It follows that just as a subordinate was enjoined to sin, if sin were ordered by his Superior, so the whole Company were bound to lie, and do the things they disapproved, and preach the mummeries in which they disbelieved, in virtue of obedience to the Church.

They may not even trust their senses; for 'If the Church pronounces a thing which seems to us white to be black, we must immediately say that it is black.'[165] [Footnote 164: Read in the _Exercitia_ (_Inst.

Jesu_, vol.iv.

p.
167-173) the Rules for right accord with the Orthodox Church.

What follows above is taken from that chapter.] [Footnote 165: _Exercitia_, ibid.p.171.In this spirit a Jesuit of the present century writing on astronomy develops the heliocentric theory while he professes his submission to the geocentric theory as maintained by the Church.] The Jesuits were enrolled as an army, in an hour of grave peril for the Church, to undertake her defense.