THE
DOCTRINE
AND
PRACTICE
OF
THE
IESVITES
.
WHen
the
time
was
now
at
hand
and
almost
accomplished
,
wherein
that
rare
and
heauenly
man
Paulus
Florenius
abandoned
that
perverse
Fraternitie
of
the
Iesuites
,
and
returned
from
them
to
the
publike
Societie
of
men
,
and
we
two
were
at
that
instant
time
walking
together
then
thus
spake
Paul
vnto
me
.
PAVL
.
FLOREN
.
Me
thinkes
Christianus
(
saith
hee
)
when
I
consider
all
Circumstances
impartially
,
comparing
them
one
with
another
,
this
our
profession
of
Iesuitisme
wherein
wee
liue
is
wholly
compacted
of
Superstition
,
Hypocrisie
,
and
a
great
deale
of
dissembled
and
pretended
Sanctitie
,
being
euen
devised
of
the
Deuill
himselfe
in
this
elder
and
doating
age
of
the
world
,
purposely
thereby
to
make
sale
vnto
Mankind
of
all
the
Errors
,
toyes
and
Superstitions
of
Poperie
,
and
(
to
vse
a
homely
phrase
against
my
will
,
but
that
it
is
most
proper
and
significant
in
this
case
)
to
take
the
stinking
excrements
of
Papistrie
so
odious
in
their
owne
nature
,
and
sauouring
much
more
loathsomely
at
this
time
,
especially
wherein
they
are
so
often
stirred
in
,
by
many
curious
and
great
Schollers
,
and
by
compounding
and
tempering
the
same
with
pretences
of
Holinesse
,
and
wrapping
them
vp
in
a
great
number
of
obscurities
and
subtilties
to
vent
them
once
more
to
the
whole
Christian
world
for
sweet
Drugs
and
Spices
of
price
,
and
that
after
such
a
manner
,
that
they
will
compell
men
to
bee
theyr
Chapmen
for
them
to
buy
whether
they
will
or
not
.
Yea
,
and
the
matter
is
now
carried
in
such
sort
,
that
nothing
can
be
discouered
in
the
religion
of
Poperie
,
how
base
,
false
,
and
abhominable
soever
,
which
this
Societie
presumeth
not
by
some
new
deuise
or
other
,
eyther
through
blinding
the
eye
of
Vnderstanding
,
or
by
craftie
Conueyances
,
couering
the
absurditie
and
falshood
thereof
,
to
make
appeare
both
faire
and
true
.
Wherefore
I
suppose
,
that
it
standeth
vs
much
vpon
to
consider
seriously
in
what
a
profession
wee
liue
,
least
if
wee
shall
neglect
to
take
notice
of
the
falshood
thereof
now
,
our
blessed
Lord
and
Sauiour
himselfe
neglect
to
acknowledge
vs
for
his
owne
in
the
day
of
our
generall
accompt
,
and
afterwards
,
wee
may
doe
at
that
most
excellent
Prophet
IEREMIE
commandeth
,
Flie
out
of
the
Middest
of
Babel
and
deliuer
euery
man
his
owne
Soule
.
CHRISTIAN
.
FRANC●EN
.
Whereunto
I
replyed
thus
:
And
is
it
true
Paul
?
Can
you
admit
a
thought
,
that
the
most
Holy
and
Learned
profession
in
the
world
at
this
time
,
should
bee
false
and
hypocriticall
?
I
assure
you
,
I
hold
this
Religion
to
bee
the
true
Religion
,
and
so
consequently
that
our selues
are
bound
to
continue
in
the
same
,
as
in
our
lawfull
Vocation
,
according
to
the
Doctrine
of
the
holy
Apostle
,
and
not
to
depart
a
jot
therefrom
,
or
else
all
Religions
in
the
world
to
be
false
,
and
by
all
meanes
to
be
auoyded
.
PAVL
.
I
was
of
your
mind
Christianus
,
said
Paul
,
before
I
entred
into
this
Profession
,
and
therfore
I
burst
violently
out
of
the
armes
of
this
flattering
world
(
though
shee
was
vnwilling
to
let
me
escape
out
of
her
clutches
)
and
came
running
as
it
were
in
hast
to
this
Societie
of
Iesuites
,
as
to
the
most
holy
of
all
professions
of
Religion
,
and
the
most
pleasing
to
GOD
(
as
I
supposed
)
and
the
most
comfortable
to
mine
owne
soule
.
But
now
,
whereas
I
expected
to
find
true
and
vnfeigned
Holines
therein
,
Woe
is
mee
,
I
meet
with
nothing
but
meere
Hypocrisie
and
Dissimulation
.
And
now
euen
thine
owne
selfe
(
O
Christian
)
shalt
see
apparently
that
what
I
haue
spoken
is
not
deuised
of
hatred
,
or
euill
will
,
but
that
I
speake
it
as
a
man
conuinced
in
Conscience
by
the
Truth
it selfe
,
and
euen
enforced
thereunto
against
my
will
,
if
forthwith
thou
doest
but
search
into
the
depth
as
I
haue
done
,
and
into
the
very
foundations
of
the
Societie
,
and
relinquishing
all
voluntary
or
(
as
our
Societie
termeth
it
)
Holy
simplicity
and
blindnes
of
heart
,
thou
be
guided
by
the
pure
light
of
reason
,
and
beholding
the
same
with
a
sincere
vnderstanding
,
no
way
for
stalled
with
Iesuiticall
Delusions
,
thou
canst
take
a
view
of
the
Cozenage
and
knauerie
thereof
:
which
if
thou
doest
,
(
as
it
is
my
hope
that
thou
wilt
;
)
I
doubt
not
but
that
thou
shalt
quickly
discerne
,
by
those
spirituall
foundations
which
are
layd
in
euery
house
of
Probationers
amongst
vs
for
the
Education
of
Nouices
,
and
instructing
them
according
to
the
rule
of
that
Societie
,
that
none
at
all
is
fitting
to
bee
admitted
into
this
profession
,
but
such
onely
as
haue
a
propense
inclination
,
eyther
by
nature
,
or
acquired
by
seruile
Education
,
and
suddenly
resolued
vpon
in
some
sit
of
astonishment
,
of
heart
to
hypocrisie
and
superstition
;
That
is
to
say
,
some
such
man
as
is
well
skilled
,
by
an
app●●●●nt
Sanctitie
of
looke
or
demureness
of
Count
〈…〉
nce
,
to
make
shew
in
publike
of
his
Deuotion
(
as
they
tearme
it
,
)
which
our
blessed
Sauiour
hath
commanded
to
reserue
for
our
priuate
Closets
,
and
such
a
one
as
praying
in
publike
like
a
Pharisie
at
a
Fast
,
can
cunningly
change
the
coppie
of
his
Countenance
at
pleasure
,
which
manner
of
behauiour
,
howbeit
indeed
and
in
truth
it
bee
nothing
but
Hypocrisie
,
yet
it
is
stiled
by
our
Societie
,
Edification
forsooth
,
and
Deuotion
.
Verily
Christian
,
I
doe
euery
day
more
and
more
plainely
perceiue
,
and
doe
exceedingly
bewaile
to
see
,
that
this
is
the
very
foundation
wherevpon
our
Societie
is
built
,
nor
will
my
Conscience
euer
suffer
me
to
bee
at
quiet
,
till
I
haue
purged
my selfe
from
these
pollutions
.
But
if
so
be
,
that
your selfe
hauing
your
vnderstanding
forestalled
with
daily
Custome
,
which
is
a
second
Nature
,
doe
not
yet
perhaps
perceiue
thus
much
.
I
will
vndoubtedly
proue
vnto
you
by
infallible
Demonstrations
,
how
you
may
be
able
to
collect
thus
much
by
very
touch
and
feeling
,
which
though
it
bee
the
most
stupid
of
all
Sences
,
yet
it
is
the
most
infallible
and
hardest
to
bee
deceiued
.
CHRISTIAN
.
Indeed
,
sayd
I
,
Paul
,
I
doe
confesse
that
I
doe
not
yet
fully
vnderstand
thus
much
.
Wherefore
if
you
suppose
me
to
be
inveloped
in
a
Myst
of
Iesuitisme
,
be
a
meanes
I
beseech
you
that
I
may
Discerne
,
at
the
least
by
touching
the
meaning
of
these
things
,
whereof
you
haue
now
begun
to
speake
.
PAVL
.
Well
then
,
said
hee
,
come
hither
vnto
me
yet
a
litle
neerer
,
and
by
calling
thy
memory
to
an
accompt
,
lay
thy
hand
(
as
it
were
)
vpon
all
that
Sanctity
whereof
thou
hast
had
experience
hitherto
,
partly
in
thy selfe
,
and
partly
in
other
Iesuites
,
and
weighing
the
same
deliberately
together
,
with
the
seuerall
dispositions
of
the
people
,
as
they
are
Italians
,
Spaniards
,
French
,
or
Dutch
,
ingenuous
or
blockish
,
free-borne
,
or
base
,
consider
them
apart
seriously
,
so
shalt
thou
at
last
bee
resolued
.
I
assure
my selfe
,
that
thou
hast
euer
obserued
,
and
tooke
notice
of
more
frequent
and
outward
expressions
of
Iesuiticall
Deuotion
in
Spaniards
,
and
Italians
,
then
in
Germans
,
French
,
or
other
Nations
,
and
most
vsually
in
seruile
and
blockish
companions
,
much
more
then
in
free-borne
and
ingenuous
Gentlemen
.
Now
as
touching
the
Spaniard
himselfe
,
you
shall
find
that
this
Disposition
in
him
,
proceedeth
meerely
from
his
seruile
Education
in
the
Christian
Religion
:
For
there
is
in
Spaine
(
as
your selfe
know
as
well
as
I
doe
)
so
strict
a
course
taken
for
inquiry
into
euery
particuler
man
,
touching
his
profession
,
at
the
least
of
the
Romane
Religion
,
and
the
same
is
so
narrowly
watched
for
flying
away
,
that
except
the
very
Sonnes
and
Children
themselues
shall
bring
a
Faggot
to
the
burning
of
their
Fathers
,
(
if
once
they
be
adjudged
Heretickes
)
and
so
become
little
lesse
then
the
Executioners
of
their
Parents
,
they
are
generally
reputed
Heretickes
,
and
worthy
to
fry
with
them
in
the
same
flame
.
Whereby
it
is
apparant
enough
,
that
the
Spaniards
of
necessitie
must
be
Superstitious
,
and
very
frequent
in
all
outward
acts
of
Devotion
,
and
both
in
life
and
death
Romane
Catholiques
.
Yea
,
they
had
need
to
take
heed
,
that
they
doe
not
so
much
as
smell
like
an
Hereticke
,
when
they
are
rotten
in
their
Graues
,
least
if
they
haue
fallen
short
in
outward
testimonies
of
Religion
,
they
happen
to
bee
suspected
touching
the
Faith
,
and
come
to
be
most
seuerely
persecuted
to
the
third
and
fourth
generation
.
How
then
can
it
bee
possiblely
,
that
the
Spanish
Nation
,
being
borne
and
bred
,
educated
and
instructed
in
such
infinite
slauerie
of
minde
,
being
also
by
Nature
hot
and
chollericke
,
should
chuse
but
be
most
violent
,
or
(
if
you
please
to
tearme
it
so
)
most
Devout
in
his
Religion
?
Yea
,
how
could
the
Deuill
himselfe
if
hee
were
lyable
to
the
Spanish
Inquisition
,
how
could
hee
avoyd
it
,
but
hee
must
be
compelled
at
all
times
to
transforme
himselfe
into
an
Angell
of
light
,
and
to
acquire
some
habite
,
at
the
least
to
put
on
an
outside
of
Romish
superstition
and
seeming
Sanctitie
?
From
this
Fountaine
sprung
that
Ignatius
de
Loiola
,
who
being
a
Souldier
,
and
by
the
valour
of
the
French
at
the
seidge
of
the
Castle
at
Pampeloun
,
in
the
Kingdome
of
Navarre
,
spoyled
for
following
that
profession
any
longer
,
and
outstripping
all
others
in
Superstition
,
became
the
Founder
of
the
Iesuiticall
Order
,
by
whom
hee
might
in
time
to
come
,
not
onely
bee
reuenged
of
the
French
,
but
also
make
a
Conquest
of
all
the
Christian
world
besides
.
You
shall
also
obserue
in
Italians
,
that
they
are
exceedingly
frequent
in
those
outward
acts
of
religious
Deuotion
,
and
that
through
a
naturall
inclination
which
they
haue
to
hypocrisie
and
dissimulation
,
as
a
Nation
which
euer
hath
bin
(
as
appeareth
by
all
their
antient
Monuments
and
Records
)
very
superstitious
,
and
are
to
this
day
inclinable
to
worship
a
multitude
of
Deities
,
and
marueilous
prone
to
Idolatrie
;
insomuch
,
that
it
may
easily
be
demonstrated
,
how
out
of
this
Cup
of
Fornication
,
that
people
hath
powred
out
many
things
into
Christian
Religion
,
and
infected
it
throughout
with
deadly
poyson
.
Wherewith
the
whole
Christian
world
being
for
the
most
part
inticed
and
deceiued
,
by
the
sweetnesse
,
delitiousnesse
,
Antiquity
,
and
faire
outside
thereof
;
is
,
in
a
manner
quite
inebriated
,
whiles
day
by
day
in
the
matter
of
saluation
,
they
resort
to
a
Rabble
of
Romish
Deities
,
and
to
a
Numberlesse
number
of
Saints
forsooth
,
substituted
by
the
Popes
of
Rome
,
in
roome
of
the
Heathen
Gods
,
and
propounded
to
be
invocated
and
prayed
vnto
,
and
them
multiplyed
continually
,
though
not
in
deed
,
yet
in
their
names
,
as
also
to
many
Goddesses
feminine
Saints
,
amongst
whom
questionles
the
Virgin
Mary
was
brought
in
as
in
the
place
of
Ceres
,
whom
the
Roman
Matrons
in
the
time
of
Heathenisme
,
did
most
religiously
adore
with
burning
tapers
,
at
such
time
of
the
yeare
as
the
Feast
of
Candlemas
or
Purification
of
the
blessed
Virgin
was
enacted
.
