OF THE

JESUITS.

Printed verbatim from the London copy of 1725.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

AN HISTORICAL ESSAY;

WITH

AN APPENDIX OF NOTES,

BY THE EDITOR OF THE PROTESTANT.

For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which
go forth to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to
gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.-
Revelation xvi, 14.

PRINCETON, N. J.

DUBLISHED BY J. & T. SIMPSON.

IF In a part of this edition, the Latin is omit-
ted, in order to reduce the price.

Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1831,
by J. & T. SIMPSON, in the Clerk's office of the District of
New-Jersey,

Printed by D'Hart & Connolly, }

Princeton, N. J,

PREFACE,

BY THE

AMERICAN PUBLISHER.

THE "Secreta Monita Societatis Jesu," or Secret Instructions of the Jesuits, is a very curious work, and seldom to be met with in this country. A number of editions of it have been published in Europe, in the English, French, German and Dutch languages. The present edition is taken from that published in London by Walthoe, in 1723, and dedicated to Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Lord Orford, and prime minister of England, in the reigns of George I, and George II. It is thought best, after the example of that edition, to print the Latin original page by page with the English version, that the learned and the plain