a change of the State in 1634. when the Iesuits upon the arrival of the French Armies having quitted the Priory the said Prior was re-established by his Majesties Authority and dyed in peaceable possession thereof in 1636. whereupon Iames Boescot of the Order of St. Dennis succe●ded him and possessed it till 1644. though the Iesuites in 1638. had obtained Letters Patents from the said King in Confirmation of their right if any they had which they got by surprize upon false suggestions that the said Priory ever since 1578. had been Canonically united to the Colledge of Selestat which had not been founded before 1615 and that the said Verdot of Chesy whom death had deprived of power to defend his Cause had been an usurper Intruder and illegally possessed of the said Priory as if he had been a Lutheran seized of it by main force But the Letters Patents were of no use to the Iesuites for Boescot seeing that the continuance of the Warre in Germany made the place not habitable in the year 1644 resigned the said Priory into the hands of the Abbot of Chesy who bestowed it on Paul William a Fryer of the strict Observance of the Congregation on of S. Vanne who by the Kings Order took possession thereof and peaceably enjoyed it with those of his Order till the 2 d of Iune 1651. on which day in pursuance of a Mandamus issued from Archduke Leopold Bishop and Lord of Strasbourg under pretence of executing some Articles of the Treaty of peace but really in breach thereof the Arch-dukes Officers re-established there some Iesuites strangers and by force and violence outed the said Prior and his Fryers of the reformed Order of St. Francis notwithstanding all their oppositions Appeals and Protestations of force which the said Officers refused to enter of Record among the Acts of their Courts though it was afterwards granted them upon renewing their suit at Brisac Now these three Priories depending as to their spiritualty and right of Collation upon the Abbyes of Chesy and Cluny have ever been subject and answerable for their temporaltyes to the Archdukes Chamber of Iustice of Ensi●heim belonging to the house of Austria though this of St. Valentine be situate in the Territories of the Bishop of Strasbourg and that by the Treaty of Munster in 1648. all the rights of the House of Austria in the higher and lower Alsatia were granted in Soveraignty to the Crown of France and consequently the said Priory being at present under the Jurisdiction of the most Christian King and his Justice to whom alone belongs the cognizance thereof and the maintenance of the said Prior in his possession it followes that the intrusion of the said Iesuites strangers into the place of the said Prior outed without cause or lawfull Authority in 1651. is an unjust attempt against the tenor of the said Treaty of peace Nor is the Kings interest less engaged for keeping the two other Priories of St. Iames and St. Morand which the Iesuites would have taken away from the Order of Cluny and consequently from France to alien them to perpet●ity and unite them to the Colledges of strangers to the great prejudice of his Majesties Subjects and the order of St. Benedict False suggestions to pope Gregory XIII to obtain a Bull of Vnion of the said Priory False Charge of Crimes on the Prior. That it may the better appear what artific●s the said Fathers make use of for want of right to usurp the said Priories observe that in 1578. Iohn Sancey being Prior of that of St. Valentin they obtained from Popoe Gregory xiii by the procurement and Authority of Iohn Bishop of Strasbourg a Bull of Union of the said Priory for founding a Colledge in the Town of Molsheim and that they should enjoy it upon the first vacancy upon the false suggestion that it was a Priory only without a Convent without declaring that it depended on France and the Abby of Chesy without an information Super commodo incommodo of the convenience and inconvenience which according to Custome ought regularly to have been first exhibited without the consent of the Prior or his Convent the Abbot of Chesy the Bishop of the Diocese or of the King though all interessed partyes These Iesuites being otherwise sufficiently founded at Molsh●im not knowing how to betake themselves to execute their Bull so full of nullities and void Clauses left it dormant without the least mention 31 years in which time two vacancies incurred by the decease of Sancey in 1589. and of Adrian Verd●t his Successor in 1598. which they let pass without stirring at all or giving the least notice or hint of their pretensions So that the said Bullby this means lay superannuate and useless At last in 1609. they pitched on an expedient very disagreeable to the Charity of Christians