The Jesuits - James Aitken Wylie

is Protestant, kings, the Jesuit writers have been at
great pains to maintain, and by a great variety of
arguments to defend and enforce. The proof is as
abundant as it is painful. M. de la Chalotais reports
to the Parliament of Bretagne, as the result of his
examination of the laws and doctrines of the
Jesuits, that on this point there is a complete and
startling unanimity in their teaching. By the same
logical track do the whole host of Jesuit writers
arrive at the same terrible conclusion, the slaughter,
namely, of the sovereign on whom the Pope has
pronounced sentence of deposition. If he shall take
meekly his extrusion from Power, and seek neither
to resist nor revenge his being hurled from his
throne, his life may be spared; but should "he
persist in disobedience," says M. de la Chalotais,
himself a Papist, and addressing a Popish
Parliament, "he may be treated as a tyrant, in which
case anybody may kill him.[1] Such is the course
of reasoning established by all authors of the
society, who have written ex professo on these
subjects--Bellarmine, Suarez, Molina, Mariana,
Santarel--all the Ultramontanes without exception,
since the establishment of the society."[2]
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