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.

When these were first published, the Jesuits were at first overwhelmed witli fear. But they immedi- ately affected to be much offen de d that such rules should be ascribed to them. They publicly denied them. This of course was expected. Every criminal pleads “not guilty.” But their authenticity is not for a moment doubted among all scholars, both Pa- pal and Protestant.

There is a work in the British Museum entitled “ Formulce Provisionum cliversarum a Gr. Passarello, summo Studio in unum collectce,” $c. and printed at Venice in 1596. At the end of this book “ The Se- CRET Ikstructiohs ” are found in Manuscript; entered there no doubt by some leading and fully initi- ated Jesuit for his own use. And at .the close, there

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is an earnest “ caution, and an injunction.” The caution is that these “ Ihstructions ” be communi- cated with the utmost care only to a very few and those the well tried. And the injunction is charac- teristic. “Let them be denied to be the Rules of the Society of Jesus, if ever they shall be imputed to

US.”

The first copy of “The Secret Instructions ” was discovered in the Jesuits’ College at Paderborn, Westphalia ; and a second copy in the citj of Prague, In the preface to these is found the same injunction as that above :—“ If these Rules fall into the hands of strangers, they must be positively denied to be the Rules of the Society.”*

The discovery of the copy at Paderborn was in this wise, as appears from the preface to the English copy, published in 1658. When Christian, the Duke of Brunswick, took Paderborn, he seized upon the Jesuit College there, and gave their library, together with all their collections of manuscripts to the Ca- puchins. In examining these, they discovered “ The Secret Ikstrhctioks ” among the archives of the Rector. And they being, as were also the other monkish Orders, no friends to the Jesuits, brought them before the public.

Mr. McGavin, in the Glasgow Protestant,! has given us this information of another copy. “John Schipper, a bookseller of Amsterdam, bought a copy of ⁴ The Secret Instrtjctions ’ at Antwerp, among other books ; and afterwarcls reprinted it. The Jes-

* See London Christian Observer, vol. 14, p. 169. t Yol. ii. p. 227. Hartford edition.

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uits being informed that he had bonght the book, de- manded it back from him. But he had sent it to Holland. One of the Society, who lived in Amsterdam, hearing it said by a Catholic bookseller named Van Eyk, that Schipper was printing a book which concerned the Jesnits, replied that if it was only The Rules of the Society he would be under no concern. Being told it was The Secret Ikstructions of the Society, the good father shrugged up his sholu- ders, and knitting his brow, said that⁴ he saw no rem- edy but denying that this piece came from the Society.’ The reverend fathers, however, thought it more ad- visable to purchase the whole edition; which they soon afterwards did,—somefew copies excepted. From one of these was it afterwards re-printed, with the account prefixed: which is said to be taken from two Roman Catholic men of credit.”

In 1669 the venerable and learned Dr. Compton, Bishop of London, published an English translation of The Secret Instructioks. His arguments on their anthenticity, and his character as a scholar and divine, are a sufficient gnarantee that he would never have given his name and influence to sustain a work of dubious authority; or calculated to mislead the public.

We have only to add that the last American edition, published at Princeton; and this one which we publish, are taken from that translation which was published in London in 1723, and dedicated to Sir Robert Walpole, who was afterwards Lord Orford; and who had the high honor of being prime minister of George I. and of George II. W. C. B.

THE JESUITS OATH.

Question:—Can an American Citizen subscribe
to this Oath?

I, A. B., now in the presence of Alrnighty God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Blessed Michael the Archangel, the Blessed St. John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and the saints and Sacred Host of Heaven, and to you my ghostly father, I do declare from my heart, without mental reservation, that the Pope is Christ’s Vicar General and is the trueand only Head of the universal church tliroughout the earth, and that by virtue of the Keys of binding and loosing given to His Holiness by Jesus Christ he hath power to depose Heretical Kings, Princes, States, Common- wealths and Governments, all being illegal without his sacred Confirmation. and that they may safely he destroyed. Therefore, to the utmost of my power, I will defend this doctrine and His Holiness’s rights and customs against all Usurpers of the Heretical or Protestant Authority whatsoever, especially against the now pretended Authority and Church in England and all Adherents, in regard that they be usurped and heretical, opposing the Sacred Mother Church of Borne.

I do Benounce and disown any AUegiance as duetoany heretical King, Prince or State, named Protestant, or obedience to any of their inferior Magistrates or Officers.