Which
thing
,
I
am
the
rather
induced
to
beleeue
seeing
that
for
the
increase
of
their
Idolatry
,
this
very
solemnity
was
purposely
contriued
to
fall
into
the
moneth
of
February
,
that
being
the
selfe
same
For
indeed
,
all
the
people
of
Rome
,
at
that
time
of
the
yeare
(
as
their
owne
Writers
testifie
)
was
wholly
taken
vp
with
making
Oblations
and
Sacrifices
,
with
lighted
Torches
and
waxen
Candles
about
the
Sepulchers
of
the
Dead
,
for
obtaining
of
rest
to
the
Soules
of
their
friends
departed
.
And
finding
the
Scriptures
of
God
,
vnwilling
of
themselues
to
consent
to
this
Idolatry
,
they
haue
forced
and
drawn
them
thereunto
,
(
as
it
were
)
by
the
head
and
shoulders
,
and
hauing
by
chance
stumbled
vpon
one
booke
or
other
that
seemeth
to
approue
that
opinion
in
some
sort
,
they
haue
made
that
booke
Canonicall
,
that
so
their
opinion
might
bee
made
altogether
an
Article
of
our
Faith
,
in
defence
whereof
,
as
well
as
of
other
points
,
all
the
Doctors
,
(
or
rather
Doddipoles
)
of
the
Romane
Church
doe
labour
till
they
sweate
againe
,
but
all
in
vaine
,
till
at
the
last
perceiuing
,
that
they
nothing
aduantage
their
cause
,
by
all
the
new
Arguments
they
can
deuise
,
and
rake
vp
day
by
day
,
they
retire
in
the
end
of
all
to
the
traditions
of
the
Church
as
to
their
short
Anchor
and
onely
safe
harbour
in
that
case
:
When
as
neuerthelesse
,
that
very
tradition
it selfe
is
for
the
most
part
(
I
may
safely
say
altogether
)
vnderpropped
by
that
great
and
principall
Idoll
of
Rome
,
which
with
its
greatnesse
doth
(
in
a
manner
)
reach
vp
to
heauen
.
Yea
maketh
it selfe
equall
to
that
euer
to
bee
adored
and
blessed
Trinity
,
by
that
triple
Crowne
it
weareth
,
and
that
threefold
gemiculation
which
is
expected
from
all
such
as
dare
to
approach
neere
vnto
him
.
Neither
indeed
,
can
I
suppose
that
the
Germaines
and
Bohemians
,
being
naturally
and
of
themselues
inclinable
to
true
piety
,
did
so
easily
fall
off
from
the
Church
of
Rome
,
for
any
other
cause
so
much
as
for
this
;
to
wit
,
because
in
regard
of
that
honestie
and
grauitie
of
manners
which
is
in
them
by
Nature
,
they
haue
euer
abhorred
&
cannot
away
with
to
this
day
a
multitude
of
Idols
and
Ceremonies
,
with
all
that
leuity
of
Minnick
representations
and
superstitions
,
howbeit
indeed
they
haue
defiled
themselues
for
many
yeeres
together
with
this
Idolatry
and
inconstancie
,
being
ouerborne
by
the
authority
of
that
Romane
Idoll
,
and
that
infallibility
of
Spirit
,
which
they
so
bragge
that
they
hold
in
Feesimple
,
or
at
the
least
haue
an
euerlasting
lease
thereof
to
themselues
and
their
posterities
for
euer
.
And
though
it
be
so
,
that
some
men
being
caught
by
our
Iesuites
,
with
the
glorious
names
of
Hierome
,
Ambrose
,
Augustine
,
Bernard
,
Thomas
Aquinas
,
&
other
Saints
,
do
returne
to
their
former
abominations
,
surely
they
are
none
but
illiterate
,
and
vnexperienced
youthes
or
none
of
the
wisest
and
knowing
men
,
but
rather
such
as
being
distracted
with
an
importunate
and
confused
rumour
,
of
Learning
and
Holinesse
,
are
not
able
to
vnderstand
the
mistery
of
this
businesse
,
or
to
discerne
aright
of
matters
in
question
,
nor
doe
perceiue
,
that
forasmuch
,
as
these
Fathers
of
our
Societie
haue
made
the
Bishop
of
Rome
an
earthly
Deity
,
by
appropriating
vnto
him
a
soueraigne
Power
,
ouer
all
persons
,
and
an
infallibility
of
truth
in
doctrine
,
so
in
lieu
of
this
their
Curtesie
to
him
,
this
Roman-God-Almighty
hath
likewise
conferred
vpon
them
,
and
by
a
free
donation
entayled
vpon
them
and
their
posterity
the
name
of
holy
Fathers
,
for
euer
and
euer
.
And
all
this
only
for
this
purpose
that
so
godly
a
peece
of
Doctrine
deuised
by
them
,
and
tending
so
much
to
the
vpholding
of
his
Fatherhood
(
I
had
almost
said
falshood
,
)
might
not
seeme
any
humaine
deuice
,
but
rather
as
it
were
a
Divine
constitution
and
an
Oracle
from
Heauen
:
and
that
himselfe
euermore
relying
thereupon
,
might
by
vertue
of
his
Diuine
prerogatiue
,
haue
power
to
create
and
ordaine
for
the
whole
Christian
world
,
what
Articles
of
Faith
hee
pleased
.
Last
of
all
,
who
doth
not
see
,
that
seruile
and
blockish
Companions
(
for
those
onely
remaine
in
our
Diuision
)
doe
for
this
very
cause
both
more
willingly
fall
into
,
and
more
obstinately
maintaine
this
blockish
and
slauish
Religion
,
as
more
naturally
agreeing
to
themselues
and
their
inclinations
.
But
this
point
I
am
sure
,
your selfe
vnderstand
perfectly
,
who
haue
but
a
few
dayes
agoe
(
as
you
cannot
chuse
but
remember
)
expressed
vnto
mee
your
owne
particular
griefe
,
for
the
rude
and
blockish
qualities
of
our
Collegiates
,
when
you
related
vnto
me
not
without
indignation
,
that
after
you
returned
from
Italie
into
Germany
,
you
were
exceedingly
molested
in
mind
with
Consideration
thereof
,
and
did
many
a
time
wish
your selfe
out
of
this
world
,
rather
then
to
liue
to
be
constrained
to
doe
any
thing
against
your
Calling
,
with
this
thought
,
and
the
experience
you
had
of
the
truth
thereof
,
did
wonderfully
weaken
and
infringe
:
to
wit
,
that
in
these
parts
,
there
were
none
obserued
to
enter
into
or
at
the
least
to
continue
in
that
Society
of
Iesuites
,
but
the
very
Dregs
of
Mankind
,
such
as
were
hardly
capable
of
reason
,
much
lesse
of
true
Piety
and
Religion
:
vnto
whom
neuerthelesse
,
because
they
exceed
in
number
,
you
must
conforme
your selfe
in
all
things
,
if
you
desire
to
liue
in
peace
abroad
,
and
enioy
any
quiet
or
content
at
home
.
And
thus
I
haue
made
knowne
vnto
you
,
the
foundation
of
our
Society
,
let
vs
now
proceed
vnto
the
body
thereof
,
the
estate
whereof
is
easily
discouered
from
the
originall
,
as
it
were
,
and
causes
therof
.
For
inasmuch
as
our
Societie
which
most
impudently
arrogateth
to
it selfe
the
name
of
IESV
,
is
composed
of
such
a
sincke
of
Hypocrites
and
superstitious
persons
,
it
deserueth
rather
to
bee
tearmed
a
Pharisaicall
Religion
:
howbeit
(
as
I
haue
said
)
it
bee
clothed
with
the
most
glorious
name
of
IESV
,
to
the
end
that
wretched
mortals
might
henceforth
haue
the
Enemies
and
Traitors
of
their
owne
salvation
,
not
onely
lurking
vnder
sheepes
clothing
,
but
also
vnder
the
very
ornament
of
Divinity
,
that
by
this
meanes
the
very
Elect
(
if
it
could
bee
possibly
)
suspecting
no
falshood
to
bee
vnder
so
glorious
a
name
of
truth
,
might
bee
drawne
into
errour
.
Now
the
whole
body
of
our
society
,
besides
their
Father
Generall
,
who
is
the
Head
and
Coriphaeus
of
this
Order
,
comprehendeth
only
these
sixe
sorts
of
persons
.
The
first
,
those
who
haue
professed
4.
vowes
.
The
second
,
such
as
haue
made
profession
of
3.
vowes
The
third
,
are
spirituall
Coadiutors
.
The
fourth
,
are
temporall
Coadiutors
.
The
fifth
Schollers
.
The
sixth
,
Novices
.
The
professors
of
4.
Vowes
are
so
called
,
because
that
ouer
and
aboue
the
3.
common
vowes
of
Poverty
,
Chastity
,
&
Obedience
,
they
make
a
peculiar
vow
of
Obedience
to
the
Pope
of
Rome
,
and
promise
him
,
that
they
will
disperse
and
publish
the
errors
and
superstitions
of
the
Romane
Religion
throughout
all
the
world
,
whensoeuer
he
shall
command
,
Non
petito
viatico
,
at
their
owne
cost
and
charges
.
And
againe
,
vnto
the
Father
Generall
they
vow
,
Ab
negationem
honorum
,
to
renounce
all
honours
,
forsooth
,
because
they
will
not
be
made
Cardinals
out
of
the
Societie
,
and
yet
therein
they
are
made
very
Cardinals
in
the
Societie
,
as
out
of
whom
onely
their
Father
Generall
,
who
is
in
effect
nothing
else
but
the
Pope
of
that
Societie
,
must
bee
elected
,
and
vpon
whom
as
vpon
hinges
,
the
whole
Societie
may
depend
and
be
turned
euery
way
for
aduantage
.
Which
men
also
may
retaine
a
publique
repute
of
being
Learned
and
Holy
men
:
and
so
this
lying
and
foolish
Societie
,
whiles
it
supposeth
that
it
auoydeth
Ambition
,
or
would
bee
thought
so
to
doe
,
falleth
headlong
into
it
,
not
much
vnlike
those
foolish
Phylosophers
,
whom
Cicero
mentioneth
,
who
by
setting
their
owne
Names
vpon
those
Bookes
,
which
they
had
written
touching
the
Contempt
of
Glory
,
haue
therein
foolishly
fished
for
vaine
Glory
to
themselues
.
Now
those
who
haue
professed
three
vowes
,
are
as
very
Byshops
in
the
societie
,
and
whereas
in
other
Orders
this
degree
is
not
distinguished
from
simple
Priesthood
,
but
as
many
as
are
ordained
Priests
may
also
be
Professors
.
In
this
our
societie
there
is
a
distinction
betwixt
those
two
,
to
the
end
(
forsooth
)
that
this
degree
may
seeme
the
higher
,
and
more
eminent
,
if
many
yeares
after
a
man
hath
beene
made
Priest
he
may
be
admitted
to
profession
,
as
vnto
a
Byshopricke
.
By
which
distinctions
they
make
it
appeare
vnto
vs
euidently
enough
,
that
they
haue
conuerted
the
base
shew
of
Ambition
,
into
a
most
beautifull
and
glorious
picture
,
or
outside
of
vaine
glory
,
which
might
moue
all
all
men
liuing
with
its
beautie
,
and
might
allure
and
retaine
vnto
it selfe
,
a
great
number
of
persons
of
all
estates
,
and
degrees
,
and
of
both
sexes
.
Whereas
,
if
men
looking
seriously
into
this
outward
For
by
the
first
beast
,
I
vnderstand
the
Byshop
of
Rome
,
who
in
regard
of
that
secular
power
which
he
vsurpes
,
is
indeed
and
in
truth
that
Antichrist
whom
our
society
now
causeth
to
bee
worshipped
almost
all
the
world
ouer
,
and
that
it
must
continue
to
doe
so
euer
lastingly
,
hath
bound
it selfe
by
that
their
fourth
and
more
peculiar
vow
.
Now
that
which
our
blessed
Lord
and
Saviour
Germany
,
Bohemia
,
and
other
Kingdomes
,
lately
taken
out
of
their
hands
,
and
shall
see
many
other
Realmes
and
Principalities
reduced
to
their
obedience
by
the
same
.
For
then
shall
this
society
being
growne
rich
,
magnifie
its
owne
heart
,
and
rise
vp
against
the
King
of
Kings
,
and
be
crushed
to
peeces
without
Spirituall
Coadjutors
(
vnder
which
name
are
comprehended
all
Priests
and
professors
of
Diuinity
or
Phylosophy
,
and
all
and
singular
teachers
of
the
inferiour
Arts
not
yet
hauing
made
profession
)
hauing
first
vowed
Poverty
,
Chastity
,
and
Obedience
,
doe
assist
this
beast
in
peruerting
and
seducing
of
Soules
vnto
the
first
Beast
.
Wherein
as
any
one
shall
approue
himselfe
more
apt
and
ingenious
then
his
fellowes
,
so
is
he
the
more
quickly
admitted
by
profession
to
bee
a
Member
of
this
Monster
.
Now
those
who
are
called
Temporall
Coadjutors
,
haue
charge
to
prouide
for
the
backe
and
belly
of
this
Beast
,
purneying
and
prouiding
for
the
same
and
intermedling
with
all
Domesticke
businesse
,
Lastly
,
Schollers
and
Novices
are
maintained
at
home
,
to
this
end
onely
,
least
at
any
time
there
might
prooue
a
defect
in
the
Body
of
this
Monster
.
But
that
as
old
eaten
limbes
shall
happen
to
decay
,
and
fall
off
,
so
fresh
and
new
supplies
may
be
still
made
out
of
this
Storehouse
or
Seminarie
of
young
Iesuites
.
