History of the Jesuits: their origin, progress, doctrines, and designs . highest degree pious and holy.* Inthe present circumstances he again attempted to shel-ter the children of his predilection under the mantleof his infallibility, and addressed to the King of Spaina brief, in which we read as follows: Of all the mis-fortunes that have afflicted us during the nine years ofour unhappy pontificate, the most sensible to ourpaternal heart has been that inflicted by the hand ofyour Majesty. So you, too, my son, tu quoque fill mi,so the Catholic King Charles III., who is so dear to ourheart, fill


History of the Jesuits: their origin, progress, doctrines, and designs . highest degree pious and holy.* Inthe present circumstances he again attempted to shel-ter the children of his predilection under the mantleof his infallibility, and addressed to the King of Spaina brief, in which we read as follows: Of all the mis-fortunes that have afflicted us during the nine years ofour unhappy pontificate, the most sensible to ourpaternal heart has been that inflicted by the hand ofyour Majesty. So you, too, my son, tu quoque fill mi,so the Catholic King Charles III., who is so dear to ourheart, fills up the chalice of our suffering, condemnsour old age to a torrent of tears, and precipitates usinto the grave. The pious Spanish king .... thinksof destroying an institution so useful, so meritoriousfor the Church, and which owes its origin and itssplendour to those saints and heroes whom God chosein the Spanish nation for His greater glory (this rather savours of Jesuit composition) We call God and men to witness, that the Society is not only* Cret. vol. v. p.


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