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A46678	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.; Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179.; Flacius Illyricus, Matthias, 1520-1575.; Zahorowski, Hieronim.	1658 (1658)	Wing J489A; ESTC R219108	215,027	399

walls I was their Confessor and consequently it is very much presumed that I was eminent for the piety and qualifications necessary for that Administration For matter of Prudence wherewith they would represent me as weakly furnished for that I had as they say trusted a Minister with a Secret wherein my life was so much concern'd it may be retorted that I was the Admonitor of the Rector and that person whom the Consultors of which number I was one might intrust with all their designes and discontents And if after all this Beaufes cries lay hold of the impious person tell them the impious then are our Gho●●ly Fathers If he cries take notice of the sacrilegious person tell them the sacrilegious it seems are your Preachers If he rais●s ● hue andcry after the prophane person reply the Prophane then are your Confessors The Reader may have observed by the evasions and equivocations he hath been forced to how much it stood him upon to disguise the malice of his intentions in a quaint expression They are now biting their fi●gers that they ever put me into these employments which makes me wonder the more that they should endeavour to perswade the world that want of advancement in the Order had been the occasion of my departure yet never name those in the Colledge of Rochell who were more eminent for offices I was their Preacher their Admonitor their Confessor the Moderator of their devotions what other dignities are there that may come into comparison with ●hese unlesse it be onely the charge of Rector which elevates a man above all the rest It is in the power of God onely to bestow judgement on those that have not any Had I been the most despicable among them the employments they put me into challenged respect so that it must needs be granted that the Jesuits are very indiscreet ere I can be crushed out of a persuasion of my want of desert For when an understanding man shall consider and say with himself that this man was their ordinary Preacher at Rochell chosen to that purpose by the Provincial was their Confessor the Regulator of their devotions their Admonitor he cannot but with the same breath say this wretched Society is extreamly dis-furnished with excellent men or there must be something more then ordinary in this man Beaufes is a person not much versed in the art of writing of Books the reaches of his understanding are but short in order to such a design having spent his spirits in the first sallies he becomes subject to illusion and lyes open to palpable weaknesses A refined judgement would by way of alleviation have said that the starres fal out of the Firmament that when a man is to make choice of pearles it is not impossible but he may pitch upon what is adulterate that the number of Gods elect is certain and determinate c. But this shallow-brain'd fellow must needs immediately fall to invectives to perswade the world that I was a person fit onely to be employed in Countrey villages because I had in a Letter discovered some dissatisfaction that I was forced to endure the inconveniences of Cardinall-Missions There it was that Monsieur Vincent took him by the eare telling him that the very yeare of my departure I preached before the Estates of Britany at Nantes at Poictiers on the Octave at Rochell according to ordinary designation and thereupon takes occasion to aske him whether Nantes Poictiers and Rochell were Countrey villages whether Prelates Lords Presidents and all the Deputies of the severall Estates were Peasants and whether all the delicate inhabitants of those faire Cities were yeomen and carters This puts poor Beaufes to such a losse that he hath not a word to say but folds up his Letter which gave him occasion to make such a noise to shew that I preached onely in Country villages Fontenay le-Comte a place but nine Leagues distant from Rochell will witnesse on my behalfe that the yeare before I preached on the octave at Poictiers I had preached at our Ladie 's faire Church there in the Advent Lent on t●e Octave and all the Sundayes through the yeare c. that is to say that I came up into the pulpit there in one year above a hundred and fifty times and that his Majesties Lieu tenant and the Archbishop of Bourdeaux honoured me with their presence and were pleased to approve my gifts and abilities in preaching If exasperation be that which raises such disorders in their judgements that it dragges them into thousands of extravagances I am no l●nger to doubt but that they will employ all the interest they can to compasse my destruction But however I shall with David in the quiet and serenity of my conscience sing I layd me down must quietly I slept and rose again Because I knew assuredly The Lo●d did me sustain And though ten thousand of my foes were round about me laid And came on pu●pose to oppose I will not be afraid And these soul satisfying words shall be the begin●ing and