I do further declare the doctrine of the Church of England, of the Calvinists, Huguenots and other Protestants, to be damnable, and those to be damned who will not forsake the same. I do further declare that I will help, assist and advise all or any of His Holiness’s agents, in any place wherever I shall be, and to do my utmost to extirpate the heretical Protestant doctrine, and to de- stroy all their pretended power, regal or otherwise. I do further promise and declare, that notwithstanding I am dispensed with to assume any religion heretical for the propagation of the Mother Church’s interest to keep secret and private all her agents’ counsels as they entrüst me, and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing or circumstance whatsoever, but to execute all which shall be proposed, given in Charge, or discovered unto me, by you my ghostly father, or by any one of this convent.

All which I, A. B., do swearby the Blessed Trinity, and Blessed Sacrament which I am about to receive, to perform, on my part to keep mviolably; and do call on all the Heavenly and Glorious Host of Heaven to witness my real intentions to keep this my oath. In testiinony wliereof, I take this most Holy and Blessed Sacrament of the Eucliarist, and witness the same further with my hand and seal, in the face of this holy convent.

PRFEFATIO.

Privata haec monita custodiant diligenter et penes se servent superiores, paucisque ex professis ea tantum communicent, et aliqua de iis instruant non pro- fessos, quando nimirum et quanto cum fructu socie- tati usui sit; illaque non nisi sub sigillo silentii ne quidem ut scripta ab altero, sed ex peculiari experi- entiä desumpta: et quia multi ex professis horum secretorum sunt conscii, ideo vel ab initio cavit societas, ne ullus conscius liorum posset ad alias relig- iones se conferre, exceptä carthusianorum, ob perpe- tuam vitse abstractionem, et indelebile silentium ; quod etiam Sacra Sedes confirmavit.

Cavendum omnio ne in manus externorum haec monita deveniant, quia sinistre interpretarentur des- tinationi nostrae invidentes; quod si hoc accidat (quod absit!), negentur haec esse sensa societatis, idque per illos confirmando e nostris, de quibus certo

PREFACE.

These Private Instructions must be carefully re- tained and kept by the superiors in their own hands, and by them be communicated only to a few of the professors; and wlien it shall be judged for the benefit of the Society to divulge some of them to such as are non-professors ; but even these must be done un- der the strictest ties of secrecy, and not as rules com- mitted to writing by others, but as deduced from the experience of him that dictates. And since many of the professors must necessarily from hence be ac- quainted with these private advices, the Society has, therefore, from their first establishment, taken care that no one who is in the secret can betake himself to any other Order but that of the Occrthusians; and this, from the strict retirement in which they live, and the inviolable silence they are compelled to ; which the holy see has been pleased to confirm.

The greatest care imaginable must be also taken that these instructions do not fall into the hands of strangers, for fear, out of envy to our Order, they should give them a sinister interpretation; but if this, (which God forbid!) should happen, let it be positively denied that these are the principles of the

constat, quod ea ignorent; opponantur his monitaque nostra generalia, et ordinationes seu regulse impressse vel scriptae. • -

Superiores etiam semper sollicite et caute inquir- ant, an alicüi externo, a nostris haec monita prodita sint; nullus etiam haec pro se, aut pro alio transcribet aut transcribi permittet, nisi conscio Generali vel Provinciali; et si de asservandis tantis secretis socie- tatis de aliquo dubitetur, in contrarium illi imputetur, et dimittatur.

Society, and such denial be confirmed by those of our members who we are sure know nothing of them; by this means, and by confronting these with our Public Instructions, printed or written, our credibility will be established beyond Opposition.,

Let the superiors also carefully and warily inquire whether discovery has been rnade of these Instructions by any of our members to strangers ; and let none transcribe, or suffer them to be transcribed ei- ther for himself or others, without the consent of the general or provincial. And if any one be suspected of incapacity to keep such important secrets, acquaint him not of your suspicion, but dismiss him.

SECRETA MONITA

Societatis Jesu,

CAPUT I.

Quälern societas prcestare sese debeat, cum incipit de
novo alicujus loci fundationem.

