II. Meminerint omnes facultatem ad exercenda Societatis ministeria modeste ac religiose petendam, et omnes tum ecclesiasticos præsertim, tum sæculares quorum auctoritate indigemus, benevolos sibi facere studeant. III. Ad loca distantia etiam eundum, ubi eleemosynæ quantumvis parvæ recipiendæ, exposita necessitate nostrorum; eædem deinde dandæ aliis pauperibus, ut sic ædificentur ii, qui nondum Societatem noverunt, et sint in nos tanto liberaliores. IV. Omnes eundem videantur spirare spiritum, ideoque eundem modum exteriorem addiscant, ut uniformitas in tanta diversitate personarum unumquemque ædificet: qui secus fecerint, tanquam nocui, dimittantur. V. Caveant nostri emere fundos in initio; sed si quos emerint nobis bene sitos, fiat hoc mutuato nomine aliquorum amicorum fidelium et secretorum; et ut melius luceat paupertas nostra, bona quæ sunt vicina locis, in quibus collegia habeamus, per provincialem assignentur collegiis remotis, quo fiet ut nunquam Principes vel Magistratus habeant certam notitiam redituum Societatis. VI. Non divertant nostri cum intentione residendi per modum Collegii nisi ad urbes opulentas; finis enim Societatis est imitari Christum Salvatorem nostrum, qui Ierosolymis maxime morabatur, alia autem loca minus præcipua tantum pertransibat. VII. Summum pretium à viduis semper extorquendum, inculcata illis summa nostra necessitate. VIII. In unaquaque provincia, nemo nisi Provincialis noverit præcise valorem redituum. Sacrum autem esto quantum corbona Romana contineat. IX. Concionentur nostri, et ubique in colloquiis propalent, se ad puerorum instructionem, et populi subsidium venisse, ac omnia gratis, et sine personarum exceptione præstare, nec esse in gravamen communitatis, ut cæteri Ordines religiosi. CHAP. I. SECRET COUNSELS OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS. _How the Society ought to conduct itself when it commences a settlement in a new place._ I. An explanation of the design of the society, prescribed in those rules, which declare that the society ought to labor with as great diligence for the good of others, as for its own, will render it acceptable to the people of the place; therefore the humblest duties in the hospitals ought to be performed; the poor and the afflicted, and those in prison, should be visited and the confessions of all promptly received, that by such uncommon benevolence to all, and by the novelty of the thing, the principal inhabitants may admire and love us. II. Let all remember that the power to exercise the offices of the society is to be requested modestly and religiously, and that they should study to make all chiefly ecclesiastical, but also secular, whose influence we want, favorable to themselves.