The Jesuite countermin'd. Or, An account of a new plot carrying on by the Jesuites: manifested by their present endeavours (under all shapes) to raise commotions in the land, by aspersing his Sacred Majesties counsels and actions. Also the reasonableness of modesty in subjects in judging the concerns of their prince.
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- The Jesuite countermin'd. Or, An account of a new plot carrying on by the Jesuites: manifested by their present endeavours (under all shapes) to raise commotions in the land, by aspersing his Sacred Majesties counsels and actions. Also the reasonableness of modesty in subjects in judging the concerns of their prince.
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- Br., J.
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- London :: [s.n.],
- printed in the year 1679.
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- Jesuits -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
- Jesuits -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"The Jesuite countermin'd. Or, An account of a new plot carrying on by the Jesuites: manifested by their present endeavours (under all shapes) to raise commotions in the land, by aspersing his Sacred Majesties counsels and actions. Also the reasonableness of modesty in subjects in judging the concerns of their prince." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69620.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2025.
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TO THE READER.
THe Jesuites by their undiscerned Insinuations have Bewitched the People into such a suspicious, tur∣bulent, and disloyal vein, that the Scenes of their Labouring Minds are nothing but the supposed Tyrannous Intrigues of His Majesty, &c. their Resolutions edg'd for a Reformation, and all their Dis∣course represents to the life their Inward Thoughts, for they will not speak a good word of His Majesty, but talk altogether of his oblique and ugly Proceedings (as they tearm his Royal Prosecution of the Publick Good) condemning him in every thing that he does, if the Action be not Commensurate to that narrow Scheme of Justice and Policy which they embrace, as if forsooth the Vast Affairs of State
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must needs be couched in the Module of every Mechanick.
A Reflection on the unreasonableness of this Immodesty and Censoriousness in the Vulgar, prompted me to write down in vacant Hours my Thoughts of it for my own private satisfaction: So that that must excuse me for Publishing it in such a disorderly Method and Style, the confusedness of the former and the tenuity of the latter resulting from my being Im∣merse in prosecution of my Arguments, so that I could not take so much care of the Rules of Speech to please others, but let it go at random in those words that seem∣ed to be most expressive of my Thoughts, whether within the Rules of Modern English or no, 'twas all one to me: For my end in Publishing it, was to excite Modesty in Subjects, so that if any by perusing it shall learn to practice this Vertue, I have my desire:
So farewel, J. Br.