Moreouer
,
to
the
end
this
Idolatry
and
superstition
Ignatius
de
Loyola
,
who
is
read
euery
moneth
at
the
Table
.
may
be
for
euer
concealed
free
from
feare
of
discouerie
,
and
that
as
it
is
preserued
,
so
it
may
bee
increased
continually
,
this
Beast
is
accustomed
to
forestall
the
vnderstanding
of
her
whelpes
,
if
they
haue
any
,
and
to
bind
vp
their
very
sences
,
admonishing
or
rather
Commanding
in
good
earnest
,
that
all
things
which
the
Superior
shall
Command
,
be
performed
with
blind
obedience
,
and
that
whatsoeuer
our
superior
shall
doe
,
bee
passed
ouer
with
blind
judgement
,
without
so
much
as
Considering
whether
it
be
good
and
profitable
,
or
hurtfull
and
damnable
,
which
is
enioyned
or
done
,
forasmuch
as
euery
such
thought
taketh
away
the
merit
and
valour
of
obedience
.
In
which
particuler
,
our
Societie
followeth
the
steps
of
the
Canonists
those
most
pernicious
flatterers
of
the
Popes
,
and
seducers
of
the
whole
Christian
world
.
For
these
were
the
onely
men
,
who
in
times
past
perswaded
all
Christian
Churches
,
that
the
Byshop
of
Rome
was
of
such
Soueraigne
power
,
and
authoritie
;
that
albeit
,
hee
should
lead
the
whole
world
into
Damnation
,
And
euen
thus
altogether
,
or
rather
a
great
deale
worse
,
doth
this
Societie
of
ours
instruct
her
Nouices
,
teaching
that
whatsoeuer
our
Superiours
inioyneth
to
bee
done
or
doth
himselfe
,
is
not
onely
not
to
be
questioned
(
much
lesse
to
be
found
fault
withall
)
out
euer
to
bee
presupposed
as
holy
and
And
all
this
onely
to
this
end
(
forsooth
)
that
all
their
Foolery
,
Idolatry
,
and
Superstition
,
may
at
length
obtaine
the
name
of
Holinesse
,
and
bee
adored
as
Ordinances
of
the
Societie
.
And
now
(
mee
thinkes
(
I
haue
brought
thee
about
neere
enough
to
the
Knowledge
and
sensible
feeling
(
as
it
were
)
of
the
summe
of
our
Religion
.
Neither
doe
I
doubt
,
but
that
now
at
last
,
thou
vnderstandest
how
extreamely
wee
haue
deceiued
our selues
,
and
bin
gulled
in
making
choyce
of
this
kinde
of
life
,
and
how
veniall
a
sinne
wee
shall
commit
,
in
withdrawing
our selues
from
the
same
.
Wherevnto
I
replyed
.
CHRISTIAN
:
These
are
monstrous
and
horrible
things
indeed
PAVL
,
and
truly
in
my
minde
I
haue
often
seene
such
kind
of
Monsters
in
Italy
,
but
I
blinding
my
vnderstanding
,
as
our
own
constitutions
doe
enioyne
vs
,
did
suppose
these
things
to
be
nothing
,
but
deuises
of
Sathan
,
whereby
to
divert
me
out
of
my
course
,
and
hauing
but
once
shouldered
mee
out
of
my
calling
,
by
the
losse
thereof
,
to
cast
mee
headlong
into
euerlasting
miserie
.
Now
you
,
for
your
part
(
so
farre
as
I
discerne
)
putting
confidence
in
most
abhominable
prodigies
,
rather
then
the
strongest
arguments
,
endeauour
to
disgrace
both
our
owne
first
Calling
,
and
the
whole
Religion
of
Rome
:
which
thing
,
if
I
shall
yeeld
vnto
you
as
lawfully
done
,
seeing
you
are
but
one
man
in
this
kind
,
I
see
no
reason
why
,
the
same
libertie
may
not
be
granted
to
the
particuler
Sects
of
all
others
that
cauill
at
Religion
.
Forasmuch
,
as
there
is
no
opinion
which
may
not
seeme
to
bee
proued
out
of
holy
Scripture
,
being
vnderstood
and
interpreted
by
euery
man
as
shall
best
stand
with
his
particular
liking
.
But
yet
considering
,
that
all
thy
relations
touching
these
Monsters
are
wonderfull
probable
,
and
the
other
things
also
most
euident
,
and
such
as
doe
convince
the
sence
and
vnderstanding
,
I
cannot
herein
dissent
from
you
,
nor
indeed
may
I
with
safety
,
seeing
I
know
you
to
bee
as
learned
and
ingenious
as
our
Societie
affoordeth
any
.
I
will
rather
endeauour
to
rouze
vp
my selfe
,
and
call
to
exact
accompt
my
best
vnderstanding
in
this
case
,
which
as
you
say
,
is
ouerclouded
with
Iesuitioall
delusions
,
and
vnfold
the
most
implicite
notions
of
my
heart-touching
the
Societie
of
Iesuites
,
that
afterwards
you
may
expresse
more
at
large
,
what
is
the
very
Species
,
forme
,
and
Character
of
a
Iesuite
,
whom
all
the
Christian
world
so
much
honoureth
and
adoreth
.
And
now
to
the
end
,
that
I
may
after
your
example
fall
out
of
hand
vpon
the
fundamentall
points
of
the
Societie
,
hearken
and
I
will
relate
vnto
you
what
strange
things
I
haue
seene
and
obserued
in
these
stranger
times
.
I
did
in
my
younger
dayes
(
I
assure
you
)
suppose
,
that
the
foundation
of
this
Societie
was
altogether
Diuine
,
and
me
thought
I
was
no
longer
conuersant
on
earth
,
so
soone
as
I
was
admitted
into
this
societie
,
as
I
thinke
it
is
a
vsuall
thing
with
all
our
Nouices
,
or
the
greatest
part
of
them
to
be
so
affected
.
For
so
great
is
the
power
of
our
continued
meditations
touching
diuine
subiects
,
that
a
man
seemeth
euer
to
bee
borne
a
new
,
not
of
naturall
parents
,
but
after
a
peculiar-manner
borne
a
Iesuite
in
the
Societie
of
IESVS
,
euen
as
CHRIST
our
Redeemer
was
incarnate
by
the
holy
Ghost
.
And
thus
the
whole
nature
of
man
being
in
a
manner
Deified
doth
witnes
,
as
which
doth
from
that
time
forward
,
wherein
it
hath
giuen
it selfe
to
meditations
of
this
nature
altogether
forbeare
to
pamper
and
feed
the
body
,
abandoneth
all
societie
of
the
flesh
,
by
whipping
and
other
voluntary
afflictions
of
the
body
,
restraineth
and
suppresseth
pleasure
as
a
blot
of
infamy
and
dishonour
,
acknowledgeth
in
euery
Spirituall
brother
the
Image
of
the
Lord
our
God
,
as
our
eighteenth
Rule
commandeth
,
and
withall
abjureth
and
dispiseth
riches
,
honours
and
all
such
things
,
as
by
the
vulgar
are
accounted
most
excellent
and
precious
.
And
this
was
indeed
(
without
any
dissimulation
)
my
firme
and
constant
perswasion
as
touching
the
societie
of
Iesuites
,
in
the
first
yeere
of
my
admission
thereunto
.
But
this
other
yeere
,
when
by
chance
I
met
with
our
Iapan-Letters
,
and
there
amongst
other
things
had
read
,
not
without
astonishment
,
that
among
them
of
Iapan
being
our
Antipodes
,
there
are
certaine
religious
men
,
whom
they
call
Iamam
buxa
,
or
Souldiers
of
the
Vallies
,
who
purposely
to
at
taine
an
opinion
of
Sanctimony
,
doe
punish
themselues
grieuously
,
doe
watch
very
much
,
doe
Fast
exceeding
long
,
and
doe
giue
themselues
wholly
to
certaine
Meditations
composed
of
their
owne
heads
,
and
that
they
preuaile
so
farre
by
these
things
,
that
they
are
beleeued
many
times
,
(
as
inspired
with
an
holy
instinct
)
to
speake
Oracles
,
and
are
accounted
by
all
to
bee
perfect
and
Holy
men
;
then
especially
,
when
as
they
make
no
bones
of
it
to
kill
themselues
voluntarily
for
their
Idoll
.
When
I
had
(
as
I
said
)
vnderstood
these
and
many
other
like
passages
out
of
Letters
,
written
not
onely
by
men
of
our
Order
,
but
also
published
in
Print
,
I
assure
you
I
was
amazed
,
and
did
so
shake
as
if
I
had
newly
fallen
from
Heauen
to
Earth
.
For
vpon
a
sudden
it
came
into
my
minde
,
to
thinke
that
nothing
could
bee
deuised
more
like
to
our
Religion
;
and
that
therefore
,
it
was
vehemently
to
be
suspected
,
least
all
this
our
Spirituall
course
of
life
should
not
proue
Divine
,
but
Humaine
onely
and
Pharisaicall
.
Forasmuch
,
as
very
Idolators
and
Heathens
wanting
the
light
of
the
Gospel
,
doe
attaine
thereunto
;
and
indeed
such
Heathens
,
as
are
said
to
be
wondrous
like
both
in
Nature
,
Manners
and
Disposition
,
to
our
most
ingenious
Europians
;
I
meane
our
Italians
,
and
Spaniards
;
so
that
now
it
is
apparant
,
that
the
like
Religions
haue
bin
devised
and
established
by
men
of
like
natures
and
inclinations
.
And
what
a
strange
thing
is
it
,
that
among
those
Ethnicks
of
Iapan
,
not
onely
our
profession
of
Iesuitisme
,
but
in
a
sort
the
very
entire
Gouernment
of
the
Romane
Hierarchy
may
be
seene
apparantly
,
founded
and
established
by
an
Heathen
Spirit
.
For
in
the
same
Letters
,
it
is
related
,
that
one
chiefe
man
throughout
the
whole
Empire
of
Iapan
,
doth
hold
the
chiefe
place
of
a
supreame
Iudge
in
matters
Ecclesiasticall
,
who
is
little
lesse
then
worshipped
as
a
God
,
and
generally
reputed
so
Holy
a
man
,
that
hee
may
not
be
suffered
to
tread
on
the
ground
,
and
Commandeth
farre
&
wide
many
times
vpon
occasion
,
euen
contesting
with
those
heathen
Princes
:
Moreouer
,
this
man
hath
the
ordering
and
making
of
all
the
Tundi
among
them
,
who
are
in
effect
the
Byshops
of
that
Nation
;
albeit
,
the
nomination
of
them
(
as
it
is
reported
)
be
in
some
places
in
the
Gouernours
power
;
which
Tundi
are
thereupon
,
in
great
and
singular
esteeme
both
with
high
and
low
,
and
doe
conferre
Priesthoods
,
doe
appoint
Fasting
dayes
,
and
grant
Licences
for
eating
of
Flesh
,
to
such
as
vpon
Holy
dayes
goe
on
Pilgrimage
to
the
Chappels
of
theyr
Saints
and
Idols
.
Yea
and
further
,
the
sects
of
the
Bontij
which
arise
among
them
,
and
are
nothing
else
but
the
Monkes
of
Iapan
,
haue
no
authority
or
estimation
among
the
people
;
vnlesse
this
great
man
haue
approued
him
by
his
letters
Patents
and
testimonials
:
Furthermore
,
these
Bontij
are
said
to
inhabite
very
large
and
spacious
Colledges
,
after
the
manner
of
our
Monkes
,
to
liue
a
single
life
,
to
erect
an
Altar
in
the
middest
of
their
Chappell
,
wherevpon
they
place
a
woodden
representation
of
Amida
sitting
vpon
a
golden
Rose
,
very
gallant
to
behold
.
Also
that
they
haue
very
great
Libraries
,
with
places
wherein
they
eate
and
drinke
together
after
the
manner
of
our
Refectories
,
and
certaine
Copper
workes
which
serue
them
insteed
of
bels
to
cal
them
vp
to
their
houres
of
prayer
.
Againe
,
euery
euening
their
president
or
cheife
man
among
them
,
propoundeth
to
euery
one
his
particular
subiect
for
his
meditations
that
night
:
and
presently
after
midnight
they
doe
before
the
Altar
in
their
Chappell
dancing
by
turnes
say
ouer
their
deuotions
out
of
the
last
booke
of
Xaca
.
Also
,
that
euery
morning
each
of
them
spendeth
an
houre
in
Meditations
;
that
they
build
faire
Cloysters
in
their
chappels
for
their
Fotoquij
,
who
are
a
certaine
sect
of
religious
persons
amongst
them
,
that
are
shauen
vpon
their
heades
and
chinnes
,
and
doe
obserue
a
great
number
of
holy
dayes
in
the
yeere
.
And
yet
for
all
this
they
write
that
these
Bontij
are
most
base
fellowes
,
in
their
liues
and
conuersations
and
as
coueteous
as
any
men
liuing
vpon
Gods
earth
,
and
as
well
acquainted
with
all
deuises
how
to
rake
vp
money
.
That
these
Bontij
doe
make
sale
vnto
the
people
of
many
writings
vnder
their
hands
,
by
helpe
whereof
,
the
common
people
are
perswaded
that
they
are
protected
from
the
Deuill
.
Also
,
that
these
Bontij
haue
a
custome
to
borrow
money
in
this
world
,
which
they
promise
to
restore
with
large
interest
in
the
world
to
come
,
for
which
they
giue
the
Creditor
bils
of
their
hands
as
security
,
which
he
at
the
time
of
his
death
carrieth
with
him
into
the
other
world
.
And
lastly
,
that
these
Bontij
are
for
the
most
part
the
sonnes
of
Noblemen
,
in
regard
that
the
Nobility
of
Iapan
,
being
full
of
Children
,
do
vsually
take
a
Course
to
procure
these
sonnes
of
theirs
entered
into
the
Order
of
the
Bontij
,
for
whom
they
are
not
able
to
prouide
otherwise
.
You
might
stile
these
men
Christian
Monkes
,
or
(
if
you
please
)
hauing
respect
vnto
their
qualities
Clergy
men
and
Prelates
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
if
euer
the
light
of
the
Gospell
had
in
any
measure
shined
vpon
them
before
the
comming
of
our
men
amongst
them
:
or
if
euer
any
Christian
at
all
had
gone
so
farre
as
vnto
them
,
whereby
they
▪
might
haue
heard
of
these
things
and
haue
imitated
them
.
Neither
is
prayer
for
their
dead
wanting
among
these
Iapanezes
,
howbeit
in
that
they
are
a
little
more
superstitious
then
wee
.
For
in
the
moneth
of
August
,
they
are
obserued
to
set
aside
2.
whole
daies
for
Adoration
of
the
Spirits
of
the
Dead
.
