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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36130	A discovery of the Society in relation to their politicks written originally by a well-wisher to the Jesuits.	Well-wisher to the Jesuits.	1658 (1658)	Wing D1659; ESTC R5361	16,095	29

an Alembick a man may extract such an ointment as shall have the Vertue to heal a mortall wound and as from several blossomes Bees draw that which afterwords becomes honey so these Jesuits from the infallible account which they have of all Princes affaires and of all the emergencies of every State do by the power of their discourse extract from them what makes for their own advantage which is in some measure a remedy for their insatiable avarice and ambition And they are excellent Masters in a certain Art unknown to others whereby they effect their designes equally from other mens either good or ill but more often from their misfortunes then happinesse Nor is it unusuall with them to ensnare the unwary Prince into whose secrets they have dived proposing to him that they have in their hands the onely excellent means to make him master of his desires But when by these pretences they have made their advantages of him if it do but come into their imagination that the spreading greatnesse of that Prince may one day prove prejudiciall to them they do as Lawyers in their causes prolong the successe of the businesse what lyes in their power till at last with strange juggling and an imperceptible kind of Legerdemaine they utterly ruine those designes to which they had given birth The Ligue of France treated and concluded by them they not long after basely renounc'd all medling with when they saw things prosper on the Kings side and England so often promised by them to the Spanyards yet in such manner performed so confirms the present discourse that there needs no further proof Tenthly from what hath been already alledged it necessarily follows that the Jesuits have no sincere affection towards any Prince whatsoever either temporall or spirituall but onely comply with them so farre as stands with their own convenience and advantage Nay it may be yet further inferr'd that no Prince much lesse any Prelates of an inferiour degree can make any effectuall use of them because they seem at the same time to be equally affected to all complying with the French as if they were French with the Spanyards as if they were Spanyards and so with all others as the occasion requires from all which the onely rule of their Chymistry is to exact their own profit and accommodation They never regard the prejudice of one more then another and thence it comes that those enterprises wherein they have intermedled have seldome succeeded well because they are no further embarqu'd therein then their own interest advises them And as to this particular the artifices they use are notorious some of them pretending great inclinations for the prosperity of France others of Spain others of the Empire and others of some other Princes of whom they desire to be favoured And if any of these Princes be desirous to make use of some Jesuit whom he imagines to be very much his Friend he immediately acquaints the F. Generall by Letter with the businesse which he hath to treat and expects his Answer together with order what he shall do and suitably to the commands he receives he proceeds in his affair Never regarding whether that Order of the Generall be conformable to the intention of the Prince who hath entrusted him with the management of that businesse But so the Society be served and comply'd with he matters not what disservice it may be to the Prince To this may be added that the Jesuits understanding the severall interests of all Princes and being acquainted with all things daily treated in secret Councels those who pretend an inclination for France propound to the King and his principall Ministers certain Memorialls of State and important considerations sent to them from their politick Fathers at Rome On the other side those who pretend to hold with the Crown of Spain do just the same with them and so with the rest From which carriage of theirs ariseth this mischief that it causes such distrusts in the hearts of Christian Princes that they cannot credit one the other which is a great hindrance to the publick peace and the universall wellfare of Christendome Besides this diffidence of theirs is that which makes it so difficult a thing to conclude a league against the common enemy and the precious enjoyments of peace to be of so little value among Princes Furthermore with these circumventing devices though they have so opened the eyes of the world and so sharpened mens wits in matter of State that they are notorious to all yet even at this very day to the great prejudice of the Church they are wholly taken up with matters of policy and ballance all their actions according to their worldly and selfish concernments But that these Jesuiticall Mysteries and Stratagems may be made yet more manifest I cannot here conceale the means whereby they inveigle Princes to their party There are some years now past since one of these Fathers called Father Parsons the Assistant of England wrote a book against the succession of the King of Scotland to the crown of England And another Father of the same Society called Crittonius with some others in a Book which they wrote defended the Title of the King of Scotland opposing the opinion of Father Parsons and pretending to be at difference among themselves But the truth was that all was cunningly contriv'd and carryed on by the command of their Father Generall onely out of this design that whosoever should succeed in the Kingdome of England they might have an excellent argument to work in him a great good opinion of their Society and so as much as may be make their advantages of him What more pertinent example can we desire to shew that Princes and their interests are the objects of all Jesuiticall actions and determinations and consequently to make good their own assertion That their Society is a grand Monarchy Again that this truth may also be made manifest That the Jesuits regard not whether they please or displease any Prince when their own commedity lyes at the stake though the experience of infinite things past make it as clear as the Sun yet the particular instance I shall now adde wil make it somewhat the more conspicuous There is not any person in the world whom they are more bound to serve or indeed for whom they themselves pretend greater submission then the Bishop of Rome were it not for other particular reasons but out of a consideration only of the solemn vow they make to obey him Yet when Pius Quintus would have brought in something of reformation amongst these Fathers by reducing them to a performance of their duty in the Quire they submissively refused to obey him as conceiving it a notorious prejudice to their Society to be reduced to any thing suitable to the practise of other Monkes And for those few among them that conscientiously did comply with the Popes pleasure they were ever afterwards called by way of derision Quintini and made

