Imprimatur,  
Novemb. 16. 1678.   

THE JESUITS MANNER of CONSECRATING Both the PERSONS and WEAPONS Employed for the Murdering KINGS and PRINCES By them accounted HERETICS, Being Matter of Fact.  
Translated out of Hospinian's History of the Jesuits, pag. 366. Printed at Zurich in the Year 1672.  
LONDON, Printed by T. S. in the Year 1678.   

This Account is extant in a Process Printed at Delft, by John Andrea Bookseller, and quoted by Hospinian in the following words.  
THE Jesuits have ready prepared (for having so much money at command, they can take Leases where they please) several Mansions of Rest and Beatitude, so ordered by virtue of their Transcending Charms, ready hung, fitted and furnished for the reception of those Ajaxe's, who being more stout than subtle, are by them drawn in and inveigled to the barbarous execution of what they more barbarously meditate and consult. Those deluded Villains, and Religious Braves, they bless, they sanctify, and canonize at length for Saints, assuming to themselves a large Canton in Heaven for their reward.  
The person whose silly reason the Jesuits have once overcome with their more potent Arguments, is immediately conducted into their Sanctum Sanctorum, designed for prayer and meditation. There the Dagger is produced, choicely wrapped, up in a linen safeguard, enclosed in an Ivory Sheath, engraved with several enigmatical Characters, and accompanied with an Agnus Dei. Certainly a most monstrous copulation, so unadvisedly to intermix the height of murderous Villainy, and the most sacred emblem of Meekness together.  
This Dagger thus unsheathed, is hypocritically be dewed with holy water, and the handle as soon adorned with a certain number of Coral Beads, thereby ascertaining the credulous Fool, that as many effectual stabs as he gives the assassinated Prince, so many souls he should redeem out of Purgatory upon his own account. Then they deliver the Dagger into the Parricide's hand, with a solemn recommendation in these words, Elected Son of God, receive the Sword of Jephta, the Sword of Samson, the Sword of David wherewith he smote off the head of Goliath, the Sword of Gideon, the Sword of Judith, the Sword of the Maccahees, the Sword of Pope Julius the second, wherewith he freed himself from the prosecution of Princes after he had defiled several Cities with the effusion of 〈…〉 Blood, Go and prosper, prudently courageous, and the Lord streng 〈…〉 Arm, Which words being once pronounced, ●…y all fall upon their knees; at what time the Head of the Society pronounces this Exorcism; A●…pud O Cherubims, descend and be present O Seraphims, you Thrones, you Powers, you holy Angels come down, and fill this blessed Vessel with eternal glory, and daily offer 〈◊〉, 'tis but a small reward, the Crown of the blessed Virgin Mary, and of all the holy Patriarches and Mar●…. He is 〈◊〉 more concerned among us, he is now of 〈◊〉 Celestial ●…ernity. And thou, O God, most terrible and inaccessible, who yet hast revealed to this instrument of thine, in thy dedicated place of our Prayer and Meditation, that such a Prince is to be cut off as a Tyrant and a Heretic, and his Dominions to be translated to another Line, confirm and strengthen, we beseech thee this Instrument of thine, whom we have consecrated and dedicated to that sacred Office, that he may be able to accomplish thy will. Grant him the Habergeon of thy Divine Omnipotency, that he may be enabled to escape the hands of his pursuers. Give him wings, that he may escape the hands of all that lie in wait for his destruction. Infuse into his soul the beams of thy consolation, to uphold and sustain the weak fabric of his body, that contemning all fear, he may be able to show a cheerful and lively countenance in the midst of present torments, or prolonged Imprisonments; and that he may sing and rejoice with a ●…e than ordinary exultation, whatever death he un●….  
〈…〉 ●…xorcism being finished, the Parricide is brought 〈…〉 ●…ta●, over which at that time hangs a picture 〈◊〉 ●…ng the story of James Clement, a Dominican 〈…〉 with the figures of several Angels protecting and ●…cting him to Heaven. This Picture the Jesuits 〈◊〉 their Cullie, and at the same time, presenting 〈◊〉 with a celestial Coroner, rehearse these words. Lord, ●…k down, and behold this Arm of thine, the Executioner of thy Justice. Let all thy Saints arise and give place to him. Which Ceremonies being ended, there are only five Jesuits deputed to converse with, and keep the Parricide Company. Who in their common discourse make it their business upon all occasions to fill his ears with their divine wheedles, making him believe a certain celestial splendour to be shining in his countenance, by the beams whereof they are over-awd to throw themselves down before him, and to kiss his feet; appearing to them now no more a mortal, but transfigured into a Deity. And lastly in a deep dissimulation they bewail themselves, and feign a kind of Envy at the happiness and eternal Glory which he is so suddenly to enjoy, exclaiming thus before the Credulous Manslayer; Would to God the Lord had chosen me in thy stead, and had so ordered it by this means, that being freed from the pains of Purgatory, I might go directly without let, into Paradise.  
But if the person whom they imagine proper to attempt the Parricide prove any thing squeamish, or reluctant to their exhortations, then by nocturnal Scare-crows, and affrighting apparitions, or by the suborned appearances of the Holy Virgin, or some other of the Saints, even of Ignatius Loyola himself, or some of his most celebrated Associates, they terrify the soon retrieved misbeliever into a compliance with a ready prepared oath, which they enforce him to take and wherewith they animate and encourage his staggering Resolution. Thus these villainous and impious Doctors in the Art of Murder and Parricide sometimes by the terrors of punishment, sometimes by the allurements of merit enslame the courages of the unwary, and having entangled them in the noozes of sacrilegious and bloody attempts, precipitate both soul and body into eternal condemnation.  
Story mentions a sort of People formerly notorious in the Eastern parts of the world, whom the most Historians call Assassins', that is to say, murderers of Princes and great men. These being followers of the Mahometan Religion, instituted a new Sect, of which the first founder was Aloadim, accounted a Saint and a Prophet by those of his own Gang. This Order soon began to flourish, being more remarkable than any other of the Mahometan belief, for the beauty of their Colleges, and the pleasantness of their Habitations. Which were confirmed upon them with large endowments, for the Instruction of youth in the Mahometan profession, among whom they had the privilege to cull out the boldest resolutions and the choicest Fancies.  
The Principal Tenants of this sect were these.  

