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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

peremptory doctrine of Christ that the same man cannot both serve God and Mammon How they at the same time serve both God and Mammon that is seek the Kingdome of God and have his thoughts taken up with the getting of mony Ye cannot saith the Apostle serve God and Mammon Be not over-carefull as to your soule what ye shall eat nor yet as to your body what ye shall put on for these things do the Gentiles seek after But seek ye the Kingdome of God and the righteousness thereof Thus could neither the Apostles themselves nor can the Pope who have succeeded them seek both the Kingdome of God and mony for as our Saviour saith he who loves and bears with the one must needs hate and despise the other much less is it in the power of the Pope to favour the Jesuits with such a priviledge as that of prosecuting several things at the same time Let therefore the Jesuits take it into consideration who profess themselves but to be Janus's at least dissemble not this earnestness and pursuance of things incompatible how they can avoid incurring the deserved hatred not only of Hereticks but even of Catholicks themselves For my part it is many years since I took very much offence at their over-curiosity when I found certain young men sons to some of my friends whom I had brought to Rome to study in the Jesuits Colledge to have been very strictly examined in private about all things relating to their friends estates and fortunes For when I imagined that the Prefect of studies had taken them aside to make triall of their proficiency in learning The examination of the young men upon their first admission to the Jesuits schools they were lock'd into a certain Chamber where the Jesuit coming to them took out a great Book such as may be those of stewards Accounts and having put many Interrogatories to them writ their Answers very carefully into the said Book The Questions put to them were much to this effect what their names were what their age what Schools they had been at before who were their Parents what age they were of what estates they had whether they had any real estates and if lands where situated what kindred and alliances they had and whether they expected any estate might fall to them upon their death or otherwise whether they had any sisters whether married unmarried or marriageable and if married to whom When die young men upon their return home again gave me an account of these things I would not be thought so stupid and inconsiderate as not to apprehend what advantages the Jesuits might make of those voluminous examinations The advantages they make of the said examinations For when the Colledges came to be supplied and that the young men were to be encouraged that they would Eandem Ire viam pergant eidem incumbere Sectae There would be little difficulty in the choice of such as should be admitted For ther 's no more to be done then to consult the Books of Examinations where they finde it faithfully recorded who are the most rich who come from the best friends and accordingly who to be ensnared into the society applying to themselves that expression of Terence In Illis fructus est in his opera luditur Finding therefore that the young men had not made the proficiency in their Schools which I thought they might as being not able to give account of any thing save a sort of dull fables read to them by some pitifull Master by way of Lectures and having understood from some young Gentlemen of good quality who lived and boarded among the Jesuits The Jesuits Schools dangerous places for young Lads that the unnaturall love of Children was an ordinary and diurnal sin amongst those that conversed together which in case any one should be ignorant of he might from the words of the Rector in the exhortation he was very imprudently The impudence of the Jesuits wont to make against it take notice of as also for that I had heard from very good hands how that in Germany certain Jesuits had by their indiscreet interrogatories in Confession brought some young men into the knowledge and practice of that sin and that thereupon many Colledges were polluted for these I say and some other reasons I thought fit not to send the young men any more to the Jesuits Schools but got a Praeceptor to have the oversight of them at home There is yet another thing which brings a suspicion of an excess of curiosity upon the Jesuits especially at Rome and not unlikely at other places also which is that no small number of the chiefest Matrons resort in a manner daily to their Churches Women make diurnal confessions to the Jesuits and there sit away two or three hours at a time discoursing with their ghostly Fathers And yet it is not probable they should every day fall into so many sins as should take up so much time to make an acknowledgment thereof A Jesuitical insinuation betrayed But the truth is when we reflect that women are a sort of running vessels indefatigably talkative and not much retentive of the secrets they are trusted with it may well be thought they are not every day detained there so long out of any other designe then to sift out of them all they know especially when the Jesuits themselves stick not to discover the great earnestness they have to hear any thing that is new Upon this account is it that so many visit them The frequent visits made to them even from the least to the greatest and that they many times spend whole dayes in entertaining them nay they come upon them with so much