that according to our fcriptures and yours, the Divine Will rules and orders the hearts of princes, and brings all things to the place of their deftination. These younkers cannot, with the leaft degree, without criminating the Divinity, hold themselves excufed from the general order of the creation. The feveral parts I have converfed with fince the diffolving the Bull of Pope Paul the 3d, by Pope Clement the 14th for forming the fociety into an order of Religious, tranfplanting them into the original priesthood, to restore amity in the bond of peace to the then diftracted church, which met with the defired wifh of Chriftendom, agree that the body was perfectly refigned with Job, ift chapter, 21ft verse. "When he was stripped of all that he had, even his children, by his enemies, naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked fhall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; bleffed be the name of the Lord." In all this Job finned not, nor charged God foolishly. Men of virtue who, with their founder, to prevent the enemy, had voluntarily ftript themselves of all temporal goods, honours, applaufe, and every earthly advantage, wifely confidering that the Flag of the world oppofed that of falvation, and to prevent future relapfes, bound themselves in the most rigorous vows, to be and remain naked, chafte, and obedient; alfo, a fourth vow of particular obedience to the reigning Pope: more could not be granted or complied with. The fociety was vigilant and exerted themselves for the converfion of the Eaft and

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Weft-Indies. The enemy, finding himself vanquished, and the infidels reforting to the standard of Christ, made use of his accustomed ftratagem, by prompting many who confidered the refpectability of the body, a fufficient motive to enlarge their temporal glory, by mingling with the fervants of God, as Satan, you will fee in the fame chapter aforefaid, prefented himself with the fons of God, they to give praise and adoration to their Creator. Satan, to moleft, vex, and destroy Job, a man, who by his fanctity became his enemy. In your gofpel the college of apoftles raised the envy of Satan, who obferved Judas to poffefs the love of pomp, riches, and temporal glory, which fupplanted the love of the Creator, made ufe of him as a fit inftrument to diftil his poifon into, to cut off their Meffiah, and destroy the fociety. So thefe younkers, as you term them, who pay Latria to the temporal glory of the fociety, not that they have any predilection to the society in general, or particular, more than Judas to Chrift, or college of apoftles, farther than their own advantages lead them; but by a falfe wisdom brought, as Judas, infamy on their own heads, in which they have involved the fathers with themselves; the one fuffers with joy and refignation to the Divine Will, the other part, boitterous, arrogant, impudent, haughty, proud, lofty, felf-fufficient, bearing down all things, and placing the idol of their fupremacy above all authority; fo that this fupercrefcence prefently gave the alarm, and the fumes fickened the princes and others, who T 2 with

with joint confent agreed to expel the fociety from their feveral ftates, or kingdoms, France, Spain, and Portugal, &c. actually drove them out of their dominions, and not only folicited the Pope to difband, but refused Catholic fubordination or to communicate with the chair of Peter, on any other conditions. The general fchifm had made fome progrefs, and the cafe now lay before the Pope, whether the unity and peace of the Church be preferved by unbodying the fociety, or not? Clement the 14th was left as a general hemmed in by a fuperior army, had no alternative, the conditions were pofitive, unbody the fociety, compofed of the subjects of our different ftates, whom we have expelled, purely for being of that body, or you, by contumacy, like a foolish king, facrifice the nation to the humour and whim of his minion.

Club. The fociety no doubt could claim a regular and legal procefs against the malecontents; the Pope was abfolutely in juftice; had he with the courts of Rome, France, Spain, Naples, Vienna, Portugal and other departments of the church, not been in league, and all the matter was brought to an iffue, Clement fhould have reinftated the fociety in their birth-rights and immunities, with a sharp and fpirited reprimand to the Princes for their cavalier and arrogant behaviour to fo great and wife a community. Your Eminence will be pleased, therefore decide as the facts have come before your fublime and moft wonderful fupre

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Ignatius.

Ignatius. I fhould think myself culpable if I kept filence in fo weighty a matter, which through the ingratiating fpirit of the world, influencing fome of us of the fociety who be. came religious on worldly views, under the fanction of the most refpectable body then in the church, whofe found went throughout the earth; myself being a herald of the inferior part, in lieu of the greater glory of God. Our boast was, the learning, fagacity, writings, extenfion, labours, regularity, fuperiority, influence, granduers, wisdom, both in fpiritual and temporal concerns, directing the minds of the great, and affuming an air of fingular dignity and preeminence, love of fhow, or thirft for commerce, and gloried in the unbounded flow of riches, efteeming ourselves the fenate or great council, to inftruct, decide, and probe the wounds of all, ourfelves impeccable. Thefe, with many other improvident and bewitching fnares, laid by the enemy, by which us zealots were egged and biaffed, prefently clouded, and brought on a general and baneful war against the fociety, to which we, as the zealots at the facking of Jerufalem, not only oppofed the invaders, but their brethren within their own walls; fo we kept up the fire againft our Sovereigns, and other oppofitions without; and with ftood the fathers, and irreproachable among ourfelves, which eftablished a rooted inveteracy throughout the catholic powers, that no conceffions or terms would be acceded to, but unbodying and withdrawing the commiffion granted by Pope Paul 3d, to the fociety; neither were us zealots difpofed

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difpofed to offer any other overture for reconciliation, but to be reinstated with honor in our full privileges and immunities; and we fuppofed his holiness could do no otherwife than ftand or fall, with the fociety, and which we confidered the finews and nerves, on whofe fupremacy the church depended; but to our confusion, we were neither nerves, finews, or fupreme in the eyes of his holiness, or any part of the church, fave in our own predilection, when our commiffion was cancelled, as Zealot ftigmatized his holiness with injuftice, and brayed out threatnings against the court of Rome, and the other peftiferous catholic courts; as we would willingly have laid our pack on the head of the Pope and court of Rome, bragged with the other courts as aforefaid, in imitation of the Ifraelites on the head of the fcape goat. Leviticus 16 chap. 21 verfe. And Aaron fhall lay both his hands upon the head of the fcape goat, and confefs over him all the iniquities of the children of Ifrael, and all their tranfgreffions in all their fins, putting them on the bead of the goat, and fend him away by the band of a fit man into the wilderness; and the goat fhall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and be fhall let the go goat in the wilderness. When all hopes of conceffion from his holiness, court of Rome, with the other catholic courts and fovereigns, had failed; as Zealots, as rooks gather at the approach of winter, in confultation to determine, as it were, to feek fome place of refuge, during the inclement feafon. But not being willing to be biaffed by each other, we

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