1. Ut se gratam reddat incolis loci, multum eon- ducet explicatio finis societatis preescripti in regulis, ubi dicitur societatem summo conatn in salutem proximi incumbere, sequetatque in suam. Quare hu- milia obsequia obennda, in Xenodochiis, pauperes et afflicti, et incarcerati invisendi, Confessiones prompte et generatim excipiendse, ut in solitä in omnes cbari- tatese, et rei novitate eminentiores incolse nostros admirentur et ament.

2. Meminerint omnes facultatem ad exercenda societatis ministeria modeste ac religiöse petendam; et

TUE

SECRET INSTRUCTIONS

The Jesüits,

CHAPTER I.

How the Society must behave themselves when they
begin any new foundation.

I. It will be of great importance for tlie rendering our members agreeable to the inhabitants of the place wliere they design their Settlement, to set forth the end of the Society in the manner prescribed by our Statutes, which lay down, that the society ought as diligently to seek occasions of doing good to their neighbors as to themselves; wherefore, let thern with humility discharge the meanest offices in the hospitals ; frequently visit the sick, the poor, and the pris- oners, and readily and indifferently take the confes- sions of all, that the novelty of such uncommon and and cliffusive charity may excite in the principal inhabitants an admiration of our conduct, and forcibly draw them into an affection for us.

II. Let it be remembered by all, that the privilege to exercise the ministry of this Society must be re- quested in a modest and religious manner, and that

omnes tum ecclesiasticos praesertim tum saeculares quorum auctoritate indigemus, benevolos sibi facere studeant.

3. Ad loca distantia etiam eundum, ubi elemo synae, quantumyis paryae recipiendae, expositä neces- sitate nostrorum; eadem deinde dandae aliis pauperi- bus, ut sic aedificentur ii, qui nondum societatem no- yerunt, et sint in nos tanto liberiores.

4. Omnes eundem yideantur spirare spiritum, ideo- que eumdem modum exteriorem addiscant, ut uni- formitas in tantä diversitate personarum unumquem- que aedificet, qui secus fecerint, tanquam nocui, di- mittantur.

5. Caveant nostri emere fundos in initio; sed si quos ernennt nobis bene sitos, fiat ho mutato nomine aliquorum amicorum fidelium et secretorum; et ut melius luceat paupertas nostra, bona quae sunt vicina locis, in quibus collegia habeamus, per provincialem assignentur collegiis remotis, quo fiet ut nunquam principes yel magistratus habeant certam notitiam redituum societatis. ^{^[1]}

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they must use their best endeavors to gain chiefly the favor of such ecclesiastics and secular persons of wliose authority they may stand in need.

III. Let them also remember to yisit distant places, where, having demonstrated the necessities of the Society, they shall readily receive the most inconsid- erable alms, which afterwards being bestowed on other objects, may edify those which are as yet unac- quainted with our Society, and stir them up to a greater liberality to us.

IY. Let all seem as though they breathed the same spirit, and consequently learn the same exterior be- havior, that by such an uniformity in so great a diversity of men all may be edified. But if any ob- stinately persist in a contrary deportment, let them be immediately dismissed, as dangerous persons and hurtful to the Society.

Y. At their first Settlement, let our members be cautious of purchasing lands; but if they happen to buy such as are well situated, let this be done in the name of some faithful and trusty friend. And that our poverty may have the more colorable gloss of reality, let the purchases, adjacent to the places wherein our Colleges are founded, be assigned by the provincial to Colleges at a distance ; bj which means it will be impossible that princes and magistrates can ever attain to a certain knowledge what the revenues of the Society amount to.

VI. Let no places be pitched upon by any of our members for founding a College but opulent cities;

enim societatis est imitare Christum salvatorem nostrum, qui Hierosolymis maxime morabatur, alia autem loca minus praecipua tantum pertransibat.

7. Summum pretium a viduis semper extorquen- dum, inculcatä illis summa nosträ necessitate.

8. In unäquäque provinciä, nemo nisi provincialis noverit praecise valorem redituum. Sacrum autem esto quantum corbona romana contineat.

9. Concionentur nostri, et ubique in colloquiis pro- palent, se adpuerorum instructionem et populi sub- sidium venisse, ac omnia gratis, et sine personarum acceptione praestare, nec esse in gravamen communi- tatis, ut caßateri ordines religiosi.

CAPUT II.

Quomodo principum, magnatum et primariorum PP.
societatis familiäritatem acquirent et conservabunt.

