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A Wartung to America

“FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED.”

THE

Secret

INSTRUCTIONS OF THE

THE JESUITS ARE THE SWORN ENEMIES OF
AMERICAN LIBERTY.

Read this wonderful Book
and be instructed.

THE SECRET INSTRUCTIONS

THE JESUITS.

A WARNING.

Is one to be lauglied at as an alarmist for sonn ding out a note of warning, wlien bishops and cardinals, representing a vast army of ton millions of communicants, speak out against tlie Constitution of the Republic in such threatening words ? I repeat, the war has actually begun, and the struggle will be fierce and long. In the end one of two things must come to pas.; vfo., eithier the public school System will have been destroved, or the autocoratic System of Ultramontanism will have been driven out of this nation forever. For if the public schools are maintained, Ultramontanism must be destroyed; these two deadly enemies cannot live t'Qgother.
MONSEICNOR LEON BOULAND,
* Tn “ The Forum.”THE

SECRET INSTRUCTIONS

THE JESUITS.

IN LA TIN A ND ENGLISH.

THOMAS E."" LEYDEN,

EVANGELIST.

BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A.
1888.

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TO THE PUBLIC.

This work is presented to the American people in the hope that it will aid in the good work of enlightenment, and help in preserving and pnrifying our Republican institutions from the blighting influences of foreign eccle- siasticism, which, under the gnise of religion, has cor- rupted and polluted every country and people wherever permitted to establish itself.

Americans, heed the warning ere it be too late. Ro- manism and Jesuitism are inseparable; where one is there the other may be found secretly working to sub- vert and enslave.

Read this book; help spread it throughout the land that our countrymen may be forewarned—“ forewarned is fore-armed.”

The proceeds from the sales of this work are devoted to the spread of the Gospel among Roman Catholics, and unmasking the true aims and purposes of the Roman hierarchy—the destruction of our Public school System, and the establishment of Romanism as a State religion in America to the exclusion of all others.

Yours_; for God and Country,

THOMAS E. LEYDEN.

[By the courtesy of Bev. James B. Dünn, D.D., the fol- lowing letter from the Secretary of the American and Foreign Christian Union, speaks for itself, and fully authorizes our publication of this work.]

Glen Summet, Pa., Sept. 1, 1888.

Bear Brother:—Yours of August 30th has just reached me, and you are authorized to re-publish the work on the Jesuits, to which you refer. Many hearts, in other parts of the land, are in sympathy with you in your courageous Opposition to the attack- ing forces of ßomanism.

Yours sincerely,

L. T. CHAMBERLAIN,

Setfy American and Foreign Christian Union.

The Bev. James B. Dünn, D.B.

Thomas E. Leyden,

Evangelist.

HISTORICAL SKETCH

THE JESUITS.

“Swear—forswear—and tlie truth deny!”

“ Jura, perjura, veritatemque denega!”

—Jesuit mcixim.

The Society of the Jesuits was founded in 1540, just eieven years after the Christian church had come out of the Roman sect, and assumed the name of Protestants. The singulär originator of the new Order was Ignatius Loyola, a native of Biscay. He had, when a soldier, received a severe wound in the Service of Ferdinand V. of Spain, in 1521; and he had been long confined in a place where he had access, probably, to no other books than The lives of the Saints. It is not to be wondered at that his mind was thence turned away from military enthusiasm to ghostly fanaticism. When recovered, he speedily gave proofs of his insane fanaticism by assuming the name and office of ⁶⁴ Knight of the Virgin Mary.” And like a good type of the future Don Quixote, he pursued with solemn gravity, a course of the wildest and most extravagant adventures, in the belief that he was her most exalted favorite. Having conceived the plan of a new monastic order, he submitted the Constitution thereof to Pope Paul III. And he as- sured his “ Infallibility and Holiness,” that the plan and Constitution were given to him by an immediate

revelation from Heaven. This he no cloubt cleemed necessary to be on a footing of equality with tlie other Orders. For, as Dr. Stillingfleet has shown, every Order of monks and nnns in Rome has beeil or- dained by visions, and inspirations from Heaven.*

The pope hesitated. Loyola took the hint, and had another convenient inspiration, and added to the three usual vows of the monastic Orders of chastity, poverty, and obedience, a fourth vow, namely, absolute subservience to the pope; to do whatever he enjoined, and go on any Service he wished, and into any quarter of the globe.

