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B03889	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. Discourse of the reasons why the Jesuits are so generally hated.; Well-wisher to the Jesuits. Discovery of the Society in relation to their politicks.	1658 (1658)	Wing J488A; ESTC R178961	168,323	312

hands of the Jesuits In the mean time let us take their proceeding into examination and consider the imprudences and poore occasions they are put to therein CHAP. V. Discovering the cheats and evasions of the Iesuits in their prosecution WHen Ignatius said in the Letter he writ to the Monkes of his Order in Portugall that it was his desire that Obedience should be the ear-mark whereby the true children of the Society should be distinguished from others he had said more truly according to their Institution and ordinary practise if he had express'd himself thus it is my desire that cheats and circumventions should be the undeniable characters whereby you might be known to be right Jesuits For he that shall consider their equivocations in matter of Justice their ambiguous expressions in conversation and dealings with men the mentall reservations and restrictions which they have introduced into Morall Divinity to the great disadvantage of Truth their crafty designes to cajoll the simple in their Shriving-seats and their visits purposely to get a claw into their Estates by surreptitious donations must needs conclude that a mischievous craftinesse is the Soule which informs and gives motion to that vast Body which acts not either in things relating to Morality or civill affaires but by dissimulation and complyances To demonstrate this truth I have instances enough to make a volume but the businesse now in agitation is to shew their foule practise in their indictment against me Beaufes through whose mouth the Provincial and the Consultors cast up their choler and indignation furnishes me with an argument that cannot be answered Courteous Reader says he in the beginning of his Book you are desir'd to take notice that the prosecution against Peter Jarrigius by way of indictment is not carryed on either upon any request of the Reverend Fathers of the Society of Jesus or for any crime committed by him while he was of their Society he is onely charged with Sacriledges committed by him since his profession of the Religion pretendedly reformed And a little lower the charge they have hitherto had against Monsieur Vincent is purely civill to oblige him to produce before Monsieur the Lieutenant Generall of this City the originall copy of the book he hath published to be compared with the Letters whereby Jarrigius himself hath refuted the Impostures scattered abroad under his name And a little lower The Consistory was obliged to bring into Court those pieces which the Fathers of the Society required especially the Act of Novemb. 24. 1647. Here I desire the Reader to take notice that these Monasticall Fiends demand and that with importunity that the Act of November 24 should bee brought before the Judge and he shall find anon wherefore and to what end they desire it Lastly he saies in the conclusion of his Advertisement that the Scribes Viau and L' Erpiniere have declared that the writing and Seale of the Act of Profession of Peter Jarrigius of Novemb. 24 represented by M. Gasper Le Roy Register agreed with the writing and subscription of the beforementioned Letters Of all men Lyers ought to pray for good memories This man hath one that is so treacherous that ere he come to the midst of a discourse that takes up but a small page he destroyes what he had affirmed in the beginning of it The cheat is discovered ere the word is out of his mouth as a pick-pocket taken in the midst of the market-place with the purse in his hand I feare me the man fondly imagines that the French who will be guilty of so much curiosity as to read his book are overgrowne with such a sottish credulity that he can perswade them that they do not see what 's before their eyes He impudently affirmes that they are not my prosecutors in that indictment and two periods after he acknowledges that it was by their means the Consistory was forced to produce in Court the act of November 24. which they thought a sufficient ground whereupon to put in an endictment against me When they have thrown the stone before all the world they withdrew the hand and then confidently affirme both by word and writing that they did it not For any horrid thing such as this may be the only way is to deny it But is it possible the Inhabitants of Rochell should read this abominable lie in the very Frontispiece of the advertisement to the Reader without conceiving an indignation against the Impostor who must needs be thought to reproach the weaknesse of their understanding when he denies to their faces what they have seen with their eies Methinks it might have been enough for James Beaufes to cleare himselfe for his own part and to call for a basin of water as Pilate did and to wash hands before the people saying I am innocent as to the blood of this just person which if he had done I am confident the people of