AN
ANSWER
TO
THE
CALUMNIES
OF
JAMES
BEAVFES
A
JESUIT
.
CHAP.
I.
Shewing
the
reason
of
my
writing
after
the
excellent
Refutation
,
publish'd
on
my
behalf
by
Monsieur
Vincent
.
IT
was
ever
accounted
justifiable
,
that
an
innocent
person
should
vindicate
his
reputation
against
calumnies
.
But
if
it
happen
that
he
sayes
not
a
word
in
order
to
his
own
justification
,
and
that
God
out
of
his
infinite
mercy
raise
up
some
Daniel
,
that
undertakes
to
plead
his
cause
,
confound
his
adversaries
,
and
discover
the
inconsistency
of
their
testimonies
by
the
manifest
contradictions
they
fall
into
,
it
raises
in
the
people
an
admiration
at
the
judgements
of
God
who
never
forsakes
those
that
suffer
persecution
upon
the
account
of
vertue
,
and
takes
a
certaine
pleasure
to
see
injustice
and
detraction
overthrown
at
the
feet
of
Innocence
.
A
broad
and
troublesome
sea
of
three
hundred
Leagues
,
which
lyes
between
me
and
the
Inhabitants
of
Rochell
,
suffers
me
not
to
heare
the
coyle
and
hurly-burlies
which
the
Jesuits
raise
at
so
great
a
distance
against
me
;
and
if
they
write
any
defamatory
pamphlet
,
to
humour
their
exasperation
,
and
in
some
measure
to
alleviate
their
fury
,
it
is
so
long
ere
it
comes
on
our
shores
,
by
reason
of
the
uncertainty
of
navigation
,
and
the
hazards
of
the
Sea
,
that
three
or
foure
months
slip
away
before
I
can
get
it
into
my
hands
.
I
was
acquainted
with
God's
raising
up
of
Monsieur
Vincent
in
my
defence
,
before
I
heard
that
Beaufes
had
put
in
any
charge
against
me
;
the
preservative
came
to
me
before
the
poison
,
and
I
have
seen
my
adversary
layd
at
my
feet
,
defeated
by
him
whose
very
name
signifies
a
Conquerour
,
before
ever
I
took
up
any
armes
my selfe
.
It
is
indeed
but
too
easy
a
matter
to
insult
over
a
man
,
that
hath
been
surprized
in
severall
falsifications
,
and
delivered
up
as
a
Detractor
to
the
abuses
of
the
people
.
I
know
it
will
prove
no
great
matter
of
reputation
to
me
,
to
pursue
a
wounded
Serpent
,
that
hath
in
a
manner
spent
all
its
venome
,
and
hardly
hath
strength
enough
to
hisse
.
Monsieur
Vincent
hath
given
James
Beaufes
such
an
absolut
rout
,
that
there
is
no
honour
in
thinking
of
any
further
engagement
with
him
.
The
most
considerable
accusation
which
that
devout
adversary
had
against
me
,
amounted
to
no
more
then
a
certaine
foaminesse
which
that
great
man
had
dissolv'd
and
burst
asunder
,
or
may
be
compared
to
a
mist
in
the
morning
,
which
the
Sun
of
truth
hath
dispelled
by
the
lively
heat
of
his
more
powerfull
raies
.
All
those
that
have
seen
the
refutation
,
have
admired
the
prudence
of
the
Author
,
the
sharpenesse
of
his
Logicall
abilities
,
the
solidity
of
his
replyes
,
the
modesty
of
his
discourses
;
&
the
same
persons
having
weighed
the
accusations
&
outrages
of
my
enemy
,
have
not
been
a
little
astonished
,
to
see
,
that
a
Jesuit
,
whose
employment
it
is
to
preach
the
word
of
God
,
should
fall
into
such
palpable
contradictions
,
make
so
many
discoveries
of
his
imprudence
,
and
betray
so
much
passion
and
extravagance
.
And
yet
,
notwithstanding
this
former
Answer
,
whereby
I
am
more
then
sufficiently
iustified
,
I
conceive
it
an
obligation
lying
upon
me
to
vindicate
my selfe
,
by
an
Apologie
,
after
my
fashion
,
against
this
injurious
Goliah
,
who
making
his
advantages
of
whatever
may
tend
to
my
disparagement
,
would
no
doubt
take
occasion
,
from
my
silence
,
to
say
,
that
I
am
such
another
as
himselfe
,
ignorant
,
and
not
able
to
ha●e
him
any
answer
.
Besides
,
it
is
further
to
be
considered
,
tha●
Monsieur
Vincent
,
in
severall
places
of
his
R●futation
,
refers
to
me
the
clearing
up
of
many
thing●
,
which
it
was
impossible
he
should
have
the
kn●wledge
of
,
and
which
I
think
it
my
duty
to
declare
,
to
the
glory
of
God
,
and
the
confusion
of
a
sect
so
prejudici●ll
to
th●
universe
.
That
sh●ll
then
be
the
designe
of
this
second
treatise
,
which
I
shall
for
the
greater
ease
of
my
Reader
divide
into
Chapters
.
And
in
regard
it
is
but
necessa●y
it
should
be
known
against
whom
I
take
these
paines
to
vindicate
my selfe
,
I
shall
entertaine
thee
in
the
two
ensuing
Chapters
with
a
true
character
of
my
Adversary
,
that
thou
maist
by
the
claw
imagine
what
a
Lyon
I
have
to
deale
with
.
If
he
make
it
his
complaint
,
that
Hercules
himselfe
may
thinke
it
some
disa●vantage
to
eng●g●
against
two
,
it
argues
he
does
not
much
consider
,
that
above
twenty
thousand
Jesuits
have
declared
open
hostility
against
me
,
threatning
me
with
fire
and
sword
,
and
that
it
is
much
more
easie
for
him
to
make
his
party
good
against
two
,
then
for
me
alone
to
enter
the
lists
against
twenty
thousand
.
All
the
confidence
I
have
,
is
,
that
my
honest
Countrymen
the
French
,
who
shall
read
this
peece
,
will
very
much
blame
the
Jesuits
,
for
having
been
so
furious
and
implacable
in
their
proceedings
against
me
,
when
I
had
done
them
no
other
injury
;
then
that
which
they
fondly
imagine
they
have
received
by
my
leaving
of
them
,
and
will
consequently
say
so
much
on
my
behalfe
,
that
I
am
not
to
be
found
fault
with
,
if
my
answer
be
somewhat
sharpe
,
and
speak
the
truth
without
any
disguise
.
I
doubt
not
,
but
God
,
the
grand
protector
of
the
Innocent
,
will
confound
the
designes
of
my
Persecutors
,
and
will
inspire
my
words
with
a
certaine
force
and
perswasion
,
to
their
confusion
,
and
his
own
greater
glory
.
CHAP.
II.
A
character
of
James
Beaufés
,
as
to
his
abilities
in
point
of
Learning
.
IF
any
one
be
desirous
to
know
what
kind
of
person
Rousseau
the
Provinciall
of
the
Jesuits
hath
made
choice
of
,
to
barke
and
make
all
this
noise
against
me
,
so
to
evaporate
the
violence
of
their
indignation
through
the
fiery
furnace
of
his
throat
,
't
is
one
,
whose
name
is
James
Beaufés
,
a
man
,
as
to
his
personage
,
bulky
,
fat
,
and
crook-shouldered
,
one
that
,
for
some
months
past
,
hath
,
of
a
pulpit
,
which
should
be
the
seat
of
truth
,
made
a
stage
whereon
to
represent
his
own
passions
,
and
to
find
ridiculous
entertainment
for
the
people
.
I
shall
not
in
this
place
hit
him
in
the
teeth
with
the
impurities
of
his
extraction
,
though
we
have
the
security
of
the
Scriptures
for
it
,
that
God
does
many
times
punish
in
the
children
the
iniquities
of
their
Fathers
.
Nor
shall
I
make
it
any
reproach
to
him
,
that
his
Brother
was
hanged
for
a
murther
committed
by
him
on
the
person
of
Monsieur
Saige
,
in
the
City
of
Tulle
.
No
,
I
shall
only
treat
him
as
a
Jesuit
,
and
,
in
the
present
chapter
,
examine
him
as
to
his
abilities
,
and
,
in
the
next
,
make
inspection
into
some
part
of
his
life
and
Manners
.
Of
all
those
parts
of
knowledge
which
any
way
recommend
a
man
and
gaine
him
the
esteem
of
an
understanding
and
knowing
person
,
he
hath
so
little
,
that
it
is
not
●ithout
reason
,
that
he
is
no
otherwise
looked
on
●mong
the
learned
,
then
as
one
eminent
for
his
confi●ent
ignorance
,
though
his
perpetuall
gagling
raises
in
●hose
,
that
know
him
not
,
an
imagination
that
he
is
●uilty
of
some
literature
.
He
is
so
little
versed
in
Latine
and
Humane
Learning
,
that
,
having
taught
little
●hildren
for
many
yeares
together
,
he
could
never
get
●ut
of
the
classes
of
Grammar
,
and
,
being
almost
choak'd
with
the
dust
of
the
Colledges
of
Agen
and
Perigueux
,
he
was
pack'd
away
,
to
finish
his
course
at
the
●oble
Colledge
of
S.
Macaire
upon
the
Garonne
,
there
●o
teach
one
of
the
lowest
Classes
,
with
the
assistance
●f
another
,
whose
name
is
Salabert
.
This
pretended
Refuter
of
the
Ministers
is
so
excel●ently
well
skilled
in
the
Greek
Tongue
,
that
I
defy
●im
,
not
to
interpret
,
but
to
read
a
page
of
any
Greek
Author
,
without
stumbling
thirty
times
;
and
for
this
●hallenge
which
I
make
to
him
,
it
is
no
hard
matter
for
him
to
refute
it
,
for
there
's
no
more
to
be
done
,
but
●hat
he
referre
himself
to
two
knowing
men
.
But
I
am
●onfident
he
dares
not
put
it
to
the
hazard
,
what
bragges
so
ever
he
may
make
of
sufficiency
.
The
Hebrew
is
a
strange
and
barbarous
language
to
him
,
for
,
not
to
injure
or
bely
the
man
,
he
was
never
yet
acquainted
with
either
the
points
or
Letters
,
and
it
is
much
to
be
questioned
whether
he
can
turne
the
Bible
the
right
way
.
Having
the
last
yeare
,
received
from
one
of
our
Ministers
,
a
Letter
in
Hebrew
,
he
runs
hare-brained
from
Ruffec
to
Engoulesme
,
a
whole
night's
journey
,
to
get
it
interpreted
and
answered
by
Monsieur
Thomas
de
Maisonnette
,
a
knowing
person
,
and
well
skilled
in
that
Tongue
.
That
excellent
person
cannot
deny
what
I
say
to
be
true
.
History
and
Chronology
are
those
unknown
parts
of
Learning
which
were
never
discoverable
to
him
,
and
if
he
sayes
any
thing
of
them
,
he
does
it
upon
the
credit
of
another
,
and
the
security
of
citations
which
he
meets
with
in
certaine
collections
of
Controversies
.
Since
he
is
so
unfortunate
as
to
all
these
it
would
be
thought
,
that
those
shreds
of
Logick
he
hath
made
a
shift
to
get
together
might
find
him
some
employment
as
to
that
Science
,
but
the
course
he
was
put
upon
at
Bourdeaux
,
purely
indeed
for
want
of
another
,
discovered
the
weaknesse
of
his
dialecticall
faculties
.
That
employment
,
bestowed
on
him
,
not
out
of
any
consideration
of
his
desert
,
but
upon
the
recommendation
of
Monsieur
Jrat
,
who
had
an
affection
for
him
,
proved
so
unfortunate
to
him
,
that
his
Schollers
,
to
shew
what
account
they
made
of
such
a
master
,
brought
an
Asse
into
the
Schoole
,
got
it
up
into
his
seat
,
and
there
fastened
him
in
such
manner
,
that
the
two
fore
feet
hung
over
it
,
as
it
were
to
represent
Doctor
Beaufes
,
and
indeed
there
wanted
only
speech
to
say
Nego
,
with
as
much
judgement
as
our
Logick-Lecturer
could
.
That
honourable
Substitute
putting
him
to
a
little
losse
,
when
he
was
come
in
to
read
his
Lecture
,
the
Scholers
hissed
him
out
of
the
Classe
,
and
thereupon
,
breaking
of
that
unfortunate
course
,
that
stayed
till
the
next
year
to
begin
it
againe
under
a
more
able
Master
.
That
Minister
,
who
writing
to
a
friend
of
his
,
told
him
that
this
Antagonist
was
guilty
of
a
little
Logick
,
had
not
certainly
heard
of
this
glorious
accident
,
which
yet
was
generally
known
all
over
Bourdeaux
,
notwithstanding
the
great
zeale
and
earnestnesse
of
Pabot
,
then
Prefect
,
to
smother
the
businesse
.
For
had
he
knomn
any
thing
of
it
,
he
would
have
given
another
account
of
him
,
and
might
have
said
more
truely
,
that
,
as
to
Logick
,
he
was
Master
of
no
more
then
was
requisite
he
should
have
that
deserved
to
have
his
place
supplyed
by
an
Asse
.
His
perfections
in
Divinity
I
refer
to
the
test
of
their
judgements
who
heare
his
Sermons
.
Only
I
shall
presume
so
far
as
to
say
,
that
it
is
levelled
to
the
capacities
of
those
that
are
the
most
remote
from
Citties
and
civill
conversation
.
For
having
given
,
through
his
notori●us
rake-hellizing
,
very
great
scandall
in
the
Colledge
●f
Bourdeaux
,
where
I
then
was
,
the
Provinciall
was
●●rced
to
pack
him
away
thence
to
Pau
in
Beard
,
●ere
to
prosecute
his
nudies
,
after
he
had
caused
●im
publickly
in
the
Refectory
,
to
receive
discipline
,
●uring
the
whole
time
,
that
a
Miserere
was
read
.
●he
employments
he
is
put
upon
,
are
proportionable
●o
the
account
they
make
of
him
.
All
his
businesse
〈◊〉
Ruffec
,
for
foure
yeares
together
,
was
only
to
●un
up
and
downe
the
Villages
thereabouts
;
and
were
●t
not
that
he
makes
it
so
much
his
businesse
to
gaine
〈◊〉
litle
reputation
by
endeavouring
the
refutation
of
●he
Ministers
;
he
would
be
thought
absolutely
unworthy
to
speak
in
publick
.
Those
of
their
Society
,
who
know
him
as
well
as
I
do
,
wonder
not
to
see
him
kept
so
low
,
insomuch
that
it
was
never
asked
by
●ny
one
,
whence
it
came
that
he
was
appointed
to
●reach
in
the
Advents
and
Lents
at
Sauue
terre
a
●altry
towne
in
Bazadois
,
at
Vieille
Vigne
,
a
village
of
Brittany
,
at
Ruffec
two
years
together
,
while
other
preachers
,
that
were
his
Juniors
by
nine
or
ten
years
preached
in
the
greatest
and
most
considerable
Citties
.
Both
Secular
Priests
and
Regulars
are
astonished
to
find
him
admitted
into
the
pulpit
at
all
,
considering
●he
imprudences
and
impertinences
he
falls
into
in
his
Sermons
.
Some
Jesuits
were
of
opinion
,
that
he
had
some
gift
in
the
businesse
of
Controversies
,
not
that
they
thought
him
sufficiently
skilled
as
to
the
understanding
of
the
Scriptures
,
or
furnished
as
to
matter
of
ratiocination
,
but
only
because
he
hath
a
bitter
,
satyricall
faculty
,
such
as
easily
makes
the
audience
laugh
,
by
an
humour
he
hath
of
making
sport
with
our
maximes
.
'T
is
the
generall
acknowledgement
,
that
he
maintaines
his
cause
rather
like
some
jugler
,
then
a
Preacher
and
a
Divine
.
I
have
had
the
diversion
to
see
this
modest
and
regulated
Orator
with
his
Jesuiticall
cap
,
one
while
hanging
over
one
eare
,
another
,
pulled
down
over
his
nose
,
stamping
with
his
feet
,
shutting
his
fists
,
gnashing
and
grinning
with
his
teeth
,
with
his
surplice
rolled
up
like
a
dish
clout
under
his
rme
.
If
the
teares
of
the
Audience
speak
the
praises
of
the
preacher
,
as
St
Hierome
saies
,
this
ma●
can
pretend
to
very
little
,
for
thousands
have
seen
him
laugh
very
gravely
himselfe
,
after
he
had
,
with
cackling
pronunciation
of
his
words
shot
out
some
foolish
expression
purposely
to
excite
others
to
laughter
.
Th●
town
of
Fontenay
shall
confirme
what
I
say
,
where
on●
Lecturer
preaching
the
last
yeare
,
he
would
needs
,
i●
the
midst
of
his
Sermon
,
ridiculously
fall
a
singing
,
as
i●
were
to
personate
some
poore
old
woman
,
that
wer●
singing
of
a
psalme
;
porters
and
tradesmen
laughed
a●
the
humour
of
that
harmonious
crow
,
while
some
persons
of
quality
said
at
the
same
time
to
his
Rector
,
whom
I
was
in
company
with
,
These
sallyes
of
simplicity
and
impertinence
,
Sir
,
are
not
to
be
endured
.
In
the
same
Sermon
he
made
very
diligent
enquiry
,
and
that
in
very
unhandsome
termes
,
by
what
markes
it
might
be
known
that
women
stood
in
need
of
men
,
and
foolishly
demanded
of
the
Audience
,
whether
it
were
by
the
eyes
,
by
the
hands
,
by
the
Legges
,
or
by
the
end
of
the
nose
Pardon
me
if
I
forbeare
the
rest
,
my
writing
blushes
a●
his
impudence
,
but
let
it
be
observed
by
the
way
,
how
much
his
capacity
,
in
order
to
preaching
amounts
to
,
and
what
degree
of
prudence
he
is
of
to
speake
in
publick
.
CHAP.
III.
A
character
of
James
Beaufes
in
relation
to
his
life
and
manners
.
God
hath
not
bestowed
the
gift
of
preaching
equally
upon
all
,
but
it
is
his
wil
that
al
should
so
lead
their
lives
,
as
that
they
might
give
others
good
example
.
Did
●●e
Jesuits
of
Guienne
think
it
their
duty
to
give
God
the
●●ory
,
as
to
what
concerns
the
manners
of
James
Be●●fes
,
two
hundred
of
that
Body
would
give
it
under
●●eir
hands
,
that
he
is
one
of
the
most
irregular
of
the
●rder
.
I
shall
therefore
simply
say
without
passion
,
●●d
out
of
no
other
reflection
then
that
of
glorifying
●●uth
,
that
three
severall
times
Informations
were
put
〈◊〉
against
him
,
for
his
ejection
out
of
the
Society
.
●he
first
,
while
he
was
yet
a
Novice
,
was
,
for
that
he
●●d
made
severall
discoveries
of
a
most
debauched
in●●ination
,
nay
,
in
some
intervalls
had
been
guilty
of
●●ch
sallies
of
extravagance
,
as
sufficiently
betrayed
●●e
unsettlednesse
of
his
brain
.
Such
was
that
,
for
in●●ance
,
when
he
followed
one
of
his
Brethren
into
●●e
Garden-walks
with
a
knife
in
his
hand
,
to
kill
him
,
〈◊〉
at
least
to
do
him
some
mischief
,
because
he
had
●●scovered
some
faults
of
his
to
the
Master
of
the
No●●ces
,
as
they
are
by
the
rule
of
that
Society
,
requi●●d
to
do
.
The
second
charge
put
in
against
him
,
was
,
when
●●at
being
in
his
course
of
the
Metaphysicks
at
Bour●●aux
,
he
fell
into
far
greater
dissolutions
and
more
●●credible
follies
.
He
remembers
,
but
certainly
not
●●thout
shame
,
his
extravagant
carriage
towards
●●mes
l'
Espraulart
,
his
Rector
,
which
brought
him
with●●
two
inches
of
the
threshold
,
in
order
to
his
casting
●●t
of
the
house
.
This
unhappy
young
man
coming
●●e
night
from
Bardenac
,
a
house
of
Recreation
which
●●ey
have
within
a
League
of
Bourdeaux
,
where
he
had
●●en
merry
with
his
companions
for
the
space
of
a
●hole
Summers
day
,
would
needs
in
a
jeasting
way
●●ke
a
sword
from
one
of
the
Servants
which
he
hid
●●der
his
city-garment
,
as
the
young
Students
then
●●●re
them
,
and
being
return'd
about
nine
of
the
●●ock
,
the
time
appointed
for
the
Jesuits
to
go
to
bed
,
〈◊〉
comes
into
his
Rectors
chamber
,
who
thought
of
●●thing
lesse
then
that
piece
of
phrensie
;
The
time
is
,
now
come
,
said
he
,
drawing
the
sword
,
that
you
may
with
your
blood
expiate
the
afflictions
and
affronts
I
h●●●
received
by
the
many
penances
you
have
imposed
upon
me
and
immediately
,
through
a
more
prudent
act
of
extravagance
,
putting
it
gently
into
the
sheath
again
▪
What
,
said
he
,
reverend
Father
,
are
you
afraid
?
〈◊〉
sword
I
found
in
my
way
.
This
judicious
exploit
don●
by
him
after
a
many
mad
pranks
of
the
same
nature
gave
occasion
to
the
Provinciall
and
the
Consultors
〈◊〉
conclude
,
that
the
onely
course
to
be
taken
,
was
,
〈◊〉
rid
the
Province
of
a
mischievous
and
a
frantick
person
▪
But
his
tears
and
the
intercession
of
the
Rector
,
wh●
excus'd
him
upon
the
debauches
of
the
day
,
hel●
their
hands
for
that
time
.
You
reproach
,
will
he
say
,
a
man
that
is
now
grey-hair'd
,
with
the
faults
he
had
committed
in
his
youth
▪
I
wish
with
all
my
heart
,
that
his
modesty
had
obliged
me
to
conceale
,
not
onely
those
of
his
youth
,
bu●
much
more
those
of
his
virile
age
,
which
being
of
greater
consequence
will
prove
sharper
thorns
in
his
breast
▪
It
troubles
me
not
a
little
that
I
am
forced
to
defil●
my
paper
,
and
accuse
a
man
,
whom
I
have
some
tim●
lived
with
,
of
the
most
shamefull
crime
that
is
in
nature
.
It
is
generally
known
all
over
the
Province
that
in
the
time
of
the
Provinciall
Malescot
,
the
Generall
of
the
Order
Mutius
Vitelleschi
had
written
,
tha●
they
should
not
forbear
any
longer
with
him
,
but
〈◊〉
him
out
,
since
he
was
incorrigible
,
the
principa●
crime
he
was
charged
with
being
,
that
he
had
lasciviously
medled
with
some
little
scholers
,
of
exquisi●
beauty
;
nay
,
that
he
had
one
night
got
out
of
his
ow●
bed
,
to
go
to
lie
with
a
certain
young
Philosopher
,
〈◊〉
condisciple
of
mine
,
named
Martiall
Lamy
,
one
of
th●
Religious
men
of
the
Society
of
Jesus
.
This
insatiable
inclination
of
his
towards
little
children
,
and
th●
proofs
which
the
Superiours
had
of
that
irregular
affection
,
raised
in
them
a
violent
suspicion
of
his
〈◊〉
chastity
,
which
grew
up
to
that
height
,
that
he
〈◊〉
convicted
thereof
,
but
that
the
Community
might
be
the
lesse
scandalised
at
it
,
they
did
all
they
could
to
smother
the
information
,
yet
not
so
but
that
above
ten
knew
of
it
,
of
which
number
I
was
one
;
as
being
fellow-student
with
him
who
was
very
strictly
examined
about
the
businesse
.
And
if
this
be
a
thing
he
cannot
blush
at
,
I
must
needs
conclude
his
face
to
be
of
brasse
.
The
third
cause
upon
which
a
charge
for
ejection
was
put
in
against
him
,
was
,
a
generall
irregularity
and
dissolution
,
which
was
easily
perceptible
in
all
his
monasticall
actions
,
as
being
one
that
did
in
a
manner
nothing
in
comparison
of
what
others
did
,
nothwithstanding
the
penances
which
were
perpetually
showr'd
down
upon
him
.
