SOCIETATIS JESU. SECRET INSTRUCTIONS 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 PRINCETON, N. J. PUBLISHED BY J. & T. SIMPSON. PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1831, Union Theol. 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 a 2 reader may be equally suited; and that there may be no room left for doubt whether the translation, in any instance, be fairly made. On the first appearance of these "Secret Instructions" before the public, the Jesuits were greatly offended, and denied their authenticity; and it is not known that that body has ever yet acknowledged them to be in reality what their title imports. This circumstance, however, when we consider the character of the Jesuits, and the principles upon which they are known to act, forms no solid objection to the authenticity of the work; especially when we take into consideration the following facts. In a work, in the British Museum, printed at Venice, in 1596, and entitled, Formulæ diversarum Provisionum à Gaspare Passarello summo studio in unum collectæ, et per Ordinem in suis Locis annotate-these SECRETA MO |