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Order of Contents

Article  1
Books  3
Against Jesuit Teachings  6+

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Article

1600’s

Anon. – The Reformed Catholic, against the Deformed Jesuit, or a Discovering of the Treachery of the Jesuits against the Reformed Churches of France & other Parts  ([Netherlands?] 1621)  14 pp.

The author was an inhabitant of La Rochelle, France.

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Books

1600’s

Bagshaw, Christopher – A Sparing Discovery of our English Jesuits, and of Father Parson’s Proceedings under Pretense of Promoting the Catholic Faith in England, for a caveat to all true Catholics, our very loving brethren and friends, how they embrace such very uncatholic, though Jesuitical designments  (London, 1601)  70 pp.

Bagshshaw (d. 1625)

Wadsworth, James – The English Spanish Pilgrim, or a New Discovery of Spanish Popery & Jesuitical Stratagems, with the Estate of the English Pentioners & Fugitives under the King of Spain’s Dominions, and elsewhere at this present. Also Laying Open the New Order of the Jesuitrices & Preaching Nuns.  Composed by James Wadsworth, Gentleman, newly Converted into his True Mother’s Bosom, the Church of England, with the motives why he Left the Sea of Rome, a Late Pentioner to his Majesty of Spain…  (London, 1629)  95 pp.

Wadsworth (1604-1656?) was born of an English Jesuit father.  In 1625 he professed himself a convert from Romanism to Protestantism, becoming involved with the Church of England.

Anti-Papist – Fair Warning to Take Heed of Popery, or a Short & True History of the Jesuits’ Fiery Practices & Powder-plots to destroy kings, ruin kingdoms & lay cities waste  ([London, 1674-79?])  136 pp.

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Against Jesuit Teachings

Articles

1600’s

Davenant, John – Question 17, ‘The Papal Jesuits Cannot be Good Subjects’  in The Determinations, or Resolutions of Certain Theological Questions, Publicly Discussed in the University of Cambridge  trans. Josiah Allport  (1634; 1846), pp. 307-312  bound at the end of John Davenant, A Treatise on Justification, or the Disputatio de Justitia...  trans. Josiah Allport  (1631; London, 1846), vol. 2

Turretin, Francis – Institutes of Elenctic Theology, tr. George M. Giger, ed. James Dennison Jr.  (1679–1685; P&R, 1992)

vol. 1

3rd Topic

13. ‘Is there a middle knowledge in God between the natural and the free?  We deny against the Jesuits, Socinians & Remonstrants.’  212-18

4th Topic

3, ‘Are there conditional decrees?  We deny against the Socinians, Remonstrants and Jesuits.’  316

6th Topic

4. ‘Is providence occupied only in the conservation and sustentation of things; or also in their government (through which God Himself acts and efficaciously concurs with them by a concourse not general and indifferent, but particular, specific and immediate)?  We deny the former and affirm the latter, against the Jesuits, Socinians and Remonstrants.’  501

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vol. 2

11th Topic

12. ‘Whether it is lawful to use ambiguous equivocations and mental reservations in oaths.  We deny against the papists and especially the Jesuits.’  70

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Quote

Theodore Beza & Anthony Faius

Propositions & Principles of Divinity Propounded & Disputed in the University of Geneva by Certain Students of Divinity there, under Mr. Theodore Beza & Mr. Anthony Faius…  (Edinburgh: Waldegrave, 1591), 25. ‘Of the Justification of Sinful Man in the Sight of God’, p. 60

“These Doctrines therefore are to be detested:

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8 That Christ does purchase the dignity of merit by our good works, which is a new-coined falsehood of the Jesuits.”

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Latin Article

Voet, Gisbert – 8. ‘The New Jesuit Skepticism about the Principles of the Christian Faith’  in Select Theological Disputations  (Utrecht: Waesberg, 1648), vol. 1, pp. 106-114

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