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The editor of this essay was, as the title page shows, a Jesuit. He thought too reasonably and too honestly to belong any longer to a Society The Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits which trains its members in the most dangerous and shameful principles and undertakings. He had not recognized this in his early youth; in part, the system was presented to him—as is always the case—only gradually and so sweetly that his eyes were only opened to it quite late. When he saw what a ruinous path he had chosen, he wished to withdraw; however, the Superiors Superiors: the high-ranking officials within the Jesuit hierarchy to whom members owed absolute obedience soon noticed this and persecuted him cruelly. Finally, after many hardships endured, he escaped their revenge and fled to America, where he has been a Lieutenant in the Provincial Army Likely referring to the Continental Army or local colonial militias during the American Revolutionary period for three years, and now,