And
that
a
little
before
Night
,
they
set
vp
a
great
number
of
Lampes
and
other
Lights
about
the
doores
of
their
houses
,
with
much
varieties
of
Paintings
and
trimmings
.
That
afterwards
they
walke
round
about
the
Citie
all
night
long
,
partly
for
Deuotion
sake
,
and
partly
to
looke
about
them
.
Also
,
that
towards
the
Euening
,
a
great
sort
of
people
doe
walke
out
of
the
Citie
to
meet
the
Spirits
of
their
Dead
friends
,
now
comming
towards
them
▪
as
they
(
forsooth
)
imagine
.
When
they
are
at
a
certaine
set
place
,
where
they
suppose
that
the
Ghosts
of
their
deceased
Friends
doe
meet
them
;
first
,
they
salute
them
kindly
,
euen
as
if
they
saw
them
;
saying
you
are
heartily
welcome
,
wee
haue
wanted
your
good
Companie
long
,
I
pray
you
sit
downe
a
while
and
refresh
your selues
with
some
victuals
,
for
wee
know
you
cannot
chuse
but
be
wearie
.
Then
they
set
vpon
Tables
(
as
a
banquet
for
the
Ghosts
to
feed
vpon
)
Rice
,
Fruits
,
and
other
Viands
,
and
when
they
haue
demurred
about
an
houres
space
,
as
if
they
thought
it
high
time
to
make
an
end
,
they
invite
and
intreat
them
to
come
home
to
theyr
houses
;
saying
,
wee
will
goe
before
and
prouide
some
good
cheere
for
you
.
Also
▪
it
is
obserued
,
that
assoone
as
these
two
dayes
are
ouer
,
they
walke
out
of
the
Citie
againe
both
men
and
women
with
lighted
Torches
,
to
conduct
them
(
forsooth
)
who
are
now
vpon
departing
,
least
they
should
stumble
in
the
darke
or
hurt
themselues
against
any
thing
.
Yet
further
it
is
obserued
likewise
,
that
when
they
returne
into
the
Citie
againe
,
they
make
a
diligent
search
about
all
their
high
roomes
,
and
tylings
of
their
houses
,
by
casting
vp
stones
thereon
,
least
any
of
the
Spirits
(
of
whom
they
are
in
bodily
feare
)
should
remaine
behind
in
secret
.
Moreouer
,
it
is
written
from
thence
,
that
when
those
Iaponezes
were
demanded
by
our
men
,
why
they
did
set
to
those
Spirits
a
banquet
;
they
made
answere
,
that
they
are
vpon
their
way
towards
their
Paradice
,
which
say
they
,
was
ten
thousand
Millions
of
miles
,
and
was
a
journey
that
could
not
bee
ended
in
lesse
then
three
yeares
time
;
and
therefore
they
tooke
vp
their
resting
place
there
for
a
while
to
refresh
themselues
,
and
to
enable
them
the
better
to
hold
out
to
their
journeys
end
.
But
in
all
these
things
it
is
obserued
,
that
the
Bontij
,
the
Priests
and
Bishops
of
Iapan
doe
all
in
all
,
and
that
there
is
no
family
,
though
neuer
so
meane
,
but
it
must
offer
one
guift
or
other
to
the
Bontij
,
for
the
peace
of
the
soules
of
their
deceased
Friends
I
Omit
for
brevity
sake
,
their
Holy
water
,
their
pots
of
sweet
odours
set
ouer
hot
coales
to
make
perfume
,
their
many
and
large
Indulgences
which
these
Bontij
doe
tender
vnto
the
people
,
who
are
frequent
at
their
preachments
,
and
enrich
their
Cloysters
.
Their
beades
to
pray
vpon
,
which
a
great
number
of
the
Iapanezes
doe
daily
runne
ouer
,
not
onely
within
their
priuate
houses
,
but
publiquely
also
,
carrying
them
about
in
their
hands
all
ouer
the
Citty
praying
to
their
Amida
,
and
to
their
Xaca
for
riches
,
honours
,
prosperous
health
,
and
euerlasting
Comforts
.
All
which
things
verily
are
so
true
,
that
they
are
both
obserued
and
written
by
men
of
our
owne
Order
,
and
I
haue
in
relating
thereof
made
vse
almost
Verbatim
of
that
translation
,
which
our
Father
Petrus
Maffaeus
hath
made
out
of
the
Italian
into
Latine
.
And
this
indeed
was
an
opinion
of
mine
,
or
rather
(
as
my
Confessor
told
me
)
a
temptation
of
the
Devill
cast
into
my
mind
,
touching
the
Societie
of
Iesuites
and
the
whole
Church
of
Rome
,
which
,
for
all
that
I
was
hardly
able
in
many
dayes
to
thrust
out
of
my
thoughts
,
by
opposing
through
ejaculations
of
heart
(
as
they
terme
them
)
and
through
fastings
with
other
afflictions
of
the
body
,
a
whole
troupe
of
Arguments
of
this
nature
,
violently
bursting
in
vpon
my
vnderstanding
day
and
night
.
And
now
before
this
temptation
was
well
disgested
and
ouercome
,
behold
vpon
a
sudden
there
fell
vpon
me
another
of
the
same
nature
which
so
handled
me
,
as
scarcely
it
left
any
life
in
me
;
For
shortly
after
it
so
fell
out
,
that
we
had
the
18.
Chapter
of
the
third
booke
of
Kings
read
vnto
vs
at
dinner
time
,
for
our
Spirituall
repast
,
wherein
is
contayned
the
story
of
the
Priests
of
Baal
,
and
how
for
the
pleasing
or
appeasing
of
their
Idoll
,
they
had
a
Custome
to
cut
themselues
with
kniues
and
launces
till
they
bled
amaine
.
Which
words
when
I
heard
our
Chaplaine
read
,
for
(
I
confesse
)
I
was
not
then
a
Diuine
,
neither
had
I
euer
as
then
read
ouer
the
holy
Scriptures
,
verily
I
did
tremble
and
shake
all
ouer
,
as
if
I
had
beene
taken
with
a
sudden
fit
of
an
Ague
,
nor
had
I
any
further
stomacke
to
my
dinner
at
that
time
,
as
remembring
(
to
be
true
to
you
)
our
owne
whippings
whereby
as
well
as
with
kniues
&
launces
we
our selues
are
cruel
to
our
own
flesh
,
many
times
spilling
not
a
little
of
our
owne
blood
,
and
I
cannot
say
,
but
as
these
Iapaneze
Iesuites
whom
I
told
you
of
,
that
they
haue
named
Iamambuxae
,
some
of
vs
at
sometimes
become
guilty
of
our
owne
deaths
,
I
am
sure
wee
spoyle
our
healths
by
it
.
But
I
feare
least
these
and
fiue
hundred
more
spirituall
doubts
,
mentioned
by
me
touching
the
Societie
,
may
bee
triviall
to
bee
propounded
vnto
so
judicious
and
graue
a
Divine
,
as
your selfe
,
not
being
worth
your
taking
notice
of
.
Wherefore
letting
other
passages
slip
by
vs
▪
I
will
be
bold
to
describe
vnto
you
onely
two
;
Holy
,
and
Catholique
,
that
is
to
say
,
Italian
Monsters
and
Idols
,
the
maintenance
whereof
our
Society
hath
peculiarly
taken
vpon
themselues
,
and
concerning
which
,
I
am
troubled
and
haue
bin
these
ten
yeares
together
,
how
I
might
make
them
Holy
in
my
estimation
,
as
they
are
made
Catholique
long
since
.
Out
of
which
discourse
of
mine
,
you
shall
perceiue
your
opinion
touching
the
Society
of
Iesuites
and
the
Romane
Church
,
wonderfully
confirmed
and
established
.
The
one
of
these
Idols
▪
I
my selfe
haue
seene
at
Rome
in
the
Chappell
of
St.
PETER
,
which
Idoll
,
men
vsually
call
the
Vicar
of
CHRIST
.
And
I
assure
you
,
when
first
I
saw
it
,
I
was
of
an
opinion
,
that
it
was
either
CHRIST
himselfe
,
or
surely
something
more
esteemed
of
then
CHRIST
;
forasmuch
,
as
all
the
people
which
flocked
thither
for
deuotion
sake
,
so
soone
as
euer
they
beheld
it
,
set
on
high
on
a
Throne
and
supported
by
the
hands
of
red
men
like
Seraphin-Angels
,
(
least
perhaps
it
might
dash
its
foot
against
a
stone
)
fell
downe
instantly
vpon
their
knees
beating
their
brests
,
and
performing
such
outward
acts
of
Devotion
in
that
kind
,
as
appertaineth
to
none
but
God
onely
.
Oh
holy
CHRIST
,
(
did
my
soule
then
instantly
cry
out
in
priuate
)
how
long
will
it
please
thee
to
suffer
this
,
that
as
low
as
thy selfe
being
true
GOD
,
hast
humbled
thy selfe
on
earth
,
so
high
thy
Vicar
being
but
a
wretched
and
a
sinfull
man
,
shall
extoll
and
aduance
himselfe
aboue
all
heauens
?
That
whereas
thou
hadst
no
kingdome
heere
;
yea
,
hast
said
,
that
thy
Kingdome
was
not
of
this
world
,
That
whereas
thy
Disciple
St.
PETER
,
who
is
said
to
haue
bin
Created
the
first
Pope
,
would
not
permit
Cornelius
the
Centurion
so
much
as
to
fall
downe
at
his
feet
,
much
lesse
to
kisse
them
;
but
instantly
Arise
,
for
I
also
am
a
man
:
his
Successor
for
all
that
,
forgetting
himselfe
to
bee
a
man
should
sit
on
high
,
as
a
very
God
Almighty
,
whose
feet
all
men
must
fall
downe
at
and
kisse
?
But
yet
I
recalled
my selfe
by
and
by
,
and
somewhat
pacified
my
minde
with
this
Meditation
:
Surely
,
(
said
I
)
it
is
altogether
necessary
,
that
the
Pope
should
retaine
this
his
outward
Pompe
and
Maiesty
,
the
better
by
that
meanes
to
draw
vnto
him
the
proud
Emperours
,
Kings
and
Princes
of
this
world
,
and
to
retaine
them
in
true
Obedience
;
as
also
to
dazell
the
eyes
of
the
vulgar
people
,
to
the
end
that
what
cannot
be
done
amongst
such
men
by
Humilitie
,
may
at
least
bee
brought
about
by
Subtiltie
and
Policie
,
that
whereas
hee
is
not
able
to
preserue
his
reputation
by
testimonies
of
his
owne
Holinesse
and
vertue
,
as
CHRIST
and
his
Apostles
and
other
Holy
men
haue
done
,
hee
may
vphold
it
at
least
by
the
outward
glory
of
another
,
least
that
whereas
the
auncient
Romanes
were
in
times
past
Lords
of
the
whole
World
,
if
the
power
of
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
should
not
extend
it selfe
fully
both
to
Heaven
and
Hell
,
yea
and
Purgatorie
also
,
a
place
deuised
for
this
purpose
;
the
Pope
might
hap
to
seeme
inferiour
to
them
,
or
at
the
least
not
greater
.
That
as
Iupiter
Optimus
Maximus
,
the
prime
GOD
of
all
among
the
Romans
,
is
supposed
to
strike
some
persons
to
hell
with
his
Thunderbolt
,
so
the
Romane
Bishop
should
haue
in
like
manner
,
his
terrible
Thunderbolt
of
Excommunication
,
whereby
he
might
make
the
hearts
of
all
Christians
to
shake
,
and
might
thrust
down
as
many
as
should
but
dare
to
lift
vp
their
tongues
against
this
Soueraigne
power
of
his
,
lower
then
hell
it selfe
if
it
could
be
possibly
.
Last
of
all
,
that
whereas
the
ancient
Romanes
being
Lords
of
all
the
world
,
had
a
most
honourable
and
stately
Magistracie
,
cloathed
in
purple
,
whereof
some
were
Gouernours
of
the
Citie
,
others
ruled
as
Vice-Royes
in
forraigne
Nations
:
Euen
so
the
Pope
of
Rome
,
should
haue
not
onely
his
Bishops
as
Princes
;
but
also
his
Cardinals
as
Senators
clad
in
purple
,
who
should
bee
companions
for
the
greatest
Kings
,
and
out
of
whom
alone
the
Vicar
of
CHRIST
should
bee
chosen
by
the
very
instinct
of
the
Holy
Ghost
.
As
if
the
Holy
Ghost
should
not
aswell
be
tyed
to
the
Cardinals
,
those
base
and
beastly
sinckes
of
Lust
and
Ambition
,
as
the
Chaire
of
PETER
to
the
Citie
of
Rome
.
For
indeed
it
is
true
,
that
the
Holy
Ghost
hath
sayd
;
That
by
his
goodwill
,
hee
cannot
indure
to
dwell
in
any
but
quiet
,
modest
and
humble
persons
,
and
yet
(
forsooth
)
of
late
,
he
is
euen
constrained
by
compulsion
,
and
(
as
it
were
)
halfe
against
his
will
to
reside
,
wheresoeuer
the
Church
of
Rome
shall
be
pleased
to
confine
him
.
Howbeit
,
I
must
confesse
,
in
this
case
my
Conscience
did
often
tell
mee
,
that
they
of
the
Church
of
Rome
haue
not
beene
able
to
tye
the
Holy
Ghost
so
close
to
themselues
and
their
Sea
,
but
that
twenty
and
seauen
sundry
times
fayling
of
the
presence
thereof
,
they
haue
raised
those
XXVII
.
Schismes
which
stand
vpon
Record
in
the
Chronicles
of
their
Popes
:
A
thing
which
surely
giueth
infallible
euidence
,
against
their
holy
Spirit
,
and
causeth
all
the
priuiledges
and
power
thereof
,
to
incurre
a
just
Censure
;
For
alas
!
what
shall
wee
say
?
Is
it
possible
,
that
the
Divine
Godhead
can
bee
an
author
of
Errour
and
Dissention
?
