do further declare, that I will help,
assist and advise all or any of his Holiness's
agents, in any place where I should be, in
Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Ireland or
'America, or in any other kingdom or' terri
tory I shall come to, and do my utmost to
extirpate the heretical Protestant or Masonic
Doctrines, and to destroy all their pretended
powers, legal or otherwise.
“I do further promise and declare that,
notwithstanding I am dispensed with to
assume any religion heretical for the propa
gation of the Mother Church}s interest; to
keep secret and private all her agent’s coun
sels from time to time, as they entrust me,
and not divulge, directly or indirectly, by
word, writing or circumstance whatever, but
to execute all that should be proposed, given
in charge, or discovered unto me, by my
Ghostly Father, or any of this sacred order.
“I do-further promise and declare that I
will have no option or will of my own or any
mental reservation whatsoever, even as a
corpse or cadaver (perinde ac cadaver), but
will unhesitatingly obey each and every com
mand that I may receive from my superiors
in the militia of the Pope and of Jesus
Christ.
“That I will go to any part of the world
whithersoever I may be sent, to the frozen
regions of the North, to the burning sands of
the desert of Africa, or the Jungles of India,
to the centers of civilization of Europe, or to
the wild haunts of the barbarous savages of
Africa without murmuring or repining, and
will be submissive in all things whatsoever
is communicated to me.
