IN CHURCH HISTORY. Ill 



Although the former was measurably of a local 

 nature, yet its results showed the spirit of the Roman 

 power, and its determination to cling to its corrup- 

 tions, for that Council decided in favor of the doc- 

 trines of transubstantiation and purgatory ; and 

 approved of the invocation of the saints, the celi- 

 bacy of the clergy, the communion in one kind, &c. 



The Jesuits' order was formally recognized by a 

 bull, in a. d. 1540. Every member took an oath 

 of unhesitating obedience to the pope's commands. 

 They were ready to do any kind of service, however 

 degrading, however laborious ; to go anywhere ; to 

 be anything, or to do anything. They spread all 

 over the world, sometimes as missionaries to the 

 heathen, as teachers in schools, as members of king's 

 cabinets, as detectives of heresy, as the unscrupu- 

 lous allies of Rome wherever her interests could be 

 advanced. 



The order exists to-day, although the Jesuits 

 have, at different times, been driven out of nearly 

 every country in Europe. They have influenced 

 the politics of kingdoms, fomented strifes, and in 

 many cases have not scrupled to commit crimes. 



Still they exist, and wherever Romanism is in the 

 ascendant, there they are found. It is true that 

 among them have been numbered some of the most 

 zealous of missionaries, and some of the most 

 learned of men, but no religious order is so unscru- 

 pulous in carrying forward its purposes. Believing 



