5H DEVOTION TO THE HEART OP JESUS. 



ftand over the Jefuits, Filii mei funt; and, Nomen 

 meum ibi cunctis diebus. VI. A young lad conducted 

 by an angel, who wants forcibly to throw him into the 

 fhip fo much toffed about by the ftorm, the angel at 

 the fame time pointing his attention to the two hearts, 

 as to the polar ftar and central point of their reunion ; 

 by which is lignified their fecret and fometimes open 

 endeavours to recruit the fociety. All the Jefuits, 

 who are Handing about the main object, betray various 

 emotions of mind, but all are alike employed in de- 

 vout proflration before the pair of hearts. This they 

 hold to be the fign of their infeparable reunion, for 

 the token that God is in the midrt of them, and for an 

 impenetrable fhield, againft which all the darts of per- 

 fection fhot at them by their enemies muft rebound 

 upon themfelves. And therefore another motto on the 

 picture is : Dabo eis fcutum cordis. " The like images 

 and pictures have been very lately introduced by them 

 into the churches and chapels granted them in White- 

 Ruffia and in Peterfburg. 



The end propofed by the devotion to the heart of 

 Jefus is now manifeft to the whole world. Might not 

 that end be obtained by more reputable means ? As 

 the fons of Loyola may have learnt from experience, 

 that their fpiritual harlequinades no longer fait the 

 prefent times, they ought, inftead of ftriving any more 

 to impofe upon mankind by gloomy and Hiocking myf- 

 ticifms, to make the illumination of the intellect and 

 the improvement of the heart the central-point of their 

 united efforts. What country would not think itfelf 

 happy in poffeffing an order entirely devoted to the in- 

 ftruction of youth, and that taught nothing but truth 

 and unfophifticated virtue. ? 



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