Rochell would not have cryed out His blood be upon us and upon our children No it is a priviledge proper only to the Jesuits to procure the death not only of an inconsiderable person such as I may be but that of great Princes and most Christian Kings and to say after all we have not done any such thing I referre my self to any man whether this be not to lie diabolically or rather Jesuitically The Sermons they have preached convince them the bookes they have written betray their malice and their both private and publick sollicitations generally known all over Rochell discover their violence against me and yet they are so insensibly impudent as to affirme nay were it requisite they would sweare as Jesuits that they are not my prosecutors in this businesse Let us divert our selves so far as to snap these notorious Lyers in their Sycophancy and elusions What should be the meaning of those violent and furious invectives wherein Beaufes and others were publickly employed to the great scandall of the people all the insinuations of wit and Rhetoricks and all to prove during the space of four whole months that I was guilty of sacriledge and consequently of death To what end was that Scandalous pamphlet scattered up and down under the title of The Impieties and Sacriledges of Peter Jarrigius Out of what designe was it that there was such importunity used to oblige the Consistory to bring into Court the act of the 24th of November it being the onely thing whereon they thought an enditement might be justly grounded against me as to Sacriledge In a word what 's to be inferr'd from so many consultations So many combinations against me so many designs upon me so many persons sent to seize my person so many falsities imposed upon me Must it not needs argue an absolute losse of judgement not to perceive that they are so far from being simply the adversaries that seeke my life but the witnesses that accuse me and the Advocates that plead against me in as many places as they can command pulpits in

a litle country lad off her pitch went into a vineyard cut off her haire put up her maid's cloa●hs into a pacquet retaining the upper part for a wascot put on the boyes cloaths and getting a bundle of litle walking sticks pretended t● bring them to that Jesuit who it seems had a curiosity by way of recreation to marke them in severall places with a hot iron He who wandred about the Church in expectation of her coming according to the appointment between them came immediately to entertaine her and receiving her as the servant of a Country man that was wont to bring him sticks brought her without any danger into the Chamber What Rhetorick were able to expresse the mutuall satisfaction of this amorous couple to find themselves so fortunate in so presumptuous an attempt Their passion which till then had been much abated by obstacles and difficulties broke forth now like an impetuous torrent that hath overturned the bankes that opposed its violence and the reciprocall expressions of kindnesse that past between them were proportionable to the former hazards they had run through Yet were not their Loves like those subterranean Rivers which slide silently and are out of the sight of men 'T is decreed that women should not keep any thing secret no not their owne shame and abhominations This wench went and made her confession to Nathaniel Sichard a Jesuit and gave him an exact account even to the least circumstances of all the actions that had passed between the four walls of that Chamber nay out of an excesse of stupidity or malice gave ●●m liberty as he alledged for that I appeale to ●●mselfe to make what advantage he thought fit of 〈◊〉 These scrupulous Hypocrites whose brasen con●●iences will not stretch to the least discovery of those ●esignes which are communicated to them in Confes●●ons tending to the murthering of Kings make ●o difficulty to betray the secret of the same con●●ssion to ruine their Brethren especially if they be 〈◊〉 a more eminent quality and greater abilities as ●is man was Pitard who was not very backward 〈◊〉 to amorous inclinations when during the time 〈◊〉 his residence at Rochoir he got a Gentlewoman to ●●me every night to his Chamber to dance had out 〈◊〉 prudence forborne to take any notice of the mis●emeanour which this unadvised Confessour had re●●aled to him but the wench missng her enjoyments ●●th Petiot who had been sent to accompany the ●●shop of Xainstes in his visit began to talk very loud ●●d had a second time declared in Confession to Peter ●●omas that she had lived eight daies within the Pro●●sed House with that Preacher and gave out that ●ee would acquaint the Bishop of Bazas with the ●●sinesse if they gave her not the summe of mony ●●ich he had promised her when he tempted her to ●●ughtinesse This second Confessor kept the secret of auricular ●●●fession no better then the former for he came to ●●ancis Labrousse and my self who were then his Col●●gues in the Cardinal-Mission to aske our advice how 〈◊〉 should be have himself in a businesse that was likely 〈◊〉 derogate so much from the reputation of the Society ●ur advice was that it were requisite