1. Conatus omnis ad hoc in primis adhibendus, ut principum et primariorum ubique locorum aures et the end of the Society being the imitation of our blessed Saviour, who fhade liis principal residence in the metropolis of Juden, and only transiently yisited the less remarkable places.

VII. Let the greatest sums be always extorted

from widows, by frequent remonstrances of our extreme necessities. •

VIII. In every province, let none but the principal be fully apprised of the real value of our revenues ; and let what is contained in the treasury of Rome be always kept an inviolable secret.

IX. Let it be publicly demonstrated, and every- where declared by our members in their private con- versation, that the only end of their coming there was for the instruction of youth, and the good and welfare of the inhabitants ; that they do all this with- out the least view of reward, or respect of persons, and that they are not an incumbrance upon the people, as other religious societies are.

CHAPTER II.

In ivhat manner the Society must deport, that they may work themselves into, and after that preserve a fa- miliarity ivith princes, noblemen, and persons of the greatest distinction.

I. Princes, and persons of distinction every where, must by all means be so managed that we may have

animos obtineamus ne sit que in nos audeat insur« gere, quinimo omnes cogantur a nobis dependere.

2. Cum autem experientia doceat principes et mag- nates tum prsesertim affici personis ecclesiasticis, quando odiosa eorum facta dissimulant, sed in meli- orem potius partem ea interpretantur, ut yidere est in matrimoniis contrahendis cum affinibus, aut con- sanguineis aut similibus, animandi sunt qui hsec aut similia affectant, spe facta per nostros istiusmodi dis- pensationes facile a summo Pontifice impertrandi, quod faciet si explicentur rationes, proferantur exem- pla, et recitentur sententiöe favorabiles titulo communis boni, et majoris gloriae Dei, quse est scopus socie- tatis.

3. Idem faciendum si princeps- aggreditur aliquid faciendum non aeque magnatibus omnibus gratum. Permoyendus, nempe, animus ei, et instigandus, sese accomodent, neque contradicant; in genere ta- cseterorum yero animi commovendi ad hoc ut principi men tantum, nec unquam ad particularia descend- endo, ne societati imputetur, si male negotium suc- cesserit; et si quidem hoc aliquando factum reprobe-

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their ear, and tliat will easily secure their hearts : by which way of proceeding, all persons will become our creatures, and no one will dare to give the Society the least disquiet or Opposition.

II. That ecclesiastical persons gain a great footing in the favor of princes and noblemen, by winking at their vices, and putting a favorable construction on whatever they do amiss, experience conyinces; and this we may observe in their contracting of marriages with their near relations and kindred, of the like. It mnst be our business to encourage such, whose incli- nation lies this way, by leading them up in hopes, that through our assistance they may easily obtain a dispensation from the Pope; and no doubt he will readily grant it, if proper reason be urged, parallel cases produced, and opinions quoted which counte- nance such actions, when the common good of man- kind, and the greater advancement of God’s glory, which are the only end and design of the society, are pretended to be the sole motives to them.

III. The same must be observed when the prince happens to engage in any enterprise which is not equally approved by all his nobility; for in such cases he must be edged on and excited; whilst they, on the other hand, must be dissuaded from opposing him, and advised to acquiesce in all his proposals. But this must be done only in genercds, always avoid- ing particulars; lest, upon the ill success of the affair the miscarriage be thrown upon the Society. And should ever the action be called in question, care

tur, recitentur monita contraria liaec plane prohiben- tia, et adliibeatur anctoritas aliquorum patrum, de quibus constat quod haec ipsa monita illos lateant, qui etiam cum juramento asserere poterunt societa- tum, quoad haec quae illi improperantur, calumniam pati.

4. Juyabit etiam non parum ad occnpandos princi- pum animos, si, nostri dextre et per tertias personsa insinuent se ad legationes honorificas et favorabiles ad alios principes aut reges pro illis obeundas, prae- sertim apud pontificem et supremos monarchas ; häc enim occasione sese et societatem commendare poterunt, quare non nisi zelosi valde et versati in instit- uto nostro eo erunt destinändi.

5. Alumni principum et domestici praecipue, quibus familiariter utuntur, per munuscula praecipue et varia pietatis officia vicendi sunt, ut tandem nostros fideliter de bumoribus et inclinationibus principum ac magnatum instruant; et sic facile illis societas sese accomodabit; ^{^[2]}

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must be taken to have instructions always ready, plainly forbidding it; and these also must be backed with tlie autliority of some senior members, wlio be- ing wholly ignorant of the matter, must attest, upon oath, that such groundless* insinuations are a mali- cious and base imputation on the Society.