There
was
not
any
thing
more
frequently
heard
in
their
Refectory
;
morning
and
evening
,
then
those
words
,
ordinary
in
the
like
cases
,
I
here
on
the
behalf
of
Holy
Obedience
,
discover
the
offence
of
James
Beaufes
,
for
that
he
hath
this
day
spoken
bitter
and
provoking
words
to
such
a
one
;
for
that
he
was
not
up
at
seven
of
the
clock
;
for
that
he
took
some
little
scholer
aside
out
of
some
lascivious
designe
,
and
spoke
with
him
for
too
long
a
time
,
and
the
like
,
or
greater
faults
,
which
made
him
infamous
in
the
Community
.
Whereupon
issued
out
the
sentence
,
which
troubled
him
much
more
,
And
therefore
,
Holy
Obedience
doth
im●ose
upon
him
by
way
of
penance
,
that
he
dine
under
the
Table
,
that
he
discipline
himself
,
that
he
eat
his
meat
upon
the
ground
,
and
such
like
penances
as
are
in
use
among
a
sort
of
Regular
Ecclesiasticks
,
who
think
it
a
disparagement
to
be
called
Monkes
.
I
have
often
seen
him
condemned
for
his
miscarriages
,
and
accordingly
with
a
whip
in
his
hand
,
stripped
naked
down
to
the
waste
,
casting
himself
on
his
knees
in
the
middle
of
the
Refectory
,
and
there
ignominiously
whipping
himself
,
untill
such
time
as
the
superiour
gave
a
rap
upon
the
table
with
his
knife
,
as
a
signe
for
him
to
give
over
.
Who
of
the
Jesuits
of
Guyenne
that
shall
read
these
stories
,
but
will
immediately
call
to
mind
how
that
they
have
sometimes
seen
him
by
way
of
infamy
wearing
about
his
neck
a
paper
,
wherein
might
be
read
in
capitall
Letters
,
the
crime
he
had
committed
I
am
confident
,
his
memory
is
still
gal●'d
with
the
disgracefull
penance
impos'd
upon
him
by
Malescot
,
when
to
punish
him
for
his
debauches
,
he
took
him
out
of
his
course
of
Divinity
,
to
make
him
serve
as
a
scullion
in
the
Kitchin
,
for
the
space
of
a
moneth
.
Nor
hath
he
forgotten
that
other
infamous
penance
inflicted
upon
him
by
the
same
person
,
which
was
,
to
take
three
turns
about
the
Refectory
,
while
all
the
rest
were
at
dinner
,
with
his
night-cap
on
his
head
,
the
sheets
of
his
bed
ty'd
about
him
like
a
scarfe
,
and
the
Coverlet
upon
hi●
back
.
Those
that
have
but
the
least
idea
of
the
gravity
which
the
Jesuits
so
much
pretend
to
,
must
needs
imagine
,
that
our
James
was
a
person
neither
very
considerable
among
them
,
since
he
was
ordinarily
treated
as
a
Rascall
,
nor
very
innocent
,
since
he
was
continually
bayted
by
such
ignominious
penances
.
If
in
the
history
of
his
life
,
a
man
could
forbear
mentioning
the
Provincial
at
Malescot
,
it
would
ease
him
at
the
hear●
very
much
.
But
it
may
be
objected
by
some
body
,
that
he
hath
still
continued
in
the
Society
.
True
,
he
hath
but
purely
out
of
vanity
,
as
being
unwilling
it
should
be
said
,
he
were
cast
out
of
it
for
his
crimes
.
And
ye●
he
hath
not
since
discovered
any
more
circumspection
,
insomuch
that
the
Superiours
are
forc'd
to
keep
him
,
like
a
mangie
sheep
,
at
a
distance
from
all
the
rest
,
and
call
him
not
from
his
lurking
hole
at
Ruffec
,
ca●
of
any
other
designe
,
then
to
vent
his
Sa●yricall
humour
against
our
Religion
,
in
the
present
conjuncture
of
Affaires
.
I
intend
to
give
the
world
a
more
particular
character
of
this
man
in
Latine
,
but
,
in
the
mean
time
,
I
conceive
thus
much
enough
to
discover
the
qualifications
of
this
Preacher
,
who
,
for
some
dayes
past
hath
made
such
a
hue
and
cry
after
the
Sacrilegious
person
.
It
may
haply
be
further
urged
by
some
who
●ee
not
very
much
at
a
distance
,
that
while
I
give
an
●ccount
of
the
proceedings
of
the
Jesuits
in
order
to
●he
cutting
off
of
this
putrifi'd
member
,
I
justifie
the
●ody
.
I
desire
him
that
is
troubled
with
any
such
ima●ination
to
consider
,
that
the
Common
wealth
of
Sa●an
hath
its
policy
,
and
that
this
maxime
of
circum●pect
Stallions
,
Si
non
castè
,
saltem
cautè
,
that
is
to
say
,
●f
not
chastly
,
at
least
craftily
and
cautiously
,
is
one
of
the
●ases
of
the
Politicks
of
these
Monkes
.
And
accor●ingly
he
may
take
it
further
into
his
thoughts
,
that
,
●●nce
James
Beaufés
,
though
found
guilty
of
many
late
●nd
ancient
impurities
,
doth
neverthelesse
continue
in
●he
Society
,
it
is
not
true
that
their
Order
,
like
the
●ea
disburthens
it self
of
what
ever
stinks
and
is
cor●upted
,
as
they
preach
and
pretend
.
This
discove●y
which
I
thought
my self
obliged
to
make
,
premi●ed
,
I
proceed
to
my
vindication
,
and
pursue
my
ac●user
as
close
as
I
can
.
CHAP.
IV.
Giving
an
account
of
the
proceedings
of
the
Jesuits
against
me
.
HE
that
does
but
simply
cast
his
eyes
on
what
Beaufes
hath
set
forth
,
cannot
but
make
an
immediate
discovery
of
the
malice
of
my
adversaries
,
and
●he
palpable
blindnesse
into
which
the
insatiable
de●●re
of
revenge
hath
precipitated
them
.
The
Jesuits
,
●stonished
at
the
change
I
had
made
in
matter
of
Re●igion
,
and
surprised
at
the
course
I
had
taken
to
get
●ut
from
among
them
,
presently
took
a
resolution
,
not
●o
call
me
back
again
in
a
Christian
way
,
and
according
●o
the
obligations
of
the
new
Adam
,
but
,
out
of
a
Jesuiticall
kind
of
charity
,
to
conspire
my
destruction
.
Whether
the
Gospel
,
which
they
pretend
to
preach
,
justifies
these
violent
attempts
,
and
bloody
prosecutions
,
I
appeale
to
the
words
of
it
,
and
the
example
of
Jesus
,
of
whose
Society
they
affirme
themselves
to
be
.
Though
I
am
now
at
the
distance
of
three
hundred
Leagues
from
my
dear
Countrey
,
yet
am
I
not
ignorant
that
my
Country
men
of
both
the
one
and
the
other
Religion
,
are
sufficiently
satisfied
,
that
these
implacable
enemies
of
mine
had
no
sooner
heard
of
the
first
news
of
my
conversion
,
by
the
Letters
which
I
had
left
with
a
certain
friend
,
but
they
breathed
nothing
but
blood
and
death
,
and
spoke
of
nothing
lesse
then
fire
and
faggots
.
I
cannot
but
here
entreat
the
Reader
to
make
a
more
particular
reflection
on
this
kind
of
proceedings
,
as
such
as
should
make
no
small
impression
on
the
spirit
of
any
honest
man
.
When
any
one
of
the
other
Orders
,
though
with
more
noise
and
stirre
,
renounces
the
Romane
Religion
,
to
come
over
to
us
,
his
Superiours
,
much
more
kind
,
and
more
morally
vertuous
then
those
that
sometimes
were
mine
,
imagining
,
according
to
their
erroneous
maximes
,
that
their
dear
child
is
lost
,
fly
to
the
Altars
,
implore
the
assistances
of
Heaven
by
their
prayers
,
runne
up
and
downe
like
good
shepheards
to
finde
out
their
sheep
,
and
,
if
need
be
,
bring
it
home
upon
their
shoulders
.
Now
let
it
be
considered
whether
the
Superiours
of
the
Jesuits
have
taken
any
such
course
,
and
let
their
cruelty
be
measured
by
the
mildnesse
and
courtesie
of
the
others
.
The
first
act
of
counsell
which
prest
among
those
mischievous
Priests
and
Pharisees
against
me
,
was
,
not
that
they
should
offer
up
the
least
addresse
to
God
for
my
return
and
repentance
,
but
Rousseau
the
Provinciall
,
the
chief
among
these
wicked
men
,
pronounced
as
another
Caiphas
,
that
it
was
expedient
,
one
man
should
dye
for
the
people
.
According
to
which
sentence
,
like
so
many
implacable
Jewes
,
not
taking
any
care
for
the
meanes
whereby
I
might
be
raised
out
of
the
abysse
into
which
they
thought
me
fallen
,
they
made
it
their
main
businesse
to
find
out
inventions
,
to
dispatch
me
out
of
the
world
.
Taking
it
therefore
as
granted
,
that
the
designe
of
so
great
a
change
cannot
be
begun
and
perfected
in
a
day
,
and
that
I
must
needs
have
dissembled
my
intention
for
some
time
,
since
that
I
was
forced
to
live
after
their
way
(
who
,
what
horrid
crime
soever
they
may
have
committed
,
or
what
great
mischief
soever
they
may
be
hatching
,
cannot
without
some
imputation
of
scandall
,
be
exempted
from
saying
Masse
every
day
)
they
presently
imagined
,
more
out
of
malice
then
prudence
,
that
it
was
the
most
advantageous
breach
they
could
have
to
set
upon
me
with
all
their
interest
.
Their
first
businesse
accordingly
was
,
to
make
their
advantages
of
the
publication
of
the
severall
acts
,
which
the
Overseers
of
our
Religion
had
,
out
of
their
zeale
thought
fit
to
publish
,
and
to
compare
that
writing
of
mine
,
wherein
I
had
intreated
those
of
my
party
,
to
afford
me
their
assistance
,
to
the
end
that
I
might
make
publick
profession
of
my
beliefe
,
according
to
the
liberty
which
the
Kings
Edicts
gave
me
so
to
do
,
with
the
date
of
the
Letters
which
I
had
written
to
the
Rector
and
Provinciall
.
Having
thereby
found
,
that
I
had
dissembled
my
intention
for
some
dayes
,
that
is
to
say
,
done
,
in
relation
to
the
Ecclesiasticall
functions
,
that
,
out
of
prudence
and
discretion
,
which
they
with
cauterized
consciences
alwayes
do
,
when
they
undermine
Bishops
,
and
betray
States
(
for
no
consideration
of
that
or
any
other
nature
can
dispense
with
them
for
saying
Masse
)
they
immediately
raise
a
hue
and
cry
after
the
Sacrilegious
person
,
the
Prophaner
of
holy
things
,
put
in
a
charge
against
me
,
and
,
to
compasse
my
death
,
would
have
a
pretended
Sacriledge
of
a
secret
become
a
publick
one
,
and
that
a
writing
given
privately
to
a
particular
person
should
passe
for
a
publick
and
solemne
profession
.
The
charge
lyes
now
before
the
Judges
,
whatever
the
issue
may
be
,
it
will
turn
to
my
glory
.
If
by
their
powerfulnesse
and
bloody
prosecutions
I
am
condemn'd
,
I
shall
be
a
Confessor
of
Jesus
Christ
,
which
is
the
greatest
glory
that
good
Christian
can
aime
at
;
if
by
the
diligent
discussion
of
the
businesse
I
am
cleared
,
the
world
will
be
accordingly
sensible
of
the
malice
and
injustice
of
my
accusers
.
What
ever
may
be
the
result
,
I
cannot
but
hope
,
that
God
,
who
rais'd
up
Daniel
to
vindicate
the
innocent
Susanna
,
from
the
crime
layd
to
her
charge
by
two
lustfull
Elders
,
will
raise
up
some
charitable
maintainer
of
my
Cause
,
who
shall
make
my
party
goods
;
and
that
the
same
God
who
delivered
Lot
from
amongst
the
Sodomites
,
and
from
the
flames
of
fire
,
will
also
deliver
me
out
of
the
hands
of
the
Jesuits
.
In
the
mean
time
let
us
take
their
proceeding
into
examination
,
and
consider
the
imprudences
and
poore
occasions
they
are
put
to
therein
.
CHAP.
V.
Discovering
the
cheats
and
evasions
of
the
Iesuits
,
in
their
prosecution
.
WHen
Ignatius
said
,
in
the
Letter
he
writ
to
the
Monkes
of
his
Order
in
Portugall
,
that
it
was
his
desire
,
that
Obedience
should
be
the
ear-mark
,
whereby
the
true
children
of
the
Society
should
be
distinguished
from
others
,
he
had
said
more
truly
,
according
to
their
Institution
and
ordinary
practise
,
if
he
had
express'd
himself
thus
,
it
is
my
desire
that
cheats
and
circumventions
should
be
the
undeniable
characters
,
whereby
you
might
be
known
to
be
right
Jesuits
.
For
he
that
shall
consider
their
equivocations
in
matter
of
Justice
,
their
ambiguous
expressions
in
conversation
and
dealings
with
men
,
the
mentall
reservations
and
restrictions
which
they
have
introduced
into
Morall
Divinity
,
to
the
great
disadvantage
of
Truth
,
their
crafty
designes
to
cajoll
the
simple
in
their
Shriving-seats
,
and
their
visits
,
purposely
to
get
a
claw
into
their
Estates
,
by
surreptitious
donations
,
must
needs
conclude
,
that
a
mischievous
craftinesse
is
the
Soule
,
which
informs
and
gives
motion
to
that
vast
Body
,
which
acts
not
either
in
things
relating
to
Morality
,
or
civill
affaires
,
but
by
dissimulation
and
complyances
.
To
demonstrate
this
truth
,
I
have
instances
enough
to
make
a
volume
;
but
the
businesse
now
in
agitation
,
is
to
shew
their
foule
practise
in
their
indictment
against
me
.
Beaufes
,
through
whose
mouth
the
Provincial
and
the
Consultors
cast
up
their
choler
and
indignation
,
furnishes
me
with
an
argument
that
cannot
be
answered
.
Courteous
Reader
,
says
he
in
the
beginning
of
his
Book
,
you
are
desir'd
to
take
notice
,
that
the
prosecution
against
Peter
Jarrigius
by
way
of
indictment
,
is
not
carryed
on
either
upon
any
request
of
the
Reverend
Fathers
of
the
Society
of
Jesus
,
or
for
any
crime
committed
by
him
while
he
was
of
their
Society
;
he
is
onely
charged
with
Sacriledges
,
committed
by
him
since
his
profession
of
the
Religion
pretendedly
reformed
.
And
a
little
lower
,
the
charge
they
have
hitherto
had
against
Monsieur
Vincent
is
purely
civill
,
to
oblige
him
to
produce
,
before
Monsieur
the
Lieutenant
Generall
of
this
City
,
the
originall
copy
of
the
book
he
hath
published
,
to
be
compared
with
the
Letters
,
whereby
Jarrigius
himself
hath
refuted
the
Impostures
scattered
abroad
under
his
name
.
And
a
little
lower
,
The
Consistory
was
obliged
to
bring
into
Court
those
pieces
,
which
the
Fathers
of
the
Society
required
,
especially
the
Act
of
Novemb.
24.
1647.
Here
I
desire
the
Reader
to
take
notice
that
these
Monasticall
Fiends
demand
,
and
that
with
importunity
,
that
the
Act
of
November
,
24
,
should
bee
brought
before
the
Judge
;
and
he
shall
find
anon
wherefore
and
to
what
end
they
desire
it
Lastly
,
he
saies
,
in
the
conclusion
of
his
Advertisement
,
that
the
Scribes
,
Viau
and
L'
Erpiniere
,
have
declared
that
the
writing
and
Seale
of
the
Act
of
Profession
of
Peter
Jarrigius
,
of
Novemb.
24
,
represented
by
M.
Gasper
Le
Roy
,
Register
,
agreed
with
the
writing
and
subscription
of
the
beforementioned
Letters
.
Of
all
men
,
Lyers
ought
to
pray
for
good
memories
.
This
man
hath
one
that
is
so
treacherous
,
that
ere
he
come
to
the
midst
of
a
discourse
that
takes
up
but
a
small
page
,
he
destroyes
what
he
had
affirmed
in
the
beginning
of
it
.
The
cheat
is
discovered
ere
the
word
is
out
of
his
mouth
,
as
a
pick-pocket
taken
in
the
midst
of
the
market-place
,
with
the
purse
in
his
hand
.
I
feare
me
the
man
fondly
imagines
that
the
French
,
who
will
be
guilty
of
so
much
curiosity
as
to
read
his
book
,
are
overgrowne
with
such
a
sottish
credulity
,
that
he
can
perswade
them
that
they
do
not
see
what
's
before
their
eyes
.
He
impudently
affirmes
that
they
are
not
my
prosecutors
in
that
indictment
,
and
two
periods
after
,
he
acknowledges
,
that
it
was
by
their
means
the
Consistory
was
forced
to
produce
in
Court
the
act
of
November
,
24.
which
they
thought
a
sufficient
ground
whereupon
to
put
in
an
endictment
against
me
.
When
they
have
thrown
the
stone
before
all
the
world
,
they
withdrew
the
hand
,
and
then
confidently
affirme
,
both
by
word
and
writing
,
that
they
did
it
not
.
For
any
horrid
thing
,
such
as
this
may
be
,
the
only
way
is
to
deny
it
.
But
is
it
possible
the
Inhabitants
of
Rochell
should
read
this
abominable
lie
in
the
very
Frontispiece
of
the
advertisement
to
the
Reader
,
without
conceiving
an
indignation
against
the
Impostor
,
who
must
needs
be
thought
to
reproach
the
weaknesse
of
their
understanding
,
when
he
denies
to
their
faces
what
they
have
seen
with
their
eies
?
Methinks
it
might
have
been
enough
for
James
Beaufes
to
cleare
himselfe
for
his
own
part
,
and
to
call
for
a
basin
of
water
,
as
Pilate
did
,
and
to
wash
hands
before
the
people
saying
,
I
am
innocent
as
to
the
blood
of
this
just
person
;
which
if
he
had
done
,
I
am
confident
the
people
of
Rochell
would
not
have
cryed
out
,
His
blood
be
upon
us
and
upon
our
children
.
No
,
it
is
a
priviledge
proper
only
to
the
Jesuits
to
procure
the
death
,
not
only
of
an
inconsiderable
person
such
as
I
may
be
,
but
that
of
great
Princes
,
and
most
Christian
Kings
,
and
to
say
after
all
,
we
have
not
done
any
such
thing
.
I
referre
my self
to
any
man
,
whether
this
be
not
to
lie
diabolically
,
or
rather
Jesuitically
.
The
Sermons
they
have
preached
convince
them
;
the
bookes
they
have
written
betray
their
malice
,
and
their
both
private
and
publick
sollicitations
,
generally
known
all
over
Rochell
,
discover
their
violence
against
me
,
and
yet
they
are
so
insensibly
impudent
as
to
affirme
,
nay
were
it
requisite
,
they
would
sweare
,
as
Jesuits
,
that
they
are
not
my
prosecutors
in
this
businesse
.
Let
us
divert
our selves
so
far
as
to
snap
these
notorious
Lyers
in
their
Sycophancy
and
elusions
.
What
should
be
the
meaning
of
those
violent
and
furious
invectives
,
wherein
Beaufes
and
others
were
publickly
employed
,
to
the
great
scandall
of
the
people
,
all
the
insinuations
of
wit
and
Rhetoricks
,
and
all
to
prove
,
during
the
space
of
four
whole
months
,
that
I
was
guilty
of
sacriledge
,
and
consequently
of
death
?
To
what
end
was
that
Scandalous
pamphlet
scattered
up
and
down
,
under
the
title
of
,
The
Impieties
and
Sacriledges
of
Peter
Jarrigius
?
Out
of
what
designe
was
it
,
that
there
was
such
importunity
used
to
oblige
the
Consistory
to
bring
into
Court
the
act
of
the
24th
.
of
November
?
it
being
the
onely
thing
whereon
they
thought
an
enditement
might
be
justly
grounded
against
me
,
as
to
Sacriledge
.
In
a
word
,
what
's
to
be
inferr'd
from
so
many
consultations
?
So
many
combinations
against
me
?
so
many
designs
upon
me
?
so
many
persons
sent
to
seize
my
person
?
so
many
falsities
imposed
upon
me
?
Must
it
not
needs
argue
an
absolute
losse
of
judgement
,
not
to
perceive
,
that
they
are
so
far
from
being
simply
the
adversaries
that
seeke
my
life
,
but
the
witnesses
that
accuse
me
,
and
the
Advocates
that
plead
against
me
,
in
as
many
places
as
they
can
command
pulpits
in
,
and
as
many
companies
as
they
come
into
,
by
word
,
by
writing
,
and
every
way
?
It
is
to
be
fear'd
that
the
Superiours
of
that
order
have
a
certain
imagination
,
that
all
the
French
have
made
a
vow
of
implicite
obedience
to
them
,
to
submit
their
understandings
,
to
their
words
,
without
the
least
examination
.
Iniqui●y
c●nnot
hold
out
long
,
and
it
is
the
fate
of
falshood
ever
to
ruine
and
undermine
it self
.
These
pretended
Ecclesiasticks
,
contrary
to
the
Canons
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
are
lovers
of
blood
,
and
make
it
their
businesse
to
perswade
Christians
that
no
people
have
a
greater
aversion
for
it
then
they
.
But
this
palpable
falsity
discovered
in
the
first
page
of
their
Booke
,
should
methinks
be
sufficient
to
satisfie
the
Reader
,
that
they
have
lied
too
far
to
be
believed
any
further
.
Let
the
simple
give
credit
to
what
the
Jesuits
say
,
because
they
say
it
,
if
they
think
fit
so
to
do
,
but
the
more
prudent
sort
of
people
shall
ever
looke
on
them
as
malicious
Impostors
,
and
such
as
endeavour
to
be
famous
by
their
surprises
and
circumventions
.
CHAP.
VI.
Containing
an
Answer
to
the
Accusation
put
in
against
me
by
the
Jesuits
.
THe
Accusation
put
in
against
me
by
the
Jesuits
amounts
to
no
more
then
a
piece
of
Legerdemaine
or
trick
upon
me
,
and
whoever
shall
examine
it
without
prejudice
or
passion
,
as
Judges
are
oblig'd
to
do
,
will
find
it
to
be
of
no
weight
at
all
.
I
am
charged
with
a
thing
,
whereof
all
those
both
Regular
and
Secular
Priests
,
who
have
quitted
the
Popish
Religion
,
must
needs
have
been
guilty
.
They
affirme
that
I
have
said
Masse
after
I
had
engaged
my selfe
in
a
design
of
conversion
to
the
reformed
Religion
,
nay
,
after
I
had
given
a
writing
to
those
of
the
Reformation
,
whereby
I
signified
to
them
that
I
embraced
their
belief
,
and
intreated
them
to
afford
me
their
assistance
,
that
I
might
make
a
publick
profession
thereof
.
If
the
Judges
are
sway'd
by
the
inclinations
,
and
violent
passions
of
my
adversaries
,
I
shall
be
condemned
as
a
sacrilegious
person
;
but
if
they
are
guided
by
the
civill
Lawes
,
and
the
Edicts
of
our
Kings
,
their
malice
will
be
disappointed
,
as
may
be
seen
by
the
ensuing
reasons
.
1.
I
answer
,
acknowledging
,
that
I
secretly
gave
that
writing
to
those
of
my
Religion
,
by
way
of
assurance
of
the
sincerity
of
my
intentions
,
as
also
of
security
,
if
need
were
,
against
the
Jesuits
,
in
case
they
should
(
as
being
a
sort
of
people
that
would
make
their
advantage
of
any
quillet
or
formality
in
the
Law
)
afterwards
put
in
a
malicious
accusation
against
them
,
that
they
carried
me
away
or
forced
me
against
my
will
.