the wench ●lated by way of ordinary discourse what she had ●●d before under the secret of Confession otherwise 〈◊〉 were to commit one evill by discovering another ●he wench upon his perswasion did it and declared ●●e businesse to me with so much conviction and in●●nuity that I could not make the least doubt but that shee had been in that Chamber Shee gave an exa●● account through what Galleries she had passed to●● how many stories there were to go up into it wh●● kind of closet there was within it how the be●● stood what stuffe and what colour the furniture wa● of what chaires and stooles were there what pictures nay what the length of the sheets what she did eat what drink what Fathers came to visit her beloved where she hid her self while they stay'd in her shepheard 's habit what slights and shifts the crafty Jesuit was forc'd to make use of to carry them elsewhere c. In a word of all those that have been acquai●ted with this story I have had the most exact relatio● of it and though I was at liberty to reveale it to th● Superiours yet did I smother it not without muc● trouble in conscience to see so many impious wretche● betray a double secret viz. that of nature and that o● Confession meerly to seeme Hypocritically zealous and observant of an Institution prejudiciall to publick Fidelity What I did then out of prudence a● being a Jesuit I now being none think it no lesse 〈◊〉 declare This wench was a servant in Carnan-street i● Bourdeaux borne in Reole in Bazadois she was fist● to a poor woman that had a blind man to her husband and lives neere the Church of St. Michael at Reole and when we were upon the Mission at the same tim● that she threatned Peter Thomas so much to divulg● these villanies she was in service with the Regent of th● place From this short rel●tion the world may easily judg● whether that house dedicated to Saint Francis Xaveriu● which these Hypocrites of the Society by an Anton●matick expression call The holy House does not r●ther deserve the name of the most eminent Brothell House in the City No doubt but it will be though● such by those that shall call to mind what I have sai● before of Rousseau who was the superiour of it o● Olive who had some relation thereto when he playe● ●hose noble prankes at Port-Saint Mary and of Peter Guales who was one of the most famous Confessors ●here May it be the pleasure of God out of his great mercy to open the eyes and apprehensions of the Magistrates of Bourdeaux who by the multitude of ●heir Charities entertaine so many Religious Satyres ●n the heart of their City to take notice of these ●hings Had I not confin'd my selfe to give an account only of those things that happened in Guienne I might ●elate the story of that Rector of Languedoc who ●ooke in a poore blind woman that was begging an ●almes at the gate kept her secretly in his Chamber for three months together till at last being cloy'd with ●er he put her into an Hospitall with great promises to come and visit her and to do great things for her The wench discontented at this discovered the villany and to prove it to one of the Congregation where she then was she said to him You came to give him a visit such a day and spoke to him of such and such a thing I was then in his closet But I shall observe the limits I have prescribed to my self CHAP. IX A fifth Enditement of the lascivious Villanies committed by the Jesuits in their Itinerancies and Country-Houses GReat fires have many times their beginning from the miscarriage of a single spark A sparke begets a flame a flame

ye● he hath not since discovered any more circumspection insomuch that the Superiours are forc'd to keep him like a mangie sheep at a distance from all the rest and call him not from his lurking hole at Ruffec ca● of any other designe then to vent his Sa●yricall humour against our Religion in the present conjuncture of Affaires I intend to give the world a more particular character of this man in Latine but in the mean time I conceive thus much enough to discover the qualifications of this Preacher who for some dayes past hath made such a hue and cry after the Sacrilegious person It may haply be further urged by some who ●ee not very much at a distance that while I give an ●ccount of the proceedings of the Jesuits in order to ●he cutting off of this putrifi'd member I justifie the ●ody I desire him that is troubled with any such ima●ination to consider that the Common wealth of Sa●an hath its policy and that this maxime of circum●pect Stallions Si non castè saltem cautè that is to say ●f not chastly at least craftily and cautiously is one of the ●ases of the Politicks of these Monkes And accor●ingly he may take it further into his thoughts that ●●nce James Beaufés though found guilty of many late ●nd ancient impurities doth neverthelesse continue in ●he Society it is not true that their Order like the ●ea disburthens it self of what ever stinks and is cor●upted as they preach and pretend This discove●y which I thought my self obliged to make premi●ed I proceed to my vindication and pursue my ac●user as close as I can CHAP. IV. Giving an account of the proceedings