A further discovery of the mystery of Jesuitisme In a collection of severall pieces, representing the humours, designs and practises of those who call themselves the Society of Jesus.

CHAP. X.

A sixth charge of Obscenities committed by the Jesuits in their conversations with Nuns, in their Convents.

THose, who in the Church of Rome, speak most advantageously of the Nunnes, would have us believe, that they ought to be in their Monasteries as the Tree of Life was in the terrestriall Paradise, such as then but to touch or gather the fruits thereof, there cannot be any thing more piacular. But I am to let the reader know, that I cannot put a period to this discourse of the lasciviousnesses of the Jesuits, till I have shewn him how these subtle Serpents glide e∣ven

upon those trees, and gather the fruits there∣of, without the least feare that any cherubim, what flaming sword soever he may have in his hand, should oppose their entrance into those Monasticall Paradi∣ses. Ignatius Loyola, a man that studied Policy, much more then any thing of Religion, thought it not fit to limit his Monks to the government of any one Order of women, that so they might be at a greater liberty to have a certain superintenden∣cy over all.

Tis the generall complaints of all Prelates and the Regular Orders at this day, that these Cajollers, these Students of Sycophancy and insinuation, corrupt Re∣ligious women by maximes repugnant to the sincerity of Devorion. I have known some Libertines of that Society, who have dogmatically maintained, even in the parlours of women devoted by a solemn vow to chastity and undefilednesse of life, that God, in that commandment which he hath given us in the Deca∣logue, Thou shalt not commit Adultery▪ obliges men no further then to be discreet and circumspect in their Loves, so to avoid giving others any occasi∣on of scandall, considering the great inclination to Love which is naturally grafted in all men. From which doctrine it must needs follow, that all lascivi∣ous actions between male and female, which, by caution and prudence are kept secret from the know∣ledge of men, are not imputable as sinnes in the sight of God, but onely those, which men tooke notice of. And whereas the Law was generally pro∣nounced to all, and accordingly equally obliged all, it was to be conceived that Religious men and Re∣ligious women, that is such as had vowed the ob∣servation of chastity, might privately be allowed re∣ciprocall Visits, provided their communications bred no noise in the world, it being granted that their con∣ditions cannot be worse then those of other people.

The tenents are transcendently pernicious, and

therefore it may easily be guessed what the consequen∣ses may prove. It is to me no matter of astonish∣ment, if, when they have once laid this foundation, they should take so much pleasure in conferences of foure or five houres length in the day, at the grates of Nunneries. Tis out of all question, that all the dis∣courses that passe there tend not to edification, and that the best part of them are lascivious.

Peter Cluniac, one of their Society, explicated to one of the Religious women of Saint Aus••ni in En∣golesme, the Treatise of the Impediments which make Marriages invalid, not ommitting in his Lectures to be very plain and copious, when he came to speak of men that were impotent, and maleficia••i. Fa∣ther John Adam, one of the best Preachers among them, interpreted to one Ʋrseline, a Nunne of the Convent of Saint Macaire, the Treatise of Genera∣tion, and spoke as freely, and with as much open∣nesse of expression, concerning those parts which contribute to the procreation of children, as Mon∣sieur du Laurens does in his Booke of Anatomy. James Beaufés instructed a Nunne of our Ladies at Pau, in Physiognomie, and taught her the way to find out, by the observation of the face, what is most se∣cret about the body. Reignier could find no other discourses in the two Nunneries of Fontenay, then those of the diseases of the matrices, and the retention of Womens termes, &c.

It is indeed hardly imaginable what a strange height of dissolution and libertinisme they have brought these Religious women to, and what a con∣fidence they have raised them to, every one having his particular acquaintance, whom he treats by the name of Friend, Minion, Angell, &c. Putting their hands through the grates, and holding one the other thereby, are ordinary between them; nay, it hath happened to above halfe a dozen of these impudent Villaines and shamelesse women, that

they mutually discovered to one another what na∣ture advises to be kept most secret. The Jesuits of Pau betrayed so much lustinesse among the Religi∣ous women of our Ladie's there, that many of them had gotten carnall Timpanies in their bellies, inso∣much, that they were forced to disperse those that had been dabling into other places, where of some came to Bourdeaux. The Bishop of Limoges surprised severall Love letters, written by some of their young Philoso∣phers to the Monasteries of Religious women, and sent them back to their Rector, with a prohibition that they should not visit those Ladies. Of two Jesuits, that by permission went into the Convent of Perigueux, one was employed in exhorting one of the Nuns that lay at the point of death, and the other was gotten alone into a chamber with a very beautifull Nun, between him and whom there had past, of a long time before, very great familiarities.

We are entertained in histories with the formida∣ble hos••il••ties that passed between the Trojans and the Greeks for a single Helene; and Fables tell us of Sieges of ten years, with the invention of a Horse that carried an Army within his bowels. But the Je∣suiticall war among themselves, about Religious wo∣men, will be more true and more famous, if there rise but a Virgil (as I hope there will) to put it into ex∣cellent verse. It will be no easie work to expresse the infinite discontents whereby the Society is gene∣rally pestered, the occasions and motives of the civill warre they are engaged in, to procure the removall of one another out of the Colledges, and the besotted inclinations which these perverse Hypocrites have for their penitents, and the Nuns. Jealousie does some∣times spread its root, so deep in their minds, that they invent execrable crimes to dispossesse their Ri∣vals. I can testifie my self that Pinot and Labou∣rier were so farre exasperated against the Philoso∣pher of Rochell, that they had brought him to ut∣ter

disparagement, if that person had not vigoriously vindicated himself, all the quarrell, they had again••t him, being, that the women were more taken w••th him, and consequently, that he drew the greatest part of their custome to his Sh••iving-Seat.

All those who in the yeare 1646. were in the Colledge of Poictiers are not ignorant of the diffe∣rences between John Adam and James Biroat, two persons that may be numbred amongst the most con∣siderable of the Order. They persecuted one an∣other with so much violence, that by a strange se∣cret of divine Providenee, they discovered their own horrid abominations; it being proved against James Biroat, that, instead of ringing the bell according to the orders of Religious Houses, and asking of the Nunne that looks to the Gate for her whom he would speak with, he came in and knocked gently with a little stone against a plank, so to summon his Confi∣dent, who was in expectation of him, and then went and talked with her at a low part of the garden wall, over which it was easie for either of them to come to the other. Father Debatz can discover more of this story then any man in the world, if he would but give God the glory.

I shall not in this place make any mention of the persecutions that were raised against Henry Duchez••e in severall places, nor yet of the secret plotts of Fa∣ther Maria, nor of the jealousies of late Father Res∣sez, nor of the directions of Father Andrew Bajole; it is fit I should reserve some materials, to amplifie the explication I intend to make of their Institution. I take no delight to say the same thing twice; I pro∣mise the world a new kind of Histories, conditional∣ly that I may be pardoned, if in some places of this I have expressed my selfe with too much freedome. I•• was impossible for me to discover such a strange par∣cell of uncleannesses, but I must do it with a certain clearnesse and ingenuity. Did I not out of modesty

forbear, I could have revealed things much more hor∣rid, and confirm'd them by pregnant and undenyable circumstances; but I have had a certain tendernesse for the apprehensions of those who shall reade this worke.