the more safety be employ'd out of consitation that they attend nothing more then the cultivation of souls and the Government of their monasteries Thirdly which is a greater discovery then hath been made yet the world is to take notice that there are four sorts or degrees of Jesuits The first degree is compos'd of a number of secular persons of both sexes that are taken or admitted to be of the Society living accordingly under a certain obedience which themselves call an implicite Obedience These are guided in all their actions by the advice of the Jesuits resigning themselves in all things absolutely to their conduct Those that are admitted to this degree are for the most part Gentlemen and Gentlewomen rich Widows wealthy Citizens and Merchants which like a Plantation in the Indies bring in to the Jesuits a very vast revenue of Gold and Silver Of this kind are those Women who in Italy are called Chettine who are by the subtill perswasions of the Jesuits induced to forsake the world when in the mean time they take a care to disburthen them of their Jewels apparrell and ornaments houshold stoffe and in a word if there be any thing of their estates of great value The second degree consists of men alone and that cheequer'd as well with Priests as Laywen yet such as live wholly after a secular way being not oblig'd to a regular life These are a sort of people who by the mediation and recommendations of the Jesuits c●eep into Pensions Abbeys Benefices and other revenues but they vow to put on the habit of the Society when ever it shall please the Father General to require it of them for which reason they are called Jesuits in Voto and of the labours of these men the Jesuits make no small advantages in order to the erection and settlement of their Monarchy For they maintain in all Kingdoms and Provinces in all Princes Courts Palaces of Great-men such of this degree 〈◊〉 they know how to make use of as shall be further discovered in the seventh point of this discourse The third sort of Jesuits are these who are resident in Monasteries These are either Priests Clerks or Converts who may at the pleasure of the Father General be dispens'd with as to any thing relating to their Prosession though of themselves they have no power to leave it And these being such as have no Office of importance in the Community do for the most part simply obey in any thing they are put upon by the Superiors The fourth sort is that of Politick Jesuits to whom is committed the management of the Affairs of Religion and the regulation of the Society And these are they who being tempted by the Devill with the same temptation that Christ had in the Gospel viz. All these things will I give thee have taken the Tempter at his word Upon which account it is that they so much endeavour to reduce their Society to an absolute Monarchy and to place the head thereof at Rome the centre where all the principall affairs of the Christian world meet There constantly resideth the grand Monarch of these Politicians their Father General with a great number of others of the same Institution who having receiv'd information from their Spies of all such weighty and important businesses as are to be canvass'd in the Court of Rome they presently call a Councell and having in the first place taken order to secure their own interests every one in particular makes it his businesse to go their circuit through the Courts of Cardinals Prelates and Ambassadours Their businesse with these is cunningly to shist their discourse to something relating to the businesse then in hand or shortly to come upon the stage representing it to them after what manner they please so disguising it as 〈◊〉 m●st for their interest so far as if need be to sh●● black in stead of white And whereas the first represent ●ons of a businesse made by men pretending to sincerity and the strictnesse of a Religious life cannot but make the more remarkable in pression in the mind of him that they are addrest to the consequence is that Affaires of very great importance treated by the Ambassadors of Princes and other grave persons in the Court of Rome have not carried on with the successe expested by the Princes therein concern'd meerly through the sycophancy of the Jesuits who by their adulterate relations had so shuffled things that there was but little credit left for what might be alledged by the Ambassadors and other Agents employ'd therein The same tricks they play the Prelates of Rome they also put upon other Princes either by themselves or by the means of their Pensionary Jesuits out of Rome So that it may well be concluded that the greatest part of what is done all over the Christian world passes through the hands of the Jesuits and those only take effect against which they make no opposition Stupendious and inexpressible are the artifices and insinuations they make use of in this kind which though it is impossible for me to decypher yet may it not haply be so obscure to those Princes who shall seriously observe the slight Character I have here given of them For if they do they presently reflect on the things that are past and as they must needs be more and more convinc'd of the truth of my discourse the more they call to mind with what Art things have been handled so will it still further them in the discovery of what seem'd so strange and marvellous to them Nay not content with this close artifice whereby they insensibly thrust themselves into the Affaires of the world out of a confidence that it is the only means to attain that Monarchicall Superintendency at which they aime they were so insolent as to petition Pope Gregory XIII That for the time to come he would publickly countenance their Project And thence taking occasion to commend it to him under pretence of the publick good of the Church they required that he would command all his Legates and Apostolicall Nuncio's to take to them every one for his Companion and confident some Jesuite by whose Counsell he should be governed in all his actions Fourthly by these crafty insinuations and their infight into Affairs of publick concernment the most eminent among the Jesuits have gain'd the love of many Princes as well Temporall as Spirituall whom they have the confidence to perswade that they have said and done many things for their advantage and this proceeding of theirs is the Damme of two very considerable inconveniences The first is that abusing the favour and friendship which the Princes had for them they have made no difficulty to disgust many private though otherwise rich and Noble Families usurping the wealth of Widowes though with the exposing of their Retinue and Relations to extreme misery enticing to embrace their Institution and to frequent their Schools persons of the noblest and most hopefull Inclination who