end of my ordin●ry Devotions Who dwelleth in the secret place Of him that is most high In shadow of th' Almighty's grace Abide● continually Thus of the Lord I will report My gracious God is he He is my refuge and my fort In whom my trust shall be What pains s●ever they m●y have taken to perswade the people that I was guilty of a degree of pride higher then might consist with my deserts I am now to assure the world that I had no extraordinary opinion of my self though th●t in comparison of those wretched rough-hewne persons whereof there are no small number in the Society I had written something to the Provinciall in my owne commendation But now that I have understood since my coming into Holland the stirr they have made upon my conversion and the bloody courses they have taken to work my disparagement meerly out of the fear they were in that I might reveal their mysteries I have imagined my selfe to be some body for it is not likely I should be thought so dreadfull to a sort of people who are admired for their prudence had they not some opinion of my abilities and were afraid of the wounds and stings of my penne The more they endeavour to crush me by their fury the more they advance me by their extravagance I was of no great account among strangers but now through the mercy of God I begin to come into esteem among them Their persecutions are my crowns For my Lord Jesus Christ doth by way of exchange fill the hearts of his faithfull ones with pious sentiments such as oblige them to afford me a greater measure of their affection nay to honour me beyond my deserts Before I did not expect to make any advantage of my employments among them now through the goodnesse of God I hope all things Blessed be God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of mercies and God of all consolation

b●fore his c●ming th●●●e That of the latter thus An Act of the Profession of Faith of Monsieur Jarrige extracted out of the Act of the Consistory of the Reformed Church of Rochel Wednesday the 25 of December 1647. An Act is called a Profession because it is such the other is simply called a Writing because it is not a Profession I further make it my suite that the subscriptions of both may be considered to the Writing there is no other subscription then that of my own name to the act of Profession there are three Pastors the Ancients and the Secretary of the Consistory Is not this enough to unplaister the eyes and hearts of the Judges if so be they are blinded by the importunate sollicitations of the Jesuits wherein they sufficiently play their parts or regard the metaphysicall ratiocination which they make use of to prove that a secret writing ought to passe for an authentick and solemne profession God of his infinite mercy preserve me for ever falling into the hands of these phari●aicall Monkes who desire only comma's and punctilio's to ground an endictment against a man who hath ever done them good never hurt and hath not left them out of any other motive then that of putting himself into the way of salvation and an unwill●ngnesse to consent to their mischievous machi●ations All therefore that now lies on my hands to do is to shew in wh●t sense I could have treated of my conversion and in the mean time not forbear saying of Masse I must needs acknowledge that to conceal my design I was forced to exercise the functions which I was obliged to before I was illuminated Could I have got away on the very day whereon I was first inspired with that resolution I had done it but the season proved so bad and the weather so rainy that I had but that one faire thursday on which I shook off my chaines Could I further have m●de a publick profession of my F●ith in the midst of Rochel I wo●ld have gone that very day among them and embraced their communion but all the world is sensible that it was impossible for me to do any such thing without exposing my life to imminent danger During therefore the time of that intervall it being not in my power to exempt my selfe from saying masse for feare of a surprisall I considered with my self that in conjunctures of so great consequence it was l●wfull for me to dissemble according to the generall maximes of the Divinity I had learned among them To the end therefore that I might be as l●ttle as possible might be injurious either to the Romane Religion which I was ready to shake hands with or the Reformed which I was upon the point to embrace I had no other intention of celebrating Masse then that of doing in generall what our Saviour had instituted So that if Jesus Christ hath instituted any such thing as Transubstantiation the Romanists cannot charge me with being an Impostor and false to them if he hath instituted only the Symbols of bread and wine to be received by Faith as if they were his body and blood those of the Reformation have nothing to quarrell with me for The Holy Spirit in whose presence I write these lines can bear me witnesse that I speak but the truth If God had been pleased to afford me a greater measure of his grace I might have generously declared to the Rector the reasons upon which I had resolved not to say Masse any longer but I desire