VI. None are by any means to be retained, who openly oppose the superiors, or complain either publicly or privately, to their companions, or what is worse to those not members; nor in like manner, they who, whether at home or abroad, condemn our method of proceeding, as to the acquisition or administration of wealth, or indeed any thing else, as, for example, the method of crushing and suppressing the disaffected, or the dismissed, &c.; neither they who tolerate or defend the _Venetians_, the _French_, or any others from whom the society has suffered oppression or still sorer injuries. VII. All who are to be dismissed should be treated beforehand with the greatest severity; let them be deprived of their usual employment; let them be applied first to one thing, then to another, and no matter how well they may succeed, blame them, and under this pretence change their employment; for the slightest accidental faults, impose heavy penances, rebuke them publicly in an insupportable manner, and finally discharge them, as if they were pernicious to others; but let an opportunity for this be selected, which will be the least apprehended by them. VIII. If any of our members should have a sure prospect of obtaining a bishopric, or other ecclesiastical dignity, he should be compelled, in addition to the accustomed vow of the society, to take another, that he will always esteem and commend our institution, that he will use no confessor, who is not one of us, in short that he will determine nothing, in any important matter, but in accordance with the judgment of the society; in consequence of the non-observance of which by Cardinal TOLET, the society obtained from the _holy see_, that afterwards no _Maronite_, the perfidious offspring of the Jews or Mahomedans, should be admitted; and whoever refuses this vow, no matter how distinguished he may be, must be dismissed as the worst enemy of the society. CAP. XV. _Quomodo agendum cum monialibus, et devotariis._ I. Caveant valde confessarii et concionatores offendere moniales, aut illis dare occasionem tentationis contra vocationem, sed contra affectu potissimum superiorum sibi conciliato, procurent confessiones saltem extraordinarias excipere, et conciones apud eas facere, si gratitudinem illarum vicissim experiantur; multum enim juvare societatem possunt nobiles, præsertim ac divites abbatiæ, tum per se, tum per parentes ac amicos suos, adeo ut mediante notitia primariorum monasteriorum paulatim in notitiam et amicitias totius fere civitatis venire possit.