importunity that It often falls out they are not able to give reception to all but are forced to put them off and appoint them other dayes to wait on them Insomuch that it is almost grown into a general opinion that there is not any King or Prince upon the face of the earth that hath so punctual an account of all things that are done in the Universe The great advantages of the Generall of the Jesuits in point of Intelligence even to the Antipodes as hath the Father General of the Jesuits not only because the Rect●rs and Provincials scattered over the world according to the Missionary oath they have taken fail not to write to him once in eight dayes but also because either out of the need they stand in of their assistance or the desire of hearing news or lastly the earnestness some are in to communicate what they have received either by discourse or Letters people will be perpetually haunting the Jesuits who as they are not all of a nation but divided into factions so they all indeavour to incline the General to do what may be most advantageous for their own Whence it comes that some stick not to attribute that to the Jesuits which Johannes Sarisburiensis writ

barbarous language to him for not to injure or bely the man he was never yet acquainted with either the points or Letters and it is much to be questioned whether he can turne the Bible the right way Having the last yeare received from one of our Ministers a Letter in Hebrew he runs hare-brained from Ruffec to Engoulesme a whole night's journey to get it interpreted and answered by Monsieur Thomas de Maisonnette a knowing person and well skilled in that Tongue That excellent person cannot deny what I say to be true History and Chronology are those unknown parts of Learning which were never discoverable to him and if he sayes any thing of them he does it upon the credit of another and the security of citations which he meets with in certaine collections of Controversies Since he is so unfortunate as to all these it would be thought that those shreds of Logick he hath made a shift to get together might find him some employment as to that Science but the course he was put upon at Bourdeaux purely indeed for want of another discovered the weaknesse of his dialecticall faculties That employment bestowed on him not out of any consideration of his desert but upon the recommendation of Monsieur Jrat who had an affection for him proved so unfortunate to him that his Schollers to shew what account they made of such a master brought an Asse into the Schoole got it up into his seat and there fastened him in such manner that the two fore feet hung over it as it were to represent Doctor Beaufes and indeed there wanted only speech to say Nego with as much judgement as our Logick-Lecturer could That honourable Substitute putting him to a little losse when he was come in to read his Lecture the Scholers hissed him out of the Classe and thereupon breaking of that unfortunate course that stayed till the next year to begin it againe under a more able Master That Minister who writing to a friend of his told him that this Antagonist was guilty of a little Logick had not certainly heard of this glorious accident which yet was generally known all over Bourdeaux notwithstanding the great zeale and earnestnesse of Pabot then Prefect to smother the businesse For had he knomn any thing of it he would have given another account of him and might have said more truely that as to Logick he was Master of no more then was requisite he should have that deserved to have his place supplyed by an Asse His perfections in Divinity I refer to the test of their judgements who heare his Sermons Only I shall presume so far as to say that it is levelled to the capacities of those that are the most remote from Citties and civill conversation For having given through his notori●us rake-hellizing very great scandall in the Colledge ●f Bourdeaux where I then was the Provinciall was ●●rced to pack him away thence to Pau in Beard ●ere to prosecute his nudies after he had caused ●im publickly in the Refectory to receive discipline ●uring the whole time that a Miserere was read ●he employments he is put upon are proportionable ●o the account they make of him All his businesse 〈◊〉 Ruffec for foure yeares together was only to ●un up and downe the Villages thereabouts and were ●t not that he makes it so much his businesse to gaine 〈◊〉 litle reputation by endeavouring the refutation of ●he Ministers he would be thought absolutely unworthy to speak in publick Those of their Society who know him as well as I do wonder not to see him kept so low insomuch that it was never asked by ●ny one whence it came that he was appointed to ●reach in the Advents and Lents at Sauue terre a ●altry towne in Bazadois at Vieille Vigne a village of Brittany at Ruffec two years together while other preachers that were his Juniors by nine or ten years preached in the greatest and most considerable Citties Both Secular Priests and Regulars are astonished to find him admitted into the pulpit at all considering ●he imprudences and impertinences he falls into in his Sermons Some Jesuits were of opinion that he had some gift in the businesse of Controversies not that they thought him sufficiently skilled as to the understanding of the Scriptures or furnished as to matter of ratiocination but only because he hath a bitter satyricall faculty such as easily makes the audience laugh by an humour he hath of making sport with our maximes 'T is the generall acknowledgement that he maintaines his cause