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CHAl'TKH XH.
WHO MAY l'MK Til AT THK.Y MAY UK
WRTAISMI AMri!ChKKVKI IN TIIK
KlH'IKTY.
1. Th first 1hw In tho company
HTtain t tho Kixiil op. i atoi: that I
to fay, thso who rannot piwuru h n
for tho tfiPiHrl than for tho iilrltual
jyooJ of tho wH-ioty; u h tho eonf.-s-sor
of irlm'fii, of the Kiworful, of the
widows, of tho rich ploim women, tho
prcHchort nnd tho professor who know
all tluw HwroU.
2. Thowi who havo already failed in
stit'iitfth or advanced In years; con
forming to tho ute they have nmdo of
their Uilentu in and for the U'iiKral
4,'ood of tho sooloty; of tho manner
which haa attended them in days that
arc paused; and further, are yet con
venient Instrument to give part to tho
superior of tho ordinary defect which
aro to bo noted In ourselves, for they
are always in tho hoiine.
3. Wo miiKt never expel but in case
of extreme necessity, for fear ( f tho no
cioty aciiulrlni; a bad reputation.
4. Furthermore, It will be necoenary
to favor those who exool by their tal
ent, their nobleness and their fortuno;
particularly if they have powerful
friend attached to tho society; and if
lliey themselvts have for it a sincere
appreciation, as we have already said
before. They must bo sent to Ilome, or
to the universities of greater reputa
tion to study there; or in caso of hav
ing studied in some province, it will bo
very convenient that tho professors at
tend to them with special care and af
fection. Meanwhile, they not having
conveyed their property to tho society,
we mutt not rofuso them anything; for
after confirming the cession, they will
be disappointed a the others, notwith
standing guurdlng some consideration
for the past.
5. Having also csin-clal considera
tion on the part of the superiors, for
those that have brought to the society,
a young notable, placed so that they
are given to kuotho affection made to
it; but if they have not profeesed, it is
necessary to take care of not having too
much indulgence with them, for fear
that they may return at another time,
to carry away thoi-o w hom they have
brought to the society.
CEIAPTKli XIII.
OF THE YOUTH WHO MAY HE ELECTED
TO HE ADMITTED INTO THE SOCIKTY,
AND OK.THK MODE OF RETAINING
THEM.
1. It is necessary that much prud
ence shall be exercised, renpoctirg the
election of the youth; having to be
sprightly, noble, well liked, or at the
least excellent in some of these quali
ties. 2. To attract them with greater
facility to our institute, it Is necessary
In the meanwhile, to study that the
rectors and professors of colleges shall
exhibit an especial affection; and out
side the time of the clast.es, to make
them comprehend how great is God,
and that some one should consecrate to
His servico all that he possesses; and
particularly if he is in tho society of
Ills Son.
4 Whenever the opportunity may
arrive, conducive in the college and In
the garden, and yet at times to the
country houses, that in the company of
ourselves, during the recreations, that
we may familiarize with them, little by
little, being careful, notwithstanding,
that the familiarity does not engender
disgust.
4. We cannot consent that we shall
punish them, nor oblige them to as
semble at their tasks among those who
are the most educated.
5. We must congratulate them with
gifts and privileges conforming to their
age and encouraging above all others
with moral discourses.
6. We must inculcate them, that it
is for one divine disposition, that they
are favorites among so many who fre
quent the same college.
7. On other occasions, especially in
the exhortations, we must aim to ter
rify them with menaces of the eternal
condemnation, if they refuse the divine
vocation.
8. Meanwhile frequently expressing
the anxiety to enter the society, we
must always defer their admission, that
they may remain constant; but if for
these, they are undecided, then we must
encourage them incessantly by other
methods.
9. If we admonish effectively, that
none of their friends, nor yet the fa
thers, nor the mothers discover their
ovcatlon before being admitted; because
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then, If then, they come to the tempta
tion of withdrawing; no many a tho
society desire to give full liberty of
doing that which may bo the moft con
venient; and in case of succeeding to
conquer the temptation, we must never
lose occasions to make thorn recover
spirit; remembering that which wo
havo said, ulways thatthi will succeed
during tho time of tho novitiate, or
after having made their simple vow .
10. With resHH't to tho son of the
great, nobles, and senator, a it 1 su
premely dlthcult to attract them, mean
whlli living with their father, who
arc having them educated to the end,
that they may succeed in their destinies,
we must Hirsunde, vigorously, of the
bettor Inline nee of friend that are per
sons of tho same society; that they are
ordered to other provinces, or to dis
tant universities In which there are our
teachers; careful to renit to tho re
spective professors tho necessary in
structions, appropriate to their quality
and condition, thatthey may gain their
friendship for tho society with greater
facility and certainty.