But
when
they
are
held
close
to
this
Argument
,
then
they
answer
;
That
the
Holy
Ghost
departed
not
from
the
Church
of
Rome
,
at
such
or
such
a
time
,
but
onely
through
the
mistake
of
some
,
and
ambition
of
others
,
the
Church
had
gotten
a
Monstrous
head
,
hauing
sometimes
a
double
,
sometimes
a
treble
head
,
but
that
onely
one
of
the
rest
was
the
true
and
lawfull
head
of
the
Church
.
Oh
,
what
monstrous
spirits
haue
you
,
(
the
Romanists
)
what
a
monstrous
Church
?
Which
can
be
compelled
through
Errour
and
Ambition
,
to
subsist
so
often
and
with
so
many
counterfeit
Heads
?
To
weare
them
so
many
yeares
,
and
to
inforce
so
many
poore
Christian
soules
to
accept
and
to
beleeue
them
vpon
paine
of
Damnation
for
true
Heads
of
the
Church
,
to
their
owne
mistake
,
the
abhomination
of
all
good
men
,
and
your
owne
and
their
most
desperate
ruine
.
Well
,
now
I
perceiue
plaingly
enough
,
that
this
Monster
which
hath
so
often
had
two
Heads
,
and
sometimes
three
at
once
,
may
also
through
your
monstrous
Lust
and
Ambition
,
as
easily
acquire
Seauen
heads
at
once
.
But
this
may
be
sufficient
touching
the
first
Monster
or
Idoll
.
The
other
Idoll
I
haue
seene
at
Loretto
,
which
the
Italians
call
their
Lady
of
Loretto
:
And
this
is
a
Picture
carued
(
as
they
would
haue
men
beleeue
)
by
St.
LVKE
the
Evangelist
.
And
for
that
cause
,
it
is
reported
to
be
a
worker
of
wonderfull
Miracles
.
I
am
not
able
in
words
to
expresse
,
in
what
infinite
estimation
this
Idoll
is
held
,
what
a
report
there
is
all
Italy
ouer
,
of
the
Myracles
that
it
worketh
.
This
is
the
onely
Saint
that
all
Italians
haue
in
their
mouth
presently
,
whether
they
bee
amazed
with
any
sudden
feare
of
Death
,
or
taken
Sicke
with
any
grieuous
disease
whatsoeuer
.
Vnto
this
Lady
of
Loretto
,
doe
all
sorts
of
people
in
such
cases
make
Vowes
,
promise
guifts
,
vndertake
to
goe
on
Pilgrimage
vnto
her
Temple
.
And
if
it
so
fall
out
,
that
any
man
bee
deliuered
from
any
imminent
danger
,
or
disease
,
they
presently
then
cry
out
a
Miracle
,
a
Miracle
,
and
resolue
to
performe
their
promise
,
and
straight
wayes
they
vndertake
a
Pilgrimage
to
Loretto
.
Vpon
these
occasions
,
there
is
great
resort
to
Loretto
day
by
day
out
of
all
the
parts
of
Italy
;
daily
are
innumerable
Offerings
presented
at
her
Shrine
,
and
painted
tables
hanged
vp
in
her
Chappell
expressing
the
whole
manner
of
the
Miracles
.
And
truely
at
the
first
sight
thereof
,
the
infinite
multitude
of
Tables
did
somewhat
moue
me
,
and
I
was
of
the
mind
that
some
Divine
essence
ruled
in
that
place
.
But
when
I
came
a
little
to
my selfe
,
vpon
serious
consideration
of
all
the
passages
together
,
I
easily
discerned
,
that
it
was
nothing
else
but
meerely
the
dotage
of
the
blockish
people
,
who
being
onely
guided
by
outward
sence
,
labour
to
haue
a
sensible
God
,
I
meane
a
Deitie
,
which
they
might
see
and
feele
:
For
vpon
the
one
hand
I
obserued
,
a
man
pictured
vpon
the
Racke
,
and
valiantly
induring
all
those
torments
by
prayer
made
to
the
Lady
of
Loretto
:
hard
by
him
was
portrayed
,
a
man
falling
from
his
Horse
,
and
escaping
death
by
a
sudden
prayer
made
to
the
same
Lady
:
On
the
other
hand
,
you
might
see
a
multitude
of
Sicke
people
miraculously
restored
to
health
by
calling
vpon
her
Name
:
Not
farre
from
them
,
diuers
Tables
of
people
of
all
sorts
in
a
storme
at
Sea
escaping
the
violence
thereof
,
by
a
Vow
made
to
the
same
Lady
;
with
many
others
of
like
nature
not
to
be
numbred
.
Which
follies
,
euen
CICERO
himselfe
,
being
a
diligent
obseruer
of
the
Roman
Superstitions
▪
did
in
his
time
seeme
to
deride
in
his
booke
De
Natura
Deorum
,
touching
the
nature
of
the
Gods
of
the
Romanes
,
wherein
making
mention
of
the
Philosopher
DIAGORAS
deriding
the
Roman
Deities
;
hee
thus
writeth
:
That
when
DIAGORAS
vpon
a
time
was
come
to
Samothrace
,
and
that
a
friend
of
his
had
tooke
ocasion
to
say
vnto
him
;
You
Sir
,
who
are
of
Opinion
,
that
our
Gods
doe
not
heare
the
prayers
of
their
Suppliants
,
and
order
humaine
Affaires
,
doe
not
you
obserue
by
this
multitude
of
painted
Tables
,
how
many
men
by
prayer
to
the
Gods
,
haue
escaped
the
violence
of
tempests
and
stormes
at
Sea
and
come
safe
to
Land
?
It
is
true
indeed
,
said
the
Philosopher
,
heere
is
a
multitude
of
Tables
of
them
which
haue
escaped
;
For
they
are
no
where
painted
that
haue
suffered
Shipwracke
,
notwithstanding
,
their
prayers
to
these
Gods
in
this
kinde
,
and
haue
perished
at
Sea
.
Which
answere
of
his
,
was
wittie
and
beseeming
a
Philosopher
;
for
thereby
hee
did
euidently
enough
declare
,
that
such
people
had
not
bin
preserued
by
the
helpe
or
fauour
of
IVPITER
,
or
IVNO
,
or
NEPTVNE
,
or
any
other
of
their
supposed
Deities
,
to
whom
they
had
directed
their
Supplications
in
this
case
.
Forasmuch
,
as
many
others
beside
,
and
such
as
perhaps
were
honester
,
and
better
men
then
those
who
escaped
,
though
they
had
made
the
same
prayers
had
perished
in
the
waues
.
But
forasmuch
,
as
all
men
generally
were
accustomed
in
any
time
of
distresse
to
flye
by
prayer
to
one
or
other
of
those
supposed
Deities
,
and
that
it
often
fell
out
,
that
naturall
causes
being
violently
prouoked
,
and
threatning
Death
,
being
eyther
stopped
in
the
middest
of
their
course
,
or
mittigated
of
themselues
,
doe
vpon
a
sudden
yeeld
hopes
of
deliuerance
.
Thence
is
it
,
that
the
effect
thereof
is
without
any
good
reason
,
ascribed
to
their
fained
and
imaginary
Deities
.
And
euen
thus
and
no
otherwise
,
standeth
the
case
with
our
people
of
Italy
,
in
adoring
and
beleeuing
on
that
Idoll
of
Loretto
,
and
offering
vnto
it
Tables
of
Deuotion
;
because
,
inasmuch
as
all
Italy
almost
maketh
prayers
vnto
her
,
and
that
of
necessitie
it
must
fall
out
,
that
by
one
meanes
or
other
in
so
great
a
Multitude
of
people
,
some
few
at
the
least
shall
obtaine
what
they
haue
prayed
for
,
either
through
the
especiall
hand
of
God
,
or
by
the
strength
of
nature
;
And
that
nature
at
somtimes
euen
seemeth
to
worke
a
Miracle
;
all
those
things
,
are
by
these
stupi'd
and
blockish
people
attributed
to
their
Lady
of
Loretto
;
except
perhaps
men
would
deny
,
that
in
the
same
manner
,
and
for
the
same
end
,
the
Image
of
Ceres
at
a
Citie
called
Enna
in
Sicilia
,
as
the
same
Cicero
witnesseth
,
hath
made
open
declaration
of
her
power
and
Godhead
(
to
vse
Tullies
owne
phrase
)
by
many
Miracles
and
wonders
many
a
time
,
and
full
often
euen
in
the
desperatest
cases
afforded
vnto
her
suppliants
present
helpe
and
remedy
.
But
these
things
(
as
I
haue
formerly
said
vnto
you
)
almost
none
but
the
vulgar
,
and
such
as
are
like
vnto
them
doe
runne
after
and
beleeue
.
For
euen
the
more
learned
of
their
owne
,
Phisicians
,
Philosophers
,
and
Diuines
also
,
as
many
as
haue
not
their
mouthes
stopped
with
some
Ecclesiasticall
preferment
,
do
in
their
better
judgements
contemne
and
deride
,
not
onely
these
Miracles
of
Loretto
,
but
euen
the
very
Romane
religion
it selfe
as
false
and
fained
,
as
I
easily
and
apparantly
discerned
at
my
being
at
Naples
,
where
they
had
at
that
time
obtained
some
restraint
of
the
violence
of
the
Romane
Inquisition
.
Yea
and
moreouer
,
these
Atheists
euen
to
my
face
derided
my
name
,
because
it
was
Christianus
,
for
in
the
Italian
Dialect
by
the
word
Christian
they
are
wont
to
intimate
a
Blockhead
,
or
silly
foolish
fellow
;
which
thing
(
as
I
conceiue
)
they
doe
for
this
reason
,
because
in
their
judgement
they
hold
no
man
fit
or
inclinable
to
beleeue
the
Popish
Chimaraes
,
but
silly
fooles
and
blockheads
.
And
these
are
chiefly
those
things
which
came
into
my
mind
to
speake
and
relate
touching
the
Societie
of
Iesuites
,
&
the
Idols
which
it
more
particularly
beleeueth
in
and
adoreth
,
beeing
rowzed
vp
thereunto
by
your
discourse
,
and
beyond
all
expectation
illuminated
therewith
.
PAVL
.
At
this
word
,
Paulus
looking
stedfastly
in
my
face
,
spoke
thus
vnto
mee
;
I
will
not
(
saith
hee
)
henceforth
any
more
enquire
after
the
Causes
of
so
great
blindnesse
in
the
Iesuites
.
I
will
admit
no
more
excuses
.
If
in
thee
so
great
a
light
of
the
truth
could
be
depraued
by
Iesuiticall
Education
and
almost
quite
extinct
in
thee
,
as
I
verily
suppose
it
had
beene
in
all
likelihood
,
if
God
had
not
sent
me
hither
;
What
may
I
imagine
they
are
not
able
to
worke
in
the
darke
and
infatuated
vnderstanding
of
others
?
When
he
had
thus
said
,
immediately
the
watch-word
was
giuen
,
that
it
was
time
to
retire
from
our
walke
and
recreation
and
both
of
vs
in
priuate
retired
to
our
priuate
Chambers
.
Here
endeth
the
first
Booke
.
FINIS
.
A
DISCOVERIE
OF
THE
SECRET
DESIGNES
AND
BLOODIE
Proiects
of
the
Societie
of
IESVITES
of
later
yeares
.
WHat
MARCVS
CATO
sometimes
spoke
concerning
the
Romane
Southsayers
;
that
hee
wondred
how
they
could
forbeare
to
smile
vpon
each
other
,
so
often
as
they
met
,
may
not
vnfitly
be
applyed
to
the
Iesuites
:
It
is
a
wonder
that
one
Iesuite
when
hee
looketh
vpon
another
doth
not
straight
way
burst
foorth
into
a
laughing
outright
,
they
being
amongst
themselues
priuie
to
such
impostures
practised
vpon
the
people
.
I
speake
not
touching
your
simpler
sort
of
Iesuites
,
from
whom
these
more
reserued
and
closer
practises
of
the
Societie
are
altogether
concealed
,
either
in
respect
they
are
not
held
wise
enough
(
forsooth
)
to
bee
acquainted
with
them
,
or
that
they
are
thought
too
deuout
to
entertaine
them
,
or
else
in
regard
of
their
short
continuance
in
that
Society
:
for
all
such
are
so
kept
short
through
seuerity
of
Discipline
,
that
not
one
of
them
,
except
hee
bee
wondrous
quicke
of
sent
,
can
euer
smell
out
in
the
least
measure
what
knauery
is
therein
practised
vnder
a
shew
of
Holinesse
.
My
discourse
onely
toucheth
the
prime
and
principall
fellowes
of
that
Societie
,
their
Regents
,
Fathers
,
Provincials
,
and
Generals
;
all
which
,
are
so
vniuersally
and
joyntly
tainted
with
all
manner
of
wickednesse
,
but
especially
with
Whoredome
,
Couerousnes
,
and
Magicke
,
that
indeed
any
reasonable
man
may
thinke
it
little
lesse
then
a
Miracle
,
if
a
Iesuite
of
this
ranke
meeting
such
another
vpon
a
sudden
,
and
beholding
,
as
it
were
,
another
picture
or
liuely
representation
of
himselfe
,
should
haue
power
to
abstaine
from
laughing
outright
.
I
therefore
thought
it
not
amisse
,
considering
the
premisse●
,
to
lay
open
vnto
the
world
some
particuler
passages
,
and
practises
of
that
Society
,
of
the
greatest
part
whereof
my selfe
haue
beene
an
eye-witnesse
,
and
some
part
whereof
hath
been
related
vnto
me
by
Iesuites
whom
I
am
able
to
name
,
and
will
vndoubtedly
nominate
,
if
they
shall
but
dare
in
the
least
manner
to
lift
vp
their
tongues
against
mee
,
or
to
contradict
what
I
haue
written
.
And
howsoeuer
at
this
time
I
passe
ouer
things
briefly
,
and
doe
onely
(
as
it
were
)
giue
you
a
first
draught
thereof
,
I
doe
purpose
in
due
time
(
God
assisting
me
)
to
do
it
more
largely
and
compleatly
,
with
expression
of
all
and
singular
circumstances
thereunto
appertaining
.
First
of
all
then
,
at
my
entrance
into
my
Colledge
of
Iesuites
;
especially
,
if
it
be
scituated
in
or
neere
vnto
any
large
,
and
populous
,
and
rich
place
.
