IX. The prelates of the Church must be greatly caressed when any thing is to be done respecting the beatification and canonization of any of our members, and then by all means, letters should be procured from great men and rulers, by which the business may be forwarded at the Papal See.
X. If it should happen that prelates or noblemen obtain legations, it should be diligently guarded and prevented, that they should not employ any religious orders who oppose us, lest they might communicate disaffection to them, and they spread it into the provinces and states in which we reside. And if legates of this kind, should pass through those provinces and states where the society has colleges, let them be received with great honor and affection, treated with all the distinction consistent with religious decorum.
CAP. IV.
Quæ commendata esse debeant concionatoribus et confessariis magnatum.
I. Nostri principes, virosque illustres ita dirigant, ut solum ad majorem Dei gloriam tendere videantur, et ad talem austeritatem conscientiæ, quam ipsimet principes concedunt; neque enim statim, sed sensim spectare debet directio illorum externam et politicam gubernationem.
II. Ideo sæpe illis inculcandum distributionem honorum et dignitatum in rep. spectare ad justitiam, graviterque Deum offendi a principibus, si contra eam spectant, et ex passione procedant. Protestentur sæpe ac serio se nullo modo velle in Reip. administrationem ingerere, sed invitos dicere, ratione officii sui; tum ubi semel bene hæc apprehenderint, explicetur quibus virtutibus præditi esse debeant, qui ad dignitates et munia publica ac primaria assumendi sunt, nominenturque tandem, et commendentur ab illis qui sunt sinceri amici societatis; hoc tamen non fiet immediate per nostros, nisi princeps ad hoc cogerit, sed plus gratiæ habebit, si interponantur amici vel familiares principis.
III. Quocirca confessarii et concionatores nostri informentur ab amicis nostris, qui pro quovis munere sunt apti, præsertim tales qui erga societatem liberales sunt, horum nomina apud se habeant, et suo tempore cum dexteritate, sive per se, sive per alios, principibus insinuent.
IV. Meminerint summopere confessarii et concionatores, principes suaviter et blande tractare, nullo modo in concionibus et privatis colloquiis perstringere, omnes pavores ab illis removere, et in spe, fide, justitia politica potissimum adhortari.
V. Munuscula parva vix unquam pro privato usu acceptent, sed commendent necessitatem communem provinciæ et collegii, domi cubiculo simpliciter instructo gaudeant, neque curiose nimis se vestiant et ad abjectiores personas, quæ in palatio sunt, juvandas ac consolandas prompte se conferant, ne solis magnatibus præsto esse videantur.