of the Jesuits against me HE that does but simply cast his eyes on what Beaufes hath set forth cannot but make an immediate discovery of the malice of my adversaries and ●he palpable blindnesse into which the insatiable de●●re of revenge hath precipitated them The Jesuits ●stonished at the change I had made in matter of Re●igion and surprised at the course I had taken to get ●ut from among them presently took a resolution not ●o call me back again in a Christian way and according ●o the obligations of the new Adam but out of a Jesuiticall kind of charity to conspire my destruction Whether the Gospel which they pretend to preach justifies these violent attempts and bloody prosecutions I appeale to the words of it and the example of Jesus of whose Society they affirme themselves to be Though I am now at the distance of three hundred Leagues from my dear Countrey yet am I not ignorant that my Country men of both the one and the other Religion are sufficiently satisfied that these implacable enemies of mine had no sooner heard of the first news of my conversion by the Letters which I had left with a certain friend but they breathed nothing but blood and death and spoke of nothing lesse then fire and faggots I cannot but here entreat the Reader to make a more particular reflection on this kind of proceedings as such as should make no small impression on the spirit of any honest man When any one of the other Orders though with more noise and stirre renounces the Romane Religion to come over to us his Superiours much more kind and more morally vertuous then those that sometimes were mine imagining according to their erroneous maximes that their dear child is lost fly to the Altars implore the assistances of Heaven by their prayers runne up and downe like good shepheards to finde out their sheep and if need be bring it home upon their shoulders Now let it be considered whether the Superiours of the Jesuits have taken any such course and let their cruelty be measured by the mildnesse and courtesie of the others The first act of counsell which prest among those mischievous Priests and Pharisees against me was not that they should offer up the least addresse to God for my return and repentance but Rousseau the Provinciall the chief among these wicked men pronounced as another Caiphas that it was expedient one man should dye for the people According to which sentence like so many implacable Jewes not taking any care for the meanes whereby I might be raised out of the abysse into which they thought me fallen they made it their main businesse to find out inventions to dispatch me out of the world Taking it therefore as granted that the designe of so great a change cannot be begun and perfected in a day and that I must needs have dissembled my intention for some time since that I was forced to live after their way who what horrid crime soever they may have committed or what great mischief soever they may be hatching cannot without some imputation of scandall be exempted from saying Masse every day they presently imagined more out of malice then prudence that it was the most advantageous breach they could have to set upon me with all their interest Their first businesse accordingly was to make their advantages of the publication of the severall acts which the Overseers of our Religion had out of their zeale thought fit to publish and to compare that writing of mine wherein I had intreated those of my party to afford me their assistance to the end that I might make publick profession of my beliefe according to the liberty which the Kings Edicts gave me so to do with the date of the Letters which I had written to the Rector and Provinciall Having thereby found that I had dissembled my intention for some dayes that is to say done in relation to the Ecclesiasticall functions that out of prudence and discretion which they with cauterized consciences alwayes do when they undermine Bishops and betray States for no consideration of that or any other nature can dispense with them for saying Masse they immediately raise a hue and cry after the Sacrilegious person the Prophaner of holy things put in a charge against me and to compasse my death would have a pretended Sacriledge of a secret become a publick one and that a writing given privately to a particular person should passe for a publick and solemne profession The charge lyes now before the Judges whatever the issue may be it will turn to my glory If by their powerfulnesse and bloody prosecutions I am condemn'd I shall be a Confessor of Jesus Christ which is the greatest glory that good Christian can aime at if by the diligent discussion of the businesse I am cleared the world will be accordingly sensible of the malice and injustice of my accusers What ever may be the result I cannot but hope that God who rais'd up Daniel to vindicate the innocent Susanna from the crime layd to her charge by two lustfull Elders will raise up some charitable maintainer of my Cause who shall make my party goods and that the same God who delivered Lot from amongst the Sodomites and from the flames of fire will also deliver me out of the