Celebrated Jesuits
by William Harris Rule (9781150656101)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1853 Original Publisher: J. Mason Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A JESUIT REFUGEE. GABRIEL. GRUBER. SUPPRESSION OF THE COMPANY OF JESUS. I Shall not weary my readers by recounting the political crimes which provoked the chief nations of the Popedom to expel the Jesuits, nor shall I sully these pages by detailing their immoralities. Every court and every country resounded with indignation. Their doctrines and their practices became the subject of universal abhorrence. Politicians, divines, and satirists joined in one murmur of contempt. They were arraigned before all tribunals. Memorials, for the suppression of the Company, were laid before the Sovereigns of all states where they had been tolerated. Preachers denounced their wickedness. It became the burden of ballads, and the theme of every discourse; and the name Jesuit, as it had heen associated with every form of mischief, and as all mischiefs had heen cloaked under a profession of sanctity, zeal, and wisdom, whatever was consummated in hypocrisy and cunning thenceforth received the name, and the language of mankind was enriched with an adjective of more pregnant signification than any other of its class. The books written, in almost all the languages of Europe, to justify the revolt of humanity and patriotism against the Jesuits, are alone sufficiently numerous to form a library; and, after making all possible allowance for exaggeration and for satire, a mountain of infamy stands, which no skill of their own can ever level, nor any officious or deluded charity will ever be able to disguise. Under the name of Garnet I traced a passage of Jesuit history in England, wherein that p...

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