2
I
say
,
that
I
never
gave
any
commission
,
nor
ever
pretended
,
nor
ever
imagined
,
that
that
writing
should
or
could
be
printed
.
For
being
a
man
of
Letters
,
I
must
needs
consider
beforehand
,
that
it
would
be
expected
from
me
I
should
put
forth
a
Declaration
containing
the
Motives
,
that
had
induced
me
to
that
change
of
Religion
,
as
I
have
done
since
,
and
that
it
was
not
fit
I
should
elude
the
world
with
a
thing
indefinitely
and
ambiguously
written
.
3.
It
is
evident
by
this
manner
of
proceeding
,
that
I
never
pretended
that
that
writing
should
passe
for
a
publick
Profession
.
And
whereas
it
may
be
further
pressed
,
that
the
intention
is
indeed
Secret
,
and
that
the
Judges
are
not
to
take
any
cognizance
thereof
,
I
answer
,
that
whoever
would
examine
the
sence
and
the
words
thereof
,
will
find
that
my
intention
is
quite
contrary
,
considering
the
intreaty
I
secretly
make
to
them
to
afford
me
their
assistance
.
And
to
bring
an
undenyable
demonstration
to
prove
,
that
that
writing
was
never
to
be
accounted
either
as
to
my
owne
apprehension
,
or
to
those
of
any
of
ours
,
for
a
Profession
,
I
have
publickly
made
it
since
,
in
the
Consistory
of
Rochell
,
upon
the
25.
of
December
following
,
many
dayes
before
the
writing
was
published
and
the
bill
of
indictment
put
in
against
me
.
4.
I
say
,
that
all
those
things
which
are
the
necessary
attendants
and
consequences
of
a
publick
and
solemne
profession
of
Faith
are
absolutely
wanting
in
this
.
1.
I
am
not
either
publickly
or
personally
established
before
those
,
who
,
according
to
Ecclesiasticall
formes
are
empowred
to
receive
it
.
2.
I
am
not
in
the
presence
of
witnesses
,
such
as
are
necessarily
requisite
in
such
a
case
,
for
it
is
apparent
that
I
am
as
yet
in
the
Jesuits
Colledge
.
3.
The
words
of
the
writing
are
indefinite
and
indeterminate
,
for
my
expression
is
this
,
I
do
by
this
writing
require
those
of
the
said
profession
,
in
that
Citty
to
be
assistant
to
me
,
to
the
end
,
that
,
according
to
the
liberty
which
the
King
grants
to
all
his
Subjects
,
I
may
make
some
shift
to
get
from
hence
,
●nd
embrace
their
Communion
.
From
which
generall
and
●ndeterminate
kind
of
expressing
my selfe
,
it
may
well
●e
inferred
,
that
I
do
not
make
a
solemne
profession
of
my
Faith
,
but
only
give
them
an
assurance
of
my
intentions
to
do
it
,
in
the
same
manner
,
as
I
should
do
to
a
friend
,
writing
a
civill
Letter
to
him
,
in
case
I
expected
any
thing
of
assistance
from
him
.
5.
If
a
man
would
but
attentively
and
with
a
certaine
recollection
read
the
words
in
their
true
sence
,
it
will
be
found
a
declaration
so
far
only
as
a
desire
may
amount
to
,
and
no
more
;
and
consequently
,
it
comes
so
far
short
of
a
publick
and
solemne
profession
,
that
indeed
it
is
not
so
much
as
a
bare
profession
.
And
where
I
say
,
Which
(
meaning
the
Religion
)
I
from
this
present
embrace
,
the
words
are
to
be
explained
and
understood
by
all
those
that
go
before
,
and
then
it
will
be
apparent
,
that
my
meaning
is
no
other
then
,
that
I
embrace
it
from
henceforth
,
not
effectually
(
for
that
I
neither
could
nor
would
,
as
I
have
declared
)
but
only
as
to
vow
an
affection
,
proceeding
from
the
desire
I
had
to
embarque
my
salvation
therein
,
as
it
was
then
my
request
,
and
as
I
have
since
,
through
the
mercy
of
God
,
accomplished
.
6.
From
the
very
titles
of
the
printed
peece
upon
which
they
ground
the
whole
prosecution
,
it
will
be
no
hard
matter
to
judge
,
whether
the
writing
of
November
.
24.
can
or
ought
to
passe
for
a
profession
of
faith
,
such
as
the
Jesuits
would
have
it
,
and
thereupon
make
the
case
the
more
abhominable
.
I
desire
no
more
then
that
the
title
of
the
writing
and
that
of
my
Profession
should
be
examined
.
That
of
the
former
runs
thus
,
A
deed
written
and
signed
by
the
hand
of
Monsieur
Jarrige
,
and
sealed
with
the
Seale
belonging
to
the
Jesuits
Colledge
before
his
coming
thence
.
That
of
the
latter
,
thus
,
An
Act
of
the
Profession
of
Faith
of
Monsieur
Jarrige
,
extracted
out
of
the
Act
of
the
Consistory
of
the
Reformed
Church
of
Rochel
,
Wednesday
the
25
of
December
,
1647.
An
Act
is
called
a
Profession
,
because
it
is
such
,
the
other
is
simply
called
a
Writing
,
because
it
is
not
a
Profession
.
I
further
make
it
my
suite
,
that
the
subscriptions
of
both
may
be
considered
,
to
the
Writing
there
is
no
other
subscription
then
that
of
my
own
name
,
to
the
act
of
Profession
there
are
three
Pastors
,
the
Ancients
and
the
Secretary
of
the
Consistory
.
Is
not
this
enough
to
unplaister
the
eyes
and
hearts
of
the
Judges
,
if
so
be
they
are
blinded
by
the
importunate
sollicitations
of
the
Jesuits
,
(
wherein
they
sufficiently
play
their
parts
)
or
regard
the
metaphysicall
ratiocination
which
they
make
use
of
,
to
prove
,
that
a
secret
writing
ought
to
passe
for
an
authentick
and
solemne
profession
?
God
of
his
infinite
mercy
preserve
me
for
ever
falling
into
the
hands
of
these
phari●aicall
Monkes
,
who
desire
only
comma's
,
and
punctilio's
to
ground
an
endictment
against
a
man
,
who
hath
ever
done
them
good
,
never
hurt
,
and
hath
not
left
them
,
out
of
any
other
motive
,
then
that
of
putting
himself
into
the
way
of
salvation
,
and
an
unwillingnesse
to
consent
to
their
mischievous
machinations
.
All
therefore
that
now
lies
on
my
hands
to
do
,
is
,
to
shew
,
in
what
sense
I
could
have
treated
of
my
conversion
,
and
in
the
mean
time
not
forbear
saying
of
Masse
.
I
must
needs
acknowledge
,
that
,
to
conceal
my
design
,
I
was
forced
to
exercise
the
functions
which
I
was
obliged
to
before
I
was
illuminated
.
Could
I
have
got
away
on
the
very
day
whereon
I
was
first
inspired
with
that
resolution
,
I
had
done
it
;
but
the
season
proved
so
bad
,
and
the
weather
so
rainy
,
that
I
had
but
that
one
faire
thursday
on
which
I
shook
off
my
chaines
.
Could
I
further
have
made
a
publick
profession
of
my
Faith
in
the
midst
of
Rochel
,
I
would
have
gone
that
very
day
among
them
,
and
embraced
their
communion
;
but
all
the
world
is
sensible
,
that
it
was
impossible
for
me
to
do
any
such
thing
without
exposing
my
●ife
to
imminent
danger
.
During
therefore
the
time
of
that
intervall
,
it
being
not
in
my
power
to
exempt
my selfe
from
saying
masse
,
for
feare
of
a
surprisall
,
I
considered
with
my self
that
in
conjunctures
of
so
great
consequence
,
it
was
lawfull
for
me
to
dissemble
according
to
the
generall
maximes
of
the
Divinity
I
had
learned
among
them
.
To
the
end
therefore
,
that
I
might
be
as
little
as
possible
might
be
injurious
,
either
to
the
Romane
Religion
,
which
I
was
ready
to
shake
hands
with
,
or
the
Reformed
,
which
I
was
upon
the
point
to
embrace
,
I
had
no
other
intention
of
celebrating
Masse
,
then
that
of
doing
in
generall
what
our
Saviour
had
instituted
.
So
that
if
Jesus
Christ
hath
instituted
any
such
thing
as
Transubstantiation
,
the
Romanists
cannot
charge
me
with
being
an
Impostor
,
and
false
to
them
:
if
he
hath
instituted
only
the
Symbols
of
bread
and
wine
,
to
be
received
by
Faith
,
as
if
they
were
his
body
and
blood
,
those
of
the
Reformation
have
nothing
to
quarrell
with
me
for
.
The
Holy
Spirit
,
in
whose
presence
I
write
these
lines
,
can
bear
me
witnesse
that
I
speak
but
the
truth
.
If
God
had
been
pleased
to
afford
me
a
greater
measure
of
his
grace
,
I
might
have
generously
declared
to
the
Rector
the
reasons
,
upon
which
I
had
resolved
not
to
say
Masse
any
longer
;
but
I
desire
the
world
to
judge
from
the
exasperation
and
fury
they
have
betrayed
in
their
pulpits
,
and
the
prosecutions
they
have
worryed
me
with
,
what
treatment
I
must
have
expected
from
them
,
in
case
I
had
discovered
my
designe
.
Alasse
!
Had
I
made
but
the
least
discovery
,
I
had
been
six
moneths
since
in
the
other
world
;
and
this
is
so
far
certain
,
that
they
have
publickly
acknowledged
as
much
,
affirming
openly
both
in
their
discourses
and
writings
,
that
if
I
were
so
desirous
to
suffer
for
my
beliefe
,
I
needed
no
more
then
to
give
them
notice
of
my
intention
.
The
feare
which
a
constant
mind
fals
into
is
accounted
in
the
law
for
an
allowable
excuse
I
hope
the
Judges
will
pardon
my
weaknesse
,
and
condemn
that
rigour
,
which
at
this
day
,
is
the
occasion
that
there
are
so
many
hypocrites
in
that
unhappy
Society
.
If
all
those
of
their
Order
,
who
prophane
the
sacrifice
,
which
they
call
that
of
the
body
of
Christ
,
were
dragg'd
to
the
tribunals
of
the
Civill
Magistrate
,
to
answer
for
their
Sacriledges
,
what
shall
become
of
those
,
who
,
not
forbearing
the
diurnall
celebration
of
Masse
,
procure
the
death
of
little
children
,
are
guilty
of
forgeries
and
falsifications
in
Contracts
,
coyne
mony
,
bandy
against
Kings
,
secretly
entertain
in
their
Chambers
wenches
disguised
in
mens
cloaths
,
and
commit
monstrous
Sodomies
with
young
Schollers
,
as
I
have
sufficiently
discovered
in
the
former
Treatise
?
Should
this
happen
,
the
cities
they
inhabit
would
find
it
no
small
work
to
provide
prisons
,
and
erect
scaffolds
and
Gibbets
for
Jesuits
.
There
you
should
have
one
accus'd
for
his
impious
approaches
to
the
Altar
,
coming
piping
hot
out
of
the
Confession-seat
,
where
he
had
spent
the
time
in
amorous
entertainments
with
some
crack'd
commodity
.
You
should
have
another
brought
to
the
bar
,
when
he
had
just
before
sealed
up
his
Letters
,
wherein
he
had
sent
some
intelligence
prejudiciall
to
the
affairs
of
his
Prince
:
and
so
consequently
a
many
others
for
having
committed
severall
other
crimes
not
half
an
houre
before
.
The
reason
is
this
,
that
these
wretched
Galley-slaves
of
Religion
are
forced
to
comply
with
the
Custome
which
they
have
taken
up
,
to
say
their
Masses
,
what
condition
soever
they
may
be
in
.
Which
if
they
do
not
,
the
Catamites
and
Zealots
,
whereof
the
Communities
are
full
,
very
suspiciously
question
whether
such
and
such
be
not
sick
,
since
they
had
not
said
their
Masses
.
And
thus
much
I
thought
fit
to
say
in
order
to
my
vindication
from
the
crime
which
they
would
impose
upon
me
.
CHAP.
VII
.
●iscovering
the
childish
inventions
of
Beaufes
to
make
my
Letters
contradictory
one
to
another
.
THere
is
not
certainly
any
thing
proves
more
dishonourable
to
a
man
,
that
stands
much
upon
the
●●putation
of
sincerity
,
then
to
be
surpris'd
in
triviall
●●d
childish
evasions
.
Now
according
to
the
present
●ostures
of
Affaires
,
I
see
not
how
Beaufes
can
avoid
●●nominy
two
manner
of
wayes
,
one
by
incurring
the
●●putation
of
a
cheat
,
the
other
in
discovering
want
of
●●dgement
,
to
carry
on
with
successe
,
and
with
a
certain
●●rcumspection
to
conceale
his
circumventions
.
For
●●ough
his
beard
be
powdred
by
the
age
of
above
fifty
●●ares
,
yet
hath
he
not
yet
put
off
the
swathing
clouts
●●d
weaknesses
of
his
infancy
;
and
in
two
things
he
●●trayes
himself
more
particularly
,
One
,
when
he
●●nyes
that
I
writ
two
Letters
that
have
come
abroad
●●der
my
name
.
The
other
,
when
he
would
refute
●●em
by
certain
shreds
and
fragments
of
a
Letter
I
had
●●itten
,
five
moneths
before
my
coming
from
among
●●em
,
to
the
Provinciall
.
We
shall
not
think
it
much
,
to
divert
our selves
so
●●re
as
to
surprise
this
bearded
infant
in
his
childish●esse
.
If
you
read
the
advertisement
to
the
Reader
,
you
●●●ll
find
these
words
;
The
charge
,
which
the
Jesuits
have
●●ainst
M.
Vincent
,
is
purely
civil
,
to
oblige
him
to
produce
,
●●fore
Monsieur
the
Lieutenant
Generall
of
this
City
,
the
●●●ginall
copy
of
the
book
he
hath
published
,
to
be
compared
●●th
the
Letters
whereby
Jarrigius
himself
hath
refuted
the
●postures
scattered
abroad
under
his
name
.
Our
Consistory
of
Rochel
hath
produced
these
originals
,
that
is
to
say
,
my
writing
,
my
Profession
of
Faith
,
and
my
Letters
,
all
equally
authenticated
by
my
own
hand
and
seale
.
Now
observe
the
Adversaries
weaknesse
.
Beaufes
hath
taken
,
and
induced
others
to
take
my
writing
of
November
24.
as
that
onely
thing
whereon
the
Judges
might
admit
of
an
indictment
against
me
,
and
by
a
weaknesse
of
judgement
,
which
all
humane
Sophistry
and
invention
cannot
cover
,
sayes
in
his
book
since
that
Monsieur
Vincent
writ
the
Letters
,
hath
fallen
very
foule
upon
him
,
as
the
Author
thereof
,
and
to
demonstrate
it
can
be
no
other
,
he
opposes
not
onely
me
to
my selfe
,
and
my
latter
Letters
to
those
I
had
written
before
,
but
he
opposes
the
pretended
Letters
of
Monsieur
Vincent
to
mine
,
to
refute
,
as
he
sayes
,
the
Impostures
scattered
abroad
under
my
name
.
I
here
take
no
more
then
what
Beaufes
is
willing
to
afford
me
,
and
argue
thus
;
If
Monsieur
Vincent
be
the
Authour
of
those
Letters
,
the
same
Monsieur
Vincent
,
Minister
of
the
word
of
God
,
is
Authour
also
of
the
writing
of
November
24.
and
consequently
I
have
no
more
to
do
with
that
then
with
the
Letters
,
and
so
the
Judges
cannot
have
any
pretence
to
condemn
me
.
But
if
they
find
that
the
Writing
authorised
by
my
hand
and
seale
belong
to
me
,
they
will
also
conclude
,
that
the
Letters
are
also
mine
,
since
they
carry
the
same
Authority
of
my
hand
and
seal
.
So
that
if
I
am
condemned
for
having
been
the
Author
of
the
writing
,
and
that
afterwards
I
had
not
forborn
to
say
Masse
,
there
is
as
much
reason
on
the
other
side
that
Beaufes
should
be
also
condemned
for
a
publick
Impostor
,
as
having
,
in
his
writings
and
Sermons
,
falsly
affirmed
,
that
these
Letters
were
not
mine
,
though
he
were
satisfyed
in
conscience
of
the
contrary
by
the
publick
production
made
thereof
,
by
our
Consistory
,
upon
the
Sollicitations
of
the
Jesuits
.
It
must
needs
be
that
this
judgement
was
very
precipitate
when
it
destroyes
it self
so
of
a
sudden
:
and
it
speaks
an
extraordinary
passion
in
those
that
were
the
Revisers
of
that
book
,
to
suffer
such
a
fault
to
passe
as
discovers
their
malice
to
all
those
that
pretend
to
any
thing
of
judgement
.
But
what
hath
M.
James
Beaufes
to
alledge
by
way
of
vindication
as
to
this
childish
,
and
so
palpable
an
imposture
?
Will
he
say
(
as
haply
he
may
,
considering
the
contemptible
character
he
gives
me
in
point
of
abilities
)
that
I
was
not
able
enough
to
write
a
Letter
?
But
that
he
cannot
,
since
he
acknowledges
my
admission
to
the
fourth
vow
,
which
is
the
highest
degree
of
preferment
that
the
Generall
can
bestow
on
the
most
knowing
of
the
Society
.
Can
it
be
imagin'd
that
the
most
considerable
of
their
Body
should
not
be
able
to
pen
a
Letter
?
No
,
no
,
let
us
not
be
so
severe
towards
him
,
passion
considers
not
what
it
sayes
.
Or
is
it
that
the
style
of
those
few
lines
that
I
writ
,
makes
a
greater
discovery
of
the
style
and
parts
of
Monsieur
Vincent
,
then
my
own
?
But
to
that
there
is
a
whole
Consistory
,
consisting
of
persons
of
honour
and
credit
,
making
evidence
,
that
I
brought
those
Letters
as
they
were
produced
from
the
Colledge
.
Besides
,
my
stile
is
neither
so
pure
,
so
polite
,
nor
so
patheticall
as
that
of
Monsieur
Vincent
,
and
we
must
equally
,
(
my
quondam
Brother
)
acknowledge
,
that
both
my
Genius
and
yours
,
what
idea
soever
you
may
conceive
of
your selfe
,
are
very
much
below
the
excellencies
of
that
worthy
person
.
This
book
which
I
write
,
and
that
mishapen
abortive
issue
of
your
braines
,
which
you
have
dressed
up
and
sent
abroad
under
your
name
,
will
ever
be
sufficient
demonstrations
of
the
difference
there
is
between
us
and
him
.
Whereto
may
be
added
,
that
the
things
which
I
discover
are
of
such
a
nature
,
as
that
it
was
impossible
Monsieur
Vincent
should
have
known
them
,
and
it
was
necessary
he
should
first
have
them
from
my
mouth
.
Whence
may
be
started
this
question
,
what
necessity
there
was
,
that
,
to
lay
them
down
in
a
simple
and
low
style
,
as
I
have
done
,
I
should
employ
the
pen
of
that
eloquent
man
?
I
must
therefore
,
to
your
confusion
and
the
glory
of
the
Gospell
,
let
the
world
know
,
what
stumbling-block
that
is
,
which
makes
you
fall
so
infamously
.
It
is
your
ordinary
custome
,
according
to
the
secret
and
mysterious
rules
of
the
Society
,
to
impose
things
upon
the
Pastors
of
the
Reformed
Church
in
your
injurious
and
treacherous
refutations
,
and
make
the
world
believe
that
they
say
what
never
came
into
their
thoughts
.
This
you
thought
a
likely
course
to
crush
Monsieur
Vincent
,
by
falsly
attributing
to
him
what
I
had
written
.
But
that
person
,
much
more
judicious
and
considerate
then
you
,
hath
snapp'd
you
in
your
crafty
designs
,
and
hath
lashed
you
in
his
Refutation
as
a
boy
of
the
fift
form
:
And
whereas
God
hath
by
the
adorable
secrets
of
his
divine
providence
,
so
ordered
things
,
that
whatsoever
happens
turns
to
their
goood
that
fear
him
;
so
hath
it
been
his
pleasure
,
that
this
very
imposture
,
which
you
make
use
of
to
render
me
contemptible
,
hath
raised
me
into
reputation
among
my
Brethren
,
and
hath
given
them
occasion
to
suspect
all
the
accusations
,
you
load
me
with
,
to
be
false
,
as
thinking
it
no
prudence
to
believe
a
man
who
is
so
palpable
and
notorious
a
Lyer
;
which
proves
not
a
little
to
my
advantage
among
those
of
my
Religion
.
Nor
come
I
to
examine
the
ridiculous
refutation
which
the
adversary
hath
made
to
my
Letters
,
and
it
shall
be
seen
whether
this
famous
Logician
hath
not
justly
deserved
that
the
scholers
of
Bourdeaux
should
put
an
asse
to
supply
his
place
in
the
seat
whence
he
read
his
Lectures
.
He
hath
fastened
upon
two
Letters
,
whereof
the
former
and
that
of
most
consequence
was
written
foure
moneths
,
and
the
Latter
,
two
moneths
before
my
departure
.
And
by
an
unheard
of
kind
of
argument
,
he
takes
certain
broken
periods
of
the
one
not
relating
any
way
to
the
other
to
weaken
the
credit
of
certain
propositions
that
are
in
the
second
.
Were
it
lawfull
,
according
to
his
unperfect
Philosophy
,
to
argue
in
that
manner
,
St.
Paul
may
very
well
be
in
fear
that
some
mischievous
person
,
such
an
other
as
Beaufes
,
might
take
some
of
his
Letters
,
and
mustring
together
,
contrary
to
all
coherence
,
certain
passages
straggled
out
of
the
body
of
his
other
Epistles
,
should
endeavour
to
make
him
guilty
of
contradiction
,
for
there
is
nothing
more
easie
,
if
this
manner
of
disputation
be
allowable
.
What
can
be
more
formally
against
the
Laws
of
Contradiction
,
then
to
make
that
competible
to
one
time
which
is
only
to
another
?
For
instance
,
I
had
said
in
one
of
my
Letters
whereof
he
produces
this
shred
;
I
had
been
admitted
to
the
fourth
vow
,
to
which
nine
are
,
but
such
as
have
been
approved
for
a
long
and
constant
prosecution
of
vertue
,
it
being
a
degree
which
raises
the
person
received
into
it
to
so
much
respect
and
reputation
in
your
Body
,
that
it
is
the
mark
at
which
all
aim
,
and
those
are
thought
most
happy
that
can
attain
thereto
.
To
this
he
brings
by
way
of
answer
,
a
sort
of
words
mangled
out
of
another
Letter
,
and
sayes
thus
,
The
Answer
of
Jarrigius
;
I
refer
those
to
the
judgement
of
God
,
who
have
condemned
me
without
affording
me
audience
,
and
particularly
two
,
Father
Pitard
,
and
F.
Ricard
,
the
principle
instruments
of
the
treatment
I
have
received
,
Your
Reverence
onely
hath
ever
cast
your
obligations
uponme
,
therefore
was
it
that
I
have
had
,
and
shall
have
a
more
then
ordinary
confidence
of
your
assistances
.
Let
us
now
but
observe
the
impostures
of
this
notorious
falsifier
,
and
the
palpable
absurdities
into
which
the
lechery
of
evil
speaking
precipitates
him
.
The
question
in
hand
is
of
a
vow
I
made
publickly
in
the
professed
house
of
Bourdeaux
,
before
the
principal
Altar
of
the
Church
,
after
I
had
given
those
demonstrations
of
Learning
and
vertue
,
which
are
requisite
for
my
admission
to
the
same
.
And
this
envious
wretch
,
knowing
that
the
Society
must
needs
be
exasperated
to
see
one
of
those
that
were
admitted
to
the
fourth
vow
fallen
into
the
reformed
Religion
,
the
better
to
dissemble
it
,
and
elude
the
reflections
of
the
world
thereupon
,
cites
the
words
before
mentioned
,
I
refer
to
the
judgement
of
God
th●se
who
have
condemned
me
&c.
