Secreta monita Societatis Jesu Author:William M'Gavin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: //. Meminerint mmes facultatem ad exercenda Societatis ministeria modeste ac religiose petendam, ct omnes tum cede - siasticos prcesertim, tum sceculares quorum ... more »auctoritate indigemus, benevolos sibi facere studeant. III. Ad loca distantia etiam eundum, ubi eleemosync e quantumvis parvc e reci- piendce, exposita necessitate nostrorum; ecedem deinde dandce aliis pauperibus, ut sic cedificentur ii, qui nondum Societa- tem noverunt, et sint in nos tanto liberah- ores. IV. Omnes eundem videantur spirare spiritum, ideoque eundem modum exte- riorem addiscant, ut uniformitas in tanta diversitate personarum unumquemque cedificet; qui secus fecerint, tanquam nocui, dimittantur. V. Caveant nostri emerefundos inini- tio; sed si quos emerint nobis bene sitos, fiat hoc mutuato nomine aliquorum ami- corumfidelium et secretorum; et ut melius luceat paupertas noslra, bona qua suntcommon and diffusive charity, may excite in the principal inhabitants, an admiration of our conduct, and forcibly draw them into an affection for us. II. Let it be remembered by all, that the privilege to exercise the ministry of this Society, must be requested in a modest and religious manner, and that they must use their best endeavors to gain chiefly the favor of such ecclesiastics and secular persons, of whose authority they may stand in need. III. Let them also remember to visit distant places, where, having remonstrated the necessities of the Society, they shall readily receive the most in considerable alms, which afterwards being bestowed on other objects, may edify those which are as yet unacquainted with our Society, and stir them up to a greater liberality to us. IV. Let all seem as though they breathed the same spirit, and consequently learn the same exterior behaviour, that by such an uniform...« less