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Monita Secreta
Secret Instructions of the Jesuits
alleged: Claudio Acquaviva (1543-1615)
1835 edition by Robert Breckenridge
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SECRETA MONITA SOCIETATIS JESU.
THE
SECRET COUNSELS
OF THE
SOCIETY OF
JESUS,
IN LATIN AND ENGLISH.
THE LATIN BEING THE TEXT USED IN FORMER EDITIONS:
THE ENGLISH, A
NEW AND MORE LITERAL VERSION.
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED
A
DISCOURSE
ON THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE WORK,
BY
ROBERT J. BRECKINRIDGE.
SECOND AMERICAN EDITION.
BALTIMORE:
EDWARD J. COALE & CO.
1835.
Entered According to Act of Congress,
In the year Eighteen Hundred
and Thirty-five,
By EDWARD J. COALE & Co.
In the Clerk’s office of the
District Court
Of Maryland.
DEDICATION
TO
The present ARCHBISHOP of BALTIMORE;
Who is said,
By his friends, to be a person of talents and learning;
And who is believed,
By many, to belong to the
ORDER OF JESUITS;
THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED:
Under the conviction, that his duty, as a gentleman,
a
scholar, and a Christian,
Requires him,
To refute the book if
false;
or,
To admit its genuineness, if it is true:
By his obedient servant,
THE EDITOR.
Baltimore, July 22, 1835.