Now
this
is
the
greatest
weaknesse
imaginable
.
For
a
man
to
be
of
the
number
of
the
Professed
,
that
is
,
to
be
admitted
to
the
fourth
vow
,
be
it
upon
what
ground
it
will
,
there
must
be
a
juridicall
proceeding
,
by
personall
examinations
and
by
informations
,
and
the
Judges
are
obliged
to
swear
,
th
t
they
judge
the
person
capable
to
be
admitted
to
the
fourth
vow
.
〈◊〉
therefore
upon
no
just
ground
that
Beaufes
produce
these
mangled
words
taken
out
of
another
Letter
,
I
referre
to
the
judgement
of
God
those
that
have
condemned
me
,
&c.
For
it
cannot
be
said
that
I
am
condemned
since
I
am
admitted
to
the
degree
of
greatest
reputation
that
the
Society
can
bestow
;
and
much
lesse
a●
I
condemned
by
Pitard
,
since
he
was
the
most
powerfull
instrument
that
further'd
my
graduation
,
as
being
then
Provinciall
,
and
having
received
order
from
Matius
Vitelleschi
to
admit
me
to
that
degree
.
Nor
am
I
condemned
out
of
any
relation
to
ignorance
or
insufficiency
,
for
Beaufes
,
my
most
implacable
adversary
,
cannot
deny
,
that
for
a
man
to
be
of
the
Professed
,
he
must
be
excellent
either
in
Polymathy
,
as
the
great
Humanists
are
,
or
in
Theology
,
as
those
that
are
either
designed
,
or
actually
do
teach
it
,
or
in
the
gift
of
Preaching
,
of
which
predicament
are
the
most
eloquent
.
It
shall
not
much
trouble
me
which
of
these
three
degrees
he
puts
me
into
,
I
shall
in
either
of
them
be
accounted
excellent
in
their
Society
,
while
there
are
abundance
of
others
repining
at
the
injustice
of
their
rejection
,
and
this
is
sufficient
to
shew
I
was
not
condemned
.
Nor
am
I
on
the
other
side
condemned
by
Ricard
,
for
being
his
pretended
subject
,
I
made
the
Oration
of
the
Dolphine
of
France
,
in
the
presence
of
the
Prince
of
Conde
and
the
Parlement
of
Bourdeaux
,
whom
he
went
himself
to
invite
,
and
since
,
that
called
Chrispus
,
which
was
entertained
with
great
applause
,
and
all
this
through
his
means
for
which
I
am
extreamly
obliged
to
him
.
It
is
therefore
upon
an
unjust
ground
,
that
those
words
are
produced
by
Sir
James
,
I
referre
to
the
judgement
of
God
those
who
have
condemned
me
,
&c.
Should
I
run
through
and
examine
all
the
rest
of
the
mangled
passages
which
he
maliciously
confronts
,
I
should
engage
my self
into
an
infinite
discourse
,
and
every
where
discover
the
like
absurdities
and
foule
play
.
Monsieur
Vincent
hath
taken
him
in
hand
as
to
this
point
,
and
that
with
so
much
truth
and
conviction
,
that
I
wonder
Beaufes
hath
not
left
Rochel
to
go
into
his
lurking
hole
at
Ruffec
,
that
so
he
might
not
any
longer
appeare
at
the
exercises
of
our
Religion
.
That
which
yet
lyes
upon
me
to
do
,
is
,
to
discover
the
occasions
upon
which
I
writ
the
Letters
they
make
such
a
stirre
about
,
and
presse
so
much
,
to
oppose
the
sincerity
of
my
conversion
.
To
that
end
,
I
shall
entreat
the
Reader
to
reassume
his
attention
,
and
to
read
again
and
again
the
ensuing
chapters
,
as
being
of
very
great
consequence
to
apprehend
the
Government
of
the
Jesuits
.
I
shall
in
the
first
place
give
some
account
of
the
occasions
which
those
of
that
Society
ever
have
to
write
Letters
that
betray
their
discontent
and
resentment
;
and
then
I
shall
give
a
reason
why
I
writ
those
,
which
they
have
caused
to
be
printed
,
to
bring
an
odium
on
my
Conversion
.
CHAP.
VIII
.
Discovering
how
that
in
the
Society
of
Jesus
men
are
perpetually
subject
to
repining
and
discontent
.
ALL
is
not
gold
that
glisters
;
what
advantageous
apprehensions
soever
the
world
may
have
of
the
Government
of
the
Jesuits
,
there
is
too
much
policy
in
it
to
be
good
.
By
the
ill
colour
of
a
sick
person
,
and
the
irregularity
of
his
pulse
,
there
is
a
rationall
conjecture
raised
,
that
there
are
crudities
and
peccant
humours
in
the
body
.
The
capitall
crimes
wherewith
they
are
chargeable
,
and
of
which
they
are
convicted
;
the
great
number
of
those
that
quit
the
Society
upo●
very
just
grounds
;
and
the
infinite
multitude
of
th●
discontented
,
who
still
continue
in
the
Order
,
like
s●
many
malefactors
in
a
Goale
,
are
but
too
too
appare●
symptomes
of
the
indisposition
of
that
Body
,
denotin●
the
approaches
of
its
ruine
.
When
a
man
shall
onc●
upon
serious
consideration
find
,
that
their
Governme●●
is
tyrannicall
,
that
false
reports
and
slanderous
info●mations
are
ordinary
among
them
,
and
that
there
is
〈◊〉
very
disproportionable
distribution
of
charges
an●
employments
,
he
must
needs
be
astonished
,
that
th●
discontents
of
Inferiours
break
not
forth
much
mor●
then
they
do
.
I
durst
be
deposed
,
that
of
ten
Lette●
which
they
writ
to
those
that
mannage
the
Government
,
there
are
ever
seven
or
eight
that
contain
onl●
complaints
,
and
those
commonly
very
bloody
onc●
and
deplorable
.
Were
it
once
the
pleasure
of
God
that
,
for
the
space
of
but
fifteen
dayes
,
there
migh●
be
intercepted
those
that
are
written
to
the
Provinciall
of
Guienne
;
I
should
need
no
further
proof
the●
the
bare
reading
thereof
,
to
demonstrate
the
proposition
laid
down
.
His
Eminence
,
the
late
Cardinal●
of
Richelieu
,
having
caused
some
packets
to
be
intercepted
,
upon
concernments
of
the
Crown
,
not
discovering
at
that
time
any
treason
therein
(
for
they
ar●
more
subtle
then
to
take
the
ordinary
way
when
they
write
of
matters
of
that
consequence
)
said
to
the
king
▪
These
are
a
sort
of
people
,
that
bait
one
the
other
,
an●
write
onely
to
discover
their
mutuall
exasperations
.
Thi●
is
a
discovery
of
such
consideration
,
that
we
need
no●
look
for
a
greater
.
I
know
above
thirty
pretendedly
Religious
men
o●
that
Province
,
who
,
for
that
they
were
hindred
〈◊〉
further
progresse
in
their
studies
of
Divinity
,
and
consequently
thought
unfit
to
be
received
into
the
degre●
of
the
professed
,
groan
at
this
day
under
a
perpetuall
regret
,
which
,
like
Prometheus's
Vulture
,
continually
eats
into
their
hearts
,
I
can
name
some
of
excellent
parts
and
much
learning
,
who
,
having
been
,
through
the
malicious
partiality
of
the
Examiners
,
and
the
prejudice
of
the
Consultors
of
the
Province
,
brought
down
to
the
degree
of
Spirituall
Coadjutors
,
are
fallen
into
such
an
insensibility
,
that
,
being
very
highly
qualified
in
order
to
preaching
,
and
the
reading
of
either
Philosophy
or
Divinity
,
are
become
stupid
through
affliction
,
and
have
shaken
hands
with
all
literary
employments
,
condemning
themselves
to
an
idle
and
unprofitable
kind
of
life
,
being
over-heard
groaning
in
their
chambers
,
and
in
the
Garden-walks
with
so
much
expression
of
heart-burning
as
might
raise
compassion
in
Tygers
.
Some
being
not
any
longer
able
to
digest
their
melancholy
in
the
pleasant
Provinces
of
France
,
will
needs
go
and
wander
it
down
in
the
Forrests
of
Canada
,
among
the
Savages
,
there
to
lead
an
obscure
life
,
as
if
they
had
renounced
humane
Society
.
Others
stick
not
to
say
,
by
a
Proverb
come
into
vogue
amongst
them
,
That
the
Goat
must
needs
be
content
to
brouse
where
she
is
fastened
,
but
were
they
younger
,
and
their
health
in
a
better
posture
,
they
would
never
continue
two
moneths
in
the
Society
.
The
ground
of
their
discontent
,
is
,
that
,
though
they
should
in
processe
of
time
become
Oracles
in
all
the
Sciences
,
yet
are
they
ever
forced
to
continue
in
that
low
degree
,
wherein
they
are
infinitely
contemptible
in
comparison
of
those
that
are
admitted
to
the
fourth
vow
.
The
Provincials
cannot
deny
,
but
that
they
have
discarded
some
men
that
were
able
to
go
through
the
highest
functions
and
performances
of
their
Society
;
and
to
the
end
that
that
unjustice
should
not
be
apparent
to
all
the
world
,
they
are
alwayes
put
upon
base
and
dishonourable
employments
.
I
have
heard
it
affirmed
by
Monsieur
de
Lingende
Bishop
of
Sarlat
,
one
of
the
greatest
wits
,
and
the
most
able
Divines
in
France
,
that
they
might
with
a
s●fe
conscience
quit
the
Order
,
and
that
,
being
treated
with
so
much
tyranny
,
they
were
dispensed
from
their
simple
vowes
,
for
those
never
make
any
solemn
.
And
yet
so
strangely
is
this
great
Body
animated
by
Hypocrisy
,
that
;
that
is
attributed
to
zeal
,
which
proceeds
meerly
from
dissatisfaction
,
insomuch
that
the
greatest
part
of
those
that
go
upon
Missions
into
the
East
and
West-Indies
,
not
going
thither
upon
any
other
account
then
that
of
avoiding
the
domestick
traines
of
villany
and
discontents
,
they
are
forced
to
struggle
with
(
I
say
the
greatest
part
,
not
all
)
these
ambitious
spirits
,
who
make
all
things
contributory
to
their
own
reputation
,
will
neverthelesse
have
these
afflicted
souls
transported
into
those
parts
as
great
Apostles
,
and
would
persuade
the
people
that
their
earnestnesse
for
the
glory
of
God
had
wafted
into
those
barbarous
regions
,
such
as
dissatisfaction
,
and
the
affronts
they
had
received
,
had
banish'd
into
those
disconsolate
places
.
It
hath
been
told
me
not
long
since
by
one
of
the
most
sincere
and
vertuous
men
that
were
engaged
in
that
Apostolicall
Mission
,
that
the
motive
which
induced
him
to
go
for
Portugal
,
and
thence
into
the
Indies
was
the
supplantations
and
intrigues
which
were
but
too
too
apparent
in
his
Province
.
I
could
give
the
names
and
sirnames
of
a
great
number
of
these
discontented
persons
;
and
,
if
the
insolence
of
Beaufés
force
me
thereto
,
I
shall
do
it
,
and
moreover
produce
a
catalogue
of
those
that
are
not
of
the
number
of
the
professed
.
Yet
do
I
think
fit
to
forbear
it
at
the
present
,
meerly
out
of
a
consideration
,
that
it
is
a
kind
of
inhumanity
to
adde
to
the
afflictions
of
a
sort
of
wretches
,
whose
consciences
cannot
groan
in
this
world
under
a
greater
burthen
,
then
that
of
their
being
Jesuits
and
wanting
the
courage
to
quit
the
Society
.
Nor
is
this
Pandora's
box
of
discontents
and
disturbances
opened
onely
for
the
persecution
of
those
that
are
called
formal
or
Spirituall
Coadjutors
,
whom
the
Lay-Brothers
distinguish
from
the
others
by
the
contemptible
ti●le
of
The
shorter
sleev'd
Fathers
.
No
,
those
that
are
of
the
professed
number
have
their
share
of
the
mischief
,
but
with
this
difference
,
that
the
dissatisfactions
of
these
latter
last
onely
for
a
certain
time
,
and
those
of
the
others
are
perpetuall
,
because
of
the
fatall
necessity
there
is
,
by
reason
of
the
degree
they
are
in
,
that
they
should
be
contemptible
.
In
a
Country
where
treacheries
are
so
predominant
,
it
is
not
to
be
expected
that
any
man
should
say
he
lives
without
discontent
.
The
community
of
the
Jesuits
is
a
knot
of
undermining
Serpents
;
let
a
man
be
ever
so
eminent
,
it
is
impossible
he
should
live
a
moneth
among
them
,
where
there
is
so
much
bandying
,
without
making
some
complaint
.
John
de
la
Renaudie
,
a
late
Provinciall
among
them
,
was
wont
to
say
,
that
the
most
eminent
of
the
Society
,
the
better
to
digest
dissatisfactions
they
were
to
meet
with
,
should
imagine
to
themselves
that
they
were
condemned
to
the
Galleys
for
ninety
nine
years
.
Jealousie
makes
a
division
amongst
the
bravest
minds
.
Ambition
forms
in
the
souls
of
all
those
that
are
more
considerable
in
the
Government
of
the
Society
great
idaea's
of
their
own
persons
;
for
,
perceiving
themselves
raised
to
a
higher
condition
then
their
Brethren
,
they
think
no
acknowledgements
more
then
their
due
.
And
this
is
the
seminary
of
those
bloody
complaints
,
those
inappeaseable
heart-burnings
,
and
the
implacable
discontents
which
raise
divisions
among
them
,
and
smother
all
sentiments
of
Charity
.
If
therefore
there
be
any
man
that
ever
heares
them
make
their
braggs
,
that
their
Order
is
the
Land
of
Goshen
,
full
of
light
,
while
the
Egyptian
world
is
covered
with
darknesse
;
let
him
confidently
reply
,
that
it
is
a
piece
of
ground
full
of
noisome
mists
and
clouds
;
and
if
out
of
an
excesse
of
insolence
,
they
further
retort
,
and
affirm
it
to
be
the
suburbs
of
Paradice
,
answer
,
it
is
the
dark
entry
that
leads
to
Hell
,
thus
described
by
their
Virgil
,
where
,
Luctus
&
ultrices
posuere
cubilia
curae
,
Pallentèsque
habitant
morbi
,
tristísque
senectus
;
Terribiles
visu
formae
,
lethumque
labosque
Tum
consanguineus
lethi
sopor
,
et
mala
mentis
Gaudia
,
mortiferumque
adverso
in
limine
bellum
:
Ferreique
Eumenidum
thalami
,
et
discordia
demens
Vipereum
crinem
vittis
innixa
cruentis
.
Multa
ubi
praeterea
variarum
monstra
ferarum
Centauri
in
foribus
stabulant
,
Scyllaeque
biformes
,
Et
centum
geminus
Briareus
,
ac
bellua
Lernae
Horrendum
stridens
,
flammisque
armata
chimaera
,
Gorgones
Harpyiaeque
et
forma
tricorporis
umbrae
.
where
,
Sorrow
repos'd
,
with
her
revenging
rage
,
Pale
sicknesses
,
and
discontented
age
,
[
Fear
,
with
dire
famine
and
base
Poverty
,
]
Labour
and
death
,
shapes
terrible
to
see
.
Then
Sleep
ally'd
to
Death
,
and
fond
joyes
are
Plac'd
on
the
other
side
with
deadly
warre
;
On
iron
beds
,
Furies
and
Discord
sit
,
Their
viperous
hair
with
bloody
fillets
knit
—
Then
a
huge
brood
Of
various
monsters
,
biform'd
Scylla
stood
,
And
Centaures
in
the
Porch
;
with
hundred
hands
Briareus
and
the
Lernian
Hydra
stands
,
Chimaera
hissing
loud
,
and
arm'd
with
fire
,
The
triple
shade
,
Gorgons
and
Harpyes
dire
.
So
that
,
if
a
man
would
speak
according
to
a
Christian
and
evangelicall
apprehension
,
he
may
tell
them
,
with
no
lesse
truth
then
confidence
,
that
God
hath
,
by
way
of
anticipation
,
cast
the
Jesuits
into
utter
darkness
,
where
there
is
perpetuall
weeping
and
gnashing
of
Teeth
.
CHAP.
IX
.
Other
grounds
of
discontent
among
the
Iesuits
proceeding
from
the
conduct
of
their
Superiours
.
WE
come
now
to
a
more
particular
anatomy
of
the
distractions
that
are
so
predominant
in
the
Colledges
of
the
Provinces
of
Guyenne
.
The
Tyrannicall
government
which
some
Provincials
have
introduced
among
them
is
the
wild
bore
that
makes
havock
where
ever
he
comes
.
There
is
one
,
by
name
,
John
Pitard
,
who
caus'd
Arsenick
to
be
given
to
some
Brethren
that
were
more
then
ordinarily
addicted
to
drunkennesse
.
Another
,
a
very
Bacchanalian
Priest
,
called
John
Ricard
,
a
worm
crept
up
into
greatnesse
out
of
the
dust
,
by
his
profusions
of
the
revenues
of
the
Novitiat
,
and
the
interest
of
certain
Jesuits
of
Paris
,
who
recommended
him
to
Rome
;
and
since
his
time
,
one
Gilbert
Russeau
,
a
man
of
an
implacable
and
revengefull
disposition
,
one
that
,
the
more
to
exasperate
the
Bishop
of
Poictiers
,
presumptuously
threatned
he
would
have
the
head
of
the
Sieur
des
Estangs
,
though
it
should
multiply
like
that
of
a
Hydra
.
These
I
say
have
,
with
so
much
insolence
,
manag'd
the
affairs
of
that
unhappy
Province
for
the
space
of
nine
or
ten
years
last
past
,
that
the
one
half
of
the
young
men
of
greatest
hopes
have
forsaken
them
,
and
others
of
longer
standing
have
been
content
to
groan
,
and
still
do
groan
under
their
Tyranny
.
Were
I
now
of
the
Order
(
which
God
forbid
I
ever
should
)
it
were
but
just
I
should
represent
these
inconveniences
to
the
Pope
,
as
their
Supreme
head
,
as
some
have
already
done
.
But
since
it
hath
been
the
pleasure
of
God
to
bring
me
from
among
them
,
I
shall
discover
them
to
the
greater
advantage
of
the
publick
.
Those
,
who
take
the
Government
of
the
Jesuits
into
a
generall
examination
,
cannot
but
conclude
that
so
pestilent
an
indisposition
will
ever
be
falling
from
the
head
into
the
members
,
and
that
that
imperious
Monarchy
that
exacts
an
implicite
obedience
from
its
subjects
and
that
in
all
things
whatsoever
,
cannot
subsist
but
it
must
fill
their
hearts
with
perpetuall
bitternesse
and
heart
burning
.
The
first
foundation
of
discontent
is
thus
layd
.
The
Generall
of
the
Order
,
who
creates
these
subalternate
Superiours
,
and
the
Provincials
,
upon
whose
suggestions
and
informations
they
are
preferred
to
superiority
,
are
guided
by
this
maxime
,
not
to
put
into
employments
,
the
most
deserving
,
but
the
most
confident
,
to
the
end
,
say
they
,
that
they
may
ever
be
ready
at
hand
,
to
be
,
like
so
many
Ma●●ives
,
put
upon
the
execution
of
those
Orders
that
come
from
Rome
.
From
this
,
it
must
needs
be
inferred
,
that
the
Superiours
are
neither
the
most
knowing
,
nor
the
most
able
,
but
a
sort
of
upstarts
,
and
very
inconsiderable
in
point
of
Literature
,
who
not
able
to
get
into
preferment
upon
any
account
of
their
own
worth
,
as
having
not
those
qualifications
which
are
requisite
to
render
men
excellent
,
are
accordingly
obliged
to
prosecute
the
designes
of
those
who
are
the
Baisers
of
them
.
Now
I
desire
the
kind
Reader
to
imagine
with
himself
,
what
disturbances
there
must
needs
be
in
that
Body
where
the
blind
lead
those
that
have
their
perfect
sight
,
and
he
that
is
guilty
of
thousands
of
imperfections
,
and
hath
little
or
nothing
that
is
excellent
in
him
,
governs
and
disposes
of
the
greatest
Doctours
and
wisest
men
.
Hence
must
needs
follow
a
contempt
of
the
person
governing
,
who
is
accordingly
called
proud
,
self-will'd
,
imperious
,
ignorant
,
thence
diss●tisfactions
are
to
the
Generall
,
who
admitted
him
,
and
exasperations
against
the
Provincials
who
had
recommended
him
.
And
thence
proceed
heart-burnings
,
and
indigestible
discontents
,
and
then
Letters
,
written
with
the
greatest
bitternesse
and
exasperation
of
spirit
.
The
second
inconvenience
,
is
,
that
the
Rectors
are
not
shie
of
any
so
much
as
those
who
are
any
way
excellent
above
,
others
;
and
accordingly
they
make
it
their
main
bu●●●esse
to
tread
them
under
foot
and
make
them
contemptible
.
Upon
this
account
is
it
,
that
they
are
insupportably
imperious
in
their
government
,
not
calling
those
that
are
eminent
above
the
ordinary
rate
,
to
advise
with
them
,
no
more
then
if
th●y
were
not
of
the
house
.
And
if
they
take
them
along
with
them
in
their
visits
to
great
persons
,
it
is
onely
to
make
ostentation
of
their
superiority
above
them
;
they
speake
first
,
and
make
their
insolence
the
more
notorious
by
the
humility
of
those
great
persons
,
who
are
in
all
things
obliged
to
comply
with
these
imaginary
Idols
of
preheminence
,
and
,
by
their
submissions
,
to
make
it
appear
,
that
they
are
inferiour
to
such
as
they
far
exceed
in
reputation
and
abilities
.
Haec
Tyranni
vox
est
,
quicquid
excelsum
in
regno
cadat
.
To
say
nothing
without
some
kind
of
demonstration
,
I
desire
the
Reader
but
to
enquire
what
kind
of
people
are
John
Ricard
,
William
Ricard
,
Milseneau
,
Ishier
,
Gombaud
,
la
Rhede
,
Coulon
,
Saige
,
Guillard
,
Reginer
,
Soulier
,
Gadaud
,
and
others
of
that
rate
,
and
he
will
find
that
they
are
no
more
known
in
Gnienne
then
if
they
were
not
there
,
so
inconsiderable
are
their
quaiities
.
And
yet
these
are
the
Superiours
who
sit
at
the
helm
of
the
Society
,
and
exercise
their
empire
over
the
Camains
,
the
Martinons
,
the
Godefrés
,
the
Gossers
,
the
most
eminent
Preachers
and
most
excellent
Divines
.
Is
it
possible
men
should
live
under
so
unjust
a
kind
of
Government
,
without
complaints
and
discontents
?
A
third
disorder
,
is
,
that
these
Superiours
,
without
the
least
ground
,
and
upon
no
other
accoun●
then
that
of
the
commands
laid
upon
them
by
the
Provinciall
,
stick
as
closely
to
him
as
Ivy
does
to
an
old
wall
,
are
ever
of
his
opinion
,
and
,
out
of
pure
complyance
with
him
,
abett
whatever
he
seems
to
be
inclined
to
,
as
well
for
their
continuance
in
the
present
employments
,
as
to
obtain
new
ones
,
after
they
have
gone
through
those
they
are
in
.
If
any
〈◊〉
but
mutter
at
their
Government
,
you
shall
presently
find
the
confiding
creatures
of
Superiority
engag'd
in
a
combination
to
ruine
that
unsatisfyed
man
,
with
no
lesse
violence
then
if
they
were
so
many
Lyons
.
So
that
the
Provinciall
is
the
only
person
that
governs
the
whole
Province
,
by
the
correspondence
there
is
between
him
and
his
Rectors
;
and
consequently
,
the
Generall
,
who
having
by
the
same
maximes
of
Government
,
chosen
the
Provincials
,
pitches
not
on
the
best
and
most
able
,
but
those
of
mean
parts
,
governs
the
whole
Society
with
such
an
absolute
supremacy
,
that
it
is
seldome
seen
that
any
one
is
so
confident
as
to
oppose
it
,
which
if
it
happen
that
any
one
should
,
though
he
were
a
Saint
Paul
he
shall
be
accounted
no
other
then
an
humorous
,
troublesom
person
,
and
disturber
of
their
peace
.
