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for the sharpest sword in his army cannot vie 

 services with a subtle quill. You may see his 

 business in the comic writing* disputing, that 

 so his tongue is a shield to his patron's opinion, 

 and a sword to his adversaries. 



The Jesuit reckons it in the number of his 

 merits, if he may, by any sinister ways, ruffle 

 and disorder heretical kingdoms (so he calls 

 them), encourage weak and unstable minds to 

 slight magistracy, irritate divisions, tumults, 

 rebellions, absolve from oaths, and all sacred 

 ties ; so that it is hard to find any tragical 

 scene, or bloody theatre, into which the Jesuit 

 hath not intruded, and been as busy, as Davus 

 in the comedy, contributing in a very high mea- 

 sure to every fanatic insolence, justifying the 

 old Lemma of Loyola's picture, Cavete vobis 

 pr'mcijjes . These are the fire-brands of Europe, 

 the forge and bellows of sedition,-)" infernal 

 emissaries, the pests of the age, men that live 

 as if huge sins would merit heaven by an anti- 

 peristasis. 



2. Nor is any nation without some turbulent 

 spirits of its own, the dishonour of the gown 

 and pulpit, the shame, and sometimes the ruin, 



* T^d-^uv, ^tiMvau]/, KOi) rn y'Kurln fnoXtfj^yia-uv. — Aristophanes, 

 f Classica canere. 



