BY THE REV.  EDWARD HOARE, MA., INCUMBENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, RAMSGATE. Second Edition. LONDON: J. H. JACKSON, ISLINGTON GREEN, AND PATERNOSTER-ROW; HATCHARD, PICCADILLY; AND SEELEYS, FLEET STREET. 1852. Protestant Associations , or other parties , desirous of circulating large numbers of this pamphlet , may obtain them at a considerable reduction , by applying to the Publisher ....

The first edition of the following pages was prepared as a Lecture for the Islington Protestant Institute.  The delivery of that Lecture has led to a more careful study of the subject, so that in this second edition there is a considerable quantity of additional information, which I trust may be found important. One gentleman has done me the honour of noticing the first edition, and publishing a pamphlet in order to show that the constitution quoted on page 32 should be rendered as the reader wi

The Members of the Society are arranged in the following classes:— [10] The Professed, who, in fact, constitute the real body of the Order.  The property of the Society is vested in them, and they only have a right to attend a general congregation, or to vote at the election of a General.  They are all priests, and none are admitted till the age of twenty-five.  They are distinguished from the other classes by having taken four instead of three vows, the rest having vowed three things, viz., obe

With such an organization at his command, it is clear that the General can rarely be at a loss for agency.  Whatever be the required service, it is an easy thing to select the best adapted instrument, and to despatch him without delay. But to describe their mode of action is almost impossible, for it varies with every circumstance, and is different in every locality. When they are permitted to locate themselves in any country, their two chief means for the attainment of their object appear to be

Such being the organization and plan of action of this mysterious Society, the next subject for inquiry is, the connecting principle of its vast machinery.  This may be briefly stated to be, unhesitating and blind obedience to the authority of the General or his subordinates.  To impregnate the mind with this one principle of obedience, appears to be the leading object of Jesuit education.  One of the learned Jesuits with whom the Rev. H. Seymour conversed at Rome, stated that their “great and c

It is stated by Mr. Seymour that the character of the Society is in high esteem for morality at Rome.  One of them said to him, “We have been charged with being crafty intriguers—with intermeddling in politics—with swaying princes—with disturbing kingdoms—with embroiling families.  We have been charged with everything but one.  No man has ever charged us with personal immorality.”  And Mr. Seymour adds, that this boast is certainly true as respects the Jesuits of Rome; so true that whereas all m

It seems strange to mention the holy name of religion in connexion with such principles as those of probability and intention, and the first feeling of the heart is to rise up in holy indignation, and to declare it is utterly impossible that religion can have anything to do with such a system.  But such a conclusion would be clearly incorrect; for not only do the facts prove that there is a certain religious principle in action, but I believe it may be shewn that such results could not be produc