11. When having arrived at a more
advanced age, they will be induced to
practice some spiritual exercises, that
they may have so good an exit in Ger
many and Poland.
12. We must console them In their
sadness and all! lotion, according to the
quality and dispositions of each one,
making use of private reprimand and
exhortations appropriate to the bad use
of riches; inculcating upon them that
theyshould depreclato the felicity of a
vocation, menacing them with the pains
of hell for the things they do.
13. It will be necessary to make
patent to the fathers and the mothers,
thatthey may condescend more, easily
to the desire of their sons of entering
the society, the excellence of its insti
tute in comparison with those of other
order; the sanctity and the science of
our fathers; it reputation in all the
world; the honor and distinctions of the
different great and small. We must
make enumeration of the princes and
the magnates, that, with great content,
have lived until their death, and yet
living in the society. Wemustsho'v
how agreeable it is to GoJ, that the
youth consecrate themselves to Him,
particularly in the society of His Son;
and what thing Is there so sublime a
that of a man carrying the yoke of hi
Lord from his youth. That if they op-po:-e
any objections Iwcause of their ex
treme youth, then we must present the
facility of our institute, the which not
havli g anything to molest, with the
exception of the three vows, and that
which is most notable, that we do not
have any obligatory rule, nor yet under
penalty of venial sin.
CHAPTEU XIV.
UPON RESERVED CASES AND MOTIVES
THAT NECESSITATE EXPULSION FROM
THE SOCIETY.
1. To most of the cis ;8 express ;d in
the constitution, and of which only the
superio or theordlnary confessor, with
permission of this, can absol ve them,
where there is sodomy, unnatural crime,
fornication, adultery, of the unchaste
touch of a man, or of a woman; also if
under the pretext of zeal, or whatever
motive, they have done some grave
thing against the society; against its
honors and its gains; these will be just
causts for reason of the expulsion of the
guilty.
2. If anyone confesses in the confes
sional of having committed some similar
act. he will not be promised absolution,
until he has promised to reveal to the
superior, outside of the confessional, the
same or by hi confessor. The superior
will operate the better for it, in the
general interests of the society; fur
ther, if there is founded hope of the
careful hiding of the crime, it will be
necessary to impose upon the guilty a
convenient punishment; if otherwise he
can be expelled much before. With all
the care that is possible, the confessor
will give the penitent to understand
that he runs the danger of being ex
pelled. 3. If any one of our confessors, hav
ing heard a strange persan say, that he
had committed a shameful thing with
one of the society, he will not absolve
such a person, without his having said,
outside of his confession, the name of
the one with whom he has sinned; and
if he eo says, he will be made to swear
that he will not divulge the same,
without the consent of the society.
4. If two of ourselves have sinned
carnally, he who first avows it will be
retained In the society; and the other
will be expelled; but he who remains
permanent, will be after such mortifica
tion and bad treatment, of aorrow, and
by hi Impatience, and if we hav e oc
casion fur hi expulaUm, It will be
ntH-t-ai y for the future of it that it be
done dlreetly.
5 The company being a noble our
porati.m and pre-eminent in the church,
It can dlsnii th-4 that will not be apt
for tho execution of our onject.aitbough
giving katlafaellon In the beginning
and the opixirt unity doe not delay in
prvoentlng itse'f; If it procure continu
ous maltreatment; and If be WobMg.d
to do contrary to hi inclination; If they
are gathered under the order of
gloomy 0rlor; if he 1 separated
from hi stcdlc and from the honor
able functionr, etc., etc., until be get
to murmuring.
0. la no manner must we retain in
the company, those that oenly reveal
against their sueriors, or that will
complain puMiely, or reservedly, of
their companions, or particularly if
they make them to strangers; nor to
those who are among ourelve, or
among person who are on the outside,
censure the conduct of the society in
regard to the acquisition or administra
tion of temporal properliea, or what
ever act of the same; for example, of
crushing or opp-essing many of thoao
whom we do not wish well, or that they
the same having been expelled, etc.,
etc. Nor yet those, that in conversa
tion, who tolerate, or defend the Vene
tians, the French or others, that have
driven the company away from their
territories, or that have occasioned
great prejudices.
7. Hoforo the expulsion of any we
must vex and harrass them in the ex
treme; depriving them of the functions
that they have been accustomed to dis
charge, dedicating them to others. Al
though tbey may do well, it will be
necessary to censure them, and with
this pretext, apply them to another
thing. Imposing by a trifling fault that
they have committed the most severe
penalties, that they blush in public, un
til they have lost all patience; and at
last will be expelled a pernicious to
all, for which a future opportunity will
present Itself when they will think less.
