The Douay-Reims Translators—the Jesuits and the Blood of Saints

Drunken of the bloud.] [...] The Protestants folishly expound it of Rome, for that there they put Heretikes to death, and allovv of their punishment in other countries: but their bloud is not called the bloud saints, no more then the bloud of theeues, mankillers, and other malefactors: for the sheding of vvhich by order of iustice, no Commonvvealth shal ansvver.

Comments on the Apocalypse 17:6, The Holy Bible, faithfully translated into English out of the authentical Latin, diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greek, & other editions in divers languages (1610 A.D. Douay Old Testament, 1582 A.D. Rheims New Testament), printed by Iohn Cousturier, 1635, NT, p. 731.

The Jesuitical Colleges and a New Brand of Ministers

Now you know you are told every Sunday that it does not signify what you believe; that all sects and denominations will be saved; that doctrines are unimportant things; that as to the doctrines of God's grace, they are rather dangerous than otherwise, and the less you inquire about them the better; they are very good things for the priests, but you common people cannot understand them. Thus they keep back a portion of the gospel with cautious reserve; but having studied in the devil's new Jesuitical college, they understand how to call themselves particular Baptists, and then preach general doctrines, to call themselves Calvinists, and preach Arminianism, telling the people that it does not signify whether they preach damnable heresies instead of the truth of God. And what do the congregations say? "Well, he is a wise man, and ought to know." So you are going back into as bad a priestcraft as ever.

Spurgeon, C. H., "A Solemn Warning for All Churches," February 24, 1856, at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
(Spurgeon, C. H., The New Park Street Pulpit, 6 vols., Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House Company, 1990 (reprint), vol. 2 (During the Year 1856), sermon 68, pp. 115-116.)

Reflections of a Jesuit on the Bible

My brethren, as to the Bible, be advised by me. For our greater good let us avoid—let us carefully avoid this ground. If I may tell you, openly, what I think of this book, it is not at all for us; it is against us. I do not at all wonder at the invincible obstinacy it engenders in all those who regard its verses as inspired.

You are aware that, when once entered upon theological studies, we must of necessity make some acquaintance with the Bible. [...] In the simplicity of youth I fully expected, on opening the New Testament, to find there laid down, totidem literis (in lettere cubitali), the authority of a superior chief in the church, and the worship of the Virgin, the source of all grace for mankind. I sought with the same eagerness for the mass, for purgatory, for relics, &c. But in every page I found my expectations disappointed; from every reflection that I made resulted doubt. At last, after having read, at least six times over, that little book which set all my calculations at nought, I was forced to acknowledge to myself that it actually sets forth a system of religion altogether different from that taught in the schools, and thus all my ideas were thrown into confusion (ne rimasi al sommo scompaginato).

Leone, Jacopo, The Jesuit Conspiracy: The Secret Plan of the Order, London: Chapman and Hall, 1848, pp. 98-99.

Jesuits: Use of Bribery to Further Plans

I am quite of opinion that we ought, by every possible means, to secure the aid of modem thinkers, whatever be the nature of their opinions. If they can be induced to write at all in our favour, let us pay them well, either in money or in laudation. Provided that the universal edifice goes on constantly increasing, what matters it to us what workmen, or what implements, are employed?

Leone, Jacopo, The Jesuit Conspiracy: The Secret Plan of the Order, London: Chapman and Hall, 1848, pp. 102-103.

The Roman Catholic Church: The Latin Vulgate Preferred Over the Original Greek and Hebrew

Why we translate the Latin text, rather then the Hebrew, or Greeke, which Protestants preferre, as the fountaine tongs, wherin holie Scriptures were first writen? [...] the ancient best learned Fathers & Doctours of the Church, doe much complaine, and testifie to us, that bothe the Hebrew and Greeke Editions are fouly corrupted [...] the Latin was truly translated out of them, whiles they were more pure; and that the same Latin hath been farre better conserved from corruptions.

The Holy Bible, faithfully translated into English out of the authentical Latin, diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greek, & other editions in divers languages (1610 A.D. Douay Old Testament, 1582 A.D. Rheims New Testament), printed by Iohn Cousturier, 1635, OT preface.

[...] We translate the old vulgar Latin text, not the common Greeke text, for these causes.
[...]

10. It is not onely better then al other Latin translations, but then the Greeke text it self, in those places where they disagree.

The Holy Bible, faithfully translated into English out of the authentical Latin, diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greek, & other editions in divers languages (1610 A.D. Douay Old Testament, 1582 A.D. Rheims New Testament), printed by Iohn Cousturier, 1635, NT preface.

The Jesuits and the Protestant Bible

Then the Bible, that serpent which, with head erect and eyes flashing fire, threatens us with its venom whilst it trails along the ground, shall be changed again into a rod as soon as we are able to seize it; [...] Oh, then, mysterious rod! we will not again suffer thee to escape from our hands, and fall to the earth!
For you know but too well that, for three centuries past, this cruel asp (crudele aspide) has left us no repose; you well know with what folds it entwines us, and with what fangs it gnaws us!

