Secreta Monita Societatis Jesu. The Secret Counsels of the Society of Jesus, in Latin and English
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Secreta Monita Societatis Jesu. The Secret Counsels of the Society of Jesus, in Latin and English
Jesuits -- Controversial Literature
9. In the year 1831, the first American edition of the SECRETA MONITA was
published at Princeton N. J. with the original Latin on one page, and
a very diffuse English translation on the other. This edition is said
on the title page to be printed verbatim from the English edition of
1725; which is one not contained in the above list, and will therefore
be added, by the reader as an additional testimony. In the advertisement
to this edition a statement is made, which I suppose relates to the
edition, numbered 4 in the above series. If however the statement relates
to a different edition, it forms an additional support to the proof in
the case. The story in substance is that a bookseller in Amsterdam, by
name _John Schipper_, bought a copy of the SECRETA MONITA at Antwerp,
and reprinted it. The Jesuits hearing that he had such a work, demanded
it of him, but he had sent it to Holland. A Jesuit of Amsterdam, soon
afterwards learned from Van Eyk, a Catholic Bookseller that Schipper was
printing a book that concerned the Society; he replied that if it was
only the _Rules of the Society_ he should not be under any concern: but
desired him to ascertain what it was. When the Bookseller discovered that
it was the _Secreta Monita_, the father greatly agitated said, it must
be denied that this piece comes from the Society. As soon however as the
book appeared, the whole edition nearly was bought up by the Jesuits.
From one of the few copies not suppressed, the book was reprinted, with
this story prefixed, there said to be taken from two _Roman Catholics of
Credit_.
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