The Company showed plainly that what they meant by obedience to Rome was obedience to a Rome controlled and fashioned by themselves.

It was their ambition to stand in the same relation to the Pope as the Shogun to the Mikado of Japan.

Nor does the analysis of their opinions fail to justify the condemnation passed upon them by the Parlement of Paris in 1762.

'These doctrines tend to destroy the natural law, that rule of manners which God Himself has imprinted on the hearts of men, and in consequence to sever all the bonds of civil society, by the authorization of theft, falsehood, perjury, the most culpable impurity, and in a word each passion and each crime of human weakness; to obliterate all sentiments of humanity by favoring homicide and parricide; and to annihilate the authority of sovereigns in the State.' [Footnote 178: Expelled from Venice in 1606, from Bohemia in 1618, from Naples and the Netherlands in 1622, from Russia in 1676, from Portugal in 1759, from Spain in 1767, from France in 1764.

Suppressed by the Bull of Clement XIV.