But
alas
,
why
doe
I
say
,
if
it
be
built
there
?
(
Seeing
they
haue
no
Colledges
in
any
poore
,
meane
,
or
obscure
place
.
)
At
your
first
entry
I
say
into
such
a
place
or
Colledge
,
take
principall
notice
of
the
Porter
of
their
Gate
,
and
him
you
shall
find
to
looke
like
vnto
the
very
picture
of
a
very
Charon
,
or
rather
a
Cerberus
;
For
the
most
part
you
shall
obserue
him
to
bee
a
man
of
very
great
yeares
,
or
if
he
bee
younger
,
hee
is
a
fellow
of
most
approued
trust
and
secrecie
.
And
this
is
the
man
,
if
any
such
there
bee
,
who
is
well
skilled
in
all
the
mysteries
of
the
Iesuites
Caball
,
or
reserued
Diuinity
.
In
this
fellowes
keeping
is
great
store
of
apparell
both
for
Men
and
Women
of
euery
degree
and
calling
.
And
with
this
apparell
doe
the
Iesuites
habite
themselues
according
to
the
quallity
that
euery
one
findeth
himselfe
ablest
to
personate
,
and
so
practise
wonderfull
Impostures
in
the
world
.
For
at
sometimes
beeing
habited
like
Souldiers
very
gallant
,
then
walke
in
the
streets
and
highwayes
Whoring
and
Swaggering
in
the
publike
Stewes
.
At
other
times
in
the
ciuill
habites
of
Citizens
,
professing
themselues
to
bee
of
the
reformed
Religion
,
they
pry
vp
and
downe
and
listen
in
Innes
,
in
Play-houses
,
in
Tauernes
,
vpon
the
Exchange
,
and
in
all
places
of
publike
meetings
,
wheresoeuer
there
is
any
frequent
resort
,
what
the
people
speake
vp
and
downe
concerning
them
,
what
consultations
are
abroad
,
what
matter
of
Action
is
set
a
foot
in
any
part
.
Another
while
,
like
Doctors
of
Physicke
,
or
of
the
Ciuill
Law
,
with
great
gold
Rings
on
their
fingers
,
avowing
and
purposely
professing
themselues
to
be
Papists
;
wheresoeuer
they
know
any
of
the
Common
sort
that
is
wealthy
and
hath
sonnes
,
they
deuise
some
cause
of
businesse
with
them
,
and
insinuate
themselues
into
their
acquaintance
by
strange
fetches
,
and
in
Conclusion
doe
advise
them
to
bring
vp
their
sonnes
in
some
Schoole
or
Colledge
of
Iesuites
,
affirming
that
themselues
haue
beene
Educated
by
them
,
and
that
they
haue
so
profited
vnder
them
,
that
(
God
bee
thanked
)
they
neuer
had
cause
to
repent
thereof
:
And
sometimes
againe
apparelled
like
Noblemen
,
and
compleatly
attended
,
they
cause
Coaches
to
bee
prouided
abroad
,
and
frequent
the
Courts
of
Princes
,
as
giuing
attendance
vpon
Ambassadors
of
forraigne
States
,
and
serue
as
Intelligencers
to
vnlocke
the
cabinets
of
great
Potentates
.
Nay
further
,
I
haue
knowne
them
to
make
shew
of
being
banished
persons
,
and
to
craue
collections
amongst
Protestant
Divines
,
purposely
to
learne
vnderhand
what
such
men
writ
against
them
:
yea
such
were
those
men
for
the
most
part
,
who
so
miserably
deluded
so
many
Reverend
men
in
many
places
by
sinister
wayes
vnder
that
habit
,
furthering
the
designes
of
their
Societie
,
and
breeding
disturbances
in
the
reformed
Congregations
:
of
whom
,
to
the
end
that
all
honest-hearted
Ministers
may
be
more
warie
hereafter
,
I
shall
tell
you
hereafter
,
what
proiects
at
this
day
the
Iesuites
haue
a
foote
to
this
purpose
.
But
in
the
meane
while
perhaps
you
will
say
vnto
me
,
whereto
,
I
pray
you
,
serueth
so
much
womens
apparell
,
or
what
is
their
end
in
depositing
so
much
in
the
keeping
of
the
Porter
of
their
gate
.
Attend
,
and
I
will
tell
you
:
No
Pander
,
that
euer
TIRENCE
or
PLAVTVS
mentioned
in
their
Comedies
,
was
so
nimble
at
the
trade
of
winning
pretty
wenches
,
at
are
the
Iesuites
at
this
day
,
but
especially
that
Porter
of
their
gate
whom
I
mentioned
but
now
.
For
,
that
which
the
Confessors
themselues
are
not
able
to
wring
out
of
them
by
Auricular
Confession
in
their
Churches
and
Chappels
,
this
fellow
knoweth
how
to
winne
from
them
by
flattering
speeches
,
with
wonderfull
pleasing
and
delightfull
toyes
,
especially
if
he
meete
with
a
poore
widdow
,
or
any
such
silly
woman
which
sendeth
her
child
to
the
Colledge
now
and
then
for
an
Almes
;
or
with
some
Laundresse
,
or
Spinster
;
for
bee
shee
Lotrix
,
or
Petrix
,
hee
will
make
her
a
Meretrix
.
Whom
so
soone
as
this
base
Pander
hath
once
but
allured
to
come
to
his
net
,
although
her
apparell
bee
neuer
so
old
and
tattered
,
yet
hee
hath
gay
Gownes
enough
in
store
,
with
accoutrements
suitable
,
wherewith
hee
can
make
her
both
tricke
and
trimme
,
which
when
hee
hath
so
done
,
hee
knoweth
how
to
convey
her
through
many
secret
passages
and
by-wayes
to
his
Venerable
Maisters
,
the
Fathers
of
the
Societie
.
And
yet
he
neuer
doth
this
in
the
day
time
,
but
neere
vpon
the
shutting
in
of
the
Euening
,
and
then
they
make
away
the
whole
night
in
Ryot
and
Luxurie
,
with
reuelling
and
Dancing
,
the
younger
sort
and
Nouices
of
the
Societie
being
kept
farre
enough
from
Discouery
thereof
.
For
they
haue
for
the
purpose
certaine
Vaults
framed
like
Chambers
,
and
roomes
vnder
ground
as
had
those
ancient
Romanes
,
who
first
deuised
there
Stewes
in
Vaults
,
whose
inclination
to
all
carnall
lasciuiousnes
was
so
great
,
and
so
bruitish
,
that
the
Senate
of
Rome
,
fearing
the
iust
anger
of
their
Gods
for
the
same
,
vtterly
suppressed
those
Lupanaria
or
publike
Stewes
.
And
thus
much
for
the
Iesuites
Porter
of
their
Gate
:
onely
I
must
not
forget
to
tell
you
this
one
thing
,
that
if
any
party
who
by
chance
shall
come
to
the
sight
of
such
and
so
great
a
Wardrobe
,
doe
demand
with
admiration
,
what
is
the
end
or
vse
of
it
,
answere
is
made
vnto
them
,
that
it
is
the
wardrobe
,
reserued
purposely
for
acting
of
Playes
:
but
that
is
the
least
part
of
their
intention
to
my
knowledge
.
Moreouer
,
when
thou
entrest
into
any
of
their
Churches
,
make
account
that
thou
walkest
vnder
an
heauen
of
Iron
:
Bloody
Mars
is
ouer
thine
head
,
not
that
Prince
of
peace
;
below
thee
is
the
very
pit
of
Hell
,
and
a
shop
of
Tormenters
.
I
now
doe
relate
in
good
earnest
,
what
mine
owne
eyes
haue
seene
;
At
Prague
in
Bohemia
vpon
the
roofe
of
their
Churches
,
are
thousands
of
Iron
Bullets
,
Whips
,
and
fire
bals
,
such
as
the
Bohemians
vse
:
vpon
the
sides
are
placed
pieces
of
Ordnance
,
with
a
great
number
of
Musquets
and
Harquebushes
,
with
Pikes
and
Halberts
.
In
the
middest
,
where
the
Arches
meete
,
are
great
heapes
of
huge
Bullets
of
stone
▪
And
the
like
preparation
haue
they
also
made
at
Craconia
.
Nor
doe
I
make
question
,
but
that
vpon
due
search
their
Colledges
in
other
places
,
would
appeare
as
well
provided
.
But
some
man
may
perhaps
make
question
,
to
what
end
Religious
men
should
make
such
preparation
,
or
what
need
there
can
be
so
to
doe
.
I
confesse
,
the
matter
at
the
first
sight
astonished
me
,
and
to
my
best
vnderstanding
was
exceeding
strange
:
but
thus
standeth
the
case
.
The
Iesuites
know
well
enough
,
that
the
courses
which
they
haue
taken
formerly
,
and
now
euery
day
doe
take
,
are
so
indirect
and
turbulent
,
as
maketh
them
odious
,
to
all
such
as
they
liue
amongst
;
yea
,
to
very
Papists
themselues
,
at
least
to
the
wiser
sort
of
them
,
in
respect
of
many
things
which
they
haue
done
both
tumultuously
,
and
wickedly
,
wheresoever
they
haue
got
footing
in
the
least
manner
.
For
they
haue
no
regard
of
any
,
they
spare
not
to
roote
vp
the
very
Catholickes
themselues
,
so
that
they
may
pleasure
the
Popes
Holinesse
therein
,
though
it
were
with
the
betraying
of
their
Countries
,
and
setting
the
whole
Christian
world
in
a
Combustion
.
And
therefore
because
they
are
in
daily
feare
to
bee
massacred
by
those
among
whom
they
liue
,
they
make
this
provident
and
timely
prevention
by
Warre-like
preparation
.
For
indeed
,
they
are
afraid
(
as
I
my selfe
haue
heard
them
confesse
)
least
it
might
befall
vnto
them
as
vnto
the
Knights
Templers
,
who
notwithstanding
they
were
forward
enough
to
serue
the
Pope
at
all
times
,
and
as
good
Catholickes
as
could
bee
wished
in
the
matter
of
Religion
;
yet
,
for
theyr
too
much
Ambition
and
Couetousnesse
,
whereby
they
became
insupportable
,
they
were
by
the
consent
of
all
Christian
Princes
,
and
not
without
approbation
from
the
Pope
himselfe
put
to
the
Sword
all
at
an
instant
,
and
vtterly
rooted
out
almost
in
a
moment
;
as
sometimes
were
the
Pythagorians
,
those
very
Iesuites
in
effect
,
among
the
Heathen
,
serued
throughout
Italy
,
and
the
Provinces
adioyning
.
Now
the
reason
,
wherefore
they
doe
make
choise
to
lay
vp
their
Armes
and
munition
in
their
Churches
▪
is
onely
this
:
For
if
when
any
Insurrection
or
rebellious
tumult
ariseth
in
a
Province
,
the
Papists
come
thither
to
helpe
and
assist
them
,
by
this
meanes
they
haue
Armes
for
them
in
a
readinesse
vpon
a
suddaine
:
but
if
any
who
are
of
contrary
Religion
come
thither
to
doe
them
wrong
▪
or
to
steale
any
thing
from
them
,
they
haue
munition
and
stones
aboue
head
,
to
destroy
them
withall
before
they
be
aware
.
And
is
not
this
(
I
pray
you
)
he
ready
way
to
make
the
House
of
Prayer
,
a
Den
of
Theeues
.
And
yet
by
your
patience
,
if
you
will
but
attend
,
I
shall
relate
things
more
strange
and
horrible
then
these
,
in
respect
whereof
,
the
things
I
haue
related
hitherto
▪
may
well
see
me
tollerable
,
I
may
almost
say
Innocencie
,
Vnder
the
Pauement
of
their
Church
at
Gratz
,
and
elsewhere
▪
to
my
knowledge
,
are
Vaults
and
buildings
vnder
ground
;
whereunto
,
there
is
no
way
but
by
staires
,
and
steps
;
Here
haue
they
hoorded
vp
(
like
to
that
Cacus
whom
Virgil
speaketh
of
)
all
theyr
prey
and
treasure
,
and
doe
obscurely
conceale
a
world
of
wealth
:
so
professing
pouertie
,
not
onely
with
publike
consent
,
but
also
with
incredible
pleasure
,
suffering
the
same
with
admirable
patience
,
and
Cursing
to
the
pit
of
Hell
,
all
such
as
are
poore
against
their
wils
,
as
vnworthy
of
so
blessed
a
Crosse
.
But
as
for
this
their
treasure
,
for
the
most
part
it
is
so
contriued
,
that
it
is
buried
directly
and
perpendicularly
vnder
their
greatest
and
chiefest
or
most
eminent
and
highest
Altar
,
and
so
they
shall
be
sure
that
when
they
Chant
Masse
,
they
shall
Sacrifice
to
MARS
aboue
head
,
and
to
MAMMON
below
.
Now
furthermore
,
in
their
Vaults
vnder
ground
they
maintaine
a
very
strange
Library
,
of
Cords
,
Halters
,
Rackes
,
Swords
,
Axes
,
Iron-pincers
,
Stockes
,
Torches
,
Pillories
,
and
souerall
Instruments
of
Torture
,
wherewith
and
whereunto
poore
wretches
being
tyed
fast
,
are
joynt
by
joynt
torne
a
sunder
as
many
as
fall
into
the
hands
of
these
Tyrants
,
who
are
farre
more
cruell
in
this
kind
,
then
MEZENTIVS
or
PHALARIS
ever
were
.
Nor
are
they
without
a
Divels
coate
,
and
a
long
steeple
crown'd
hat
with
blacke
feathers
,
a
jagged
doublet
cut
and
slashed
,
breeches
puffed
out
and
bagged
like
bellowes
,
downe
to
their
anckles
,
such
as
would
euen
make
a
man
affrighted
to
looke
vpon
them
.
But
perhaps
,
he
that
readeth
this
Relation
,
will
wonder
to
what
end
Religious
persons
,
who
professe
themselues
the
Disciples
and
followers
(
as
they
would
haue
all
men
to
beleeue
)
of
our
most
meeke
Saviour
IESVS
,
should
make
such
provision
.
I
will
resolue
you
this
question
also
,
if
you
please
to
attend
.