IV. It will also very much further us in gaining the favor of princes, if our members artfully worin themselves, bj^ the interest of others, into honorable embassies to foreign courts in their behalf; but es- pecially to the Pope and great monarchs; for by such opportunities they will be in a capacity both to rec- ommend themselves and their society. To this end therefore let none but thorough zealots for our interest, and persons well versed in the schemes and institutions of the Society, be ever pitched upon for such purposes.

Y. Above all, due care must be taken to curry favor with the minions and domestics of princes and noblemen; whom by small presents, and many offices of piety, we may so far byass, (bias,) as by means of them to get a faithful intelligence of the bent of their master’s humors and inclinations ; thus will the Society be better qualified to chime in with their tempers.

VI. How much the Societj- has benefited from their engagements in marriage treaties, the house of Austria and Bourbon; Poland and other kingdoms, are experimental evidences. Wlierefore let such matches be with prudence picked out, whose parents are our friends, and firmly attached to our interests.

7. Feminae principes per domesticas, potissimum quse a cubiculis sunt, facillime vincenter; quare illae omnibus modis foveantur, sic enim ad omnia, etiam secretissima, in familia aditus patebit.

8. In conscientiis magnatum regendis sequentur nostri confessorii, sententiam illorum auctorum qui liberiorem conscientiam faciunt contra opinionem ali- orum religiosorum, ut, relictis illis, a nosträ direct- ione et consiliis toti yelint dependero.

9. Tarn principes quam praelati aliique omnes qui societati favorem extraordinarium praestare possunt, participes faciendi sunt omnium meritorum societatis, exposito illis momento hujus summi privilegii.

10.Insinuandae etiam caute et prudenter facultates amplissimae societatis absolvendi etiam a casibus re- servatis respectu aliorum pastorum aut religiosorum, item dispensandi in jejuniis, debito reddendo, aut petendo, matrimonii impedimentis, aliisque notis, in quo fiet ut plurimi ad nos recurrant et obstringantur. ^{^[3]}

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VII. Princesses and ladies of quality are easily to

be gained by the influence of the woman of their bed-chamber; for wliicli reason we must bj^ all means pay particular address to tliese, for thereby tliere will be no secrets in the family but what we shall have fully diselosed to us* • —-

VIII. In directing the consciences of great men, it must be observed that our confessors are to follow the opinion of those who allow the greater latitude, in Opposition to that of other religious Orders; tliat, their penitents being allured with the prospect of such freedom, may readily relinquish them, and wholly depend upon our direction and counseh

IX. Princes, prelates, and all others who are cap- able of being signally serviceable to the Order, must be favored so far as to be made partakers of all the merits of the Society, after a proper information of the high importance of so great a privilege.

X. Let these notions be cautiously and with cun- ning instilled into the people, that this Society is en- trusted with a far greater power of absolving, even in the nicest cases; of dispensing with fasts; with paying and demanding of debts; with impediments of matrimony, and other common matters, than any other religious Order: which insinuations will be of such consequence, that many of necessity must have recourse to us, and thereby lay themselves under the strictest obligations.

VI. It will be very proper to give invitations to such to attend our sermons and fellowships, to hear

inscriptis thesibus honorandi, tum, si expedit, in tri« clinio mensä, excipiendi, variisque et dictis salutandi.

12. Ininxicitise et dessentiones inter magnates ad nos distrahendse. erunt ut componantur, sic enim in notitiam familiarium et secretorum paulatim poteri- mus de venire, et alterutram partem nobis devincere.

13. Quod si monarchse vel principi serviat aliquis societati parum addictus, invigilandum ut sive per nostros, sive potius per alios ille in amicitiam ac fa- miliaritatem societatis inducatur, promissis favoribus ac promotionibus per principem aut monarcham suum procurandis. ^{^[4]}^{^[5]}

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our orations and declamations, as also to compliment tliem with verses and theses; to address them in a genteel and complaisant manner, and at proper op~ portunities to give them handsome entertainments.

XII. Let proper methods be used to get knowledge of the animosities that arise among great men, that we may have a finger in reconciling their differ- ences ; for by this means we shall gradually become acquainted with their friends and secret affairs, and of necessity engage one of the parties in our interests.