Thence
comes
it
,
that
it
is
commonly
said
,
that
all
the
affairs
of
the
Province
are
managed
according
to
the
directions
of
the
Provinciall
and
two
or
three
of
his
greatest
confidents
,
who
make
no
account
of
the
rest
though
in
all
things
to
be
preferred
before
them
.
Thence
also
comes
it
,
that
at
Rome
,
the
General
growes
so
imperious
by
reason
of
the
intelligence
that
is
between
him
and
the
Provincials
,
whom
he
knows
to
be
his
creatures
,
that
the
yoke
of
obedience
becomes
insupportable
.
Now
let
the
Reader
consider
with
himself
,
whether
any
honest
man
can
possibly
bear
with
the
insolence
of
these
Machiavils
,
without
so
much
as
writing
some
Letters
to
discover
his
resentment
of
such
miscariages
.
The
fourth
misfortune
is
the
damme
of
no
fewer
disturbances
,
and
dissatisfactions
.
These
pearching
Rectors
,
not
for
that
they
had
those
parts
which
were
necessary
for
their
recommendation
to
the
Government
,
but
meerely
for
their
complyances
with
the
Provincial
,
and
the
excellent
talent
they
had
in
dissimulation
and
sycophancy
,
do
all
things
with
such
an
absolute
power
,
that
they
are
not
any
way
to
be
diverted
or
opposed
.
And
whereas
it
ordinarily
happens
,
that
those
who
are
of
very
slender
abilities
would
fain
make
it
appear
,
in
their
actions
,
that
they
are
persons
of
a
great
reach
and
conduct
;
so
those
pitiful
Rectors
,
who
labour
in
order
to
another
man's
harvest
,
to
let
the
world
see
that
they
are
highly
qualify'd
for
Government
,
carry
themselves
like
Bashaw's
,
and
never
taking
any
other
advice
then
that
of
their
own
heads
,
dispose
of
the
Revenues
and
persons
of
their
Colledges
,
with
so
much
tyranny
,
that
the
condition
of
the
most
ignorant
is
at
this
day
to
be
preferred
before
that
of
the
most
learned
.
T
is
the
generall
complaint
of
the
gravest
men
,
that
all
designes
are
undertaken
and
accomplished
without
communication
;
for
these
proud
upstarts
,
would
think
themselves
slighted
,
if
a
knowing
man
had
given
them
some
good
advice
.
I
have
been
in
some
Colledges
where
the
Rectors
have
made
so
little
account
of
the
Ancients
,
that
they
called
them
not
into
their
chambers
to
consult
with
them
,
once
in
six
moneths
,
and
when
they
did
,
they
proposed
nothing
but
trifles
,
so
true
is
it
that
the
presumption
of
some
particular
men
hath
brought
the
Government
among
them
to
an
incredible
height
of
insolence
.
For
a
man
to
see
his
condition
and
fortunes
managed
according
to
the
humour
of
an
imperious
ignorant
man
,
and
not
bemoan
himself
,
speaks
a
constancy
above
that
of
the
severest
Stoicks
.
There
remains
yet
a
fift
spring
of
discontents
,
which
is
,
that
the
same
Rectors
carry
things
on
with
such
an
absolute
disposall
in
their
Colledges
,
that
it
is
in
their
power
to
put
in
execution
their
own
advice
,
though
contrary
to
that
of
all
the
rest
,
and
to
oblige
,
nay
they
really
do
oblige
their
Subjects
,
prejudicially
to
the
Lawes
of
the
Nation
they
live
in
,
to
obey
their
unjust
commands
,
and
to
do
their
will
.
In
this
point
the
Juniors
are
so
insolent
,
that
they
impose
upon
the
most
illustrious
things
that
are
highly
base
and
unworthy
,
meerly
to
shew
their
Authority
,
and
to
make
them
know
,
as
they
say
themselves
,
that
they
are
the
Grand
Masters
.
What
possibility
is
there
that
a
man
of
any
courage
should
patiently
suffer
his
judgement
to
truckle
under
that
of
an
extravagant
person
,
and
not
take
occasion
to
discover
some
regret
at
such
unhandsome
dealings
?
CHAP.
X.
Assigning
other
undenyable
causes
of
discontent
among
tht
Jesuits
,
taken
from
the
injustice
of
their
Superiours
.
THere
is
no
Community
that
can
possibly
keep
long
together
without
justice
,
though
it
were
a
community
of
common
Rogues
and
Highway-men
.
The
most
notorious
defect
chargeable
upon
those
whose
devastations
are
so
remarkable
in
the
Province
of
Guienne
,
is
,
a
neglect
of
Justice
,
whereof
the
perpetuall
attendants
are
those
of
Rebellion
,
such
as
threaten
the
approaching
dissolution
and
ruine
of
that
Body
.
All
Jesuits
,
even
to
the
Novices
,
are
not
a
little
troubled
to
see
Offices
distributed
among
a
small
number
of
persons
.
Some
continue
Superiours
for
the
space
of
fifteen
or
twenty
years
,
and
others
are
excluded
from
ever
being
such
,
though
they
have
the
generall
approbation
of
all
to
be
the
most
prudent
.
There
is
nothing
more
generally
heard
both
in
their
greater
and
lesser
Colledges
then
these
words
,
Why
is
not
such
an
one
N.
N.
chosen
Superiour
?
and
there
may
be
perceived
a
cloud
of
s●dnesse
and
dissatisfaction
rising
in
the
countenances
of
those
that
hear
it
.
In
like
manner
,
when
some
Superiour
comes
in
the
time
of
recreation
,
and
sayes
,
that
the
Rectorship
is
conferred
on
such
an
one
,
the
generall
silence
wherewith
the
news
is
entertained
,
the
stifling
of
all
discourse
for
some
time
,
and
the
reciprocall
looks
that
passe
between
them
,
as
they
expresse
their
admiration
and
astonishment
,
so
do
they
very
much
discover
how
infinitely
they
are
troubled
to
see
persons
of
no
worth
raised
out
of
the
dirt
,
to
domineere
over
others
,
so
to
make
those
great
men
that
are
discountenanced
the
more
despicable
.
When
tidings
came
that
la
Rhede
was
chosen
Rector
of
the
Colledge
of
Agen
,
Peter
Cadiot
of
that
of
Rochell
,
Bernard
Soulier
,
of
that
of
Poictiers
,
Fronton
Gadaud
,
of
that
of
Pau
,
the
disdain
and
scorn
conceived
thereat
was
universall
,
nay
,
many
sticks
not
publickly
to
laugh
at
the
choice
.
All
a
man
hath
to
do
,
to
be
excluded
all
employments
,
is
,
to
be
indu'd
with
those
qualities
that
are
necessarily
requisite
for
him
to
be
admitted
thereto
.
Learning
is
accounted
a
disqualification
in
order
to
preferment
,
under
pretence
that
great
Wits
are
not
the
most
fortunate
in
things
relating
to
the
practick
.
Solidity
of
judgement
,
and
a
more
then
ordinary
constancy
,
are
alwayes
enviously
looked
on
by
those
that
sit
at
the
helme
,
so
that
it
is
the
main
part
of
their
businesse
to
finde
out
pretences
for
their
exclusion
.
T
is
given
out
of
some
that
they
are
too
much
inclined
to
choler
,
of
others
that
they
are
too
melancholy
,
of
some
,
that
they
are
guilty
of
too
much
confidence
,
of
others
,
that
there
would
never
be
a
good
intelligence
between
them
and
the
General
:
and
so
,
as
it
commonly
happens
that
all
great
minds
have
some
imperfection
,
these
envious
wretches
take
advantage
of
the
defects
of
such
eminent
persons
,
to
exclude
them
from
the
government
.
Hence
it
comes
to
passe
that
those
whom
Nature
had
favoured
with
a
certain
preheminence
,
are
made
Vassals
,
and
those
,
whom
the
same
Nature
had
ordained
to
submission
,
are
invested
with
superiority
;
and
consequently
the
Latter
grow
insupportably
insolent
,
the
former
are
exasperated
.
The
Pope
,
coming
at
last
to
hear
of
these
circumventions
,
publish'd
a
Brief
not
long
since
,
whereby
he
commands
,
that
all
Superiours
(
the
Generall
only
excepted
)
should
be
displaced
precisely
at
the
expiration
of
three
years
,
and
should
not
be
admitted
to
any
superiority
for
the
space
of
eighteen
moneths
thence
next
ensuing
.
This
intermission
of
Government
,
making
them
equall
,
if
not
inferiour
to
those
whom
before
they
had
tyrannised
over
,
galled
their
spirits
to
the
quick
,
they
accordingly
left
not
a
stone
unmoved
to
get
the
Brief
repealed
,
but
not
being
able
to
obtain
it
,
they
could
not
be
persuaded
to
have
it
proclaimed
to
the
great
contempt
of
the
Popes
power
and
authority
;
nay
,
to
make
up
the
measure
of
their
infamy
,
they
have
cast
out
pious
and
devout
men
for
discovering
a
certain
satisfaction
at
that
piece
of
reformation
,
so
important
in
order
to
an
abatement
of
their
insolence
,
whose
ambition
it
was
to
perpetuate
their
charges
and
employments
.
There
is
yet
a
more
intolerable
injustice
committed
by
them
in
the
abuse
of
their
usurped
authority
.
The
most
eloquent
Preachers
are
not
those
that
preach
in
the
most
eminent
places
,
nor
are
they
the
most
acute
Divines
that
teach
in
the
most
famous
Schools
,
nor
yet
those
the
greatest
Rhetoricians
that
are
the
most
considerable
in
their
chiefest
Colledges
.
No
,
it
is
the
prudence
of
the
Superiours
to
advance
their
own
favourites
,
to
the
disparagement
of
those
of
greater
abilities
.
Hence
comes
it
that
Learning
is
not
attended
by
reward
,
excellency
carryes
not
the
honour
of
the
day
,
deserts
are
discarded
,
and
there
is
hardly
any
one
admitted
to
employments
of
consequence
but
those
tha
can
crowch
and
adore
them
.
This
is
the
reason
th●
great
Wits
are
cast
down
and
discouraged
,
for
,
peceiving
it
will
cost
them
so
much
to
arrive
at
some
e●inency
,
they
content
themselves
with
a
mediocrity
.
●nd
the
consequence
of
that
,
is
,
that
humane
Learn●ng
is
neglected
,
Philosophy
growes
despicable
,
and
Divinity
is
not
studied
by
many
,
but
a
little
for
fashion
●ake
.
Preferment
depends
absolutely
on
the
favour
●nd
countenance
of
the
superiours
;
vertue
is
the
one●y
way
to
be
trod
under
foot
.
This
kind
of
unjustice
will
discover
it self
much
more
to
our
observation
,
if
we
do
but
consider
the
sa●isfactions
required
by
such
as
are
injured
.
If
any
one
makes
his
complaint
to
the
General
,
against
the
violence
of
some
immediate
Superiour
,
what
just
ground
soever
he
may
have
to
demand
reparation
,
he
shall
never
obtain
it
,
nay
,
though
he
should
suffer
persecution
for
the
Faith
,
yet
shall
the
guilt
still
lie
on
his
side
.
To
mutter
at
a
palpable
fault
committed
by
the
Rector
,
is
a
crime
;
to
make
any
stirre
about
it
,
or
to
charge
him
therewith
,
is
to
be
over
censorious
and
disobedient
.
For
a
man
to
behave
himself
towards
them
as
they
expect
,
he
must
be
like
those
Idols
that
have
eyes
,
and
see
not
,
that
have
eares
,
and
heare
not
,
that
have
mouths
and
speak
not
.
But
on
the
other
side
,
to
converse
among
the
Brethren
,
hee
must
be
all
eyes
,
to
take
notice
of
their
miscarriages
,
all
eares
,
to
hear
what
they
say
,
and
all
tongue
,
to
give
an
account
thereof
to
the
Superiours
,
to
the
end
,
that
all
the
faults
of
the
former
should
be
concealed
,
and
all
the
imperfections
of
the
latter
should
be
discovered
.
This
erroneous
kind
of
Politicks
grinds
and
crushes
the
Inferiou
s
,
and
makes
those
that
command
ou●rageous
and
insolent
.
They
are
confident
,
let
them
do
what
they
will
,
that
they
shall
carry
the
cause
,
and
that
the
Generall
and
the
Provincials
will
discountenance
the
accusers
,
that
so
they
may
not
allow
their
Subjects
the
liberty
which
Galley
slaves
have
,
to
complain
.
I
know
three
or
four
persons
of
very
great
worth
that
have
lately
left
their
Province
for
having
demanded
justice
against
some
Superiours
that
accused
them
,
and
never
could
have
the
favour
of
so
much
as
a
hearing
of
the
difference
.
Monsieur
Baud
made
a
just
complaint
to
the
Vicar
of
the
whole
Society
against
John
Ricard
,
and
had
no
other
answer
then
a
glorious
Panegyrick
in
commendation
of
the
person
he
accused
.
I
believe
that
that
eminent
Preacher
,
whom
they
persecute
for
his
having
deserted
them
,
hath
the
Letter
yet
to
produce
,
which
is
such
as
that
there
needs
no
more
then
the
bare
reading
of
it
to
fill
the
hearers
with
indignation
.
This
discourse
is
so
demonstrably
true
,
that
often
Jesuits
,
there
shall
be
nine
to
confirm
what
I
say
.
And
to
make
it
further
apparent
that
this
kind
of
Government
must
needs
burst
asunder
,
there
have
been
some
overtures
already
made
to
the
Pope
,
tha●
there
may
be
appointed
,
in
every
Province
,
a
certain
number
of
discreet
persons
to
do
justice
to
those
that
demand
it
,
and
there
is
some
likelyhood
it
may
be
obtained
.
But
the
businesse
concernes
me
not
.
CHAP.
XI
▪
Producing
severall
reasons
of
discontent
●rising
from
the
Syndications
among
the
Jesuits
.
I
Come
now
to
the
Syndications
that
are
among
the
Jesuits
,
and
the
unjustice
consequent
thereto
.
Ignatius
,
the
better
to
lay
the
foundations
of
a
tyrannicall
government
,
rather
then
a
Religious
,
left
his
disciples
two
rules
,
which
,
under
pretence
of
augmenting
charity
prove
the
bane
thereof
.
In
the
former
,
he
injoyns
all
to
be
ready
to
discover
themselves
,
when
they
shall
be
called
to
account
by
the
Superiour
.
In
the
latter
,
he
obliges
every
one
to
inform
the
Superiour
of
the
faults
which
he
may
have
observed
in
the
lives
and
manners
of
his
companions
.
I
shall
not
here
presse
,
how
that
it
is
observable
in
the
Romane
History
,
that
in
the
times
of
wicked
Emperours
,
such
as
,
for
instance
,
Nero
and
Domitian
,
infamous
Informers
were
very
much
countenanced
,
but
that
under
good
Emperours
such
as
were
Vespasian
,
Titus
,
Trajan
,
and
Antoninus
Pius
,
they
were
beaten
,
banish'd
,
and
many
times
put
to
death
.
All
I
have
now
to
do
shall
be
to
make
it
appear
that
these
Rules
are
two
Sources
of
injustice
and
discontent
.
Of
injustice
they
are
,
for
that
these
Syndications
are
a
●ort
of
secret
informations
made
of
the
faults
or
offences
of
another
,
given
in
to
the
Superiour
without
proof
or
hearing
the
parties
concerned
.
There
cannot
be
a
fairer
opportunity
then
this
,
for
the
mischievous
to
oppresse
the
good
by
their
secret
accusations
,
which
the
other
never
come
to
the
knowledge
of
.
The
envious
have
the
like
advantage
to
put
a
rub
in
their
way
whose
endeavours
are
fortunately
contributory
to
the
publick
good
,
when
they
least
think
of
any
such
thing
;
and
the
Superiours
,
who
have
not
an
equall
affection
for
all
their
Subjects
,
are
not
a
litle
glad
to
have
,
in
their
Reading-Seats
articles
and
informations
to
put
a
slurre
upon
knowing
men
,
and
such
as
any
way
eclypse
their
reputation
.
Now
I
leave
it
to
the
consideration
of
any
judicious
man
,
from
the
generall
inclination
which
we
have
to
take
notice
rather
of
that
which
is
evill
then
that
which
is
good
,
and
the
impression
that
an
obligation
which
they
imagine
lyes
upon
them
to
discover
all
things
rather
then
break
their
Rule
,
may
make
in
weak
minds
,
whether
such
a
government
be
not
destructive
,
and
without
any
difficulty
,
chargeable
with
injustice
;
it
being
an
ordinary
acknowledgement
,
that
the
omission
of
some
triviall
circumstance
may
make
a
good
action
bad
,
or
a
bad
action
good
.
In
the
second
place
,
I
affirm
these
Rules
to
be
a
sourse
of
discontents
,
for
it
will
be
found
by
the
perusall
of
the
Archivi
of
the
Superiours
,
that
of
three
hundred
such
,
that
now
live
in
Guienne
,
there
shall
not
be
one
that
may
be
called
a
vertuous
man
,
that
is
,
hath
not
been
accused
of
severall
offences
.
The
informations
,
such
as
are
those
of
diverse
of
them
,
are
contradictory
;
one
saies
white
,
another
black
.
In
the
greatest
part
there
are
aggravations
and
imaginary
▪
inferences
made
,
and
ordinarily
falsifications
and
impostures
.
Were
there
a
legall
proceeding
,
some
would
be
acquitted
,
others
convicted
of
their
crimes
.
But
instead
of
a
juridicall
procedure
,
the
Superiours
go
by
the
way
of
informations
,
as
they
think
most
convenient
.
If
any
one
hath
spoken
advantageously
of
any
of
their
Friends
,
they
make
the
best
they
can
of
those
favourable
Suffrages
,
and
the
world
shall
hear
nothing
of
their
defects
.
If
any
one
hath
spoken
ill
of
those
whom
they
affect
not
,
or
any
way
stand
in
fear
of
,
they
conceal
their
vertues
,
and
produce
against
him
those
injurious
suggestions
.
So
that
they
are
ever
furnished
with
materials
to
condemn
some
and
to
acquit
others
,
it
being
the
main
design
of
these
Syndications
,
or
secret
informations
,
to
make
the
Superiours
uncontroulable
,
the
inferiours
unfortunate
.
This
contagious
union
,
and
poyson
of
fraternall
charity
cannot
but
raise
in
them
a
mistrust
one
of
another
,
and
puts
them
into
a
fear
that
any
one
may
sell
them
in
a
manner
,
to
ingratiate
himself
with
those
that
govern
.
I
desire
any
one
that
hath
frequented
the
classes
,
to
reflect
and
consider
,
whether
they
are
not
much
more
free
in
point
of
conversation
,
when
they
have
to
do
with
secular
persons
,
then
when
they
are
among
themselves
.
Though
ten
strangers
should
come
into
the
place
where
they
are
engaged
in
discourse
,
their
presence
should
not
oblige
them
to
any
●ore
reservednesse
,
but
if
some
Jesuit
drop
in
,
all
is
●●mediately
smothered
The
reason
whereof
can
be
●o
other
then
that
their
Government
is
grounded
on
●ensures
and
Syndications
,
and
that
every
man
is
a●id
of
the
ill
offices
of
Eves-droppers
and
Informers
.
To
the
end
therefore
that
a
man
should
not
be
dis●●ntented
among
a
Society
of
Sycophants
and
detra●●ors
,
the
onely
way
,
is
,
to
burne
the
Rules
they
●●ve
,
and
to
make
others
.
Let
not
therefore
any
●an
be
astonished
to
find
so
many
fors●king
the
Or●er
,
when
they
do
it
meerly
for
their
own
quiet
●●ke
,
nor
wonder
that
those
who
continue
therein
●●ve
in
a
manner
perpetuall
occasion
of
complaint
●●d
repining
,
and
betray
it
in
both
words
and
wri●●ng
.
I
acknowledge
,
that
I
bemoan'd
my self
to
●cusseau
,
the
Provinciall
,
foure
moneths
before
I
●●me
from
among
the
cursed
crue
,
but
it
is
as
cer●●in
withall
,
that
the
grounds
of
my
complaint
were
〈◊〉
just
,
that
I
should
not
have
exposed
my self
to
●●er
the
more
censure
,
though
my
Letters
had
been
●ore
sharp
and
satyricall
then
they
were
.
If
the
●eader
does
but
reflect
on
the
occasions
of
com●●●int
which
I
have
discovered
in
the
four
precedent
●hapters
,
he
cannot
but
be
satisfied
,
that
it
is
an
●●dinary
thing
in
that
ill-disciplined
body
,
to
write
●●oody
and
invective
Letters
,
and
that
they
have
in●●●red
me
very
much
,
by
producing
mine
,
to
per●●ade
the
world
,
that
my
conversion
was
not
reall
●nd
sincere
.
CHAP.
XII
.
Shewing
the
falsifications
of
the
Jesuits
in
t●
impressions
of
my
Letters
.
SAtan
who
transforms
himself
into
an
Angel
of
Light●
cannot
so
absolutely
conceal
his
uglinesse
unde●
the
borrowed
beauties
of
an
Archangel
,
but
that
h●
still
discovers
himself
to
be
a
Devil
,
by
some
claw
o●
other
which
divine
Permission
will
not
give
him
lea●●
altogether
to
hide
.
Let
the
Jesuits
pretend
ever
〈◊〉
so
much
sincerity
,
in
the
publication
of
my
Letters
yet
shall
the
world
find
them
to
be
,
what
they
really
are
,
cheats
,
falsificators
,
impostors
.
I
must
need
acknowledge
that
I
writ
a
Letter
to
Gilbert
Rousseau
out
of
no
other
design
then
to
expostulate
a
littl●
with
him
about
my
imployments
,
and
to
let
him
kno●
how
much
I
resented
,
and
was
dissatisfied
with
the
disposall
he
had
made
of
me
to
preach
on
Sundayes
and
festivall
dayes
at
Rochell
.
Not
that
I
thought
my selfe
any
way
disparaged
to
be
employed
in
that
nobl●
City
,
but
that
it
was
my
expectation
that
the
infamous
impostor
should
,
according
to
the
Letters
I
had
received
from
him
,
have
disposed
more
honourably
of
me●
and
taken
occasion
to
appoint
me
some
good
place
to
preach
in
the
Advent
and
Lent
,
sutably
to
the
go●d
successe
I
had
had
at
Nantes
,
when
there
was
a
generall
Assembly
of
the
Estates
of
the
Province
of
Britta●●
and
but
a
litle
before
on
the
Octave
of
Corpus
Chris●●
day
at
Poictiers
.
But
,
finding
my
hopes
frustrated
,
〈◊〉
must
confesse
I
put
pen
to
paper
and
writ
the
Letter
mentioned
,
with
great
deliberation
,
insomuch
that
out
of
the
intimacy
there
was
between
me
and
Peter
Reignier
and
James
le
Grand
,
I
communicated
it
to
them
.
All
those
that
know
me
will
say
thus
much
for
my
justification
,
that
I
had
reason
to
complain
.
Nay
,
the
●rovinciall
himself
was
n
t
●nsensible
thereof
,
as
may
●ppeare
by
his
keeping
of
the
Letter
for
the
space
●f
foure
moneths
in
the
Archivi
,
out
of
●
designe
to
indicate
himselfe
against
me
,
if
the
businesse
should
●ver
come
before
the
Generall
▪
but
now
that
it
hath
●leased
God
,
out
of
his
mercy
▪
to
reduce
me
to
the
●eformed
Religion
,
he
hath
m●de
other
advantages
●hereof
.
It
argues
a
strange
conjunction
of
weaknesse
and
●alice
to
be
forced
to
make
use
of
Fa●sifications
to
●erswade
the
world
there
can
be
much
inferred
from
〈◊〉
pityfull
Letter
penned
out
of
discontent
.