This the pope could not resist; especially at a time when the Reformation had convulsed his seat, and shaken his empire to the foundation. He accord- ingly issued his bull of confirmation, and sent them out to invade the world. Their object ivas diverse from that of all other Orders. Monks professed to retire from the world, and macerate the body. The Jesuits set out to conquer the world to the pope. The monks hoped to conquer the flesh—but they did it by acting contrary to the laws of nature, and the gospel of Christ. The Jesuits aimed at an universal dominion over the souls and bodies of men, to bind them as vassals to the pope’s chariot wheels. The monks professed to combat in private, the devil, the world and flesh; although they did it in the exact way to make themselves the siaves of the flesh and the devil. The Jesuits were the soldiers of the pope: they knew no law but the will of their gen* On the Iclolatry of the Church of Rome, chap. iv.

eral; no mode of worsliip but the pope’s dictate ; no cliurcli but themselves. And the mass-god which tlieir head at Rome set before them in the wafer was the idol of their adoration. They were also ex- tremely indulgent to their heathen converts,—the Chinese, for instance. They allowed them to con- tinue the worship of their ancestors, and light can- dles, and burn incense before their images ; they im- posed on them no other bürden than to give to these deceased Chinese the names of the Roman saints, such as St. Peter, St. Paul, St. Mary! These the converts had on their lips, while their heart’s homage was given to their ancestors. Thus they converted them by stealth, and saved them by deception and idolatry!

Among the Indians of our great West they not only suppressed the truths of Christianity, but de- vised the most infamous fictions and falsehoods. “ One of them assured a native chief Brat' Jesus Christ was just such a one as he would have admired. He was a mighty chief, a valiant and victorious war- rior, who had in the space of three years scalped an incredible number of men, women, and children.” ^a Another, in the East Indies, produced a pedigree of himself, in which he clearly demonstrated that he was a lineal descendant of Brama! ” Brewster’s En- cyclopedia, article Jesuit, vol. xi.

Other papal Orders were in a manner voluntary: at least their members had great liberties, and were not in abject Submission to their abbot or Superior. But the sect of Jesuits were placed by Loyola under a strict military and despotic government. In fact, the old wounded soldier took his- laws and dis- cipline from his military experience. Like the military chief their general was chosen for life. To Ihm every member was sworn on the cross, to yield an implicit obedience. Like the soldier, the jesuit yielded up his body, and sonl, and wishes, and desires to his general. He had no right to consult a friend, or exercise even his own judgment. The general’s will was his will: he must go whenever their chief, residing at Rome, should dictate,—be it into Asia, or Africa, or any portion of the globe. He put no questions: he asked no reasons. The general was his sovereign god. He sailed with sealed Orders. He must teach,—not what he believed to be right. He had no choice of his faith. He must believe as his general regulated Ins heart, and soul, and con- science. He must do any deed enjoined on him, ask- ing no questions. He was not to shrink from any deed of blood. If the general enjoined, he must send the Spanish Armada to overthrow England: he must blow up the English parliament with gun-pow- der: he must assassinate King Henry of France, or shoot the the Prince of Orange: or poison Pope Gan- ganelli: or enjoin Charles IX. to perpetrate the St. Bartholomew massacre: and Louis XIY. to revoke the Edict of Nantz, and cover fair France with blood and havoc; and fill the nations with the lamentations of her miserable exiles ! If he failed, he tried again and again.

He stopped not short of his aim, until it was either

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accomplished or he clied on the rack, as did the assassin of the King of France. And if he did perish, he was sainted; as was Grämet, the Jesuit chief of Gunpowder plot; who is to this day worshipped as St. Henry, in Spain.*

The general had the uncontrolled right of receiv- ing and disbursing their immense funds; and made every nomination to office; and removed anj^T one he cliose without assigning any reasons to any one. For, although nominally under the pope’s power, the Society exerc-ised an unlimited power over the cardinals, and even over the Pope. Money, and Jesuit craft overcame all and enslaved all. They did what the kings of France did to the Pope; and what Austria now is doing to his vassal, “ the Holy Father.” They flattered and caressed “ the successor of St. Peter;” while they tied up his hands, and chained him in his chair of St. Peter.

The wliole Society was divided by their general into thirty-seven Provinces; and a register lay be- fore liim, containing the character of each novice, and of each fully initiated member: his talent, his tact, his activity, his defects,—everything relating to him. Hence the general had an accurate yiew of each instrument, in each field, ready for every emer- gency and task. “ The Jesuits had missionaries for the villages; and martyrs for the Indians,”—says the writer of their history, in Brewster’s Edinburgh En- eyclopsedia. “ Thus a peculiar energy was imparted to the operations of this most singulär society, The

* Hume*s Hist. vol. iii. ch.' 46.

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Jesuits are a nakecl sword, whose hilt is at Rome but its blade is everywhere, invisible until its stroke is feit.”

