About 8 dayes after I had bein in Poictiers was keipt be the Jesuits Ignatius Loyola their founders day, whence in the Jesuits Church their was preaching a fellow that usualy preaches, extolling their patron above the wery skies; evicting whow that he utstripped infinitly the founders of all other orders, let it be St. Francois, St. Dominick, or be who he will, by reason that he founded a order to the universal good of Christendome; the order not being tyed to one place, as other religious are, but much given to travelling up and doune the world for the conversion of souls, which truly may be given as a reason whey all that order are usually so experimented and learned; for their are of them in Americk itselfe.  From all this he concluded that Ignatius was and might deservedly be named the universall Apostle of the Christian World.  He showed also the manner of his conversion to that manner of life; whow he had bein a soger (he was a Spaniard by nation) til his 36 or 40 year of age.  One tyme in a battell he had receaved a wound right dangerous, during the cure of this wound one tyme being some what veary and pained he called for a Story or Romance.  They having none their, some brought a devot book termed the Saints Rest, not that of Baxters; in which he began to read wt a sort of pleasure, but wtout any touch.  At lenth continuing he began to feel himselfe sensibly touched, which wrought so that he wholly became a new man; and wt the permission and confirmation of the Pope then instituted the order.

A litle after followed St. Dominicks day observed by the Jacobins, wheir I went to hear his panegyrick preached.  Their preached a fat-looged[104] fellow of the order.  His text was out of the 36 of Ecclesiasticus, Vas auroeum[105] repletum omni lapide proetioso:  all his sermon ran to make Dominick this vessell.  He deduced all that a man might be praised for from the 3 fold sort of dueties:  1, these we ow to God; 2, these towards our neighbours; and 3, these towards himselfe.  For the vertues that are relative to God, he numbered them up to 13, and that out of Thomas, whom they follow in all things; amongs which were piety, sanctite, zeal for Religion, which broke out to that hieght that he caused sundry of the poor Albingenses, over the inquisition of whom he was sett, to be brunt; but this he mentioned no.  For duties of the 2nd sort he numbered up out of the same Thomas amongs others thir, Chastite.  Of Dominicks chastity he sayd he was as sure as of one thats new borne.  Charite, which was so great one tyme that having nothing to give to the poor, he would have given himselfe to a poor widow woman; at which we could not but laugh, tho’ his meaning was that he would have bein content to sell himselfe that the woman might get the money.  He forgot not also his strictness of life and discipline, so that after his death their was found a cord in wtin his wery flech he girded him selfe so strait wt it.  Heir he recknoned upe