This
in●onsiderate
and
vindicative
sort
of
people
,
who
make
●o
great
difficulty
to
swallow
Forgeries
and
Antida●es
,
●●king
it
their
businesse
to
perswade
the
people
,
first
●hat
I
was
an
inconsiderable
person
,
and
secondly
,
that
●t
was
a
suggestion
of
vanity
rather
then
of
verity
that
●revailed
with
me
to
forsake
the
Romane
Relig
on
,
●magined
,
that
the
Letter
I
had
written
,
whereby
I
●iscovered
the
dissatisfaction
it
was
to
me
to
preach
●n
Countrey
villages
,
might
contribute
somewhat
to
●heir
designe
.
But
finding
withall
that
in
the
same
●etter
I
made
mention
of
my
preaching
before
the
Generall
Assembly
of
the
Estates
of
Brittany
,
and
on
●he
Octave
of
the
Blessed
Sacrament
(
as
they
call
it
)
●t
Poictiers
,
they
could
not
but
at
the
same
time
craf●ily
inferre
,
that
the
world
,
reflecting
on
the
qualifi●ations
requisite
to
preach
with
applause
at
Poictiers
,
●nd
before
a
generall
meeting
of
an
illustrious
Province
,
might
open
their
eyes
and
s●y
,
It
is
not
without
reason
that
this
man
complains
of
hard
measure
.
For
if
it
be
so
,
as
is
apparent
to
all
the
world
,
that
●e
preaches
with
satisfaction
before
an
Assembly
of
Bishops
,
Lords
,
Presidents
,
&c.
and
that
in
such
a
number
that
there
are
seldome
seen
so
eminent
Audi●ories
,
the
Provinciall
is
very
much
to
blame
to
put
him
upon
a
mission
to
country
villages
.
They
therefore
concluded
it
necessary
to
falsifie
the
Letter
,
and
to
suppresse
the
beginning
,
so
to
produce
onely
what
made
for
their
design
,
and
conceal
what
made
for
my
advantage
and
commendation
,
upon
which
resolution
they
shortned
the
Letter
,
which
ran
in
these
words
.
REVEREND
FATHER
,
Pax
Christi
&c.
Upon
the
7.
of
September
I
understood
the
disposal
your
Reverence
had
made
of
me
to
preach
at
our
Church
at
Rochel
.
I
expected
some
employment
suitable
to
the
good
opinion
which
your
Reverence
was
pleased
in
severall
Lett●rs
to
expresse
that
you
had
conceiv'd
of
me
,
so
far
as
to
tell
me
in
some
of
them
,
that
you
had
received
thousands
of
good
reports
of
me
,
not
onely
from
our
own
F
thers
,
but
also
from
strangers
.
All
those
I
have
seen
have
assured
me
,
that
,
in
the
places
whence
they
came
,
there
was
a
generall
face
of
gladnesse
when
it
was
said
that
I
preach'd
on
the
Octave
at
Poictiers
.
This
at
least
I
am
certain
of
,
that
the
Professors
of
Divinity
,
and
all
the
younger
Students
,
were
extreamly
satisfied
at
my
being
in
those
parts
,
and
much
pleased
with
my
company
;
and
though
Father
Leon
,
a
Provinciall
,
and
Commissary
of
the
Pope
for
the
reformation
of
his
Order
,
an
eminent
Preacher
was
then
and
had
been
for
severall
weeks
before
,
the
admiration
of
all
Poictiers
,
being
at
that
time
in
the
head
of
a
Generall
Chapter
,
yet
had
I
as
great
an
Audience
as
the
most
qualified
that
ever
preached
there
,
nay
so
great
,
that
the
Capuchin
had
not
one
for
six
.
I
am
therefore
much
to
seek
,
what
suggestions
your
Reverence
may
have
received
,
that
should
engage
you
to
make
so
hard
a
disposall
of
me
,
&c.
I
must
confesse
that
I
writ
in
these
simple
and
familiar
terms
to
Gilbert
Rousseau
,
and
if
they
have
produced
the
Originall
Letter
,
the
beginning
wil
be
●ound
word
for
word
as
is
before
laid
down
.
And
yet
William
Ricard
Rector
of
the
Colledge
of
Poictiers
●ath
caused
it
to
be
printed
mangled
and
falsifi'd
&c.
●o
make
it
the
more
serviceable
to
his
design
,
for
,
●mothering
all
that
in
the
beginning
made
any
way
●or
my
honour
or
advantage
,
he
puts
it
out
thus
.
A
Letter
from
Peter
Jarrigius
to
his
Provinciall
.
REVEREND
FATHER
,
Pax
Christi
&c.
I
heard
not
till
the
7.
of
September
,
of
the
disposall
your
Reverence
had
made
of
me
to
preach
at
our
Church
at
Rochell
.
I
know
not
what
suggestions
your
Reverence
may
have
received
that
should
engage
you
to
make
so
hard
a
disposall
of
me
,
I
am
not
to
learn
,
that
if
a
Preacher
&c.
Now
I
desire
the
Reader
but
to
compare
this
Letter
with
the
precedent
,
and
he
will
soon
find
,
how
that
that
malicious
man
hath
,
by
a
palpable
falsification
,
cutt
off
all
that
whereon
they
ground
their
prosecution
against
me
,
and
which
makes
my
complaints
●ationall
and
justifiable
.
But
God
,
who
is
graciously
pleased
that
the
mouth
of
Forgers
and
detractors
should
in
some
measure
be
stopp'd
,
to
their
confusion
,
hath
so
ordered
things
,
that
Father
John
Ponthelier
a
Priest
of
their
Society
had
sent
copies
of
my
Letter
into
Holland
,
with
all
those
beginnings
,
which
I
need
no
more
then
produce
to
demonstrate
the
falsification
of
that
Printed
by
William
Ricard
,
to
be
sold
by
Hernand
living
at
the
Name
of
Jesus
;
which
is
a
notorious
discovery
of
the
foul
play
used
by
the
Jesuits
of
Guienne
.
Nay
by
Gods
further
permission
,
it
is
come
to
passe
th●●
the
said
Letter
hath
been
translated
into
Dutch
,
bu●
with
so
much
distortion
,
that
it
is
not
any
waye●
the
same
with
that
which
Beaufes
had
caused
to
b●
printed
in
order
to
his
justification
.
Had
I
but
a●●
acquaintance
with
the
Dutch
tongue
,
I
would
discover
the
impertinences
,
which
the
Jesuits
lurkin●
in
this
countrey
have
pestered
it
with
.
I
have
th●
Dutch
translation
in
my
custody
and
shall
produ●●
it
,
if
requisite
.
All
these
pittifull
circumventio●
trouble
me
but
little
,
but
I
am
infinitely
pleased
〈◊〉
see
a
sort
of
people
,
pretending
to
the
greatest
sincerity
imaginable
,
betray
so
much
imprudence
in
thei●
subtilty
.
William
Ricard
is
a
man
so
infamous
fo●
his
insinuations
and
criminall
inventions
to
kee●
himselfe
up
in
repute
,
that
it
is
no
miracle
he
shou●●
make
use
of
falsification
to
oppresse
me
,
could
he
d●
it
.
He
hath
not
forgotten
that
during
the
time
of
my
being
at
Poictiers
the
whole
Colledge
was
dissatisf●ed
with
his
Government
,
and
that
the
gravest
Fathers
there
were
combining
against
him
.
If
it
eve●
happen
,
as
I
hope
it
will
,
that
I
write
a
Treati●
of
the
Government
of
the
Jesuits
of
Guienne
,
h●
shall
not
be
forgotten
,
and
his
treacheries
in
th●
Affaire
of
the
Basque
and
Saige
shall
not
be
omitted
.
CHAP.
XIII
.
●y
way
of
Answer
to
the
two
convictions
which
Iames
Beaufes
pretends
to
draw
from
the
precedent
Letters
.
THere
is
no
starre
in
the
Firmament
which
hath
not
its
spots
,
nor
any
Cedar
on
mount
Libanus
●t
hath
not
its
shadow
.
I
acknowledge
my self
〈◊〉
be
a
wretched
Sinner
,
loaden
with
a
greater
bur●●n
of
imperfections
then
James
Beaufes
hath
yet
●●scovered
in
my
Letters
;
but
that
worme
of
mad●●sse
and
indignation
which
makes
him
so
restlesse
,
●●kes
him
withall
fall
into
extravagances
to
aggra●●te
them
.
It
is
my
daily
su●t
to
my
Saviour
Jesus
●●rist
that
he
would
cleanse
me
through
his
blood
;
●●d
I
never
go
to
the
Lords
Supper
,
but
I
sing
in
the
●●mpany
of
my
Brethren
,
with
the
Kingly
Prophet
,
●●alme
LX.
You
are
not
therefore
to
expect
Mr.
James
,
that
I
●●ould
justifie
my self
,
as
you
and
those
of
your
fra●●rnity
do
,
who
would
make
the
world
believe
you
are
●bsolute
Saints
.
I
shall
never
blush
at
the
acknow●●dgement
of
my
infirmities
,
but
shall
give
God
the
●●ory
,
though
you
should
charge
me
with
sinnes
I
am
●●uely
guilty
of
.
You
have
indeed
taken
but
too
much
pains
in
your
●ook
to
make
it
appear
that
I
was
a
person
full
of
●anity
.
There
was
no
such
necessity
you
should
spend
●our
grease
so
much
to
find
out
all
the
passages
you
●●ould
in
my
Letters
to
make
it
the
more
notorious
,
●nd
consequently
me
the
more
odious
in
the
eyes
of
●rance
.
Novum
crimen
Cai
Caesar
,
&
ante
hoc
tempus
inauditum
;
all
the
Jesuits
in
generall
,
to
speak
〈◊〉
them
according
to
the
opinions
of
both
Seculars
an●
Regulars
,
lie
under
an
imputation
of
being
proud
an●
presumptuous
.
Could
I
do
lesse
then
howle
and
ye●●
while
I
was
among
wolves
,
or
not
be
guilty
of
so●●
vanity
while
I
continued
among
the
insolent
?
I
a●knowledge
,
that
I
was
not
the
humblest
man
in
t●●
world
while
I
was
of
your
Society
;
but
God
,
〈◊〉
hath
been
graciously
pleased
to
make
me
quit
yo●●
robe
,
will
also
free
me
from
the
vanity
it
is
lin'd
wi●●
I
have
desired
honourable
employments
with
mod●ration
,
while
my
colleagues
were
laying
base
design
and
crowching
into
infamous
complyances
and
p●●stitutions
to
obtain
them
.
I
have
presumed
that
was
qualified
much
beyond
those
whom
the
favo●
and
partiality
of
the
Superiours
advanced
without
a●●
regard
to
their
deserts
.
My
vanity
was
not
indeed
vertue
,
but
the
disposals
of
the
Provinciall
were
〈◊〉
without
injustice
.
If
a
man
should
examine
one
〈◊〉
the
Sermons
which
you
make
,
more
like
a
Mou●●
bank
then
a
Divine
,
he
shall
discover
more
vanity
i●
it
then
there
is
in
my
Letters
.
Therefore
,
that
〈◊〉
aery
bubble
,
as
you
imagine
it
to
your selfe
,
shoul●
now
be
burst
asunder
,
because
it
is
fallen
under
〈◊〉
feet
of
those
,
over
whose
heads
it
thought
to
〈◊〉
flown
,
is
onely
a
fond
and
false
imagination
of
you●●
The
second
discovery
you
make
from
the
same
〈◊〉
much
canvassed
Letter
,
is
,
that
of
my
discontent
.
Wh●●
I
beseech
you
of
all
your
Society
is
not
such
,
or
i●deed
can
be
otherwise
,
considering
the
distractions
〈◊〉
prevalent
therein
?
If
there
be
any
one
,
he
is
a
whi●●crow
among
a
knot
of
men
who
are
accounted
〈◊〉
black
in
their
consciences
as
in
their
habits
.
T●
what
end
do
you
imagine
that
I
have
made
four
Chapters
of
your
Politicks
,
but
to
demonstrate
,
that
it
i●
impossible
any
man
should
expect
any
ration
l
satisf●ction
from
your
con●uct
?
So
that
it
is
not
a
thing
〈◊〉
incredible
,
that
,
living
in
the
house
of
weeping
an●
gnashing
of
teeth
;
I
should
be
so
stupidly
stoicall
as
●ot
to
bemoane
my self
:
no
,
I
could
not
forbear
●owling
and
gnashing
of
teeth
as
well
as
others
.
It
cannot
be
denyed
but
that
I
have
had
much
reason
to
complain
against
John
Ricard
,
yet
I
never
did
it
with
●o
much
violence
as
you
have
done
,
who
made
your
●raggs
that
you
had
put
a
slurre
upon
him
in
the
Provin●iall
Congregation
,
and
have
,
out
of
a
contempt
of
his
person
,
said
an
hundred
times
,
that
that
pittiful
Cur●iers
Sonne
made
the
government
subservient
to
his
●wn
fortunes
I
could
not
forbear
some
resentment
,
●o
find
my self
sometimes
slighted
;
I
do
not
deny
it
.
But
it
hath
never
been
seen
that
I
was
condemned
to
●he
drudgery
of
the
Kitchin
,
as
you
were
,
nor
dismissed
out
of
the
classe
,
as
you
were
.
It
bred
some
discontent
in
me
that
I
was
appointed
to
preach
in
Countrey
villages
,
that
is
to
say
,
at
Vielle-Vigne
,
but
you
preached
there
before
me
,
and
Timothy
Cloche
since
though
one
of
your
most
eminent
Preachers
.
There
was
indeed
somewhat
of
aggravation
in
that
expression
,
that
bawling
among
the
Countrey
people
I
●earnt
nothing
but
bawling
:
but
I
was
but
two
years
upon
the
Cardinall-Missions
,
you
spent
three
in
them
.
Nor
indeed
needs
a
man
consult
any
thing
but
your
own
language
,
to
find
,
that
your
Sermons
are
calculated
for
the
meridian
of
countrey
villages
,
and
not
for
eminent
Citties
.
I
said
I
was
despicable
in
the
apprehensions
of
the
Provincials
,
and
that
I
was
in
an
incapacity
to
serve
my
Friends
.
T
is
true
,
but
the
employments
you
have
run
through
have
made
it
appear
what
poore
thoughts
they
have
had
of
your
abilities
,
since
they
have
suffered
you
to
grow
grey
haired
,
and
never
raised
you
out
of
the
dust
.
It
may
be
,
the
calumnies
you
have
belched
up
against
me
in
this
urgent
necessity
will
bring
you
into
some
reputation
among
them
,
and
will
induce
them
to
do
something
for
you
by
way
of
gratification
.
But
your
vanity
,
you
will
say
to
●e
,
and
your
discontents
have
proved
the
occasion
of
the
double
Apostacy
you
are
guilty
of
;
one
in
forsaking
the
sanctified
Order
of
Jesuits
,
the
other
in
falling
from
the
Church
of
Rome
.
I
deny
the
consequences
;
and
say
that
he
who
forsakes
errour
,
to
embrace
truth
,
never
was
an
Apostate
.
In
like
manner
,
he
who
quits
an
Order
,
that
maintains
the
killing
of
Kings
,
is
not
guilty
of
any
thing
so
much
,
as
of
too
long
a
continuance
among
Assassins
.
My
Declaration
,
dedicated
to
the
High
and
Mighty
States
of
Holland
already
translated
into
severall
Languages
hath
given
in
a
manner
all
Europe
an
account
of
the
motives
which
induced
me
to
renounce
the
Romane
Religion
,
and
my
Book
intituled
,
The
JESVITS
upon
the
SCAFFOLD
,
hath
made
a
discovery
of
abundance
of
crimes
,
which
,
taken
into
serious
examination
,
would
oblige
the
most
reserved
to
quit
that
Society
,
and
prevent
the
most
prudent
from
entring
into
it
.
I
am
confident
,
that
even
you
your self
have
had
occasion
enough
to
repent
you
,
that
ever
you
put
on
that
habit
,
so
destructive
to
the
State
,
and
injurious
to
Religion
.
The
Breviary
and
the
Rosary
,
which
you
defie
all
acquaintance
with
,
as
Father
Fraigne
and
divers
others
have
clearly
proved
to
the
Superiours
,
plainly
shew
,
that
your
being
of
the
Order
sig●●fies
no
more
then
that
you
dare
not
get
out
of
it
.
May
it
please
God
out
of
his
mercy
to
fortifie
yo●●
heart
to
do
it
,
and
so
return
you
that
good
,
〈◊〉
all
the
evill
you
have
endeavoured
to
do
me
.
CHAP.
XIV
.
Wherein
James
Beaufes
is
found
guilty
of
a
notorious
imprudence
,
tending
very
much
to
the
dishonour
of
his
Brethren
.
WHat
can
be
expected
from
a
fool
that
hath
gotten
a
sword
into
his
hand
,
but
that
he
should
strike
without
any
consideration
,
and
haply
do
as
much
mischief
to
his
Friends
as
those
whom
he
takes
to
be
his
enemies
.
'T
was
a
simple
imagination
of
Beaufes
,
to
think
he
did
me
a
shrewd
discourtesie
when
he
said
I
was
of
a
mean
birth
.
But
his
understanding
,
not
being
of
any
great
reach
,
foresaw
not
the
wound
he
at
the
same
time
gave
himself
and
those
of
his
Fraternity
.
Could
Monsieur
Vincent
have
a
fairer
occasion
to
handle
him
as
he
hath
,
or
could
they
give
me
a
better
opportunity
to
discover
the
genealogies
of
abundance
of
the
most
eminent
of
the
Society
?
I
am
confident
that
Beaufes
never
consulted
Rouseau
,
his
Provinciall
,
when
he
fell
into
this
piece
of
indiscretion
,
nor
took
the
advice
of
Venot
or
Daron
,
who
live
with
him
in
the
Colledge
of
Rochel
.
The
Jesuits
made
it
very
much
their
businesse
,
from
their
first
institution
to
this
very
day
,
to
m●ke
the
world
believe
,
that
,
for
the
most
part
,
those
who
were
admitted
into
their
Society
were
persons
of
good
extraction
,
and
many
were
persuaded
it
was
so
;
but
this
man
hath
of
a
sudden
pulled
down
all
that
they
had
built
,
and
were
builded
upon
that
account
.
The
first
act
of
vanity
which
their
Regents
betray
themselves
in
,
is
,
to
pretend
relations
to
Lordships
,
and
make
braggs
of
the
nobility
of
their
blood
.
Dup
é
,
a
Native
of
Frenche-Comte
,
son
to
one
that
sold
〈◊〉
in
the
streets
,
derived
himself
from
the
house
of
Vaudemont
,
and
having
exactly
learnt
the
genealogie
of
the
Counts
and
Marquesses
of
that
illustrious
race
,
made
his
visits
to
the
greatest
of
the
Nation
;
under
pretence
of
kinred
.
Henry
Duchesne
,
a
bastard
upon
record
,
being
extreamly
desirous
to
raise
,
in
the
minds
of
the
meaner
sort
of
the
Inhabitants
of
Bourdeaux
,
an
imagination
of
the
Nobility
of
his
extraction
,
pretended
very
neer
kinred
to
an
eminent
Bishop
of
the
Province
,
and
I
must
confesse
he
was
very
much
in
the
right
,
for
it
is
not
unknown
to
most
of
the
Jesuits
that
he
was
his
Father
,
and
that
his
Mother
was
since
forced
to
set
up
a
prostituted
trade
in
Paris
.
Beaufes
hath
betrayed
all
:
had
he
owned
any
thing
of
discretion
,
the
Jesuits
might
have
continued
in
the
reputation
,
they
are
so
ambitious
of
,
that
they
are
of
high
and
honourable
birth
.
For
no
body
would
have
troubled
himself
so
far
as
to
deprive
them
of
a
recommendation
they
had
usurped
.
But
now
the
obligation
that
lies
upon
me
to
give
God
the
Glory
,
who
is
the
protector
and
refuge
of
the
humble
,
stirres
me
up
to
let
the
world
know
,
that
,
setting
aside
a
small
number
among
them
,
they
are
all
of
the
dreggs
and
drosse
of
the
Commonwealth
.
For
,
confining
our selves
still
to
the
Province
of
Guienne
,
if
we
except
Peter
de
la
Brangelie
,
John
l'
Estade
,
Pontius
la
Devise
,
Francis
Reymond
of
Bourdeaux
,
and
another
Reymon
of
Agen
,
John
Sevin
,
Quadreils
,
Camain
,
Josset
,
and
hap●y
about
a
dozen
others
,
who
,
without
all
dispute
,
come
o●t
of
good
houses
,
all
the
rest
,
to
the
number
of
above
two
hundred
and
sixty
,
are
of
vulgar
extraction
.
So
that
Monsieur
Vincent
might
very
well
say
,
with
as
much
truth
as
happinesse
of
conjecture
,
that
,
since
Beaufes
hath
discovered
the
mystery
,
those
who
had
a
good
Idea
of
the
genealogies
of
the
Jesuits
,
might
upon
very
good
grounds
suspect
and
say
of
them
when
they
meet
them
;
See
,
there
goes
a
disguised
Mason
,
or
a
journey-man
Taylor
,
or
some
discarded
Serving-man
,
who
yet
pricks
up
his
ears
,
and
looks
for
respect
and
veneration
upon
the
account
of
his
habit
.
It
somewhat
troubles
me
that
I
am
forced
to
come
to
a
demonstration
of
what
that
excellent
wit
could
but
give
a
guesse
of
.
But
I
see
not
how
I
can
avoid
it
though
I
would
;
I
must
take
the
staffe
out
of
the
hands
of
this
frantick
person
,
and
therewith
smooth
not
on●ly
his
shoulders
but
also
those
of
his
Fraternity
,
who
have
suffered
him
to
fall
into
an
imprudence
so
obvious
to
all
the
world
.
When
Ignatius
came
to
insist
on
the
qualifications
,
which
should
make
the
Superiours
of
his
Order
the
more
respected
,
his
direction
is
,
that
those
should
be
particularly
advanced
to
Government
who
were
of
noble
extraction
;
for
besides
that
they
are
more
recommendable
in
the
sight
of
strangers
,
the
Religious
men
themselves
are
more
willing
to
obey
such
persons
then
those
that
issue
out
of
the
peasantry
.
If
therefore
there
be
any
thing
of
Nobility
in
this
Society
,
we
shall
find
it
in
the
most
eminent
charges
thereof
.
We
will
limit
out
selves
to
the
space
of
twenty
years
,
and
examine
the
extraction
of
the
Provincials
.
He
who
commands
in
that
quality
at
the
present
is
Gilbert
Rouseau
,
son
to
a
pitifull
fellow
that
sold
trifling
commodities
,
and
among
the
rest
Tinder-boxes
,
about
the
streets
,
one
,
whose
whole
shop
and
estate
lay
in
a
basket
that
he
carried
upon
his
brest
.
This
it
was
that
gave
the
Scholars
occasion
when
this
great
Provinciall
was
Prefect
in
the
Colledge
of
Bourdeaux
,
purposely
to
try
the
patience
of
the
man
,
to
cry
Matches
,
Matches
.
His
Predecessor
in
the
Provinciallship
was
John
Ricard
,
the
son
of
an
honest
Currier
,
who
lived
in
the
very
corner
of
that
spacious
place
,
neer
the
Monastery
of
the
V●selines
,
as
you
go
to
St.
Andrewes
,
over
against
the
Colledge
of
Lois
.
The
third
,
predecessor
to
both
the
forementioned
,
was
one
John
Pitard
the
sonne
of
a
simple
Atturney
belonging
to
the
Siege
royal
at
Xaintes
,
who
for
that
he
came
from
somewhat
a
nobler
family
then
those
of
his
successors
,
was
celebrated
by
Francis
de
Creux
,
at
his
reception
into
the
Colledge
of
Engoulesme
,
in
a
Royall
Poem
,
whereof
this
was
the
intercalatory
verse
.
Clara
Pitardeae
canimus
praeconia
gentis
.
The
fourth
(
ascending
still
)
was
called
Bartholomew
Jaquinot
,
sonne
of
a
Book
seller
.
The
fifth
,
one
Arnold
Bohyre
,
born
in
Perigueux
,
and
sonne
to
one
that
kept
a
tipling-house
.
