REMARKS ON THE FOREGOIN&v 



A WORD OR TWO IN BEHALF OF THE JESUITS. 

 AS AN APPENDIX TO THE FOREGOING. 

 FROM MR. WIELAND. 



H OW much foever the above rubric may lower 

 me in the efteem of fome of my friends, the word is 

 gone forth ; and I, whom probably the jefuits them- 

 felves would never have fufpefted of fuch an aft, here 

 publicly appear ; not indeed to write a formal apology 

 for them — an enterprife, which to execute (if I were 

 ever fo much inclined to it) would require fuch miracu- 

 lous gifts as only a miraculous faith can pretend to lay 

 claim to — but merely for fatisfying my confcience, 

 (too tender perhaps) by fpeaking a word or two in their 

 behalf ; as it feems at leaft probable to me, that my 

 learned friend, the author of the communication on 

 the devotion to the heart of Jems, may have dealt a 

 little too feverely with them. 



I fometimes indeed fee very hone-ft and intelligent 

 perfons, to whom it feems a fettled truth, that a man 

 cannot eafily bear too hard on the common foes of il- 

 lumination and improvement ; but in fuch matters 

 every one has his own way of feeing ; I difpute with no 

 man about his, and therefore afk nothing in favour of 

 mine — - but toleration. 



The.infdtution of the jefuits may have an evil ten- 

 dency in itfelf. That order, by its boundlefs arrogance 

 its methodical ambition, its luft of drawing every thing 

 within its vortex, and by the obliquities to which pride 

 and covetoufnefs fometimes lead, may have made 



itfelf 



