"I furthermore promise and declare that I will, when opportunity present, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do, to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex or condition; and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants' heads against the walls, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisoned cup, the strangulating cord, the steel of the poniard or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity, or authority of the person or persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agent of the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Faith, The principal distinction seems to be, that the Jesuits are a select body of men singled out and associated for the purpose of carrying into constant and vigorous operation all those encroaching and dangerous principles which the heads and leaders of Popery have always supported, but which they cannot safely call upon the great body of their adherents publicly to profess and make the rule of their conduct...

We next observe, that the operation of interest, one of the most powerful motives, is seconded by another very peculiar incitement, that of religious intolerance. All Protestants being declared objects of abhorrence -- whose destruction is certain, except they are reclaimed by the Catholic Church, and whose extermination is a most sacred duty, whenever and wherever, it can be safely attempted" (Preface).

First "printed in England in the year 1658, with a statement, which has never been met by the lease attempt at refutation,--that it was discovered among the Archives of the Jesuit's College at Paderborn in Westphalia, when Christian, Duke of Brunswick, took possession of that place, and gave their library to the Capuchins. Dr. Compton, the acute and learned Bishop of London... published an English translation in 1669. In Germany, also, in France, and in Holland, as well as in England, have successive editions appeared..." (Preface).

This edition includes the Latin and English texts side by side. Its 17 chapters include,

• "How to induce rich widows to be liberal to the Society"
• "How to pick out young men and to retain them"
• "How to feign a contempt of riches"

...and 14 more. Also included are 12 appendices.

166 pages.