Storia do Mogor 359.1.9

359.1.9

Those Reverend fathers (the Jesuits) knew not what to do to prevent the bad effects, and said to themselves : ' Here are the decrees published without an express Pastoral from My Lord Bishop. Nothing else appears possible, so let us write meanwhile to the Reverend Father Esprit of Tours, who has published the said decrees. Under present circumstances he will decline to take the letter in question, if we omit on it the designation he is entitled to. When that has happened we can write to his Lordship that the said Reverend Father Esprit has thrown on the ground with contempt and anger a letter written to him by Monsignor.' Gentlemen, these words of Ps. lxiii. might with a clear conscience be applied to the reverend Jesuit fathers : ' Scrutati sunt iniquitates ' [They have searched after iniquities (verse 7)], and then might well be added : ' defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio ' [they have failed in their search (verse 7)]. For it is most certain [233] that, having invented this calumny, they said : ' Who is there who will ever find us out ? No one.' ' Illi dixerunt quis nos videbit.' [They have said, Who shall see us ?] But they have deceived themselves, because their work was of too gross a kind for the calumny they affixed to us not to be discovered : ' defecerunt scrutantes scrutationis consilia mala.'