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An exact discovery of the mystery of iniquity as it is now in practice amongst the Jesuits and other their emissaries with a particular account of their antichristian and devillish policy / composed in the Italian tongue by one of the Romish religion ; translated into English, and now newly published by Titus Oates.; Instruttione a' prencipi della maniera con la quale si governano li padri giesuiti. English.
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Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.
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1679
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AN EXACT DISCOVERY OF THE Mystery of Iniquity As it is now in practice amongst the JESUITS And other their EMISSARIES With a particular ACCOUNT of their Antichristian and Devillish POLICY Composed in the Italian Tongue by one of the Romish Religion Translated into English and now newly published by Titus Oates D. D. John 8.44 Ye are of your Father the Devil and the Insts of your Father ye will do he was a Murderer from the beginning and abode not in the Truth because there is no Truth in him Licensed and Entred according to Order Reprinted at Dublin M. DC LXXIX Licensed 4 Febr. 1678 9. RO. LESTRANGE To the Right Honourable ANTHONY EARL of SHAFTSBURY Baron ASHLY of WIMBOVRNE St. GILES and Lord COOPER of PAWLET c. My LORD SINCE it hath pleased GOD once more in mercy to remember this poor Nation for discovering to it thâ—se unheard of Villanies and unparallelled Wickedneis that were coutriving against its Peace and Religion I thought it my Duty to let my Countrey to have a Tast of the Nature of that subtil Enemy she hath to deal withal who envyeth her Priviledges and Happiness and your Lordship appearing to stand by the Evidence with all Candor becoming a Person of your Worth and Dignity in order to a full Detection of the Frauds and Designs of these Vermine I thought it my Duty to pray your Patronage and Protection of this little Treatise which I now publish I have nothing my Lord to plead for me but onely the innocency of my intention and question not but your Lordship will appear as you have ever done to oppose this growing interest And truly my Lord this Nation hath reason to bless the Most High God for your Care for her Peace and Establishment in the Profession of that Religion which doth oblige all Subjects to all Loyalty to their Prince and to live in Peace and Love one with another This Treatise spake formerly the Italian Tongue but now it is made to speak English and in it I find such an Account of the Nations adversaries which to my own knowledge they deserve If it be faulty it is because it is somewhat too short of them Now my Lord I humbly conceive your Lordship will pardon that because it was all the Author who was of the Romish Religion could say at that time when he first publisht it This I hope your Honour will accept of thus presented as I found it without the least Alteration I shall submit all to your Lordships Candor therefore hearttily praying for your Lordships Prosperity I humbly take leave to subscribe my selfe 28 Febr. 1679. Your Lordship most Humble and most Obedient Servant TITVSOATES To the READER Courteous Reader THis insuing Discourse I have perused and find it to be an Exact Character of an Old Jesuited Jesuit the Contents of it was their Practice whilst I conversed with them and therefore I am inclined to tell the World as much â— seeing these times in which we live require that every true English man Protestant do understand them To this very end that they may detest all such practices and protest against them And whereas they have endeavoured to deceive the simple hearted of this Nation by fair protences to the propagation of Religion and by specious shews of zeal for the Salvation of Souls our Countreymen may plainly see it is not Vs but Ours they seek if it be Vs it is to destroy us and not to save us witness their Villainous Prastices throughout all Christendom and especially in this our Country ever since the Reformation of the Church of God here with us Reader this is no fained thing the Original Author was an Italian and no doubt but of the Communion of that Abominable VVhore the Mother of all Harlots and therefore we may easily be induced to believe the Contenrs thereof for certainly had not their Practices been notoriously known even to those of their own Communion this Author could not have dad the face to have publisht this Treatise in his own Countrey where Popish Religion is generally practised professed by every man I tellthee Reader when is pleaseth God to give me a little rest from this weighty affair I have now in hand I will give the people of England such an accunt of the Villanies of these Jesuits as will I hope make them and their Votaries to be an abomination to every sober and judicious Protestant and even also to those of their own perswasion I am confident that the Eyes of the Nation are open to see their base Contrivances and Plottings against the King Kingdom and Protestant Religion and by this little Scheme we may see what would be done were they Lords over us And as I commend this Treatise to thy serious consideration Dear Reader so I must also recommend to thee a piece lately set forth intituled The Heart and its right Sovereign And Rome no Mother Church to England in which the Nullity of Rome's Church Ordination is proved By that Judiâ—ious Rerverend Divine Thomas Jones of Oâ—vestry in the County of Salop and sold by Peter Shirly under St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street Both that and this I recommend to thee to give the Nation some satisfaction till God give me oppertunity to do my Countrey that Service as to publish my whole Narrative I shall say no more but beg of God for a â—â—â—sing on all our Hearty endeavours after a more full Discovery of this Mysteâ—y of Iniquity and so Farewel The Bâ—â—â—her in Câ—â—â—â—â— TITUS OAâ—â— An exact Discovery of the Mystery of Iniquity as it is now in Practice amongst the Jesuits c. THat the Religious Order of the Jesuits was at the first planted in the Vineyard of Christ as a Tree which should produce an antidote against the poyson of Heresie and such blossoms of Christian and religious works a by the sweâ—t favour of them sinners might be constrained to bid adiâ—â— to the corruption of sin and to prosecute the sweet smell of Repentance we nâ—ed no clearer dâ—monstration than the Laws and Orders on the which thâ—s plant was grounded by the first Founder thereof Father Ignatiâ—s And surely so long as by those first Fathers that gave it life it was cherished with the dew of charity and cultivated conformable to the invention of the Planter it brought forth two This Exordium will make you know that the Author was a Papist branches the one of love towards God the other towards their Neighbour In so much that it was a worder to conside the plenty of Fruits which it brought forth in the excellent Education of children the saviâ—g of souls and the increase of the Catholick Faith But the Devil who makes use of aâ— good inventions but as a wâ—et-stone grew as eager and cunning to destroy this Work and enterprize as the other to prâ—mote its and took occasion even from the greatness it self of his Religious Order and from that admirable progress which
