Hannah Adams

Name: A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations — Jesuits
Author: Hannah Adams

A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

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“A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations — Jesuits”, published in 1817, is a work by Hannah Adams. It explores elements such as society, novices and final vows.

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ The general himself is responsible to none but the pope. He nominates all the functionaries of the order, and can remove them at pleasure. Every novice, who offers himself as a candidate for entering into the order, is obliged to confess to his superiour, or to a person appointed by him, not only his sins and defects, but to discover the inclinations, the passions, and the bent of his soul. The society, not satisfied with penetrating in this manner into the inmost recesses of the heart, directs each member to observe the words and actions of novices ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ III. The Jesuits maintain, that human nature is far from being deprived of all power of doing good; that the succours of grace are administered to all mankind, in a measure sufficient to lead them to eternal life and salvation; that the operations of grace offer no violence to the faculties and powers of nature, and therefore may be resisted ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ This entire society is composed of four sorts of members, viz. novices, scholars, spiritual and temporal coadjutors, and professed members. Beside the three ordinary vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, which are common to all the monastic tribes, the professed members are obliged to take a fourth, by which they solemnly bind themselves to go, without deliberation or delay, wherever the pope shall think fit to send them. They are governed by a general, who has four assistants. The inferiours of this society are obliged entirely to renounce their own wills, and abide by his directions. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ IV. They represent it, as a matter of perfect indifference, from what motives men obey the laws of God, provided these laws are really obeyed; and maintain, that the service of those, who obey from the fear of punishment, is as agreeable to the Deity, as those actions, which proceed from a principle of love to him and his laws. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ As the object of the order was to obtain influence in all quarters of the globe, and among all classes of men, they naturally became missionaries, school-masters, and confessors. And in a short time they were almost the exclusive, and certainly the most distinguished instructors of youth in every catholic country. They cultivated learning, because they perceived its use in governing mankind, and were not only theologians, but grammarians, critics, mathematicians, philosophers, and poets. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ I. That persons truly wicked and void of the love of God, may expect to obtain eternal life in heaven, provided, that they be impressed with a fear of the divine anger, and avoid all heinous and enormous crimes, through the dread of future punishment. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ In the year 1537, he gained a number of followers, who bound themselves by five rules, which inculcated the duties of self-mortification and charity, enforced the precepts and practice of virtue, and professed to labour assiduously, without the hope of reward, for the glory of God. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ In order that this scrutiny into their character may be as complete as possible, a long noviciate must expire, during which they pass through the several gradations of ranks in the society, and they must have attained the full age of thirty three years, before they can be admitted to take the final vows by which they become members of this society. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ JESUITS, a celebrated religious order in the Roman Catholic church, founded by Ignatius Loyola,a Spanish knight, who was born of a respectable family at Loyola, in the province Guipuscoa, in Spain, in 1491. The early part of his life was spent in the military service, in which he acquired great reputation. ”

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