IGNATIUS LOYOLA _to the Archbishop of_ Toledo. Your eminency’s remissness in the late affairs of the _Spanish_ territories, has made my scorpion’s stink deeper than heretofore, and superadded a new blackness to the horrors of my rage and despair. Those painful machinations, who took their birth from hell itself, and by my industry and application had so glorious a prospect of bridling all mankind, wherever the _Romish_ doctrine triumph’d at least, are now by that long continued series of an unhappy supineness in your predecessors, or the powerful influences of _French_ gold, reduc’d to almost nothing. The thunderbolts of the inquisition rattled more dreadfully than those of the _Vatican_; and after emperors had subjected themselves to the successors of St. _Peter_, we found out means to subject him to our censures, and by this made our selves superior to supreme. The mildness of your executions, and the rarity of ’em have substracted wonderfully from their reputation, and from my designs. Your excellency can’t say but I lay down very sufficient groundworks for the rendering my orders as lasting as religion, if not as lasting as time. More than _Europe_ has felt the efficacy of my instructions; and where-ever my disciples have been sent they have brought us home souls and bodies, credit and estates. What society can vie with us for extent of temporal concerns? what provinces are not in a great measure ours? we have the guardianship of the consciences of most of the considerable crown’d heads, and few affairs of importance are transacted any where but with our privity. I have not met with any one person in these kingdoms that has been of note and quality, that came here with a pass-port from the holy inquisition; now and then a rascally _Jew_ or so, comes here blaspheming your power and prudence; and is so angry that he will not show it at hell-gates; as if he apprehended a double damnation from our character.