They soon found their way into schools, and sought most anxiously to gain the education of chil- dren, especially of Protestants. Their maxim was this: “ Give us the education of the children of this day, and the next generation will be ours,—ours in maxims, in morals, and religion ! ” They found their way into Colleges ; into theological institutions, as at this day in Oxford and other places. They pre- tended to be converted, and to enter into Protestant churches. They were found in the Reformed Church in France and Holland, and caused grievious and fatal divisions by false doctrine. They were found in the rank of the old English Puritans. This was dis- covered by a letter from the Jesuit confessor of the King of England to the Jesuit confessor of Louis XIY. “ How admirably our people imitate the Pur- itan preachers,” said he in this intercepted letter.

They adapted themselves to all kinds of character. With the Jew they were Jews to gain their object; with the infidel they were sceptics ; to the immoral they were the most liberal and indulgent, until they gained the absolute ascendency over them. Hence they found their way into Kings’ courts, and Queens’ boudoirs. This sect gave confessors to the chief crowned heads of Europe. England, France, and the Waldenses, under the house of Savoy, feit this to their cost. It was in allusion to their utter disregard of morals, except where property and power were to be

gained by a sliow of morals, that the Abbe Boileau said with great truth,—“ They are a sort of people who lengtlien the creed, and sliorten the moral law!”

And for want of room, I must, without quoating it, refer the reader to the almost prediction of Dr. Browne, Bishop of Dublin, in 1551, respecting their character, their aims, their deeds and downfall. This is found in the Harleian Miscellany, yol. v., 566 : and in Mosheim’s Eccles. Hist. Cent. 16 ; sect. 3. part 2.

The success of this sect was at first very slow. In 1540, when the frantic Loyola petitioned the Pope for a bull to establish this new papal army, he had only ten disciples. He was in nearly as hapless a condition as his equally moral, and equally Christian brother, Mohammed. But they surmounted every difliculty for a season, by adapting their agents and members to every dass. And particularly, they gained applause, and fame, and wealth, by cultivat- ing the arts and Sciences : by diffusing the most extensive taste for the classics, by their editions “ In usum Delphini ; ” for the instruction of the Dauphin, as the young heir apparent to the French throne, was then entitled.

In fact, they soon supplanted every rival in the department of teaching. They seemed to gain the instruction of the youth in every European kingdom. They did for centuries exactly that which they are now attempting to do in the United States. They affected immense learning. All others knew nothing. They went in disguise into Protestant king-

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doms and states. They set up schools; or gained the Academic chairs; and the professional cliair. They won over the youth to their cause. Tlieir fe- male Jesuits pursued the same conrse with the young and tender sex ; and made vast' numbers of converts to their sect. And these Jesuit nuns did not waste their energies and exhaust their pious emotions in dungeon cells and the grated prisons, which the want of due gallantry on the part of laymen even among us, allow the aspiring and licen- tious priests to build for women, under their very eyesü! No, they were out of door missionaries. They were known by the narae of “ Sisters of Char- ity,”—“ Sisters of the heart,” and other sentimental and imposing names. They were female soldiers in- yading the sanctity of families ; “ carrying captiye silly women laden with iniquity ” and ignoranee. They fought among females as did their desperate male brothers among the males in the Community.

Forty-eight years after their Organization, that is, in 1608, they had increased to the appalling number of nearly eleven thousand. Before the English Revolution of 1688 they had obtained the direction of the schools, academies, Colleges, and universities in all the European catholic continent; and they had the address to have their members installed confessors to the Kings of Spain, France, Portugal, Naples, Aus- tri, Sicily, and the regal Duke of Savoy, and every leading prince and noble in these kingdoms. "

But they had driven on so furiously in their wild, ambitious, and bloody career, that innumerable ene-

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mies were raised up against tliem. The Jansenists were their deadly enemies in France. Pascal’s “Pro- vincial Letters,” written with inimitable good humor, and in the most elegant style, attracted all scliolars and politicians to their dangerous morality, their atrocious principles in politics; and had inflicted a blow on the Jesuits from which they never recovered. Their disgrace took place first in France. They were dissolVed and abolished in 1762 by the parlia- ment of France. And in this national act, the par- liament assigned the following as the reasons of their abolition:—“ the consequences of their doctrines de- stroy the law of nature: they break all the bonds of civil society, by authorizing theft, lying, perjnry, the utmost licentiousness, murder, criminal passions, and all manner of sins. These doctrines, moreover, root out all sentiments of humanity: they overthrow all governments; excite rebellion; and uproot the foundation and practice of religion. And they Substitute all sorts of superstitions, irreligion, blasphemy, and idolatry.”