His
Predecessor
was
Nicholas
Viliers
,
of
Figeac
in
Quercy
,
a
person
of
obscure
and
mean
parentage
.
The
Superiour
of
the
professed
house
at
the
present
is
the
sonne
of
a
Botcher
.
The
most
eminent
of
those
in
the
same
house
that
are
designed
for
the
pulpit
is
the
sonne
of
another
of
the
same
profession
,
his
name
John
Adam
.
The
Rector
of
Poictiers
is
the
sonne
of
a
Currier
.
The
Preacher
there
,
the
sonne
of
a
Bastard
of
the
house
of
S.
Iuyre
.
In
a
word
,
persons
of
birth
and
blood
are
very
rare
,
nay
it
will
be
found
,
there
are
among
them
four
times
as
many
sonnes
of
Catchpoles
as
there
are
of
Councellors
,
whence
I
leave
it
to
any
mans
judgement
whether
Beaufes
hath
done
prudently
,
as
things
stand
among
them
,
to
medle
with
that
string
.
Can
there
be
a
greater
demonstration
to
shew
,
that
the
Jesuits
,
for
the
most
part
,
are
of
mean
extraction
,
then
to
produce
a
catalogue
of
their
names
,
and
to
discover
the
poore
descents
of
those
who
have
managed
the
Government
among
them
for
the
space
of
these
nineteen
or
twenty
yeares
?
Or
could
there
be
a
more
pregnant
proof
of
it
,
then
by
naming
even
those
who
command
at
this
day
,
if
they
have
not
been
layd
aside
within
these
eight
moneths
?
Cadiot
,
who
was
my
Rector
when
I
departed
from
Rochel
,
is
he
not
the
sonne
of
one
that
keeps
a
victualling
house
at
Villebois
?
And
for
your
part
Sir
James
,
who
make
so
much
●●ise
,
and
take
occasion
to
bite
at
any
thing
,
are
the
decaies
of
your
memory
so
deplorable
,
as
that
you
should
not
remember
that
your
late
Father
,
nicknamed
ironically
Beunas
in
the
dialect
of
Limousin
,
that
is
to
say
,
faire
nose
,
was
an
honest
Waggoner
,
whose
diurnall
work
it
was
to
goad
the
mules
towards
the
mountains
of
Auvergne
.
I
do
not
pretend
my selfe
to
be
of
a
better
house
then
I
am
,
but
shall
presume
neverthelesse
,
that
my
kinred
have
been
,
and
are
at
this
day
in
better
reputation
then
yours
,
and
that
I
have
not
had
Sister
in
lawes
common
whores
upon
record
,
as
you
have
had
.
The
whole
Jesuitical
Academy
took
it
very
heynously
,
when
,
to
solve
the
objection
made
by
the
Author
of
the
Academicall
Questions
,
That
your
Regents
were
not
well
experienced
in
teaching
,
Father
Ducreux
made
answer
in
his
Oration
,
that
the
reproach
was
very
unjustly
laid
upon
you
,
for
that
all
of
you
in
a
manner
had
taught
children
in
the
quality
of
domestick
School-Masters
,
before
your
admission
into
the
Society
,
which
certainly
is
a
notorious
argument
of
the
greatnesse
of
your
extractions
.
For
my
part
,
I
cannot
blame
your
Collegues
to
be
a
little
moved
at
the
imprudence
of
the
Answer
;
for
it
is
not
either
necessary
,
or
convenient
,
that
all
tru
hs
should
be
known
.
But
what
indignation
will
they
not
conceive
against
you
,
when
,
coming
to
read
what
I
have
written
,
they
shall
take
notice
of
the
just
ground
,
and
fair
occasion
you
have
given
me
to
make
the
world
sensible
of
wretched
genealogies
.
The
truth
is
,
I
had
things
of
another
nature
to
lay
to
your
charge
,
Et
genus
▪
et
proavos
,
et
quae
non
fecimus
ipsi
,
Vix
ea
nostra
voco
,
—
But
you
have
cast
your selves
at
my
feet
to
bite
me
,
so
that
when
I
had
resolved
onely
to
treat
you
as
a
sort
of
people
excessively
malicious
,
but
withall
reserv'd
and
considerate
,
I
am
engaged
further
to
give
an
account
of
you
as
arrant
rogues
and
ragamuffins
.
Learn
to
be
more
discreet
if
you
think
fit
,
for
I
shall
little
value
your
defamatory
Libels
when
you
fall
into
such
palpable
miscarriages
,
nay
,
I
shall
need
no
other
justification
then
what
I
derive
from
your
own
words
.
CHAP.
XV.
Wherein
observation
is
made
of
another
imprudence
of
Iames
Beaufes
,
prejudiciall
to
the
domestick
peace
of
their
houses
.
IT
is
a
great
argument
,
that
James
Beaufes
is
a
person
,
whose
passion
very
much
out-weighs
his
judgement
,
otherwise
he
would
not
have
given
me
so
faire
an
occasion
to
cast
division
and
disorder
in
their
Colledges
,
by
a
discovery
of
the
degrees
that
are
among
them
.
I
affirmed
,
that
their
Generall
Mutius
Vitteleschi
,
after
informations
duely
made
of
me
,
had
advanced
me
to
the
Profession
of
the
fourth
Vow
,
which
is
the
most
eminent
degree
of
their
Society
.
This
he
could
not
deny
,
but
,
to
dissemble
,
with
more
imprudence
then
policy
,
the
dignity
of
that
quality
among
them
,
replyes
,
that
,
it
was
an
impertinent
and
base
kind
of
vanity
for
a
man
to
thinke
to
derive
any
advantage
from
those
generall
qualities
;
ambiguously
intimating
that
all
the
Priests
that
were
of
a
longer
standing
th●n
I
,
were
accordingly
admitted
to
that
degree
.
If
their
Rules
were
conceal'd
,
as
they
were
for
a
long
time
,
strangers
would
haply
find
it
some
difficulty
to
conceive
the
truth
,
and
be
convinced
of
the
imprudence
of
this
man
.
But
he
that
shall
observe
,
that
,
in
every
page
almost
they
speak
of
the
Professed
of
the
fourth
Vow
,
and
of
formall
Coadjutors
,
as
of
two
conditions
absolutely
different
,
will
,
with
the
same
labour
,
be
satisfied
,
that
the
former
only
are
the
Professed
,
the
latter
are
not
,
and
withall
that
he
gives
me
occasion
to
make
a
publick
discovery
of
those
things
wherein
that
difference
consists
,
whereof
I
have
made
mention
to
make
it
appeare
that
what
I
have
done
proceeds
not
from
discontent
.
The
world
may
therefore
take
notice
,
that
there
are
foure
kinds
of
degrees
among
the
Jesuits
.
The
highest
,
and
most
noble
is
that
of
those
who
are
admitted
to
a
Profession
of
the
fourth
Vow
,
of
which
ranke
are
the
Generall
,
the
Assistants
,
Provincialls
,
Superiours
of
professed
Houses
,
great
Divines
,
eminent
Preachers
,
and
rare
and
excellent
Humanists
.
No
man
ought
to
be
admitted
to
this
degree
,
but
upon
the
account
of
some
more
then
ordinary
endowments
.
The
essence
of
this
condition
consists
in
the
making
of
the
three
solemne
Yowes
of
Poverty
,
Chastity
and
Obedience
;
as
also
a
Fourth
,
with
the
same
solemnity
,
to
the
Pope
,
which
is
couched
in
these
termes
;
Insuper
promitto
specialem
obedientiam
summo
Pontifici
,
circa
missiones
;
that
is
to
say
,
And
I
further
promise
a
particular
obedience
to
the
Supreme
Bishop
,
the
Pope
,
to
be
sent
whether
it
shall
please
him
.
The
persons
that
have
made
this
last
Vow
are
engaged
to
the
Pope
by
a
very
strict
obligation
,
and
it
is
the
businesse
of
the
Superiours
to
give
his
Holinesse
a
catalogue
of
those
mens
names
,
who
,
being
thus
devoted
to
him
,
might
,
not
improperly
,
be
called
,
the
Popes
vassals
.
The
second
degree
is
that
of
those
who
have
made
profession
onely
of
three
vowes
,
that
is
,
the
three
solemne
Vowes
of
Poverty
,
Chastity
,
and
Obedience
,
with
the
same
ceremonies
as
the
precedent
,
there
being
this
onely
difference
between
these
two
degrees
,
that
these
latter
make
not
the
fourth
Vow
to
the
Pope
,
because
they
are
not
come
to
that
height
of
knowledge
,
which
is
requisite
to
be
admitted
to
that
degree
,
and
so
are
accordingly
forced
to
truckle
in
a
lower
,
till
such
time
as
they
are
.
Of
this
rank
are
those
,
who
,
having
not
a
sufficient
proportion
of
Learning
,
are
otherwise
more
recommendable
in
regard
of
their
extraction
or
vertue
then
those
that
follow
.
The
third
degree
is
that
of
formall
spirituall
Coadjutors
.
The
very
terme
it selfe
sufficiently
decl●res
that
they
are
simply
assistants
to
the
Profess'd
,
and
,
as
an
honest
Recollect
of
Marennes
said
,
little
Titus's
and
Timotheus's
in
comparison
of
the
Paul's
and
Peter's
.
These
also
make
the
three
simple
and
solemn
vowes
of
Poverty
,
Chastity
and
Obedience
,
and
cannot
aspire
to
any
advancement
,
though
they
should
,
in
processe
of
time
become
more
learned
then
Aristotle
or
Aquinas
.
The
fourth
and
last
degree
is
of
those
,
who
are
receiv'd
into
the
Order
to
be
serviceable
to
others
in
the
drudgeries
of
the
Houses
,
such
as
are
those
that
are
employed
in
the
sacristy
,
the
Kitchin
,
Shoomakers
,
Taylors
,
&c.
And
these
are
called
temporall
Coadjutors
,
for
they
are
helpfull
to
the
Professed
,
in
things
temporall
.
I
have
not
in
this
place
any
thing
to
say
of
the
Novices
,
nor
yet
of
those
whom
they
call
Scholers
after
their
two
years
of
Novice-ship
,
for
they
are
not
of
any
degree
,
but
onely
in
a
way
of
Approbation
,
to
be
admitted
in
due
time
and
place
to
any
of
the
forementioned
.
The
ordinary
way
,
to
bring
Learned
men
to
a
rank
suitable
to
their
deserts
and
Learning
,
are
the
Examinations
,
through
which
a
man
must
passe
to
make
a
discovery
of
his
abilities
;
and
these
ought
to
be
so
impartially
managed
,
that
the
Examiners
should
swear
,
that
they
give
their
suffrages
and
judgement
conscientiously
.
From
this
short
explication
the
Reader
may
inferre
what
a
discourtesy
James
Beaufes
hath
done
many
of
his
Brethren
,
when
he
gives
me
occasion
to
discover
the
wretched
conditions
wherein
many
of
them
are
involved
,
and
the
reason
I
have
had
to
make
boast
of
my
admission
to
the
first
and
highest
degree
.
This
laid
down
by
the
way
,
we
may
observe
in
the
discourse
of
Beaufes
,
three
notorious
defects
.
The
fi●st
is
,
an
impudent
falshood
,
when
he
sayes
,
that
to
be
of
the
number
of
the
Professed
is
a
thing
so
common
,
that
there
is
not
any
Priest
elder
then
my selfe
who
is
not
of
it
.
But
to
go
no
further
than
Rochell
to
convince
him
,
there
are
Father
Penot
,
F.
Daron
,
F.
Galtier
,
F.
Richard
,
F.
Quintin
,
(
if
so
be
they
are
there
stil
)
all
elder
then
I
am
by
fifteen
years
,
yet
are
not
of
that
number
.
Nay
,
I
could
name
sixty
more
,
were
it
necessary
,
but
I
forbear
,
because
I
think
it
hard
measure
to
add
to
the
afflictions
of
those
whose
hearts
are
sufficiently
burthened
already
through
the
imprudences
of
my
Adversary
.
The
second
very
much
argues
the
decaies
of
his
understanding
,
in
that
,
being
to
write
a
treatise
,
he
knowes
not
what
he
ought
to
fasten
on
,
what
to
let
passe
.
What
trouble
was
it
to
him
that
I
should
be
of
the
number
of
those
that
are
admitted
to
the
fourth
vow
,
when
he
was
resolved
not
to
deny
it
?
Did
he
imagine
,
that
upon
his
telling
the
people
,
that
in
the
best
regulated
Societies
it
is
not
impossible
but
some
worthlesse
skip-jack
may
creep
in
,
men
would
be
immediately
persuaded
that
an
excesse
of
favour
advanced
me
to
that
degree
?
Ah!
I
pity
the
imprudence
and
dis-circumspection
of
the
man
,
who
forgets
that
he
makes
my
discontents
and
dissatisfactions
the
occasion
of
my
quitting
the
Society
,
and
yet
does
withall
reproach
me
with
the
meannesse
of
my
birth
.
The
third
is
an
insupportable
injury
,
which
he
does
many
of
his
Fraternity
that
labour
earnestly
in
their
rank
,
who
yet
,
not
being
known
to
be
spirituall
Coadjutors
,
manage
their
businesse
with
reputation
;
but
when
the
world
comes
to
be
acquainted
with
their
condition
,
they
fall
into
disesteem
and
their
endeavours
in
point
of
edification
prove
the
lesse
effectuall
.
How
often
have
these
depressed
Assistants
addressed
themselves
,
not
without
reason
,
by
way
of
complaint
to
the
Superiours
,
against
the
insolencies
of
some
that
crow'd
over
them
,
and
would
,
the
more
to
disparage
them
in
the
Monasteries
,
tell
the
Nunnes
that
they
were
not
of
the
number
of
the
Professed
?
When
they
reflect
on
these
malicious
offices
,
it
raises
such
a
heart
burning
in
them
,
that
they
cannot
look
on
their
Judges
without
indignation
,
nor
heare
any
thing
of
this
difference
of
Orders
in
their
Society
,
without
being
dejected
and
discouraged
thereby
.
Beaufes
to
give
them
some
comfort
,
by
a
singular
act
of
his
wisdome
,
pretending
to
reduce
all
the
ancient
Priests
to
the
same
Category
,
obliges
me
to
discover
the
difference
there
is
between
them
,
and
to
make
it
appear
,
that
those
good
people
have
been
thought
incapable
ever
to
arrive
at
any
degree
of
excellence
,
and
the
greatest
part
of
them
have
been
discarded
in
the
study
of
Divinity
for
want
of
apprehension
.
But
it
is
to
little
purpose
to
wash
a
Negro
.
Notwithstanding
all
my
advertisements
and
plucking
of
him
by
the
eares
,
Beaufes
is
never
the
more
circumspect
,
never
the
more
reserved
,
but
betrayes
his
inconsideratenesse
and
his
imprudences
to
all
the
world
.
CHAP.
XVI
.
Discovering
Beaufes
to
be
a
notorious
Lyar.
WHen
a
devout
consciencious
man
,
such
as
Beaufes
,
is
forced
in
his
books
to
make
his
advantage
of
a
Lie
,
he
ought
to
take
very
good
heed
that
he
let
not
any
thing
slip
afterward
that
might
betray
him
to
be
a
Lyar.
Where
he
says
,
that
when
I
left
the
Society
I
carryed
nothing
away
with
me
,
because
I
had
never
been
trusted
with
any
thing
,
he
should
have
read
and
perused
the
second
Letter
of
mine
which
he
caused
to
be
printed
,
and
there
he
might
have
observed
that
I
writ
to
Peter
Reignier
in
these
termes
;
Father
Daron
●as
not
in
the
House
to
receive
the
money
assigned
him
;
●hence
it
follows
,
that
,
not
long
before
Peter
Rei●●ier
had
put
money
into
my
hands
to
deliver
to
Fa●her
Daron
.
Therefore
he
had
trusted
me
with
some●hing
.
Therefore
Beaufes
is
a
Lyar
,
and
an
inconsi●erate
person
when
he
sayes
that
I
never
had
been
trusted
with
any
thing
.
While
therefore
he
sayes
,
that
●
am
not
charged
with
having
taken
away
any
thing
,
he
ju●tifies
me
,
and
betrayes
himself
.
Whereas
to
prove
to
Monsieur
Vincent
,
affirming
,
●hat
I
was
chosen
to
go
along
with
the
Preachers
of
the
Order
,
that
he
was
mistaken
,
he
sayes
,
that
Monsieur
Vincent
lyes
by
multiplication
,
by
making
of
one
single
person
many
;
I
answer
,
that
Beaufes
lyes
most
impudently
himself
,
for
there
were
at
that
time
three
most
excellent
Preachers
in
the
Colledge
,
Raymond
de
Stri●tis
,
Claudius
Herbodeau
,
and
Stephen
Audebert
,
who
●all
three
heard
the
Ministers
,
and
preached
in
their
turnes
.
When
he
addes
,
that
Monsieur
Vincent
lyes
in
the
second
place
by
substraction
,
as
having
been
unwilling
to
name
Audebert
,
because
that
good
Father
was
known
to
be
no
dissembler
,
but
constant
to
his
Principles
:
't
is
another
lie
;
nay
,
he
therein
opposes
the
judgement
of
many
Jesuits
,
who
have
been
of
opinion
,
and
that
upon
probable
grounds
,
that
Audebert
was
rather
a
Reformed
Catholick
then
a
Romane
,
and
have
accused
him
to
Malescot
the
Provinciall
,
and
since
to
Arnauld
Boyhere
,
of
being
a
Prevaricator
in
the
doctrine
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
and
a
favourer
of
Calvinisme
.
De
Monceaux
,
Raymond
,
and
Mautias
,
his
Rector
and
adversary
,
caused
him
to
be
taken
off
from
the
Controversies
;
and
banished
,
upon
suspicion
,
to
the
Colledge
of
Tulle
,
to
be
there
a
simple
Prefect
of
Studies
.
Audebert
made
his
complaint
to
the
General
,
and
I
know
thus
much
more
then
all
the
world
besides
,
that
,
if
his
courage
had
been
so
great
as
to
slight
humane
concernments
,
he
would
have
given
God
the
glory
,
and
verified
the
report
which
was
spread
up
and
down
,
that
,
sooner
or
later
,
he
would
go
to
Geneva
.
I
am
confident
he
never
believed
any
thing
of
Purgatory
,
or
the
intercession
of
the
Saints
,
and
I
saw
him
one
day
mightily
enraged
,
the
Recollects
,
it
seems
,
having
obliged
him
to
justifie
the
baptisme
of
a
Bell
,
which
they
had
newly
baptized
.
Where
he
sayes
that
Monsieur
Vincent
ly'd
by
addition
,
adding
,
that
ordinarily
I
was
chosen
to
accompany
the
Preachers
of
the
Order
&c.
he
lyes
again
with
no
lesse
imprudence
then
the
two
precedent
times
.
Regnier
and
my self
were
appointed
to
go
and
hear
the
Sermons
preached
by
the
Ministers
of
the
Reformation
,
with
the
three
Preachers
before
mentioned
,
and
the
reason
which
he
alledges
,
that
on
Sundayes
it
was
my
employment
to
govern
the
congregation
of
Scholers
,
is
a
quid
pro
quo
.
For
the
congregation
was
not
established
till
two
years
after
the
foundation
of
the
Colledge
,
during
all
which
time
I
was
at
leasure
to
accompany
the
Preachers
to
the
Reformed
Church
.
O
the
weaknesse
of
this
gallant
Refuter
of
men
!
Forgery
goes
seldome
without
the
attendance
of
Lying
.
Beaufes
is
excellent
at
both
,
when
▪
to
disguise
and
disparage
my
employments
,
he
sayes
that
I
was
not
declared
the
sole
Confessor
of
all
,
because
it
is
the
Popes
pleasure
,
as
he
sayes
,
that
there
should
be
two
.
Had
this
man
but
one
small
grain
of
judgement
,
he
could
not
thus
contradict
himself
in
all
he
sayes
.
For
if
I
am
one
of
the
two
Confessors
,
as
he
acknowledges
,
I
am
consequently
a
Confessor
to
all
,
and
all
are
at
liberty
to
come
to
me
,
according
to
the
Brief
,
and
I
am
obliged
to
receive
them
all
.
My
Collegue
hath
the
same
power
,
and
we
have
an
equall
jurisdiction
over
all
,
for
according
to
the
Popes
intention
,
they
are
at
liberty
to
make
their
Confessions
,
sometimes
to
the
one
,
and
sometimes
to
the
other
;
and
I
may
say
that
it
hath
happened
severall
times
that
I
●ave
my self
heard
the
confessions
of
all
;
which
could
●ot
be
,
if
one
part
were
assigned
to
me
and
another
●o
my
Colleague
.
The
thing
is
as
clear
as
day
,
if
a
man
would
but
consider
the
reason
why
the
Pope
put
out
the
Brief
;
that
is
,
to
the
end
that
the
Con●ciences
of
the
Religious
should
suffer
no
violence
,
●e
gives
them
liberty
to
go
indifferently
to
either
as
they
should
think
good
themselves
.
But
observe
withall
the
malicious
envy
and
the
metaphysicall
slights
of
this
ignorant
Sir
James
,
who
is
so
cautious
as
not
to
adde
that
I
was
,
without
collegue
or
companion
in
matter
of
spirituall
advice
,
the
ghostly
Father
of
all
,
and
consequently
had
an
advantage
over
the
other
Confessor
,
who
had
not
the
same
management
of
things
spirituall
.
If
ever
I
write
any
thing
by
way
of
discovery
of
their
Institution
,
I
shall
take
occasion
to
shew
wherein
the
great
weight
and
charge
of
this
latter
office
consists
.
But
to
proceed
,
my
Adversary
could
not
more
evidently
make
it
appear
that
it
concerned
him
to
shelter
himself
under
some
notorious
lie
,
then
when
he
,
purposely
to
make
my
charge
of
Admonitor
the
more
contemptible
,
sayes
,
that
all
had
not
onely
a
power
,
but
also
stood
under
an
obligation
,
to
admonish
one
another
,
in
a
charitable
way
,
of
their
faults
,
and
that
the
Superiours
as
well
as
others
had
an
Admonitor
.
Certainly
this
man
thinks
his
Readers
are
a
sort
of
people
that
may
be
begg'd
for
their
credulity
,
and
that
,
upon
his
word
,
they
will
take
that
for
a
simple
office
of
charity
which
is
an
expresse
charge
,
bestowed
by
the
Provincial
,
and
established
by
their
Rules
.
1.
Reg.
Niti
debet
,
ne
hujus
muneris
occasione
reverentia
atque
obedientia
interior
vel
exterior
in
ipso
debilior
reddatur
,
The
Legislator
taking
it
into
consideration
,
that
this
charge
might
make
the
Admonitor
lesse
obedient
and
respectfull
,
by
reason
of
the
power
which
is
given
him
to
admonish
his
Rector
,
thought
fit
to
make
some
provision
against
it
,
commanding
him
not
to
be
guilty
of
any
remission
of
obedience
under
pretence
of
that
Office
.
On
the
other
side
,
out
of
a
fear
lest
too
much
complyance
might
any
way
hinder
the
execution
thereof
,
he
gives
him
a
second
rule
,
to
encourage
him
to
do
his
duty
seriously
and
freely
;
2
Animadvertat
,
ne
reverentia
&
obedientia
fidelitatem
aut
necessariam
libertatem
opprimat
,
quo
minus
superiorem
admoneat
de
iis
●que
proponenda
judicabit
.
You
see
then
,
that
,
among
the
Jesuits
there
is
an
Office
of
Admonitor
,
much
different
from
that
obligation
of
Charity
,
which
generally
lyes
on
all
Christians
.
Whence
we
come
to
consider
,
how
farre
it
differs
from
that
,
under
which
Beaufes
,
by
a
specious
piece
of
falshood
,
would
have
it
to
be
comprehended
.
3.
Reg.
Admoneat
Superiorem
de
iis
quae
major
pars
Consultotorum
ei
dicenda
judicaverit
,
&c.
Is
it
then
your
judgement
,
that
,
to
admonish
a
Christian
out
of
sentiments
of
Charity
,
we
enter
into
consultation
,
or
call
an
Assembly
of
Counsellors
?