the world to judge from the exasperation and fury they have betrayed in their pulpits and the prosecutions they have worryed me with what treatment I must have expected from them in case I had discovered my designe Alasse Had I made but the least discovery I had been six moneths since in the other world and this is so far certain that they have publickly acknowledged as much affi ming openly both in their discourses and writings that if I were so desirous to suffer for my beliefe I needed no mo●e then to give them notice of my intention The feare which a constant mind fals into is accounted in the law for an allowable excuse I hope the Judges will pardon my weaknesse and condemn that rigour which at this day is the occasion that there are so many hypocrites in that unhappy Society If all those of their Order who prophane the sacrifice which they call that of the body of Christ were dragg'd to the tribunals of the Civill Magistrate to answer for their Sacriledges what shall become of those who not forbearing the diurnall celebration of Masse procure the death of little children are guilty of forgeries and falsifications in Contracts coyne mony bandy against Kings secretly entertain in their Chambers wenches disguised in mens cloaths and commit monstrous Sodomies with young Schollers as I have sufficiently discovered in the former Treatise Should this happen the cities they inhabit would find it no small work to provide prisons and erect scaffolds and Gibbets for Jesuits There you should have one accus'd for his impious approaches to the Altar coming piping hot out of the Confession-seat where he had spent the time in amorous entertainments with some crack'd commodity You should have another brought to the bar when he had just before sealed up his Letters wherein he had sent some intelligence prejudiciall to the affairs of his Prince and so consequently a many others for having committed severall other crimes not half an houre before The reason is this that these wretched Galley-slaves of Religion are forced to comply with the Custome which they have taken up to say their Masses what condition soever they may be in Which if they do not the Catamites and Zealots whereof the Communities are full very suspiciously question whether such and such be not sick since they had not said their Masses And thus much I thought fit to say in order to my vindication from the crime which they would impose upon me CHAP. VII Discovering the childish inventions of Beaufes to make my Letters contradictory one to another THere is not certainly any thing proves more dishonourable to a man that stands much upon the reputation of sincerity then to be surpris'd in triviall and childish evasions Now according to the present postures of Affaires I see not how Beaufes can avoid ignominy two manner of wayes one by incurring the imputation of a cheat the other in discovering want of judgement to carry on with successe and with a certain circumspection to conceale his circumventions For though his beard be powdred by the age of above fifty yeares yet hath he not yet put off the swathing clouts and weaknesses of his infancy and in two things he betrayes himself more particularly One when he denyes that I writ two Letters that have come abroad under my name The other when he would refute them by certain shreds and fragments of a Letter I had written five moneths before my coming

who comforts and supports us in all our tribulations Amen Amen Psalme LIV. LOrd for thy promise sake defend And thy all-saving shield extend O heare my cries which with wet eies And sighs to Thee ascend For cruell men my life pursu● And who thy statutes never knew Suppresse my Foes O side with those Who to my soul are true With vengeance recompence their hate And in an instant ruinate Then will I bring My offering And thy great acts relate Thy name for ever praised bee Who from those snares hast set me free Eor l●e these eyes My enemies Desir'd subversion see THE END SECRET INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE SVPERIOVRS OF THE SOCIETIE OF JESUS Faithfully rendred out of the Latine Of the strange discovery of these Secret INSTRUCTIONS VVHen Christian Duke of Brunswick who also pretended to the Bishoprick of Halberstadt ransack'd not many yeares since the Jesuits Colledge at Paderborn he bestowed their Library and all their writings whatsoever upon the Fathers Capuchins who among the Archivi of the Rector found these SECRET INSTRUCTIONS And that the like accident happened at the Jesuits Colledge at Prague there are creditable persons that will testifie Nor indeed can any man well doubt that hath the least acquaintance or familiarity with the Jesuits but that the principall persons of the Society do manage all things according to some private directions of this nature received from their General when there is nothing fo manifest as that the behaviour of the Jesuits is in all things suitable to the present Collection On the other side it is certain that they are not any way consistent with those Rules Constitutions and Instructions of the Society that are printed insomuch that it does not require an excesse