8. When some one of the company
has a certain hope of obtaining a bish
opric, or whatever other ecclesiastical
dignity, to most of theordlnary vows of
the society he will be obliged to take
another; and that is, that he will al
ways preserve good sentiments toward
the society; that he will always speak
favorably of it; that he will not have a
confessor that will not be to its bosom;
that he will do nothing of en'ity with
out having heard the justice of the
same. Because in consequence of not
having observed thU, the Cardinal
Tolet the society had obtained of the
holy see, that no swinish de scendants of
Jew or Mahomedans were admitted,
that he did not desire to take such
vows; and that for celebrity that is out,
he was expelled a a tirm enemy of the
society.
CHAPTER XV.
HOW THE COMPANY MUST HE CON
DUCTED WITH THE MONKS ANDNUNS.
1. The confessors and preachers
must guard well against offending the
nuns and occasioning temptations con
trary to their vocation; but on the con
trary, having conciliated the love of
the lady superiors, that we ob ain to
hear, when less, their extraordinary
confessions, and that it is predicted
that we may hope soon to receive some
gratitude from them; because the ab
bessis, principally the rich and noble,
can be of much utility to the society, by
themselves, and by their relatives and
friends; of the manner with which we
treat with them and influence of the
principal monasteries, the society will
little by little arrive to obtain the
knowledge of all the corporation and
Increase its friendship.
2. It will be necessary, notwith
standing, to prohibit our nuns from fre
quenting the monasteries of women, for
fear that their mode of life may be more
agreeable, and that the society will see
itself frustrated In the hopes of possess
Ing all their properties. We must in
duce them to take the vow of chastity
and obedience, at the hands of their
confessors; and to thow them that this
mode of life will conform with the uses
of the primitive church, placed as a
light to shine in the house, and that it
cannot be hidden under a measure,
without the edification of their neigh
bor, and without fruit for the souls;
furthermore, that in imitation of the
widows of the Gospel, doing well by
giving themselves to Jesus Christ and
to His company. If they were to know
how evil it can possibly be, of the life of
the cloisters; but these instructions
must be given under the seal of inviol
able secrecy, that they do not come to
the ears of the monks.
CHAPTER XVI.
HOW WE MUST MAKE PROFESSION OF
DESPISING RICHES.
1. With the end of preventing the
seculars from directing attention to our
itching for riches, it will be useful to
repel at times alms of little amount, by
which we can allow them to do services
for our society; though we must accept
the smallest amounts from people at
tached to us, for fear that we may be
accused of avarice, if we only receive
those that are most numerous.
2. We mu6t refuse sepulture to per
sons of the lowest class in our churches,
though they may have been very at
tached to our society; for we do not le
lieve that we must seek riches by the
numlier of Interment, and we mustbo'd
firmly the gain that we have made
with the dead.
3. In regarJ to the w idow and other
perwm who have left their proierties
tj the society, its must Ia!or with reso
lution and greater vigor than with the
others; thing 1 ing equal, and not to
lie made apparent, that we favor some
more than other, In consideration of
their temporal properties. Tho sane
must bo observed with tho-e that per
tain to the company, after that they
have made cession of their proix-rij;
and if it be necessary to expel jthera
froui tho society, it must be done with
all discretion, to tie end that -they
leave to the company a part for the lcr
of that whl ;h they have given, or that
which they have bequeathed at the
time of their dean.
CHAPTER XVII.
METHODS TO EXALT THE COMPANY.
1. Treating principally all, though
In thing of little consequence, we must
have tho same opinion, or at least ex
terior dignity; for by this manner we
may augment and strengthen the so
ciety more and more: to overthrow the
barrier we have overcome in the busi
nes of the world.
2. TIjus ktrengthening all, It will
shi no by its wisdom and good example,
that wo shall excel all the other fa
thers, and particularly the pastors, etc.,
etc., until the people desire us to all.
Publicly divulging that the pastor do
not need to x)sstss so much knowledge,
with such they can discharge well their
duties, stat'eg that they can assist them
with the counsels of the society; that
for this motive they can dedicate them
selves to all clashes of studies.
3. We must inculcate this doctrine
with kings and princes, that the Catho
lic faith cannot subsist in the present
state, without politics; but that in this,
it is necessary to proceed with much
certainty. Of this mode, we must share
the affection of the great, and be ad
mitted to the most secret counsels.
4. We must entertain their good
will, by writing from all parts interest
ing facts and notices.
5. It will be no little advantage that
will result, by secretly and prudently
fomenting dissensions between the
great, ruining or augmenting their
power. Hut if we perceive some ap
pearance of reconciliation between
them, then we of the society will treat
and act as paclticators; that it shall not
be that any others shall anticipate to
obtain it.
0. As much to the magnates as to
the people, we must persuade them by
all poss'ble means, that the society has
not been, but by especial Divine Provi
dence, conforming to the prophecies of
the Abbot Joachim, for to return and
raise up the church, humbled by the
heretics.
(To be Continued.)
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