The
Rule
tells
him
plainly
that
he
is
to
advertise
the
Superiour
of
such
things
,
as
the
major
part
of
the
Consultors
shall
think
fit
to
be
represented
to
him
.
And
to
shew
further
,
that
he
is
particularly
impowered
to
admonish
of
things
which
he
himselfe
onely
shall
think
worthy
his
care
and
observance
,
and
that
upon
the
account
of
his
Office
,
and
not
simply
out
of
any
consideration
of
Christian
charity
;
the
Rule
sayes
afterwards
,
Admonebit
duntaxat
de
iis
quae
non
levis
momenti
post
orationem
censuerit
,
sive
illa
ad
personam
,
sive
ad
officium
Superioris
pertinebunt
,
juxta
constitutiones
et
decreta
.
That
is
to
say
,
He
shall
admonish
him
of
such
things
as
he
shall
conceive
to
be
of
importance
,
whether
they
relate
to
the
person
,
or
reflect
on
his
Office
as
Superiour
,
according
to
the
Constitutions
and
decrees
.
Whereas
Beaufes
sayes
that
it
was
no
more
my
du●y
to
transf●●re
,
to
the
Provinciall
,
the
complaints
which
were
to
be
made
to
the
Rector
,
then
it
is
●hat
of
a
Postillion
,
to
bring
to
the
Councell
of
●tate
the
affaires
of
Provinces
;
he
discovers
himself
●o
be
such
a
p●lpable
Lyer
,
that
he
who
is
but
the
●east
acquainted
with
the
rules
of
the
Jesuits
,
must
needs
●ake
him
in
it
.
What
else
should
be
the
meaning
of
this
fifth
Rule
●f
the
Admonitor
?
Cum
Superior
,
cujuspiam
rei
ad●●nitus
,
illi
remedium
non
adhibuerit
,
Admonitoris
e●t
cum
debita
submissione
,
iterum
et
saepiùs
eum
commo●e
facer●
;
quod
si
emendationem
non
sperat
id
superiori
●●gnificet
.
When
the
Superiour
shall
have
been
admonished
of
any
thing
,
if
he
apply
not
some
remedy
thereto
,
it
is
the
duty
of
the
Admonitor
to
put
him
in
mind
of
it
again
,
nay
often
,
if
occasion
require
,
and
if
he
perceive
that
there
is
no
likelihood
of
amendment
,
he
is
to
give
notice
thereof
to
the
Superiour
,
that
is
to
say
,
to
his
Provinciall
or
Generall
.
In
the
second
place
I
ask
,
whether
it
be
not
the
●usinesse
of
the
Admonitor
,
to
make
a
collection
of
●he
ordinary
Letters
of
the
Consultors
,
and
to
send
●hem
to
the
mediate
Superiours
,
nay
,
to
give
●hem
●otice
whether
they
have
written
or
no.
Regul.
6.
Admonitoris
erit
ordinarias
epistolas
Consultorum
suis
●●mporibus
colligere
.
Simulque
referet
utrum
illi
scri●●erint
an
non
.
The
Admonitor
therefore
is
not
one●y
impowered
to
transferre
to
the
Superiour
the
●omplaints
of
the
Inferiours
,
not
as
a
Postilion
,
●ut
as
a
discreet
man
,
and
one
set
apart
to
give
his
●dvice
with
prudence
.
But
indeed
Beaufes
is
in
●ome
measure
to
be
excused
,
for
he
hath
not
lived
with
that
circumspection
and
reservednesse
among
●hem
,
as
was
requisite
to
be
advanced
to
that
of●●ce
,
and
consequently
may
well
be
ignorant
of
the
●uties
and
exercise
thereof
.
And
whereas
lastly
,
speaking
of
the
Seal
,
which
I
had
in
my
custody
,
and
wherewith
I
sealed
my
Act
,
and
my
Letters
to
the
Provinciall
and
Rector
,
he
saies
,
that
it
was
a
common
Seal
;
it
is
so
shamefully
and
so
palpably
injurious
to
truth
,
that
there
needs
but
the
very
Rule
to
declare
him
an
Impostor
and
a
Lyar
.
Reg.
7.
Sigillum
apud
se
habeat
,
quo
suas
et
Consultorum
,
ac
aliorum
nostrorum
literas
,
si
ad
eum
detulerint
,
qui
ad
mediatos
Superiores
scribere
voluerint
,
obsignare
possit
.
Whence
it
is
clear
,
that
the
Novices
are
so
farre
from
having
this
Seal
,
that
the
Consultors
themselves
have
it
not
,
and
when
they
write
to
the
mediate
Superiours
,
they
come
to
the
Admonitor
to
seal
up
their
Letters
,
it
being
his
office
to
be
Keeper
of
the
Seale
,
for
the
use
of
all
those
who
have
any
occasion
to
write
to
the
Superiours
.
Were
I
in
Beaufes's
case
,
after
such
clear
convictions
,
I
would
put
up
a
petition
to
the
Superiours
that
I
might
be
sent
to
Canada
or
the
East-Indies
,
to
avoid
the
shame
that
must
fall
upon
me
,
and
withall
to
exchange
,
for
the
glorious
name
of
an
Apostle
,
the
shamefull
title
of
a
notorious
Lyar.
CHAP.
XVII
.
Demonstrating
that
their
accusations
contribute
to
my
Vindication
.
THough
Beaufes
be
a
person
of
such
qualification
,
as
makes
him
unfit
to
pronounce
sentence
against
any
,
though
the
greatest
malefactor
,
yet
so
great
is
his
thirst
after
my
Blood
,
that
there
is
no
captious
argument
which
a
Sophisticall
wit
could
think
of
,
nothing
of
surprise
or
foul
practise
that
a
crafty
pettifogger
could
imagine
,
but
he
hath
made
his
advantages
of
,
as
well
in
his
Sermons
as
his
book
to
in●ense
the
Judges
and
exasperate
the
people
against
me
.
But
God
,
the
tender
Guardian
of
the
innocent
,
●rought
things
so
about
,
that
he
hath
not
been
able
,
●n
the
inquisition
he
hath
made
into
my
life
,
to
find
●ny
thing
whereby
he
might
fasten
a
just
disparage●ent
on
me
.
T
is
true
,
the
ordinary
terms
he
can
●fford
me
,
are
the
execrable
,
the
detestable
,
the
abominable
person
,
with
a
dozen
more
of
such
honourable
●pithites
as
pretily
rime
to
the
precedent
,
which
do
●
little
violence
to
the
breasts
of
the
zealous
and
well-minded
people
,
and
perswade
Butchers
and
Por●ers
that
I
am
guilty
of
a
degree
of
profanesse
be●ond
that
of
any
that
have
gone
before
me
.
But
,
when
he
hath
spent
all
his
venome
,
his
allegations
●mount
onely
to
this
,
that
,
treating
with
a
Consistory
,
●bout
a
safe
and
prudent
course
to
make
a
publick
●rofession
of
the
true
Religion
,
I
did
not
in
the
mean
●ime
forbear
my
ordinary
employments
,
as
Priest
●nd
Preacher
.
The
horrid
noise
which
he
hath
taken
occasion
to
make
upon
this
proceeding
of
mine
,
is
to
be
looked
●n
rather
as
the
sallies
of
his
violence
and
implacable
●ury
,
then
as
any
effect
of
his
zeale
.
The
wound
I
●ad
given
that
imperious
Order
was
too
deep
and
●marting
to
be
endured
without
crying
out
.
But
,
of
●ll
the
exclamations
,
those
certainly
are
the
most
impertinent
which
would
incline
people
to
make
no
other
account
of
me
,
then
of
a
Judas
among
the
Apo●●les
,
a
Traitor
in
the
house
of
Jesus
Christ
,
and
a
devil
●mong
the
children
of
God
.
For
as
I
may
,
through
●he
grace
of
God
,
presume
to
say
of
my self
,
that
I
●m
neither
Traytor
,
nor
Judas
,
nor
Devil
;
so
may
I
withall
affirme
,
that
Sodomites
and
Murtherers
cannot
be
,
either
the
children
or
servants
of
God
,
or
Apostles
,
●nd
that
such
as
are
traytors
to
their
Kings
are
reall
Ju●as's
,
and
Lyars
are
devils
,
or
what
abates
very
little
of
it
,
the
children
of
the
devil
.
They
have
spoken
that
which
is
untrue
in
many
particulars
,
as
the
world
hath
seen
,
and
the
prudent
Reader
,
if
he
will
but
take
the
pains
to
compare
their
words
with
their
words
,
shall
easily
surprise
them
in
their
abominable
lyes
.
If
they
chance
to
lie
hereafter
,
they
are
thus
farre
in
some
measure
excusable
,
that
,
finding
themselves
so
strangely
betray'd
by
a
discovery
,
of
the
horrid
crimes
they
are
really
guilty
of
themselves
,
they
are
forced
unjustly
to
fasten
those
on
others
which
they
are
not
chargeable
withall
.
I
am
therefore
to
entreat
the
Reader
to
take
this
into
his
particular
observation
,
that
,
though
they
have
not
left
a
stone
unmoved
to
compasse
my
destruction
,
as
well
by
indictment
,
as
in
their
Sermons
and
printed
books
,
yet
have
they
not
been
able
to
say
any
thing
to
my
disparagement
;
save
that
I
have
committed
an
imaginary
Sacriledge
,
by
saying
Masse
,
af-after
I
had
conceived
some
thoughts
of
embracing
the
Reformed
Religion
.
Now
therefore
that
I
have
disburthened
my
conscience
and
made
it
appear
,
as
I
had
promised
,
to
Vniversities
,
Judges
,
Prelates
and
Princes
,
that
they
are
guilty
of
crimes
of
High
treason
,
Antidates
,
Murthers
,
Sodomies
,
Sacriledges
,
Brutalities
,
Coyning
,
&c.
they
have
two
wayes
to
be
revenged
,
one
by
dispatching
me
out
of
this
world
,
if
they
can
find
any
Assassin
that
will
undertake
it
,
(
a
thing
no
man
that
knowes
them
conceives
they
are
much
shie
of
)
the
other
by
detraction
and
contumelies
,
that
is
,
if
in
case
they
cannot
compasse
my
death
.
What
ever
may
become
of
me
,
it
is
not
unfit
I
should
let
the
world
know
,
that
I
have
lived
in
Sodome
as
another
Lot
,
and
have
,
among
those
Murtherers
,
kept
my
hands
undefiled
,
insomuch
that
they
have
themselves
been
my
compurgators
,
in
Fontenay
,
in
Rochell
,
in
Bourdeaux
,
and
those
of
the
Reformed
Religion
,
who
made
enquiries
after
me
,
for
the
space
almost
of
two
moneths
,
found
nothing
but
commendations
of
me
,
even
from
their
account
of
me
who
are
my
professed
and
most
implacable
enemies
.
●ay
God
,
who
hath
disposed
of
us
from
eternity
,
without
any
way
advising
with
us
,
had
,
before
my
●rrivall
in
Holland
,
by
the
conduct
of
his
divine
Providence
,
brought
into
those
quarters
a
Jesuit
named
John
Pontelier
of
their
own
Province
,
as
another
●oseph
,
to
raise
a
good
report
of
me
.
For
,
having
●eard
it
doubtfully
reported
,
that
one
of
their
Order
had
embraced
the
Reformed
Religion
,
and
afterwards
particularly
understanding
,
that
it
was
one
of
●he
Fathers
,
named
Peter
Jarrigius
,
he
breaks
forth
●nto
these
words
,
for
which
truth
and
regret
forced
a
passage
from
his
heart
;
Alasse
!
what
a
sad
misfor●une
is
this
!
Erat
filius
Gallinae
albae
,
adding
withall
,
't
was
a
person
,
who
for
his
excellent
endowments
was
an
ornament
to
the
Society
.
It
was
never
found
that
he
did
any
thing
misbecoming
a
man
of
honour
;
certainly
it
must
be
some
affront
done
him
,
or
some
discontent
that
hath
forced
him
to
this
.
Monsieur
de
Launay
,
a
person
of
quality
,
and
of
the
noble
house
of
Vivans
,
to
whom
he
then
spoke
,
told
it
in
those
very
words
,
and
above
a
dozen
others
have
confirmed
them
to
me
since
.
He
said
the
same
thing
to
the
Queen
of
Bohemia
,
so
that
it
was
all
over
her
Court
.
He
gave
the
same
character
of
me
to
Salmasius
,
an
incomparable
person
,
and
known
all
over
Europe
by
his
admirable
Writings
.
Nay
,
after
the
publishing
of
my
Declaration
,
which
he
heard
of
,
he
commended
my
life
and
manners
,
so
far
as
to
give
me
extraordinary
Panegyricks
in
point
of
chastity
.
These
testimonies
given
me
by
one
of
the
most
gallant
men
among
them
,
to
Salmasius
,
in
the
presence
of
foure
Ministers
,
immediately
upon
my
abjuration
,
are
certainly
enough
to
stop
the
mouth
of
all
Calumny
.
Father
Fraguier
,
an
excellent
Divine
of
their
Society
,
hath
written
to
the
French
Ambassadour
,
Monsieur
de
la
Thuiellerie
,
as
the
same
Father
Pomelier
hath
related
,
that
I
was
a
person
of
consequence
,
who
had
not
all
the
time
of
my
abode
among
them
done
any
thing
that
might
blast
my
reputation
,
and
that
he
would
very
much
oblige
their
Order
,
if
he
could
prevail
with
me
to
come
back
again
to
the
Romane
Religion
,
since
that
it
must
infallibly
be
some
high
disgust
that
had
forced
me
to
that
extremity
.
Now
let
the
Reader
but
compare
the
Elogies
,
which
these
dis-interessed
persons
,
give
me
,
with
the
contumelies
cast
upon
me
by
Beaufes
,
and
he
will
find
that
those
two
former
speak
consonantly
to
the
truth
,
and
the
reputation
I
live
in
;
and
that
the
latter
,
who
is
a
person
,
infamous
even
among
his
own
for
his
evill
speaking
and
detraction
,
does
not
write
and
speak
in
his
Sermons
,
out
of
any
other
motive
then
that
of
choler
and
exasperation
.
If
therefore
,
after
they
have
called
me
,
the
Malefactor
,
the
impious
,
the
prophane
person
,
for
having
been
guilty
of
a
little
contempt
of
their
Sacrament
,
and
made
small
account
of
their
Mysteries
,
they
shall
adde
any
thing
to
the
impeachment
,
and
,
by
way
of
recrimination
▪
impose
some
crime
upon
me
which
I
am
not
chargeable
with
,
I
desire
the
Reader
to
make
answer
for
me
,
that
I
have
lived
among
them
,
even
to
the
day
of
my
departure
with
the
reputation
of
one
of
the
most
devout
of
the
Society
,
and
one
of
the
most
religious
observers
of
their
Rules
,
since
that
,
in
the
quality
of
Ghostly
Father
,
I
regulated
the
devotions
of
the
rest
,
and
did
every
night
appoint
the
Meditations
which
were
to
be
made
at
four
in
the
morning
.
For
what
concerns
the
publick
he
may
tell
them
,
I
was
their
Preacher
,
that
is
,
one
that
ought
to
be
as
remarkable
for
his
life
as
doctrine
.
And
for
what
passed
within
their
walls
,
I
was
their
Confessor
,
and
consequently
,
it
is
very
much
presumed
that
I
was
eminent
for
the
piety
and
qualifications
necessary
for
that
Administration
.
For
matter
of
Prudence
wherewith
they
would
represent
me
as
weakly
furnished
,
for
that
I
had
,
as
they
say
,
trusted
a
Minister
with
a
Secret
wherein
my
life
was
so
much
concern'd
;
it
may
be
retorted
;
that
I
was
the
Admonitor
of
the
Rector
,
●nd
that
person
,
whom
the
Consultors
,
of
which
number
I
was
one
,
might
intrust
with
all
their
designes
and
discontents
.
And
if
,
after
all
this
,
Beaufes
cries
,
lay
●old
of
the
impious
person
,
tell
them
,
the
impious
●hen
are
our
Ghostly
Fathers
.
If
he
cries
,
take
no●ice
of
the
sacrilegious
person
,
tell
them
,
the
sacrilegious
●t
seems
are
your
Preachers
.
If
he
raises
a
hue
and
-
●ry
after
the
prophane
person
,
reply
,
the
Prophane
then
●t
your
Confessors
.
The
Reader
may
have
observed
by
the
evasi●ns
and
equivocations
he
hath
been
forced
●o
,
how
much
it
stood
him
upon
,
to
disgu●se
the
malice
●f
his
intentions
in
a
quaint
expression
.
They
are
now
●iting
their
fingers
,
that
they
ever
put
me
into
these
employments
,
which
makes
me
wonder
the
more
,
that
●hey
should
endeavour
to
perswade
the
world
,
that
want
●f
advancement
in
the
Order
had
been
the
occasion
●f
my
departure
,
yet
never
name
those
in
the
Colledge
●f
Rochell
who
were
more
eminent
for
offices
.
I
was
●heir
Preacher
,
their
Admonitor
,
their
Confessor
,
the
Mo●erator
of
their
devotions
;
what
other
dignities
are
●here
that
may
come
into
comp●rison
with
these
,
un●esse
it
be
onely
that
charge
of
Rector
,
which
elevates
a
man
above
all
the
rest
.
It
is
in
the
power
of
God
onely
to
bestow
judgement
on
those
th●t
have
not
any
.
H●d
I
been
the
most
despicable
among
them
,
the
employments
they
put
me
●nto
challenged
respect
;
for
her
it
must
needs
be
gran●ed
that
the
Jesuits
are
very
indiscreet
,
ere
I
can
be
●rushed
out
of
●
persuasion
of
my
want
of
desert
.
For
when
an
understanding
man
shall
consider
and
say
with
himself
,
that
,
this
man
was
their
ordinary
Preacher
at
Rochell
,
chosen
to
that
purpose
by
the
Provincial
,
w●s
●heir
Confessor
,
the
Regulator
of
their
devotions
,
their
Admonitor
,
he
cannot
but
with
the
same
breath
say
this
wretched
Society
is
extreamly
dis-furnished
wit●
excellent
men
,
or
there
must
be
something
more
the●
ordinary
in
this
man
.
Beaufes
is
a
person
not
much
versed
in
the
art
of
writing
of
Books
,
the
reaches
of
hi●
understanding
are
but
short
in
order
to
such
a
design
having
spent
his
spirits
in
the
first
sallies
,
he
become
subject
to
illusion
,
and
lyes
open
to
palpable
weakne●ses
.
A
refined
judgement
,
would
,
by
way
of
alleviation
,
have
said
,
that
the
starres
fal
out
of
the
Firmamen●
that
when
a
man
is
to
make
choice
of
pearles
,
it
is
no●
impossible
but
he
may
pitch
upon
what
is
adulterate
that
the
number
of
Gods
elect
is
certain
and
determinate
,
&c.
But
this
shallow-brain'd
fellow
must
need
immediately
fall
to
invectives
,
to
perswade
the
world
that
I
was
a
person
fit
onely
to
be
employed
in
Countrey
villages
,
because
I
had
in
a
Letter
discovered
som●
dissatisfaction
that
I
was
forced
to
endure
the
inconveniences
of
Cardinall
Missions
.
There
it
was
that
Monsieur
Vincent
took
him
by
the
eare
,
telling
him
,
tha●
the
very
yeare
of
my
departure
I
preached
before
th●
Estates
of
Britany
at
Nantes
,
at
Poictiers
on
the
Octave
at
Rochell
,
according
to
ordinary
designation
,
and
there
upon
takes
occasion
to
aske
him
,
whether
Nantes
,
Poictiers
and
Rochell
were
Countrey
villages
,
whether
Prelates
,
Lords
,
Presidents
,
and
all
the
Deputies
of
the
severall
Estates
were
Peasants
,
and
whether
all
the
delicate
inhabitants
of
those
faire
Cities
were
yeomen
and
carters
?
This
puts
poor
Beaufes
to
such
a
losse
that
he
hath
not
a
word
to
say
,
but
folds
up
his
Letter
which
gave
him
occasion
to
make
such
a
noise
,
to
shew
,
that
I
preached
onely
in
Country
villages
.
Fontenay
le
Comte
a
place
but
nine
Leagues
distant
from
Rochell
,
will
witnesse
on
my
behalfe
,
that
,
the
yeare
before
I
preached
on
the
octave
at
Poictiers
,
I
had
preached
at
our
Ladie's
faire
Church
there
,
in
the
Advent
,
Lent
,
on
the
Octave
,
and
all
the
Sundayes
through
the
yeare
,
&c.
that
is
to
say
,
that
I
came
up
into
the
pulpit
there
,
in
one
year
,
above
〈◊〉
hundred
and
fifty
times
,
,
and
that
his
Majesties
Lieu●enant
,
and
the
Archbishop
of
Bourdeaux
honoured
●e
with
their
presence
,
and
were
pleased
to
approve
●y
gifts
and
abilities
in
preaching
.
If
exasperation
be
that
which
raises
such
disorders
in
●heir
judgements
that
it
dragges
them
into
thousands
of
●xtravagances
,
I
am
no
longer
to
doubt
,
but
that
they
●ill
employ
all
the
interest
they
can
to
compasse
my
●estruction
.
But
however
I
shall
with
David
in
the
●iet
and
serenity
of
my
conscience
,
sing
,
I
layd
me
down
must
quietly
,
I
slept
and
rose
again
;
Because
I
knew
assuredly
The
Lord
did
me
sustain
.
And
though
ten
thousand
of
my
foes
were
round
about
me
laid
,
And
came
on
purpose
to
oppose
,
I
will
not
be
afraid
.
And
these
soul-satisfying
words
shall
be
the
begin●ing
and
end
of
my
ordin●ry
Devotions
,
Who
dwelleth
in
the
secret
place
Of
him
that
is
most
high
,
In
shadow
of
th'
Almighty's
grace
Abides
continually
?
Thus
of
the
Lord
I
will
report
My
gracious
God
is
he
,
He
is
my
refuge
and
my
fort
In
whom
my
trust
shall
be
.
What
pains
soever
they
may
have
taken
to
perswade
●he
people
,
that
I
was
guilty
of
a
degree
of
pride
higher
then
might
consist
with
my
deserts
,
I
am
now
to
assure
the
world
,
that
I
had
no
extraordinary
opinion
of
my self
,
though
,
that
,
in
comparison
of
those
wretched
,
rough-hewne
persons
,
whereof
there
are
no
small
number
in
the
Society
,
I
had
written
something
to
the
Provinciall
in
my
owne
commendation
.
But
now
that
I
have
understood
since
my
coming
into
Holland
the
stirr
they
have
made
upon
my
conversion
,
and
the
bloody
courses
they
have
taken
to
work
my
disparagement
,
meerly
out
of
the
fear
they
were
in
that
I
might
reveal
their
mysteries
,
I
have
imagined
my selfe
to
be
some
body
;
for
it
is
not
likely
I
should
be
thought
so
dreadfull
to
a
sort
of
people
who
are
admired
for
their
prudence
,
had
they
not
some
opinion
of
my
abilities
,
and
were
afraid
of
the
wounds
and
stings
of
my
penne
.
The
more
they
endeavour
to
crush
me
,
by
their
fury
,
the
more
they
advance
me
by
their
extravagance
;
I
was
of
no
great
account
among
strangers
,
but
now
,
through
the
mercy
of
God
,
I
begin
to
come
into
esteem
among
them
.
Their
persecutions
are
my
crowns
.
For
my
Lord
Jesus
Christ
doth
,
by
way
of
exchange
,
fill
the
hearts
of
his
faithfull
ones
,
with
pious
sentiments
,
such
as
oblige
them
to
afford
me
a
greater
measure
of
their
affection
,
nay
to
honour
me
beyond
my
deserts
.
Before
I
did
not
expect
to
make
any
advantage
of
my
employments
among
them
,
now
,
through
the
goodnesse
of
God
,
I
hope
all
things
.
Blessed
be
God
,
even
the
Father
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
the
Father
of
mercies
and
God
of
all
consolation
,
who
comforts
and
supports
us
in
all
our
tribulations
.
Amen
,
Amen
.