of Faith to believe that the best part of the Superiours among the Jesuits for some it is granted they may not have the least knowledge thereof have not onely a double habit but also a double Rule one domestick and private the other fitted for Courts and the publick that they are Introrsum turpes speciosos pelle decorâ or such as our Saviour describes the Pharisees when he said ye are like to whited Sepulchres fair to the sight of men without but within full of rottennesse and dead mens bones So the Jesuits make great shewes to the world of justice and Sanctimony while they are within full of iniquity and Hypocrisie Which character of them that it proceeds rather from truth then any spirit of envy or aggravation there needs no other conviction then that a man call to mind how that Claudius Aqua viva their own Generall charged the greatest part of the Superiours with an over-pragmaticall frequentation of Princes Courts too much medling with temporall affaires and Hypocrisie as being such as under pretence of Gods glory and the furthe●a●ce of their Neighbours welfare sought onely themselves and their own advantages Be it therefore left to the judgement of the Christian Reader to consider whether these short Commentaries of secret Admonitions be to be taken for that DEPOSITUM whereof Saint Paul puts Timothy in mind where he sayes O Timothy Keep that which is committed to thy trust and the things that thou hast heard of me the same commit thou to faithfull men c. The Principall Heads of the Instructions SECT I. Discovering how the Society ought to behave it self immediately upon some new Foundation granted them in any place SECT II. What course is to be taken to insinuate into the Favour and familiarity of Grandees and Princes SECT III. What we are to expect from such Grandees as being much behind hand as to matter of money are neverthelesse of great esteem and authority in the Common-wealth and may otherwise very much oblige us SECT IV. Of the principall designe of such as are Preachers and Confessors to Princes and Great men SECT V. How we are to behave our selves towards those Religious Orders which pretending to the same design with us do very much derogate from us SECT VI. How to cajoll rich Widdowes into a veneration of the Society SECT VII Of the wayes of perswading Widowes to perseverance in a single life as also of the disposall of their Revenues SECT VIII Of certain expedients whereby it may be effected that the Sonnes and daughters of such women as have resigned themselves to the conduct of our Society may embrace a Religious kinde of Life SECT IX Of the wayes whereby the Revenues of our Colledges may be improved SECT X Of the necessity there is to make some ostentation of the severity of discipline in the Society SECT XI How the Fathers of the Society are generally to behave themselves towards those that are dismissed SECT XII Of the choice of young Lads for the Society and the wayes whereby they are to be retained SECT XIII Of the Nunnes SECT XIV Of reserved cases and other causes of Dismission out of the Society then what have been mentioned before SECT XV. What persons of the Society are most to be cherished and encouraged SECE XVI Of the contempt of wealth Conclusion SECRET INSTRUCTIONS For the SVPERIOVRS OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS SECT I. Discovering how the Society ought to behave it self immediately upon some new Foundation granted them in any place The Society is to endeavour to ingratiate it self as much as may be with the Inhabitants of the place where they are entertained especially upon the allowance of a new Foundation This may be advantageously done by an explication of the end and design of the Society as it is layd down in the second Rule of the Summary namely To be as tender of the wellfare of our Neighbour as their own Upon this account are the meanest things to be undergone Hospitals are to be visited the poorest ministred unto and advised the Fathers are to go to places at no small distance if need require to receive the Confessions of all whatsoever charitable collections are to be made and those to be disposed of to the poor in the presence of many to the end that they edified and stirred up by our example may afterwards prove the more liberall towards us Let there be remarkeable generally in all a great observance of externall modest● such as may prove matter of edification to others If any among us fail but as to that very point let them be dismissed the Society SECT II. What course is to be taken to insinuate into the favour and familiarity of Grandees and Princes THis is above all others a thing to be endeavoured with the greatest earnestnesse possible T is a lesson learnt by experience that Princes do ordinarily conceive an affection for spirituall and ecclesiasticall persons when their actions are not Baptistically censured and reproved but with as much favour as may be all●viated This is apparent in the marriages of Princes with their nearest kindred there arising alwayes great difficulties in the negotiation thereof by reason of the vulgar opinion which fastens something of execration on such contracts