Their overthrow in Spain was sudden and com- plete. At midnight, March 31, 1767, a strong cor- don of troops surrounded the six Colleges of Jesuits in Madrid; seized the fathers, and before morning had them conveyed on the way to Carthagena. Three days after, the same prompt measures were pursued towards every other College in the kingdom. In a word, kingdom after kingdom followed up the same course of measures against these intolerable enemies of God and of men! They have been ban- 14 HISTOKICAL SKETCH OF THE JESUITS.

ished either partiälly or entireiy liö less than thirty- nine times from the different kingdoms and states of Europe ! And in 1778, Pope Garganella^-Clement XIV.—abolished the Order entireiy, as a sect no longer to be endured by man! “ It will cost me my

life,” said he,—“but I must abolish this dangerous Order.” It did cost him his life. A few daj^s after bis Bull was published against the Jesuits, a notice was placarded on his gate intimating that#^uthe See would soon be vacant by the death of the Pope.” He died of poison, within a few days of the time thus announced by their agency. He obseryed on his dy- ing bed to those around him,—“ I am going to eter- nity: and I know for what! ” Brewster’s Encycl. vol. xi. 171.

But, although they were thus dissolved and abolished, they still kept up privately their Organization. In the interim, from 1773 to 1801, their general re- sided at Rome, publicly. In 1801 they were restored, for some political reasons, by the Emperor Paul in Russia. This seems almost incredible. But this bad man and infamous emperor needed the Support of the worst of all the Roman Catholic Orders ! In 1804 the King of Sardinia, for the same reasons, restored them. In 1814, at the close of the late war, Pope Pius VII. who first crowned the Emperor Napoleon, and then yentured to excommu- nicate him, restored the order of Jesuits to their full powers and prerogatiyes in all particulars, and called on all papal princes in Europe, and the powers in South America, and in all the establishments of po-

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pery, “ to afford them protection and encouragement,” as tlie pope’s right arm, and the superior and most snccessful instruments of extending Catholicism, and pulling down all heresies.

In that papal bull, reviving this sect* the Pöpe even in this enlightened day utters his visionary Claims in a style befitting the Dark Ages! He af- firms that “this, his act, is above the recall, or revision of any judge, witli whatever power he mag he clotKedf He thus sets at defiance all the powers of all civil governments upon the earth.

This Order being thus revived, and covered with the shield of “ the master of the kings of the earth,” is now in active Operation ; and has been attended for the last twenty years with the most appalling success, in undermining the liberties of mankind; corrupting religion, sowing dissentions in the churches; and in aiding the Holy Alliance, in throwing “ a wall of iron around their kingdoms to prevent the entrance and dissemination of liberal Sentiments.” Their labors extern! to every papal and every Protestant kingdom and state in Europe, and in South America, where they are the main cause of all these national convulsions and bloodshed, in Order to prevent and put down all republicanism. They are also most active in Great Britain and the United States, which above all other nations they are most anxious to win, and woo over to papism.

The revival of the Order of Jesuits by Pope Pius VII. in the face of the bull of another equally infalli- ble pope, who had condemned them, and abrogated 16 HISTOßlCAL SKETCH OE THE JESCITS.

them, as a most pestiferous and infamous sect, ex» hibits a poor specimen of papal unity and infallibility. And the act of Pope Pins VII. ought to haye ronsed tlie indignation of all the friends of humanity, Order and liberty in Europe and America. The following are the sentiments of an able writer (on this) in the London Christian Obseryer, yol. xiy.* “ What new witness has appeared to testify on behalf of Jesuit- ism ? What adequate cause existed for its reyiyal by a pope?” “If an instrument is wanted to quench the flame of charity, and throw us back in the career of ages, and sow the seeds of eyerlasting diyisions, and lay a train which is to explode in the citadel of truth, and, if possible, oyerthrow her sa- cred towers, we yenture confidently to affirm that Jesuitism is that yery instrument. Until a proper reason be assigned other than this, we must conclude witli our forefathers, with the kings, and queens, and pailiaments, and judges, and churches of Europe, ay! and with the decisiye bull of the infallible Pope Gan- genelli, Clement XIV. that Jesuitism is a public nui- sance, and that he who endeayors, and dares to let it loose upon ciyil society, is actually chargeable with high treason against the common interests and happi- ness of the human family.” See Brewster’s Encycl. Article Jesuits, yol. xi. 172.

Let me now adyert briefly to the history of the following little book, which these Statements are de- signed to introduce to our readers.