Leone, Jacopo, The Jesuit Conspiracy: The Secret Plan of the Order, London: Chapman and Hall, 1848, p. 98.

Jesuit Oath: Dowling

Jesuits' Oath.— "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 pope Gregory is Christ's Vicar General, and is the true and only Head of the universal church throughout the earth; and that by virtue of the keys of binding and loosing, given to his Holiness by 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 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 in England, and all adherents, in regard that they be usurped 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 PROTESTANT, OR OBEDIENCE TO ANY OF THEIR INFERIOR MAGISTRATES OR OFFICERS. I do further declare the doctrine of the church of England, of the Calvinists, Huguenots, and other protestants, to be damnable, and those to be damned who 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; and do my utmost to extirpate the heretical protestants' doctrine, and to destroy all their pretended power, legal or otherwise. I do further promise and declare, that notwithstanding I am dispensed with to assume any religion heretical, for the propagation of the mother church's interest, to keep secret and private all her agents' counsels, as they entrust me, and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing or circumstance whatsoever, but to execute all which shall be proposed, given in charge, or discovered unto me, by you my ghostly father, or by any one of this convent. All which I, A. B., do swear by the blessed Trinity, and blessed sacrament, which I am now to receive, to perform and on my part to keep inviolably; and do call all the heavenly and glorious host of heaven, to witness 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."

Dowling, John, The History of Romanism, 4 ed., New York: Edward Walker, 1845, p. 605.

The Head Mason and the Jesuit General, One and the Same

There are still old ladies, male and female, about the country, who will tell you with grim gravity that, if you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand, tip-top, Head Mason of the world, you will discover that that dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesuits are one and the same Person!

Parton, James, The Life of Horace Greeley, New York: Mason Brothers, 1855, p. 102.

A Jesuit, All Things to All!

The Jesuits exist in all Protestant countries [...] under other names. [...] who make themselves all things to all, to gain all to the sect. So those who would not dare to declare themselves Jesuits in those countries, deceived by the appearance of the emissaries, who occasionally even speak evil of the Jesuits, become Jesuits without being aware. Take England, for example, there they do not legally exist [since 1829]; nevertheless, they have not given up that country, and I assure you that they are more numerous in England than in Italy, [...] so there are Jesuits in Parliament, amongst the Anglican clergy, amongst the Bishops, and perhaps also in still higher circles [advisors of Queen Victoria]. There are Jesuits among the Protestants, and this need cause no surprise. [...] all things are pure to the pure; that to feign yourself Protestant, to lead Protestants back to the Church, is a holy work.

Desanctis, Luigi, Popery, Puseyism, Jesuitism, 2nd ed., trans. Maria Betts, London: D. Catt, 1905, p. 135.

The Relation Between Freemasonry and the Jesuits

It is curious to note too that most of the bodies which work these [the High Masonic Degrees], such as the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, the Rite of Avignon, the Order of the Temple, Fessler's Rite, the 'Grand Council of the Emperors of the East and West — Sovereign Prince Masons,' etc., etc., are nearly all the offspring of the sons of Ignatius Loyola. The Baron Hundt, Chevalier Ramsay, Tschondy, Zinnendorf, and numerous others who founded the grades in these rites, worked under instructions from the General of the Jesuits. The nest where these high degrees were hatched, and no Masonic rite is free from their baleful influence more or less, was the Jesuit College of Clermont at Paris.

That bastard foundling of Freemasonry, the 'Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,' which is unrecognized by the Blue Lodges was the enunciation, primarily, of the brain of the Jesuit Chevalier Ramsay. It was brought by him to England in 1736-38, to aid the cause of the Catholic Stuarts.

Charles Sotheran in a letter dated January 11th, 1877 found in
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, 2 vols., New York: J. W. Bouton; London: Bernard Quaritch, 1877, vol. 2 - Theology, p. 390.

Henry IV of France on the Jesuits

Henry IV., King of France, after being wounded by an assassin sent by the Jesuits, said: "I am compelled to do one of these two things: Either recall the Jesuits, free them from the infamy and disgrace with which they are covered, or to expel them in a more absolute manner, and prevent them from approaching either my person or my kingdom.

"But, then, we will drive them to despair and to the resolution of attempting my life again, which would render it so miserable to me, being always under the apprehension of being murdered, or poisoned. For these people have correspondence everywhere, and are so very skillful in disposing the minds of men to whatever they wish, that I think it would be better that I should be already dead."

Chiniquy, Charles, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, New York; Chicago; Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1886, p. 684.

