A S\(eit> Survey of the Weft-Indies.
Nation worth nothing of fome (fee Dodor Day upon i Cor. 16. 9.) that the nearer any
are unto a conjundion in matters of Religion, and yet fome difference retained, th
deeper is the hatred ; asheobferves,a jew hates a Chriftian far worfe then he doth a
Pas'an or a Turke-;'aPapift hates a Proteftant worfe then he doth a jew,andaForma-
liff hates a Puritan worfe then he. doth a Papift. No fuch hatred under heaven (faith he)
as that between a Formalift, and a Puritan, whereof our now Domeftick and Civil! Wars
may be a fad and woefull experience. A truth which made Paul burft out into a lamenta-
ble complaint  1 Cor. 16. 9. faying,   A great door and effectuait ts opened unto me, and there
are many adverfaries.                                         .            .    t7    A j     r       t     
And as when the door of true Faith once is opened, then Adverfaries begin to
fwarme and rage; fo in all points of falf and faigrei Religion, where the entrance to
it is laid open, hatred and enmity will ad their parts.    But much more if with fuch
pretended Religion, Wealth and Ambition as counterfeit Mates thruft hard to enter
at the opened door, what ftrife, hatred, and envy do they kindle even inthe hearts
of fuch who have vowed poverty and the contempt of worldly wealth? I may adde
to what hath been obferved above, that no hatred is comparable to that which is be-
tween a JefaiteandaFryer, orany other of Romes religious Orders; And above all
vet between ajefuite, and a Dominican.   The ambition and pride of Jefuites is  in-
eonfiftent in a Kingdome or Common-wealth with any fuch as may be equalt to them
in Preaching   Counfell or Learning. Therefore ftrive they fo much for the education
ofGentlemens Children in their Colledges, that by teaching the fonnes, the love ot
the fathers and mothers may be more eafily gained :  and their love and good will
thus gained   they may withall gaine to themlelves whatfoever praife, honour, glo-
ry may befit to be bellowed upon any other Ecclefiafticail Perfon.    Which Policy
and Ambition in them being fo patent and known to all the World, hathftirredup in
all other Religions a hatred to them uncapable ever of Reconciliation.   This hath
made them all to confpire againft them, andto difcover their unfatisfied covetoufneffe
in beguiling the rich Widowesof what'means hath been left them by their deceafed
husbands, wered and build thofe ftatery Colledges beyond the Seas, the fight where-
of both outward and inward doth draw the ignorant people to refort more to their
Churches and preaching then to any  other..   Thus whiles in Venice  they.got the
favour of one of the chief Senators of that Common-wealth,  they politickly drew
him to make his will according to their will and pleafure, leaving to his fon and heire
no more then what they fhould think fit to afford him. But they appropriating to them-
felves the chiefeft part of the young heires meatts, and with fo proud a legacy think-
ing to overpower all other Orders, were by them oppofedfo, that the Witfwas called
for by the whole State and Senators of.Venice-, fully examined, and they cettimanded
to reftore to the heir the whole eftate as enjoyed by his Father.    Well did; that wife
Senate conceive, that as one Noble man had been cheated by them of his fortunes, ft>
might they one by one, and fo at length -he*iches of Venice might become  treafure
only for Jefuites to maintain the pride and pompe of their glorious fabricks.    And
though thofe vowed fervants to the Pope obtained his Excommunication agamft the
Whole Eftate of Venice upon non-complying with the aforefaidWill and Teftament-
yet fuch was the preaching of all other  Priefts and Orders againft them  that they
caufed theState to flight the Excommunication, and in lieu of making thenrheires ot
the deceafed Senators Eftate, they fhamefully banifhed them out of Veniez. - Thus _alft>
have the Prieftsand Fryers of Bifiaja in Spain prevailed againft the admitting of Je-
fuites into  Sar.-Sebaftian, though by the favour of fome they have in feveral! dations
obtained an houfe and ereded a Bell to ring and fummon in the people to their pretended
Church and Colledge. Nay the very houfe wherein their Patron Ignatius Loofa\wzay
have they often ferioufly offered to buy fora Colledge; yet fuch hath been the op-
pofition of the Priefts and Fryers of that Country, that they have dafhed to nougnt
their often iterated endevours to purchafe that which.they efteem their chiefeftRelique.
Butto come nearer to our own Country, what a combuftion did this ftrife between
Jefuites and other Priefts of England caufe among our Papiftsten years ago ,-when
the Pope fending into England Dodor Smith pretended Biffiop of Chalcedon to be the
Metropolitan head over all the Clergy and other Orders, how then -was it to fee the
pride ofthe Jefuites as inconfiftent with any one that might overfway them; or gain
morcredic  then'themfelves? who neve left perfec^ig the Bifhop-, till by the
Popes
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