this their close Artifice by which they thrust themselves into the Affairs of the World with perswasion that it is the only means to archieve that Monarchical Jurisdiction at which they aim they made supplication to Pope Gregory the Thirteenth That for the time to come he would publickly favour their project and representing it to him under the publick Good of the Church they required that he would command all his Legates and Apostolical Nâ—ncio's to take to them every one for his companion and confident some Jesuit by whose counsel he should be governed in all his Actions Fourthly By these cunning carriages and their insight into State-affairs the chief Jesuits have gotten the love of many Princes as well Temporal as Spiritual which Princes they do perswade that they have said and done many things for their good and thereupon have followed two weighty inconveniences First That abusing the friendship and goodness of those Princes they have not cared to displease many private but otherwise rich and Noble Families usurping the wealth of Widows and leaving their Families in extream misery alluring to their Religion and to frequent their Schools the most Noble Spirits who if haply they shall fall out to be unable and unfit for their purpose under some honest pretext they license from their Society but withal lay hold of their Estates of which their Society will needs be invested Heirs In the mean time absolutely excluding the poor from their Schools directly against the Orders of the forenamed Father Ignatius and the intention of those their Patrons who gave them their possessions not that they should serve their own interest but the Christian Common-Wealth The second inconvenience is that these Jesuits cunningly make the world know the friendship and inwardness they retain with Princes setting it forth a little more than indeed it is to the end that they may gain the love of their Ministers and so procure that all men shall recur to them for Favours Thus they publickly brag that they can make Cardinals Nuncio's Lieutenants Governours and other Officers Nay some of them have plainly affirmed that their General could do more than the Pope himself and others have added that it is better to be of that Order which makes Cardinals than to be a Cardinal And thâ—se things they divulge so publickly that there is not any man who familiarly converseth with them to whom they relate not these or such like things Fifthly having laid the ground-work of this their practice in State they pretend a power to raise or ruin whomsoever they please and indeed making use of Religion only for a Cloak whereby they may gain credit they many times attain their ends But when they propound any man unto the Prince for preferment they never make choice of him who is most fit and deserving but rather oppose to such an one when they know he is not partial on their side alwayes advance such persons as make for their interest without any regard whether he be well-affected to the Prince whether meritoriousor fit to undergo that Office to which he is nominated whence there oft ariseth disturbance to the Prince complaints and tumults among the people Sixthly as the master of a Galley when he perceives a good gale fair for his Voyage but with once whistling makes all the Galley slaves fall to their Oares and stretch them before the Vessel so when in the dyers and assemblies which these Fathers continually make by their General and his Assistance in Rome they conclude it fit for their turn that some one person should be promoted to dignity the Father General signifies so much to all those that reside elsewhere and all those with one consent at an instant joyn all their forces to make him attain that honour which they intend him and he should be very ungrateful if afterwards in all Occurences he should not serve the Jesuits with the like zeal that they preferred him And because such a Man nay many such Men for many dependants in this Kind the Jesuits have hold themselves more obliged to the Jesuits than to their Prince of whom they have received their Honour and Greatness therefore they serve the Jesuits with a greater Affection than the Prince himself Thus they delude their Princes who imagining they have got a trusty Servant have only made way for a spy of the Jesuits of whom they often times serve themselves to the damage of that Prince who advanced him I could with manifest examples confirm this my discourse if daily experience and common same were not a sufficient confirmation to it But not to make my self over tedious I will pass to some other things concluding that this happily is the cause why the Jesuits are wont to call their Religion A Grand Monarchy as if they governed all Princes their Ministers at their pleasure And it is not long since that one of the chief of them being publickly to treat with an illustrious Prince in the Name of the society he began with these words full of Aâ—rogancy and grounded upon a conceit of their Monarchy Our society hath always maintained good intelligence with your Grace c. Seventhly these Fathers take great pains to let the world know that all those who are any way in estimation with their Prince have been their favourites and born up by their hands so that by this means they are more Patrons of the Subjects affections than the Prince himself And this is a notable Prejudice unto the Prince as well because no â—eâ—son of State doth comport that Religious persons so ambitious and politick should be so far Patrons of the will of the Ministers that whensoever they please they can cause Treason and Destruction As also that by this means that is by the mediation of the Ministers their Adherents they induce into the Princes Service either for Counsellors or Secretaries some of those Jesuits in Voto of whom I discoursed before And these again procure the Prince to entertain some Jesuit for his Consessor or Preacher And thus all these together do serve as Intelligencers to the Father General to whom they render an exact account of all that passeth in the most secret Councils Whence it proceeds that many times we see Designs prevented and secrets of the greatest importance discovered yet no man can search out the true Author but oft times those are most suspected who are least in Fault Eighthly As by nature Subjects are wont to follow the Inclinations of their Prince so all those as give obedience to their Father-General perceiving that he chiefly Attends to matter of State and by that means endeavours to improve and inrich their Society they also apply themselves that way and making use of their Kindred Friends strive by force to peneâ—râ—te the Hearts of Princes and their most secret Designs only to give notiâ—â— of them either to the Assistance at Rome or to the Father-General by this means to procure them their Favour