XIII. But should discovery happen to be made, that any person serves either king or prince, who is not well-affected towards our Society, no stone must be left unturned by our members, or which is more proper, some other, to induce him by promises, fayors and preferments, which must be procured for him under his king or prince, to entertain a friendship for and familiarity with us.

XIY. Let all be very cautious of recommending or preferring such as have been any way dismissed from the Society, but especially those who of their own accord have departed from it; for let them dis- guise it ever so cunningly, nevertheless they always retain an implacable hatred against our Order.

XY. Finally,—Let all with such artfulness gain the ascendant over princes, noblemen, and the magistrates of every place, that they may be ready at our beck, even to sacrifice their nearest relations and most intimate friends, when we say it is for our interest and advantage.

CAPUT III.

Quomodo agendum societati cum illis qui magnce sunt auctoritatis in republieä, et quamvis divites non sint, aliis tarnen modis juvare possunt.

1. Praeter supradicta, quae fere omnia proportional- iter illis applicari possunt, curanda est gratia illorum ad versus adversarios nostros.

2. Utendum etiam auctoritate, prudentiä, et con- silio eorum, ad contemptionem bonorum et acquisiti- onem variorum munerum a societate obeundorum; adhibito etiam tacite et plene secreto illorum nomine, in augmentatione bonorum temporalium, si satis illis putetur confidendum.

3. Adhibendi etiam ut mitigent et compescant homines viliores, et plebem societati nostrae contra- riam.

4. Ab episcopis, praelatis et aliis superioribus ec- clesiasticis, pro diversitate rationum et propensione in nos ea exigenda quae fuerint opportuna. ^{^[6]}

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CHAPTER III.

How the Society must behave themselves towards those ivho are at the heim of ctffairs, and others ivho although they be not rieh, are notivithstanding in a capacity of being otherwise serviceable.

I. All that has been before mentioned, may, in a great measure, be applied to these ; and \ve must also be industrious to procure their favor against every one that opposes us.

II. Their anthority and wisdom must be courted, for obtaining several offices to be discharged by us; we must also make a handle of their advice with respect to the contempt of riches; though at the same time, if their secrecy and faith may be depended on, we may privately make use of their names in amassing temporal goods for the benefit of the Society.

III. They must be also employed in calming the minds of the meaner sort of people, and in wheed- ling the aversions of the populace into an affection for our Society.

IV. As to bishops, prelates, and other superior ecclesiastics, they must be importuned for such things only as shall appear necessary; and even for these, with a proper regard to the diversity of our occa- sions, and the tendency of their inclinations to serve us.

V. In some places it will be sufficient if we can

nt prselati et parochi efficiant quod subditi illorum societatem revereantur, et ipsi ministeria nostra non impediant, in aliis locis ubi plus possunt, ut in Germania, Poloniä, etc. sacrosancte colendi, ut auctori- tate illorum et principum, monasteria, parochise, proe- positurse, patronatus, altarium fundationes, loca pia fundata ad nos divelli possint; facillime enim ea asse- qui poterimus in locis ubi catbolici heereticis et schis- maticis permixti sunt. Demonstrandum ejusmodi prselatis, immensum fructum et meritum ex talibus mutationibus oriundum, a sacerdotibus, ssecularibus, et monachis non expectandum; quod si fecerint, lau- dandus palam illorum zelus, etiam scripto, inculcan- daque memoria facti perpetua.

6. Conandum eo fine ut prselati tales nostris tum a confessionibus, tum a consiliis utantur et si quidem in spe sint, aut prsetentione, ad alteriores gradus in curia romanä, juvandi omni contentione, ac conatu amicorum, ubicunque ad hoc conferre valentium. ^{^[7]}

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prevail with the prelates and curates, to cause those under them only to bear a reverence to our Order, and that they themselves will be no hindrance to us in the discharge of our ministry. In others, where the clergy are more pre dominant, as in Grermany, Poland, &c., they must be addressed with the pro- foundest respect, that by their and the prince’s au- thority, monasteries, parishes, priories, patronages, foundations of masses, and religious places, may be drawn into our clutches; and this is no hard matter to be obtained in those places where catholics are intermixed with heretics and schismatics. And for the better effecting of this, it will be of great impor- tance to remonstrate to these prelates the prodigious advantage and merit there will be in changes of this sort, which can hardly be expected from priests, secu- lars, and monks. But should they be prevailed upon, their zeal must then be rewarded with public com- mendations, and the memory of the action transmitted in writing to the latest posterity.

