He  has  himself  committed  all  the  crimes  of  which  he  charges
tis  fellow  brethren,  and  if  he  had  not  deserted  from  the  Order
he  would  have  been  expelled  from  it  in  disgrace. Moreover,
the  spirit  of  revenge  predominates  throughout  his  book,  as  he
was  furious  at  not  being  promoted  to  a  superior  preferment —
to  a  preferment  which,  by  his  vulgarity  and  almost  brutal
-■stupidity,  he  possessed  no  capability  of  filling."

In  this  fashion  Beaufes  refuted  his  former  associate, and  thereply
"to  this  was  therefore  easy. "  Had  I,"  rejoined  Jarrige,  "  been
•such  a  reprobate  as  Beauf6s  affirms,  why,  then,  did  the  Society
of  Jesus  tolerate  me  among  them  during  five-and-twenty  years  ?
Why  did  they  make  me  a  professed  member  of  the  four  vows,  and
-entrusted  me  with  offices  of  preaching  and  teaching  ?  Besides,
there  is  no  question  as  to  my  person,  but  as  to  the  crimes  of
which  I  have  made  a  report,  to  the  facts  of  which  I  was  the  eye
•and  ear  witness. Why  has  he  not,  then,  refuted  these  ?  "

This  rejoinder  of  Jarrige's  naturally  produced  another  pam-
,phlet  of  Father  Beaufes'  in  reply,  and  as  other  Fathers  now
-came  to  his  assistance,  the  Dutch  Reformers,  as  friends  of
Jarrige,  did  not  on  their  part  remain  silent. The  battle  thus
became  more  and  more  extended,  and  it  caused  much  enjoyment
■to  the  scandal-loving  world,  when  all  at  once  an  order  emanated
•from  the  General  in  Borne,  which  prescribed  quite  a  difierent
mode  of  proceeding. "  It  was  not  by  heaping  insults  on  Jarrige
that  the  Society  of  Jesus  could  be  washed  clean,"  wrote  the
<Jeneral,  "  but  this  was  only  possible  by  winning  the  ex-Jesuit
back  again  into  the  Order,  and  obliging  him  then  to  make  a
ipublic  recantation."


INCEEASING   ENLIGHTENMENT. 60]i

The  sons  of  Loyola  consequently  desisted  from  all  further  con-
troversy, just  as  if  their  mouths  had  been  frozen  up,  and,  on  the
other  hand. Father  Ponth61ier,  a  Jesuit  distinguished   by  his
adroitness  and  worldly  wisdom,  accompanied  by  others  placed
at  his  disposal  by  the  College,  betook  himself  in  all  secrecy,
well  disguised,  to  Leyden,  where  Jarrige  still  remained. There-
the  two  met. 