With
such
instruments
as
these
,
doth
the
Societie
captivate
the
vnderstanding
of
their
Disciples
,
vnto
Iesuiticall
obedience
.
For
if
in
the
least
matter
,
they
get
any
hinte
of
suspition
,
against
any
of
theyr
Novices
,
that
he
will
not
be
constant
,
or
that
he
desireth
to
escape
from
them
,
and
that
he
is
likely
to
betray
the
secrets
of
their
Societie
,
they
clap
vp
such
a
fellow
,
in
a
faire
paire
of
stockes
,
and
having
macerated
him
a
long
time
with
hunger
,
and
cold
,
and
want
of
all
bodily
comforts
;
at
the
last
,
they
make
an
end
of
him
,
with
some
exquisite
tortures
,
and
killing
torments
.
I
doe
not
belye
them
.
I
write
nothing
but
a
truth
.
There
was
at
Gratz
,
about
three
yeares
agoe
,
a
young
man
named
IACOBVS
CLVSSEVS
,
a
youth
of
an
excellent
and
pregnant
wit
;
this
man
did
they
lay
hands
vpon
,
and
miserably
tormented
him
,
by
whipping
and
scourging
,
for
a
matter
of
no
moment
,
and
because
hee
told
them
plainely
,
that
hee
would
renounce
their
Societie
,
and
complaine
publikely
(
if
ever
hee
got
libertie
)
for
this
and
other
such
wicked
dealings
towards
him
,
they
clapped
him
vp
into
such
a
Prison
,
vnder
ground
,
as
aforesayd
,
from
whence
hee
was
neuer
seene
to
come
out
againe
aliue
.
Nor
did
any
of
vs
that
were
Novices
,
make
question
,
but
that
hee
was
made
an
end
of
,
with
most
exquisite
torments
.
Which
vnparalell'd
piece
of
tyranny
,
I
purpose
in
due
time
to
divulge
to
the
whole
world
,
with
relation
of
all
circumstances
,
beeing
the
thing
which
the
poore
wretched
Clussaeus
,
had
a
purpose
to
haue
done
himselfe
,
if
hee
had
not
beene
hindered
and
preuented
by
death
.
I
shall
withall
make
publike
vnto
the
world
,
another
such
piece
of
Villanie
,
committed
by
the
Iesuites
of
Fulda
in
Germanie
,
vpon
the
body
of
one
MARTINVS
,
whom
they
stole
away
most
basely
from
his
Parents
,
who
are
yet
liuing
at
Miltenberg
or
Milberg
.
And
how
many
women
thinke
you
,
haue
beene
deuoured
and
eaten
vp
in
the
same
Gulfe
?
How
many
young
Children
slaine
?
How
many
young
men
,
that
haue
beene
sole
Heyres
of
very
large
and
ample
Patrimonies
,
haue
beene
made
away
by
them
?
I
doe
not
say
,
I
thinke
,
but
I
beleeue
,
and
am
firmely
perswaded
,
so
often
as
shrikes
,
and
cryes
,
sighings
,
and
most
woefull
lamentations
,
were
heard
in
the
night
season
,
the
hearing
whereof
;
would
put
a
man
into
a
cold
sweat
all
over
,
and
make
his
hayre
stand
on
end
,
though
our
simpler
Novices
,
beleeued
them
to
bee
the
Soules
of
some
lately
departed
,
it
was
nothing
but
the
shrikes
and
mone
of
children
lately
murthered
,
or
then
a
murthering
.
Moreover
,
that
the
extreame
and
Diuelish
malice
of
Iesuites
,
may
be
in
nothing
defectiue
,
they
are
accustomed
diuers
times
in
those
their
Vaults
vnder
ground
to
make
the
Diuell
very
fine
sport
:
putting
on
terrible
disguises
,
they
cause
some
of
theyr
Novices
to
be
called
downe
to
behold
theyr
Tragedie
,
vpon
whom
they
will
rush
suddainely
with
an
horrible
yelling
noyse
,
to
make
tryall
,
(
forsooth
)
of
theyr
courage
and
constancie
.
For
if
they
find
any
to
bee
timorous
and
fearefull
,
they
admit
not
such
a
man
to
the
secrets
of
Magicke
,
as
accounting
them
cowardly
and
degenerate
,
but
appoint
them
to
some
of
the
inferiour
Arts
:
but
such
as
appeare
to
bee
of
bold
and
vndaunted
Spirits
,
they
take
especiall
notice
of
them
,
and
reserue
them
for
serious
imployments
.
And
yet
they
are
not
alwayes
successefull
for
all
this
,
as
appeared
by
that
which
happened
at
Prague
in
the
yeare
1602.
For
whereas
there
were
fiue
principall
Iesuites
,
who
being
habited
as
Devils
made
sport
with
their
youth
,
It
so
fell
out
,
that
there
was
found
to
bee
a
sixth
in
their
company
,
before
they
were
aware
,
and
hee
questionlesse
was
a
Divell
indeed
,
who
catching
vp
one
of
the
personated
Diuels
in
his
Armes
,
gaue
him
such
a
kindly
vnkind
embrace
,
that
within
three
dayes
after
,
hee
dyed
of
it
▪
The
fact
was
common
talke
at
Bake-houses
,
and
Barbershops
,
and
at
euery
table
discoursed
vpon
,
all
over
Prague
.
And
yet
for
all
that
,
the
rest
of
them
,
as
nothing
amazed
with
this
Tragicall
event
,
dare
still
in
an
height
of
obstinacio
,
proceed
in
that
most
vngodly
and
Diuelish
study
of
Magicke
.
Now
amongst
that
whole
Societie
,
the
prime
man
for
a
Magician
,
a
French
Iesuite
,
whom
the
King
of
France
himselfe
,
had
in
so
high
estimation
,
that
hee
admitted
him
not
onely
to
his
Princely
table
,
but
also
to
familiar
conferences
in
priuate
;
concerning
whom
,
the
Iesuites
themselues
did
make
their
boast
,
that
he
had
a
glasse
made
by
Art
Magicke
,
wherein
hee
could
plainely
represent
vnto
the
King
,
whatsoeuer
his
Maiestie
desired
to
see
:
insomuch
,
that
there
was
nothing
so
secretly
done
or
consulted
vpon
in
the
most
private
Roome
of
of
any
Cloyster
or
Nunnerie
of
other
Orders
,
which
hee
could
not
easily
and
instantly
discouer
,
and
disclose
,
by
helpe
of
this
his
Inchanted
,
or
rather
Diuelish
glasse
.
And
indeed
it
was
by
the
Art
and
meanes
of
this
Magician
Iesuite
,
that
their
Societie
was
confident
,
that
they
should
bee
able
to
draw
on
theyr
side
,
one
of
the
most
potent
Princes
of
the
Empire
,
albeit
a
Protestant
:
forasmuch
,
as
hee
was
observed
to
bee
somewhat
delighted
in
the
Study
of
Magicke
.
Now
,
as
for
those
whom
they
take
in
as
Nouices
to
be
instructed
in
this
way
,
they
expound
vnto
them
those
nine
hundred
Propositions
,
which
PICVS
,
Earle
of
Mirandula
published
at
Rome
:
as
also
the
Booke
of
Iohannes
Tritemius
,
together
with
a
Tract
or
Treatise
touching
abstruse
or
hidden
Philosophy
,
written
by
Cornelius
Agrippa
:
Likewise
Theophrasius
,
concerning
the
Constellations
and
Seales
of
the
Planets
,
with
the
Steganographia
of
I
know
not
what
Abbot
,
and
the
Art
of
PAVL
to
procure
Revelations
:
meaning
Saint
PAVL
,
whom
they
affirme
to
haue
beene
instructed
in
the
Art
Magicke
,
and
thereby
to
haue
vnderstood
such
high
Revelations
and
profound
Mysteries
.
Yea
,
they
blush
not
to
affirme
,
that
Saint
IOHN
was
an
excellent
Magician
:
Nor
doe
they
sticke
to
say
,
that
euen
our
blessed
Sauiour
CHRIST
IESVS
himselfe
,
was
a
most
absolute
and
perfect
Magician
,
as
mine
owne
eares
haue
heard
it
oftener
then
once
or
twice
related
by
some
of
that
Societie
,
and
such
as
I
am
able
to
nominate
.
And
thus
much
for
the
Iesuites
Church
:
Onely
,
take
this
direction
along
with
you
;
those
Vaults
and
Roomes
vnder
ground
,
which
I
mentioned
euen
now
,
those
secret
conueyances
and
Circean
Dennes
,
are
for
the
most
part
contriued
to
be
vnder
the
Quire
or
Cloister
,
not
where
the
people
doe
walke
or
stand
.
And
now
when
thou
shalt
passe
from
their
Temple
into
theyr
Studie
(
for
I
will
say
nothing
touching
theyr
Parlour
,
or
Chambers
,
Refectories
,
or
places
of
Recreation
,
instruction
of
Novices
who
are
newly
admitted
,
and
the
trayning
vp
of
other
Schollers
committed
to
the
Iesuites
tuition
;
nor
yet
touching
the
Methode
and
Order
of
their
Studies
,
but
will
reserue
that
for
another
Discourse
;
seeing
those
passages
are
for
the
most
part
knowne
abroad
already
,
being
discovered
by
another
.
)
When
,
I
say
,
thou
shalt
enter
into
their
publike
Library
,
thou
shalt
finde
a
most
exquisite
choise
of
Authors
of
all
sorts
,
all
of
them
most
curiously
bound
vppe
in
Leather
or
Parchment
with
fillets
of
Siluer
or
Gold
:
and
as
for
such
whereof
there
is
daily
vse
,
they
are
layd
in
order
vpon
Deskes
,
fastened
with
chaines
vpon
a
long
table
.
But
as
for
the
inner
Librarie
,
that
is
onely
reserued
for
the
Fathers
of
the
Societie
:
it
is
free
for
none
but
them
to
goe
in
thither
,
and
to
borrow
thence
what
bookes
they
thinke
good
.
Those
ordinary
bookes
,
are
onely
free
for
the
Iuniors
of
the
Societie
,
nor
may
they
take
a
sentence
out
of
the
rest
without
speciall
leaue
obtained
from
the
Regent
.
Moreouer
,
in
this
first
Librarie
,
are
no
Hereticall
bookes
(
as
they
call
them
)
but
onely
the
Writings
of
most
approued
Authors
and
Catholickes
all
▪
For
they
hold
any
other
vnworthy
to
bee
placed
amongst
them
,
as
fearing
perhaps
they
should
infect
the
rest
.
Looke
therefore
vpon
thy
left
hand
,
and
there
thou
shalt
see
the
wretched
bookes
of
Heretickes
,
(
as
they
tearme
them
)
standing
all
in
Mourning
for
the
faults
of
their
Authors
,
bound
vp
in
blacke
Leather
,
or
Parchment
blacked
over
,
with
the
very
leaues
thereof
dyed
in
blacke
.
Of
these
,
not
one
of
the
Fathers
themselues
may
make
choyse
or
vse
,
without
leaue
obtained
from
the
Regent
before
hand
:
but
your
inferiour
Iesuites
and
younger
Novices
,
may
not
bee
so
bold
,
as
to
desire
the
sight
of
any
one
of
them
,
except
he
will
before
hand
,
with
all
virulencie
and
bitternesse
,
raile
vpon
,
and
disgrace
the
Author
,
whom
hee
desireth
to
see
,
by
some
infamous
Lybell
,
and
scurrilous
Satyricall
verse
,
or
writing
.
In
the
middest
of
these
seuerall
Libraries
,
is
placed
a
Study
,
beeing
divided
into
many
Seates
distinct
,
and
separate
one
from
another
,
with
a
blew
covering
:
on
the
right
side
whereof
,
sit
the
Fathers
;
on
the
left
,
the
vnder-Graduates
;
who
haue
already
taken
some
Degrees
vpon
them
.
The
other
Novices
,
or
(
Fresh-men
as
wee
call
them
)
sit
mixt
with
the
fellow-Commoners
,
that
they
may
take
notice
of
them
,
and
euery
man
in
his
turne
,
beating
into
them
by
continuall
discourses
▪
the
sweetnesse
and
excellencie
of
the
Order
of
Iesuites
;
especially
,
into
such
as
are
of
the
richer
sort
,
or
wealthy
heyres
.
I
will
say
no
more
at
this
time
▪
as
touching
theyr
Studies
,
but
I
will
describe
briefly
,
the
manner
of
the
Visitation
,
which
euery
Provinciall
maketh
;
because
it
is
a
point
,
which
as
I
thinke
,
and
for
any
thing
that
I
euer
read
or
heard
,
hath
beene
neuer
hitherto
divulged
by
any
.
Now
euery
Provinciall
taketh
his
Denomination
from
the
Prouince
,
or
Kingdome
rather
,
which
is
committed
to
his
charge
,
and
oversight
.
His
place
is
to
visit
the
severall
Colledges
,
to
take
an
account
of
theyr
Revenewes
,
and
ouer-see
their
expences
,
exactly
and
punctually
:
to
take
notice
,
what
Noble
personages
doe
commit
their
Sons
to
the
tuition
of
the
Societie
,
and
how
many
they
are
in
number
?
Whether
there
bee
not
yearely
an
increase
of
Schollers
,
as
also
of
their
meanes
and
Revenewes
?
Whether
there
bee
any
converted
from
Lutheranisme
,
and
how
many
such
?
If
there
be
no
such
thing
,
or
if
the
Popish
Religion
haue
lost
ground
,
or
if
there
be
any
decrease
of
theyr
wealth
,
he
sharpely
reproveth
their
sloath
and
neglect
,
and
chargeth
strictly
,
that
they
make
an
amends
for
the
wrong
they
haue
done
,
and
losse
they
haue
receiued
in
this
case
.
But
if
they
haue
bestirred
themselues
brauely
,
and
conuerted
(
as
they
call
it
)
or
rather
perverted
many
Soules
to
Popery
,
if
they
haue
beene
frugall
,
and
scraped
wealth
together
,
he
praiseth
them
very
highly
,
and
extolleth
them
to
the
skyes
.
Moreover
,
he
demandeth
,
what
is
the
opinion
of
the
Neighbouring
Hereticks
concerning
them
?