The Sechet Instkuctions formed a code of the

* Pp. 175, 176.

laws o£ Jesuitism. They were not allowed to be made known even to many members of a certain dass of Jesuits. They had bold, daring, bad men to achieve desperate deeds, and take off their enemies by Steel or bullet, or poisoned chalice. These knew something that others did not. They had also dis- guised agents, men in mask. These Jesuits knew something not imparted to others of the same Order. They had shrewd, crafty, courteous, and most pol- islied men, who courted nobles, insinuated thern- selves into the favor of princes, kings, and rieh wid- ows, and young heirs and heiresses. These had their “ Ikstrttctioks ” from their general. They had fine scholars, decent, steady, serious, moral men. These were not at all let into the secret of cektaik Instrtjctions. They were sent out as traps to cap- tivate the serious, the unsuspecting, the religious. These had it in Charge to give a captivating representation of their Society of Jesus. These taught that they mingled in no politics, sought no riches, kept strict-ly their vow of poverty. Their sole object, was by the help of heaven, to convert the world, and put down Protestantism and all heresies! And in these details tliese classes of this sect were honest. For they were not initiated into “the Secret Instruc- tions.” And henc-e they could, with an honest con- science deny, and even swear on the cross, that no such Instructions were ever given, or ever received. And the initiated Jesuits took special care to push forward these decent, amiable, moral and trustworthy men, to declare to the world that no such rules, and

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no such maxims as these of The Secket Instktjc- tions ever existecl among them. And from the liigh character of these men, their testimony was of great weight with kings, nobles, and even Protes- tants.

This throws light upon the mystery and contradic- tory Statements made by honest Jesuits and histori- ans; and by Protestants. The profligate, the cunning, the daring, and all similar classes in this motley sect, with their general, and the host of his spies crawling like the frogs, and flying like the locusts of Egypt, all over the. land, were fully initiated into the secret of these “ Instructions :and they acted on them every day. Hence the horrid marks of their footsteps of pollution and blood!!!

In fact, these “ Secket Ikstuuctions ” were not discovered fully to the Christian public until some fifty years after the dissolution and expulsion of the Society. But all ranks of men, Papal and Protestant, who had studied the Jesuit movements, intrigues and conspiracies, were intimately acquainted with their practices. Hence, wllen the book of “ Secket Instkuctioks ” was discovered, and published, every body at once saw the evidence of its authenticity. They had been long familiär with their conspiracies, and practices. Here was the exact platform, and model of all their actings. They wdio had feit and suffered under their atrocious morals, and conspiracies against the cause of God, and the rights of man, could not possibly entertain a doubt of the authen- ticity of these Rules. They exactly corresponded,

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as does the model on paper, formed by the architect’s hand, correspond witli the finished liouse ! It was in vain to deny these “Rules and Insteuctions,” wlien all the cunning craft and deed, and atrocities, prescribed by these Rules were blazoned in the mein- ories of princes, nobles, ministers and people. Be- fore they could succeed tlierefore, in denying the “ Secrbt Insteuctions,” it behoved them to raze, from national monuments, and national records, and all the details of history, the deeds of atrocity perpetrated by the Jesuit Order in the old and new world!

The Jesuits had been repeatedly charged with act- ing on Seceet Rules which no eye was allowed to see, nor ear to hear. The University of Paris, so far back as 1624, charged it on them “that they were governed by ⁴ Seceet Laws ’ ” neither allowed by kings, nor sanctioned by parliaments. And in the History of the Jesuits, voh i. p. 326, &c. we find in a letter from the Roman Catholic bishop of Angelopo- lis, the following:—“The Superiors of the Jesuits do not govern them by the Rules of the Church, but by certain ⁴ Seceet Insteuctions akd Rules,’ which are known only to those superiors.” See the edition of the Letter, published at Cologne in 1666.

In the gradations of the Order there were some, as we have already noticed, who were not let into the knowledge of their hidden rules. But there were others who, though admitted into these hidden rules, were not initiated into the most secret regulations. Düring the civil prosecutions in France, brought against the Jesuits by the French merchants to re-

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cover from the Society tlie monies lost to them by the Jesuits’ mercantile missionaries in Martinico, tlie fathers at tlie head of tlie Society were constrained to bring their books into court. This was a most unfortunate matter for them. Their “ Cokstitu- tioks ” were now made public. The nation became indignant at the whole sect. The parliament issued their decree; dissolved them, and banished them.

But tliis was not the worst. The contents of this little volume, of which we present a new edition to onr readers, called “Secreta Monita,—The Se- cret Instructiohs of the Jesuits,” was not dis- covered until about fifty years after this dissolution of the sect in France. These were said to be drawn up by Laignez, and Aquaviva, the two immediate successors of Loyola, the founder.

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