rather like some jugler then a Preacher and a Divine I have had the diversion to see this modest and regulated Orator with his Jesuiticall cap one while hanging over one eare another pulled down over his nose stamping with his feet shutting his fists gnashing and grinning with his teeth with his surplice rolled up like a dish clout under his rme If the teares of the Audience speak the praises of the preacher as St Hierome saies this ma● can pretend to very little for thousands have seen him laugh very gravely himselfe after he had with cackling pronunciation of his words shot out some foolish expression purposely to excite others to laughter Th● town of Fontenay shall confirme what I say where on● Lecturer preaching the last yeare he would needs i● the midst of his Sermon ridiculously fall a singing as i● were to personate some poore old woman that wer● singing of a psalme porters and tradesmen laughed a● the humour of that harmonious crow while some persons of quality said at the same time to his Rector whom I was in company with These sallyes of simplicity and impertinence Sir are not to be endured In the same Sermon he made very diligent enquiry and that in very unhandsome termes by what markes it might be known that women stood in need of men and foolishly demanded of the Audience whether it were by the eyes by the hands by the Legges or by the end of the nose Pardon me if I forbeare the rest my writing blushes a● his impudence but let it be observed by the way how much his capacity in order to preaching amounts to and what degree of prudence he is of to speake in publick CHAP. III. A character of James Beaufes in relation to his life and manners God hath not bestowed the gift of preaching equally upon all but it is his wil that al should so lead their lives as that they might give others good example Did ●●e Jesuits of Guienne think it their duty to give God the ●●ory as to what concerns the manners of James Be●●fes two hundred of that Body would give it under ●●eir hands that he is one of the most irregular of the ●rder I shall therefore simply say without passion ●●d out of no other reflection then that of glorifying ●●uth that three severall times Informations were put 〈◊〉 against him for his ejection out of the Society ●he first while he was yet a Novice was

the generall report are sufficient attestations of the truth delivered To avoid tediousnesse therefore I shall conclude this point saying that this haply is the cause why the Jesuits are wont to call their way of Religion A Grand-Monarchy as if they governed all Princes and their Ministers at their pleasure Not is it long since that one of the chief among them being ro treat publickly with an illustrious Prince in the name of the Society began with these words full of arrogance and grounded upon a conceit of their Monarchy Our Society hath alwayes maintained good Intelligence with your Grace c. Seventhly those Fathers make a great stir to let the world know that all those that are any way in the favour of their Prince were sometimes Creatures of theirs and are oblig'd for their advancement to them Hence it must follow that they have a greater command of the subjects affections then the Prince himself upon whom this must needs bring great inconvenieniences For it is in the first place an affront to the publick Interest that a sort of Religious Persons that pretend to have abjur'd all commerce with the things of this world yet so ambitious and politick should have such an influence over Ministers of State that when ever it pleases them they can cause Treasons and insurrections Secondly it is dangerous since that by the mediation of the Ministers their Adherents they induce into the Princes service for Counsellors or Secretaries some of the Jesuits in Voto of whom mention is made before and these again perswade the Prince to take some Jesuit for his Confessor or Chaplaine Thus do they all combine together to serve as Intelligencers to the Father General to whom they give an exact account of all the transactions of the most secret Councells Whence it comes that many times we see designes prevented and secrets of the greatest importance discovered and yet things are carried so cunningly that no man can fasten on the true Author but it commonly happens that the greatest suspition lies on those that are most innocent Eightly 'T is a common observation that Subjects are naturally much given to imitate and comply with the inclinations of their Prince In like manner those who give obedience to their Father Generall perceiving that his thoughts are wholly taken up with matters of State as indeavouring by that means to improve and enrich their Society do also apply themselves that way and thereupon making use of their Relations and friends would penetrate into the very hearts of Princes so to discover their most secret designs only to betray them to the Assistants at Rome or the Father Generall out of a confidence by that means to get into their favour and be advanc'd into some employment which otherwise they could never have expected For among them none are ever preferr'd to any Office of consequence and trust but only these whom they have observ'd mosi inclined to advance their Society to that height of Greatnesse whereto they aspire and consequently none but such as are known to be able and expert in the management of State-affairs Ninthly as from divers Flowers and Herbs by the means of 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 afterwards 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