Two Orations on the Political Question: Whether the Children of Lutherans Can Be Sent to Jesuit Schools with a Clear Conscience

of that decision, both because good men, my friends, urged this and finally, by their solicitations—which threaten me like a lightning bolt—extorted it: And also, most especially, because that Jesuit plague or corruption begins to creep more and more widely every day, and insinuates itself into the more incautious, so that it seems to all, according to the talent of their calling, that this must be met in a timely manner, and that monster must be dragged out from that cave of Cacus was a fire-breathing monster in Roman mythology killed by Hercules; here used as a metaphor for the Jesuits Cacus, lest more be dragged and pulled toward it and leave hardly any traces of their piety for posterity. Indeed, their traces terrify me too. And why not? The daily motions and machinations of these men inform us abundantly what, finally—unless God nods to the prayers of the pious and lets the dogs loose upon these Actaeon was a hunter who was turned into a stag and killed by his own hounds; here the "dogs" represent divine judgment or counter-measures against the Jesuits Actaeons—our posterity, if there is to be any, should expect, or rather, be devoured by. But

Or, to speak with my Pindar:

God fulfills every goal according to hopes,
God, who catches the winged eagle and overtakes the
dolphin in the sea, and has humbled some of the high-minded
mortals.