and crown on the head of the pope, as the faying is, or the like of that, do ye mungey. A great logician sof your fociety, a few weeks before I eame on my travels, in company with myfelf and four of our minifters ufed a variety of vague fubterfuges to foreen the fociety, and condemn poor Clement; his argument went as he wished to prove that a fpirit is immortal, confequently cannot be or fuffer annihilation, even though crimi nal: this he ufed much fubtilty, art and cunning, to prove and confirm by the fiends, who, though continuing their factioa, ftill remain in power, upon this ground he placed his battering ram, and when he had ftored him felf with a fumptuous dinner, he began, and did so ribroast Ganganelli that he kept us the whole evening in one continued roar; he is the most artful wag that, as we confeffed, ever wore a breeches. One while he endeavoured to fhew the exploits of Ignatius, when an officer in the army; his undaunted courage, which act finishes with the being vanquished by the enemy, after playing off a thoufand feats of chivalry, and a broken leg: this first act continued from five to fix; in the courle of which he found it convenient to take off fix bumpers. He then enters on the second act with his hero, taking up the lives of faints, whilft bed-ridden, from his wounds, and observed a warfare which he thought both honourable and profitable, as it glorified his Creator; and, as a magnet, draws fouls to his banner, or sweet yoke of the gofpel. After fome time spent in rigorous pennance, he threw himfelf proftrate at the feet of the Pope, and obtained his bleding, priesthood, and general of a new order, with this appellation, "The "The fociety of Jefus." His conftitutions are 2. copied from the life of Chrift, fo that whoever would know the life of a Jefuit will read and understand that of Jefus, from whom they are named. The fociety prelently became formidable, and our great general deputed miffioners to traverse the earth, and fow the maxims of the gofpel both by word and example in all hearts, by whofe means chriftianity in a fhort time flourished in countries until then unknown, but to the wild and favage inhabitants, who being brought to the knowledge of their duty, became prudent, docile, dutiful and good chriftians. It was a common remark that the year the Auguftine Friar, Luther, quitted his order, Ignatius of Loyola was called by God to raise an army to beat down that Herald, Trumpet of the Reformation. The old Friar, to gain difciples, found it proper in part to copy Mahomet in tickling the flesh by this predilec tion held out; the invitation anfwered the defired effect, thoufands of all denominations flocked to the ftandard of pleafure, and in a fhort time they became formidable to the old christianity, Let us for a moment view the two competitors, the old Friar drawing chriftians to his ftandard; the Jefuit, Infidels and favage nations, to the ftandard of Jefus Chrift, both equally great in their profeffion. After the two patriarchs finished their courfe, their fucceffors trod in their steps, two hundred and fifty years, when, according to their now afpects, they arrived to the zenith of their predeftination. The fociety of Jefus disappears in the old priesthood, and proteftancy by fulness are become naufeous, obfcene, offenfive, ranka ль rous, rous, hateful, and keep no faith; neither will they traffic, but hate each other. They now are in the fhoes of the weak and feeble, a common make-game and laughing stock at each other, and in the mouths of all nations, fo that in a short time, fay likely, both proteftantifm with Jefuitifm, will be buried with the century; with this he clofed the fecond act. Our good friend, on clofing his fecond act, finished a dozen bumpers, when he became outrageous against the court of Rome and catholic courts; he difplayed great ingenuity, and handled his ram's head with the dexterity, power, vigour, and energetic force of an Alexander or Cæfar; fo that, in a small hour, the court of Rome, with that of France, Spain, Germany, Portugal, and whatever power leagued in whatever manner, or way, or the like of that, do ye mungey, to the extinction or abolifhing the fociety, was cut up, carved, and, as Sodom and Gomorrah utterly deftroyed, fo as not a veftige of beauty was to be found, but a lake of filthy mire, or the like of that, do ye mungey. The cafe being thus: but then and fuppofe, or the like of that, do ye mungey, will you obferve, as the faying is, that according to your logic, you make ufe of the court of Rome to deftroy the church of Rome. In fuch cafe, or the like of that, what is become of the plenitude of power and jurifdiction granted by Chrift to the chair of Peter. The chair of Peter, which is the centre of unity, is poffeffed of plenitude of power, otherwife, could not have granted the great privileges and daydas fpi fpiritual immunities the fociety were in poffeffion of, neither without being head and prince of the church, could Paul the 3d, then Pope, grant, or Ignatius, our original, receive, authority and power to be formed and confirmed, with his dife ciples, a, regular and itrong fortrefs, which made the powers of the earth jealous and hell tremble, faith this Enterlacing Gemini. But, according to my first position, spirits, no doubt, are creat. ed, but cannot be annihilated, as we obferved, by the, fiends, unless the Almighty, from whom we receive our original and pristine ftate, on being, to whom all things are poffible, who created the univerfe from nothing, and, at his word, the whole would return into its original ftate; the fociety therefore being once confirmed one compact body fpiritual, could not be deftroyed but by the divine fentence. We ho nour and revere the Pope, as vicar of our Lord, and placed by him head of the church. The fociety, on this ground, made a fourth vow of obedience to his Holinefs, and in all things expert in our filial duty, confidering ourselves entitled, therefore, to every exertion as a claim yoked on our holy Father, being pack-horse; for what elfe is he but the fervant of fervants? To arraign the culprit, princes, our accusers at his dread tribunal, reinftate us in our patrimony and privileges, and, by the thunder of his Bull, prevent future encroachments. Had Ganganelli acted, as aforefaid, we fhould have extolled, exalted, magnified and immortalized the immaculate Pope Clement XIV. But alas, it is Ganganelli, in league with the court of Rome, Rome, and others, have fpread the net of in juftice, which has, as Shakespeare's Falstaff, entailed on his pate everlasting infamy. Ha, ba, ba, bu, my dear joy. I then put this question. But then and fuppofe or the like of that, as the faying is, do ye mungey, do ye nincompoop, fpeak the general voice of the Jefuits? To which my fpark replied, I do not; the zeal of us younkers is the language or Holocauft I prefent you, who are, to the difhonour of the fociety, but a few younklins; the note of the feniors bleat forth the old note of Ignatius, the greater glory of God, general mortification of the fenfes, abnegation, mental prayer, fpiritual pleasure, contempt of earthly amusements, hatred of temporal honours, and love of humiliations, and covetous of being punished and defpifed, keeping your mind continually occupied on Almighty God, love of chastity, and precepts of the gofpels, obedience, with joyful alacrity, to whatever the Almighty is pleafed to appoint, either by affliction, or in what manner his Divine Majefty is pleafed to try his fociety; fo that they confidered the extinction of the fociety as a certain prefage of eternal glory; but this, as zealots in the caufe of juftice and glory, as a fervile and base fpirit, which we ufed our rhetoric to fhew them the utility of. ik heroic and great zeal, but received fevere reprimands and looked on as aliens to the fpirit of the fociety, and by no means difciples of. our forefathers; fo that we could not agree in our fpirit; for we neither agreed nor fympa thized with each other, I then came round him |