Numbers 26:44

Numbers 26:44 [Of] the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.

Ver. 44. The family of the Jesuites.] Serrarius will needs derive the name Jesuites from Numbers 26:24; it is wonder how he missed of this plainer text. Jesuites quasi Jashubites: like as Erasmus found friars in St Paul's time, inter falsos fratres, amongst the false brethren. In Salamanca a friar would prove that the name of the Virgin Mary was spoken of in Genesis 1:1,31. God called the gathering together of the waters Maria a Dr Poynes b writes, that it was foretold in the Old Testament that the Protestants were a malignant Church, alleging, 2Ch 24:19 Mittebatque prophetas ut reverterentur ad Dominum, quos protestantes illi audire nolebant. We may, with far more show of reason, fetch the name of Protestants (retained also in their Douay translation) from that text than they can from this, the name of Jesuites alias Jebusites.

a Stella, De Modo Concionandi, cap. 6.

b Preface to his book Of the Sacrament.