THE JESUITS,

THEIR

RISE AND PROGRESS, DOCTRINES, AND

MORALITY;

WITH NUMEROUS

EXTRACTS FROM THEIR OWN WRITERS.

BY

T. H. USBORNE, ESQ.,

Author of The Magician Priest of Avignon; or, Popery in the
Thirteenth Century;'

A New Guide to the Levant, Syria, Egypt, &c.;'
'Scenes and Sketches in Spain and Portugal;'
'Tales of the Braganza;' &c.

LONDON:

PARTRIDGE AND OAKEY, PATERNOSTER ROW
AND 70, EDGWARE ROAD (HANBURY AND CO., AGENTS).

1851.

110.d.353.

GEORGE

LONDON:

WOODFALL

AND SON,

ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET,

On loving our Neighbour, and our duty towards him

On the Nature of Oaths

On assisting others in practices of Debauchery, &c.

On the Vanity of Women, and their love of Finery

On Gluttony and Drunkenness

60

The Oath of Secrecy of the Jesuits

107

A Short Notice of Jesuits' Works on Auricular Con-

fession

109

On the Practice, Working, and Morality of Auricular

Confession

118

RISE AND PROGRESS

OF

THE JESUITS.

WHAT is Christianity? and why is that religion which Christ himself taught us, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will towards men," now torn and divided into so many furious sects and hostile parties? is a question that may well be asked and as readily answered. We are

more fond of theology than of God. We are too prone to regard the authority of man rather than His Revealed Will. If in everything connected with religion we were strictly to confine ourselves to the study of the Bible, no differences of opinion could then exist between us-at least, if to that study we joined a humble and prayerful spirit; for that sacred volume, perused with any other feeling, is to us, as to the Jews of old, "a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness."

The whole doctrine of vital Christianity may be comprised in two parts: the one which teaches us