VI. In prosecution of the same end, we must engage such prelates to make use of us both for con- fessors and counsellors; and if they at any time aim at higher preferment from the see of Rome, their pretensions must be backed with such strong interest of our friends in every place, as we shall be almost sure not to meet with a disappointment.

VII. Due care must be also taken by such of our members who have intercourse with bishops and princes, fhat the society, when these found either

curam animarum, ipse vero superior loci pro tempore existens si parochus, et sic totum regi men ecclesiae illius erit nostrum, et parochiani omnes societati plene erunt subjecti, ut quidvis ab illis impetretur.

8. Ubi academici sunt nobis repugnantes, vel Cath- olici, aut hseretici cives fundationes impedientes, ibi per prselatos conandum et primarise catliedrse con- cionatorise occupentur; sic enim continget societatem aliquando saltem necesitates ac rationes per occasi- onem saltem exposituram.

9. Maxime vero prselati ecclesise, devinciendi erunt, quando agetur de beatificatione aut canoniza- tione nostrorum, et tune omnibus modis a magnati- bus et principibus litterse procurandse erunt, in qui- bus apud sedem apostolicam negotium promoveatur.

10. Si contingat praelatos aut magnates legationem obire, cevendum sedulo ac prseveniendum ne aliis re- ligiosis qui nobiscum certant, utantur; ne affectum in illos transferant, et in provincias ac civitates in quibus nos moramur, inducant. Quod si hujusmodi legati transiverint illas provincias vel civitates, ubi societas collegia habet, excipiantur magno honore et affectu et pro modestiä religiosä tractentur.

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Colleges, or parochial churches, may always have the power of presenting vicars for the eure of souls; and that the Superintendent of the place for the time being be appointed curate, to the end we may grasp the whole government of the church; and its parish- ioners by that means become such vassals to us, that we can ask nothing of them that they will dare to deny us.

VIII. Wherever tne governors of academies ham- per our design, or the catholics or heretics oppose us in our foundations, we must endeavor by the prelates to secure the principal pulpits; for by this means the society at least may some time or other have an op- portunity of remonstrating their wants, and laying open their necessities.

IX. The prelates of the church, above all others, must be mightily caressed when the affair of canon- ization of any of our members is upon the foot; and at such a time, letters by all means must be procured from princes and noblemen, by whose interest the matter may be promoted at the court of Rome.

X. If ever it happen that prelates or noblemen are employed in embassies, all caution must be taken to prevent them from using any religious Order that oppose ours, lest their disaffection to us should be infused into their masters, and they propagate it among the provinces and cities where we reside. And if ever ambassadors of this kind pass through provinces or cities where we have Colleges, let them be received with all due marks of honor and esteem, and as handsomely entertained as religious decency can possibly admit of.

CAPUT IV.

Quce commendata esse debeant concionatoribus et con-
fessariis magnatum.

1. Nostri, principes virosque illustres ita dirigant, ut solum ad majorem Dei gloriam tendere videantur et ad talem austeritatem conscientiae, quam ipsimet principes concedunt; neque enim statim sed sensim spectare debet directio illorum externam et politicam gubernationem.

2. Ideo saepe illis inculcandum distributionem ho norum et dignitatum in republiiä spectare ad justi- tiam, graviterque Deum offendi a principibus, si contra eam spectant, et ex passione procedunt. Protes- tentur ssepe ac serio se nullo modo veile in reipublicse administrationem ingerere, sed invitos dicere, ratione officii sui. Tum ubi semel bene liaec apprelienderint, explicetur quibus virtutibus praediti esse debeant qui ad dignitates et munia publica ac primaria assumendi sunt, nominenturque tandem, et commendentur ab illis qui sunt sinceri amici societatis. Hoc tarnen non fiet immediate per nostros, nisi princeps ad hoc coegerit, sed plus gratiae habebit, si interponantur amici vel familiäres principis.

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CHAPTER IV.

The chief things to be recommended to preachers and
confessors of noblemen.

I. Let the members of our Society direct princes and great men in such a manner that they may seem to have nothing eise in view but the promotion of God’s glory; and advise them to no other austerity of conscience but what they themse

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