and his family becoming Protestants, that immediately he, and his royal issue, are, ipso facto, constituted lepers, who must be driven from the camp; or, to use the language of Suarez, they are to be regarded as wolves, which it is the duty of the sovereign pastor to chase from the fold*. The subjects of such a king, Gretsert and Santarel (other Jesuits) teach us, are no longer bound by their oath of fidelity; and, in case of their continuing attached to him, the anathema of excommunication, however illegal, should, according to Clement XI. and the Society, be denounced by the Pope, to deter them from fulfilling their duty of allegiance §, notwithstanding the bishops of the Assembly of 1714 declared this duty to be indispensable.

Such are the precepts and doctrines of the Jesuits! those chosen and well-tried soldiers of the Popethose main props and stays of the cruelty, the falsehood, and the superstition, which for so many years have made the Romish Church the byword and the reproach of all nations!

* Suarez, Vindication of the Catholic Faith, in Opposition to the Errors of the English Sect, lib. iii., ch. 23, n. 13.

† Vide Gretser's book, called The Heretic Bat, page 158.

In his Treatise on Heresy and Schism, and on the Power of the Pope, ch. 30, 31.

§ Prop. 91.

THE OATH OF SECRECY OF THE JESUITS.

[From Archbishop Usher.]

I, A. B., now in the presence of Almighty God, the blessed Virgin Mary, the blessed Michael the Archangel, the blessed St. John Baptist, the holy apostles St. Peter and St. Paul, and the saints and sacred host of heaven, and to you my ghostly father, do declare from my heart, without mental reservation, that his holiness Pope is Christ's Vicar

General, and is the true and only head of the Catholic or universal church throughout the earth; and that by the virtue of the keys of binding and loosing given to his holiness by my Saviour Jesus Christ, he hath power to depose heretical kings, princes, states, commonwealths, and governments, all being illegal without his sacred confirmation, and that they may safely be destroyed: therefore, to the utmost of my power, I shall and will defend this doctrine, and his holiness's rights and customs, against all usurpers of the heretical (or Protestant) authority whatsoever; especially against the now pretended authority and Church of England, and all adherents, in regard that they and she be usurpal and heretical, opposing the sacred mother church of Rome. I do renounce and disown any allegiance as due to any heretical king, prince, or state, named Protestants, or obedience to any of their inferior magistrates or officers. I do further declare, the doctrine of the Church of England, of the Cal

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vinists, Hugonots, and of other of the name Protestants, to be damnable, and that they themselves are damned, and to be damned, that will not forsake the same. I do further declare, that I will help, assist, and advise all or any of his holiness's agents in any place, wherever I shall be in England, Scotland, and Ireland, or in any other territory or kingdom I shall come to; and do my utmost to extirpate the heretical Protestants' doctrine, and to destroy all their pretended powers, regal or otherwise. I do further promise and declare, that notwithstanding I am dispensed with to assume any religion heretical for the propagating of the mother church's interests, to keep secret and private all her agents' counsels from time to time, as they entrust me, and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing, or circumstance whatsoever; but to execute all that shall be proposed, given in charge, or discovered unto me, by you my ghostly father, or any of this sacred convent. All which, I, A. B., do swear by the blessed Trinity and blessed Sacrament, which I now am to receive, to perform, and on my part to keep inviolably: and do call all the heavenly and glorious host of heaven to witness these my real intentions, to keep this my oath. In testimony hereof, I take this most holy and blessed sacrament of the Eucharist: and witness the same further with my hand and seal, in the face of this holy convent, this An. Dom. day of

A SHORT NOTICE OF JESUITS' WORKS ON AURICULAR CONFESSION.

THERE is implanted in the heart of man by that great and merciful Creator to whom he owes everything in this life that he enjoys, a knowledge of good and evil. This knowledge was given him to regulate his conduct, and to enable him to perform alike his duty to his God, to his neighbour, and to himself. But this was too simple a creed to suit the tastes of monks and friars, especially the Jesuits, who, professing a revealed religion, substituted in its place a criminal code, designated by the name of Cases of Conscience, or penitential, which they have forced the unlettered laity to submit to, under pain of temporal or eternal punishment. Space will not admit of our going deeply into this subject, upon which volumes might be written. We shall, therefore, content ourselves with citing a few examples of these pernicious works; and, having given our readers the key, they can, if they think proper, prosecute their researches where we have gladly closed the page. The task would be too long did we attempt to portray these facts: it is sufficient to mention a few of these works, especially such as have appeared within the last few years, in which are recorded the most extraordinary cases of conscience and penitential transgressions invented by a worse than insane theology,

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for the purpose of subjecting mankind to a shameful and disgusting bondage.

The Jesuit Sanchez, in his infamous work De Matrimonio, has unveiled the mysteries of marriage, and perverted them to a degree of shameful turpitude. This work, a true school of debauchery, first printed at Genoa in 1592, and dedicated to the Archbishop of Grenada, was approved of by ecclesiastical censorship, as we find by the licence in these words "Legi, perlegi maxima cum voluptate." This work of Sanchez has been the fountain-head whence his brethren have drawn those licentious details with which they pollute the seminaries and the minds of those who are appointed to direct consciences.

Albert the Great, sometimes called the "Magician," it seems had forestalled Sanchez, having thoroughly fathomed this indelicate subject in the thirteenth century, as we find by his Commentary on the Fourth Book of Sentences. Speaking of conjugal duties, he pleads, as his excuse, the monstrous avowals that must be heard in confession; "cogentibus monstris quæ in confessione audiuntur." Theophilus Raymond, a Jesuit who lived in the middle of the seventeenth century, commends Albert, though he was a Dominican, for having unveiled to the Casuists this kind of turpitude.

Another Casuist, named Jean Benedicti, was the