1. That Mahomet was the Prophet of God, the restorer of lost mankind, and the rewarder of Good and Evil.  
2. That the Chief and Prince of this sect was his Vicar upon Earth, the only interpreter of the Divine and Human law delivered by Mahomet.  
3. That it was just and legal to kill and murder all Princes, that were not obedient in all things to him, either by open force or private contrivance, as opportuty offered.  
4. That his Disciples were not bound or obliged in their allegiance to any Prince, whatever oaths they took to be true to him.  
5. That Paradise was a Garden flowing with milk and honey, and abounding in all manner of sensual pleasures and delights.  
6. That whosoever should kill any Prince, and Enemy to their law, should enjoy the next place in Paradise, to Mahomet himself.  
7. That it was in the power of this Vicar of Mahomet, by a particular Grant or Patent from Mahomet, to distribute and share the joys of Paradise, to such as he should think deserving,   
With these pestilent, and abominable maxims, did they leven and corrupt the education of all the Youth that came within their Clutches, to render them the more obedient to their Principles, and to make them the more undaunted in such dangerous attempts which they themselves should put them upon. The particular Disciples of this Doctrine, being first stupefied with a potion of Opiate, were carried into a Garden adjoining to the College, where when they awaked again, all sorts of delights and pleasures waited on them. Streams of Honey, Wine and Milk; Variety of Music, sumptuous Garments, and costly provision to please the Palate; neither were lovely Women wanting; all which pleasures they enjoyed to full satiety. Afterwards when they had had a full enjoyment of all these pleasures, they were again laid asleep with another draught of Opiate, and carried back into the College. When they came to themselves again (to use the words of Paulus Venetus) and called to mind, what pleasures they had for so small a time enjoyed, they began to be troubled that those pleasures were too short. But being instructed upon what account they might enjoy them to Eternity, they began to be in love with death, and to contemn all thoughts of danger that should bring them to these everlasting pleasures, of which they had had such a transitory taste already. Then their Doctor, who feigned himself to be the Prophet of God, laying hold of the opportunity; Be but prepared, said he, in obedience to me, to suffer Death undauntedly when occasion shall serve, and you shall eternally enjoy those pleasures, which were here too short. Upon which, those miserable wretches, believing death to be so great a gain, willingly condescend, and swear to obey him in all things; whatever he shall enjoin, though to the loss of their Lives. And thus this Tyrant over Souls, animates and instigates these credulous admirers of sensual Pleasure, to commit the most Execrable Murders and Villainies that Revenge or Interest can contrive. Thus far Paulus Venetus, with whom Nicetas Choniates agrees in these words, They go and reside as Friends and Subjects of those Princes, whom they are designed to murder, and feigning private business, or the public employment of Envoys or Ambassadors, in secret Conference dispatch the Prince appointed for the slaughter; never considering the difficulty of the attempt, nor the severe punishment of such an abominated Crime: And this they do to render themselves formidable to all men; and that none should dare to withstand their Fury. Whereby it came to pass, that many Regions and Princes became Tributary to this Tyrant, till he was by the Tartars put to death for a false Prophet, and all the whole crew of Homicides quite extinguished in the Year 1262.  
The same Education do the Jesuits give their Scholars in all their Schools and Colleges, inflaming the Courages of their Disciples to all acts of impious Violence and Villainy, under the specious pretence of doing God good service; which being once imprinted in a mind, animated with the hopes of eternal happiness, is enough to guide the rash hand of Impiety to the Sacred Breast of the greatest Prince in the World,  
FINIS.