for the deposition of a Prince-Instructions for the application of poison-Asserted power of the Pope in the removal of Kings and Rulers-The Powder-Plot-Description of two kinds of tyrants (princes)-The commandment forbidding murder encompassed with formidable difficulties, so that no one can keep it-Ehud and Eglon— Murder of the Sovereign Tyrant-Royal heretics; succession to the throne; appointment of a Catholic King devolves to the Pope -The ecclesiastical the sole power which has received authority from God-A King deposed by the Pope begins to bear the title of tyrant, and may be killed accordingly-Christ's charge to Peter, "Feed my sheep," includes the commission "Destroy, proscribe, depose heretic Kings who will not be corrected, and who are injurious to their subjects in things which concern the Catholic faith"-The abscission of an ear from the servant of the high-priest, a reason why the sovereign priesthood was committed to St. Peter-Ignatius chosen General of the Order of Jesuits because he wished to kill a Moor who had blasphemed-Monarchies ridiculous exhibitions of Page 216 THE ORDER OF THE JESUITS EXEMPLIFIED, &c. CHAP. I. ' ORIGIN OF THE ORDER. THE founder of the Jesuits was Ignatius of Loyola, a Spaniard by birth and a soldier by profession. At the siege of Pampeluna, in the year 1521, he was severely wounded; and it was during the confinement which his wounds occasioned him, that he devised the scheme of his militant order. Among the books which were brought to beguile the tedium of his seclusion from active life, was the Flos Sanctorum,' a Spanish romance, which inspired him with the love of spiritual knighterrantry and being a man at once ignorant and ambitious, as well as religiously insane, he determined to realize the schemes of visionary adventure 1 History of Ignatius (2 vols. 12mo. London, 1754.) Vol. I. p. 8. B |