Chapter X

Would professed monks, who on refusing to renounce their vow of _obedience_, should receive either from the court, or their friends[23], notwithstanding their vow of _poverty_, pensions much greater than is necessary for their subsistence, prove by this conduct, that they were much less attached to _their vow_ than to their General; that they refused much more through pride than through religion, to renounce the society; that they were, in a word, more Jesuits than Christians?