"I do further declare that the doctrine of the Churches of England
and Scotland, of the Calvinists, Huguenots, and others of the name of
Protestants or Masons to be damnable, and they themselves to be
damned who will not forsake the same.
"I do further declare that I will help, assist, and advise all or any
of His Holiness's agents, in any place where I should be, in
Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Ireland, or America, or in any other
kingdom or territory I shall come to, and do my utmost to extirpate
the heretical Protestant or Masonic doctrines and to destroy all
their pretended powers, legal or otherwise.
"I do further promise and declare that, notwithstanding that I am
dispensed with to assume any religion heretical for the propaganda of
the Mother Church's interest, to keep secret and private all her
agents' counsels from time to time, as they instruct me, and not
divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing, or circumstances
whatever, but to execute all that should be proposed, given in
charge, or discovered unto me by you, my Ghostly Father, or any of
this sacred order.
"I do further promise and declare that I will have no opinion or will
of my own or any mental reservation whatsoever, even as a corpse or
cadaver (perinde ac cadaver), but will unhesitatingly obey each and
every command that I may receive from my superiors in the militia of
the Pope and of Jesus Christ.
"That I will go to any part of the world whithersoever I may be sent,
to the frozen regions North, jungles of India, to the centers of
civilization of Europe, or to the wild haunts of the barbarous
savages of America without murmuring or repining, and will be
submissive in all things whatsoever is communicated to me.
"I do further promise and declare that I will, when opportunity
presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly and openly, against
all heretics, Protestants and Masons, as I am directed to do, to
extirpate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will
spare neither age, sex or condition, and that I will hang, burn,
waste, boil, flay, strangle, and bury alive these infamous heretics;
rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women, and crash their
infants' heads against the walls in order to annihilate their
execrable race. That when the same can not be done openly, I will
secretly use the poisonous cup, the strangulation cord, the steel of
the poniard, or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank,
dignity, or authority of the persons, whatever may be their condition
in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed
so to do by any agents of the Pope or superior of the Brotherhood of
the Holy Father of the Society of Jesus.
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