The Jesuits and the Jesuit General

The simple Jesuit is to possess for himself neither power, nor office, nor credit, nor riches, nor will, nor sentiments: the concentrated authority belongs to the General. His commands, his desires, are the law: his power flows from his hands as from its source, on the heads whom he chooses: it extends as far as he pleases; it stops when he wills.

[...] His [the Generals] qualifications, according to the Constitutions, must be—great piety, and the spirit of prayer: he must be exemplary in all the virtues; calm in his demeanor, circumspect in words. Magnanimity and fortitude are most essential attributes. He must have extraordinary intellect and judgment; prudence, rather than learning; vigilance, solicitude in his duties: his health and external appearance must be satisfactory. He must be middle-aged; and a due regard is to be had to the recommendations of nobility, or the wealth and honors he may have enjoyed in the world.
[...]
[...] The General possesses the secrets of every member—a terrible fulcrum for the lever of influence. He knows the character, the inclinations of every member; he knows these facts, or may know them, for he has them in writing. He is made acquainted with the consciences of all who must obey him, particularly of the provincials and others, to whom he has entrusted functions of great importance. He must have, like each Superior, a complete knowledge of his subjects; their propensities, their sentiments, the defects, the sins to which they have been or are more inclined and impelled—ad quos defectus vel peccata fuerint, vel sint magus propensi et incitati.

Every year, a list of the houses and members of the Society, the names, talents, virtues, failings of all are there recorded. It was such a list, doubtless, that suggested to a General of the Society that proud exclamation, when, having exultingly alluded to his philosophers, mathematicians, orators, &c., he cried, "Ed abbiamo anche martiri per il martirio se bisogna"—and we have men for martyrdom, if they be required.

In effect, from this minute list of mental and bodily qualities, he can compute his power and direct his plans, adapt his commands and insure success to his delegated functions.

Steinmetz, Andrew, History of the Jesuits, 2 vols., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lea and Blanchard, 1848, vol. 1, pp. 145-147.

The French Revolution and the Jesuits

The Jesuits and their friends ascribe the French Revolution to their suppression.

Steinmetz, Andrew, History of the Jesuits, 2 vols., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lea and Blanchard, 1848, vol. 2, p. 471.

Samuel Morse on the Jesuits

And who are these agents? They are, for the most part Jesuits, an ecclesiastical order, proverbial through the world for cunning, duplicity, and total want of moral principle; an order so skilled in all the arts of deception that even in Catholic countries, in Italy itself, it became intolerable, and the people required its suppression.

Morse, Samuel, Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States, New York: Leavitt, Lord and Co., 1835, p. 47.

Ignatius and the Roman Catholic Church: White is Black!

[…] that we may in all things attain the truth (that we may not err in anything), we ought ever to hold it (as a fixed principle), that what I see white, I believe to be black, if the Hierarchical Church so define it (to be) […]

Loyola, Ignatius of, The Spiritual Exercises, "Some [eighteen] rules to be observed, in order that we may think with the Orthodox Church" ("In order to think with truth as we ought, in the Church Militant..."), Rule 13.
(Loyola, Ignatius of, The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola, trans. Charles Seager, London: Charles Dolman, 1847, p. 180.)

To be right in everything, we ought always to hold that the white which I see, is black, if the Hierarchical Church so decides it [...]

Loyola, Ignatius of, The Spiritual Exercises, "[Rules] To have the true sentiment which we ought to have in the Church Militant...," Rule 13.
(Loyola, Ignatius of, The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola, trans. Elder Mullan, New York: P. J. Kenedy & Sons, 1914, p. 192.)

To make sure every way, we ought always to hold that we believe what seems to us white to be black, if the Hierarchical Church pronounces it so [...]

Loyola, Ignatius of, The Spiritual Exercises, "Rules for thinking with the Church" ("In order to know rightly what we ought to hold in the Church Militant..."), Rule 13.
(Loyola, Ignatius of, The Text of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius, London: Burns and Oates, 1880, p. 123.)

Jesuit Control: Tamburini

“Vede il signor, di questa camero io governo non dico Pirigi, mala China, non guia la China, ma tutto il mondo, senzache messuno sappio come si fa.”--(Tamburini, the General of the Jesuits.)
“See, sir, from this chamber I govern not only to Paris., but to China; not only to China, but to all the world, without any one to know how I do it.”

 Sherman, Edwin A., The Engineer Corps of Hell, c. 1883, p. 33.

The Jesuits and the Press

There are two institutions in especial to which the Jesuits will lay siege. These are the Press and the Pulpit. ... The press of Great Britain is already manipulated by them to an extent of which the public but little dream. ... The whole English press of the world is supervised, and the word is passed round how writers speakers, and causes are to be handled, ... and applause or condemnation dealt out just as it may accord with the interests and wishes of Rome.

Wylie, James Aitken, The Jesuits: their moral maxims and plots, London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1881, pp. 93-94.