What
bee
the
projects
of
the
Nobles
?
What
meetings
they
haue
?
How
many
?
And
where
?
What
they
consult
vpon
?
What
they
resolue
to
doe
?
Whether
the
Hereticall
Princes
(
as
they
tearme
them
)
delight
to
liue
at
home
or
abroad
?
To
whom
they
resort
most
frequently
?
What
is
the
seuerall
disposition
of
euery
one
of
them
?
In
what
things
hee
is
obserued
to
take
most
delight
?
Whether
hee
take
any
care
of
his
people
or
not
?
Whether
hee
bee
a
Religious
Prince
or
not
?
Or
rather
,
whether
hee
bee
not
a
man
,
who
delights
to
take
his
pleasure
in
drinking
,
Wenching
,
or
Hunting
?
Whether
hee
haue
any
Catholickes
about
him
▪
or
that
are
neere
vnto
him
?
What
the
people
report
abroad
,
concerning
theyr
owne
Princes
?
Whether
the
Churches
of
the
Adversaries
,
bee
full
of
resort
,
or
not
?
Whether
the
Pastors
of
those
Churches
,
bee
learned
and
diligent
men
in
theyr
place
and
calling
,
or
otherwise
lazie
Lubbers
,
and
vnlettered
?
Whether
the
Profession
of
Divinitie
thriue
,
in
the
Neighbouring
Vniversitie
of
Heretickes
?
Whether
theyr
Divines
maintaine
frequent
Disputations
,
and
against
whom
principally
?
What
bookes
they
haue
published
of
late
,
and
vpon
what
Subiect
?
To
these
,
and
sundry
such
questions
,
if
the
Regent
,
and
the
rest
of
the
Fathers
doe
answer
punctually
,
hee
doth
wonderfully
commend
theyr
industry
and
vigilancie
.
If
hee
finde
them
defectiue
in
answering
to
these
or
any
such
demaunds
,
hee
reprooveth
them
sharpely
,
saying
:
what
meane
you
my
Maisters
,
doe
you
purpose
,
like
lazie
companions
,
to
vndoe
the
Church
of
Rome
?
How
doe
you
suppose
your
slothfulnesse
in
these
waightie
affaires
,
can
bee
excused
before
his
Holinesse
?
How
is
it
,
that
you
presume
to
take
these
places
vpon
you
,
and
to
manage
them
no
better
?
What
or
whom
are
you
affrayd
of
?
Why
doe
not
you
buckle
vp
your selues
better
to
your
businesse
,
and
performe
your
places
like
men
?
These
things
(
if
you
had
beene
such
men
as
you
ought
to
bee
)
had
not
beene
to
doe
now
.
These
things
should
haue
beene
done
long
before
this
time
.
Doe
you
obserue
the
incredible
watchfulnesse
of
the
Heretickes
,
and
can
you
bee
lazie
?
And
with
these
or
the
like
speeches
,
hee
whetteth
them
on
to
their
dutie
.
At
the
last
,
he
enquireth
as
touching
the
schollers
,
fellow-Commoners
,
Novices
,
and
the
rest
,
how
many
they
are
in
number
?
How
much
euery
one
hath
profited
?
To
what
study
or
delight
each
one
is
inclinable
?
Whether
there
bee
any
one
amongst
them
that
is
scrupulous
,
or
vntractable
,
or
not
a
fit
subiect
to
bewrought
vpon
.
For
he
adiudgeth
euery
such
an
one
fitting
to
bee
remoued
from
the
study
of
Divinity
;
except
,
he
haue
bin
very
well
exercised
in
the
disputations
in
Schooles
,
and
haue
a
very
great
and
good
conceit
of
theyr
Religion
beaten
into
him
.
Moreouer
,
hee
enquireth
if
they
haue
any
one
in
the
Colledge
,
who
can
be
contented
,
for
the
advantage
of
the
Catholicke
cause
,
to
vndertake
any
laudable
attempt
,
and
to
spend
his
blood
in
the
cause
,
if
at
any
time
necessity
shall
seeme
to
require
it
.
And
at
last
,
he
sendeth
away
all
these
informations
being
sealed
vp
,
vnto
the
Father
Generall
at
Rome
,
by
whom
,
they
are
immediately
made
knowne
to
the
Pope
himselfe
,
and
his
Conclaue
of
Cardinals
:
And
so
by
this
meanes
,
an
order
is
taken
,
that
there
is
no
matter
of
Action
set
on
foote
,
nothing
almost
consulted
vpon
,
throughout
the
whole
Christian
world
,
which
is
not
forthwith
discouered
vnto
the
Pope
,
by
these
traytors
,
that
lurke
in
euery
state
and
kingdome
.
Also
,
it
is
not
to
be
omitted
,
that
the
Iesuites
are
translated
by
theyr
Provinciall
,
from
one
Colledge
to
another
,
and
that
for
the
most
part
once
in
three
yeares
,
that
so
the
Provinciall
out
of
theyr
severall
discoveries
,
may
attaine
to
vnlocke
all
the
secretest
Cabinets
of
the
Prince
and
State
,
where
he
doth
reside
.
In
the
last
place
,
I
will
adde
in
stead
of
a
Corallary
,
some
strange
and
wonderfull
▪
devices
of
the
Iesuites
,
which
beeing
but
of
late
newly
hammered
in
the
forge
,
they
haue
earnestly
endeauoured
;
yea
,
and
at
this
day
doe
labour
,
tooth
and
nayle
to
put
in
practice
by
publike
consent
,
for
an
Innovation
to
be
made
both
in
the
Church
and
State
throughout
the
whole
Romane
Empire
.
To
this
end
,
theyr
chiefe
and
onely
ayme
is
,
how
to
set
the
Princes
of
the
Empire
together
by
the
cares
,
and
by
taking
off
some
of
the
principall
Doctors
of
the
Church
,
to
bring
the
tyranny
of
the
Spaniard
,
and
the
Primacie
of
the
Pope
,
into
Germanie
.
Concerning
which
very
project
,
I
haue
heard
the
Provinciall
DEL-RIO
himselfe
,
discoursing
sometimes
,
whose
plots
and
Machinations
,
were
such
as
follow
.
In
the
first
place
,
(
saith
hee
)
care
and
paines
must
bee
vsed
,
to
estrange
the
effections
of
the
Princes
of
the
Empire
,
one
from
another
.
Now
the
meanes
(
sayd
he
)
to
effect
▪
that
is
,
to
worke
vpon
theyr
contrariety
of
opinions
,
in
matters
of
Religion
:
And
for
this
end
let
the
Emperor
be
incited
to
make
a
Declaration
,
that
hee
will
not
grant
liberty
of
Conscience
in
matters
of
Religion
,
except
there
shall
first
be
a
restitution
made
of
such
goods
,
as
were
taken
from
the
Clergie
vpon
the
treaty
at
Passaw
:
for
this
is
a
point
whereat
they
will
sticke
assuredly
,
and
deny
it
.
Let
the
Emperor
thereupon
send
his
Princes
,
and
demand
the
same
of
the
Cities
of
the
Empire
?
They
will
either
obey
or
deny
:
If
they
consent
and
obey
,
all
is
well
:
If
they
refuse
,
let
him
proclaime
them
Rebels
,
and
expose
them
to
be
seized
vpon
by
the
next
neighbouring
Princes
:
but
still
let
the
matter
be
so
caried
,
that
he
be
sure
to
oppose
a
Lutheran
and
a
Calvinist
,
the
one
against
the
other
.
Moreouer
,
some
deuise
must
bee
found
out
,
that
the
Duke
of
Bavaria
may
fall
foule
either
vpon
the
Elector
Palatine
,
or
vpon
the
Duke
of
Wittemberg
,
for
then
may
the
Emperor
be
easily
wonne
to
proclaime
him
Traytor
whom
the
Duke
of
Bavaria
shall
distast
,
and
all
meanes
taken
away
of
making
pacification
either
with
Papist
or
Calvinist
for
them
;
besides
,
thereby
will
be
raised
vnreconcileable
diuisions
in
the
Empire
,
neuer
to
be
quenched
before
an
highway
bee
made
for
the
accomplishment
of
our
desires
.
For
the
further
ripening
of
which
Designe
,
the
Iesuites
vnbethought
themselues
further
of
this
Stratagem
.
It
will
follow
(
say
they
)
necessarily
,
when
any
Citie
of
the
Empire
shall
be
proclaimed
rebellious
,
that
euery
seuerall
Prince
will
be
more
ready
and
willing
to
serue
his
owne
turne
vpon
the
spoyle
thereof
,
then
to
admit
any
other
that
shall
be
emulous
of
the
same
bootie
to
preuent
him
.
This
for
the
Generality
.
More
particularly
yet
,
meanes
must
be
found
out
,
to
set
the
Princes
of
Saxony
at
difference
,
that
their
strength
and
power
may
be
broken
,
or
at
least
weakened
.
Now
that
may
bee
most
conueniently
effected
thus
:
first
,
if
the
Administration
of
the
Primacie
of
Magdeburg
,
which
now
is
vacant
,
bee
giuen
to
the
Bavarian
Elector
of
Colen
,
neither
the
Marquesse
of
Brandenburg
,
nor
the
Duke
of
Saxonie
,
will
easily
grant
theyr
consents
thereto
.
Secondly
,
if
that
succeed
not
according
to
our
desires
,
there
must
be
some
cause
pretended
,
why
the
Duke
of
Saxony
either
doth
seeme
worthy
,
or
ought
to
seeme
worthy
to
be
remoued
from
the
Electorall
dignity
.
For
,
if
in
times
past
,
the
Princes
of
the
Empire
cast
downe
Wenceslaus
,
from
the
Imperiall
Throne
,
because
they
had
adjudged
him
a
negligent
Prince
:
surely
the
Emperour
may
take
as
just
an
occasion
,
to
remoue
from
the
Electorall
Dignity
,
the
Duke
of
Saxony
,
who
is
drunke
euery
day
.
And
in
this
respect
,
let
his
Imperiall
Majestie
restore
and
conferre
that
Dignity
,
vpon
the
house
and
family
of
the
Dukes
of
Weymar
,
And
because
these
Princes
are
yet
vnder
age
,
let
the
Administration
of
that
Electorship
,
be
committed
to
Henry
of
Brunswicke
,
a
learned
and
vigilant
Prince
.
This
project
being
once
set
a
foote
,
cannot
chuse
but
beget
infinite
distractions
,
throughout
all
Saxony
,
so
shall
it
come
to
passe
,
that
they
shall
wast
and
weary
themselues
one
against
another
,
and
by
that
meanes
,
become
vtterly
vnable
to
withstand
a
common
foe
when
he
shall
come
vpon
them
.
And
as
for
the
Marquesse
of
Brandenburge
and
them
of
Pomerania
,
let
meanes
be
vsed
to
moue
the
King
of
Poland
who
is
the
Emperors
kinsman
to
covenant
with
his
vncle
the
King
of
Swetheland
,
that
they
two
shall
invade
and
divide
Prussia
,
and
Canton
the
same
:
which
thing
the
Marquesse
of
Brandenburge
will
oppose
with
all
his
powers
.
Now
as
concerning
the
Landgraue
of
Hessen
he
must
be
vrged
and
sollicited
daily
to
divide
the
inheritance
equally
with
his
vncle
Lodowicke
and
to
resigne
the
gouernment
of
Hertsfeild
to
the
Bishop
of
Wirtzburg
:
if
he
refuse
to
doe
so
,
let
him
bee
proclaymed
rebell
,
and
let
his
inheritance
bee
assigned
vnto
his
vncle
Lodowicke
.
Moreouer
,
as
for
the
Duke
of
Wittemberge
,
and
the
Elector
Palatine
,
they
two
may
with
ease
be
set
together
by
the
cares
,
if
the
Duke
bee
commanded
to
make
restitution
of
some
Religious
houses
,
or
otherwise
vpon
his
refusall
be
proclaimed
Rebell
,
and
some
neighbouring
Monasteries
bee
assigned
to
the
Elector
Palatine
,
and
amongst
them
one
especially
,
which
hee
hath
bin
obserued
to
haue
aymed
at
long
agoe
.
And
these
be
those
killing
proiects
of
the
Iesuites
,
which
I
haue
heard
from
their
owne
mouthes
,
not
without
admiration
euen
to
astonishment
,
and
they
haue
many
more
of
like
sort
,
all
which
I
doe
not
at
this
present
remember
.
Moreouer
,
there
hath
beene
a
Consultation
among
the
Iesuites
to
send
abroad
some
bold
Assassinates
,
who
by
Poyson
or
by
the
Pistoll
,
may
cut
off
the
principall
Doctors
of
the
Reformed
Churches
,
fellowes
who
are
so
absolute
Masters
in
that
trade
of
Poysoning
,
that
they
are
able
so
to
infect
Platters
,
Saltsellers
,
Basons
,
Kettles
,
Pots
,
and
Caldrons
,
and
such
like
vessels
of
ordinary
vse
;
that
albeit
,
they
shall
be
ten
times
ouer
washed
and
wiped
,
yet
shall
they
retaine
the
power
and
infection
of
most
deadly
and
speeding
poyson
.
Wherefore
,
I
humbly
aduise
all
godly
and
religious
Gouernours
and
Ministers
of
the
Church
,
that
hereafter
they
bee
warie
,
and
cautelous
how
they
trust
any
,
but
such
as
of
whose
fidelity
they
haue
had
sufficient
triall
.
And
these
things
could
neuer
haue
fallen
within
compasse
of
mine
vnderstanding
,
nor
euer
did
,
before
such
time
as
I
heard
them
from
the
Principals
and
Heads
of
the
Societie
of
Iesuites
,
together
with
many
other
particulars
,
which
I
held
my selfe
bound
in
Conscience
to
reveale
to
the
world
,
for
the
good
of
my
Countrey
,
and
of
the
Church
of
CHRIST
:
which
although
I
haue
for
the
present
onely
giuen
you
as
in
a
rude
and
first
draught
;
yet
I
purpose
,
(
God
willing
)
in
due
time
,
to
expresse
the
same
at
large
,
painting
them
out
in
their
Colours
,
with
circumstances
of
time
,
place
and
persons
.
⸪
FINIS
.