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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17069	A short treatise of the sacrament of penance with the maner of examination of conscience for a generall confession : wherunto is added another treatise of confession, for such spirituall or deuoute persons as frequent that sacrament / sett forth in Italian by the Reu. Fa. Vincent Bruno of the Society of Iesus.	Bruno, Vincenzo, 1532-1594.	1597 (1597)	STC 3941.5; ESTC S1833	29,958	134

either to make satisfaction or recompence 6 But to the end that euery one may know more in particuler thes circumstances which he is bound for to confesse he must obserue and expresse in his confession particulerly these seuen circumstāces 7 The first is of the person which doth sinne or with whome the sinne is committed whether the same be free or single or a virgine or maried or religiouse or vowed or in holy orders or ioyned in consanguinity or affinity 8 The second circumstance is of the act it selfe which is donne contrary vnto the law of God or against our neighbour of what quātity the same is whether great or smalle whether it were much that was stolne or litle whether the person offended were of great importance or no. 9 The third circumstance is of the place which in three cases is to be confessed that is when a man hath robbed or shed blood or committed any cōplete carnall act although lawfull in Church or in any sacred place 10 The fourth circumstance is of the meanes which were vsed for the performinge of the sinne whether it were done with prouoking and entising others to be ioined in the same or to cōcurr thervnto when they were not so disposed of them Iesues or whether sacred things or other prohibited meanes were vsed in the same 11 The fifth is of the end which a man pretended in sinning as whē he stealeth weapons to the ende that hee may kill or killeth that he may steale or commit adultery likewise when he doth or speaketh any thing for to induce others to sinne or for any other euil ende or intention 12 The sixt circumstance is of the manner in which he sinned if secreatly or publikely with scandall of others or with force violence as to robbe with assaulting and othr like manners which may happen 13 The seauenth last circumstance is of the time as if it were forbidden vnder paine of excommunication that at such time none should commit such a sinne In this case a man were bound not onely to confesse the sinne but also the time of committing thereof 14 Finally although for to sinne vpon the Holy-day is not a circumstance necessary to bee confessed yet notwithstanding when vpon some notable day as were Good-friday or Easter day or at such time as a mā doth receiue of God some special benefit a man should commit any enormous sinne it semeth more secure in such case that this circumstance of the time which so much aggrauateth the sinne be vttered in Confession Of certaine cases wherein the Confession is void to be reiterated Chap. 9. 1 THe first is want of examination when the Penitent knowing that he hath many sinnes and hauing beene long time from Confession hath not first examined his conscience nor vsed any diligence to remember his sinnes In this case if the Confessor doe not supply the default of the Penitent the Confession is voide For it must needes be that he leaue vntolde some sinne or other which he cannot remember which were asmuch as if he left it of purpose 2 Secondly when the Penitent doth tel an vntrueth in Confession in any matter of Mortall sinne 3 Thirdly when the penitent omitteth of purpose to cōfesse some Mortal sinne or such as he deemed Mortal For if he did not esteeme it mortal but after vnderstood that it was Mortall it were sufficient to Confesse that sinne alone without repeating the whole Confession 4 Fourthly when the penitent hath not firme purpose and determination to leaue some Mortal sin or the occasion of that sinne in the which he findeth himselfe 5 Fifthly when the Penitent was fallen into some excommunication knowing it did not first procure absolution from the same 6 Sixthly when the Confessor is an ignorant person and the Penitent not so sufficiētly learned that he can perfectly confesse and yet notwithstanding hee knoweth the insufficiency of his Confessor maliciously he choseth to Confesse to him Because in this case it is likely that there happen many errors which haue neede of greater cure 7 Seauenthly when the Confessor could not giue Absolution eyther because he had not iurisdiction or because he was notoriously Excommunicate and not tollerated by the Church and the Penitent knewe thereof 8 In all these cases aforesaide the Penitent is not onely bound to make his Confession a-newe but for the iniury which he hath done vnto the Sacrament by Confessing euelly he hath cōmitted Sacriledg and it is a most grieuous sinne HERE FOLLOWETH the EXAMINE vpon the Ten Commaundements in the which are also comprehended al other matters wherein a man may sinne Mortally Of the first Commaundement that is of honoring God a●oue all thin●s Chap. 10. COncerning FAITH if he haue beleeued whatsoeuer the holy ROMAN Church beleeueth or rather hath had some cōtrary opinion or with wordes and exterior signes hath made any shew of any infidelity or heresie If he haue beene ouer-curious in desiring to search the matters of FAITH and if he haue doubted of any article of the same If he haue kept bookes either of Heretickes or for any other respect forbidden by the Church If knowing any man to be infected with heresie and incorrigible by other meanes he haue not detected him to whom he ought If he haue learned the praiers other necessary things which euery Christiā is bound for to know as are the cōmaundements of God the principal misteries of the faith If he haue giuen credit vnto or vsed any sort of superstition enchauntments deuinings either by himselfe or by meanes of other If he haue procured by the way of lotts for to finde out any theft or to knowe any secret thing If he haue carried about him superstitious writings for the hauing his health or for other ende or hath in duced others to do the like If hee haue giuen credite vnto Dreames or Southsayings taking them as a rule of his actions If for too much presumption of the mercy of God he hath committed any sin or hath perseuered in euil deferred his amendment If in aduersities hee hath had more confidence in creatures in worldly helpes than in God If for too much distrust of the mercy of God he hath despaired of the amendment of life or of the remission of his sinnes If hee haue murmured against God as though he were not iust or blaming his prouidence If for feare or other humane respect he hath had minde to offend God or not to doe that which he was bound for his seruice If hee haue cursed or blasphemed God or his Saintes other Creatures expressing all the manners and sortes of those blasphemies which he hath spoken If he haue exposed himselfe to any daunger of Mortall sinne or taken delight of any sinne which hee hath donne in time before past If hee haue persecuted or iniuried with wordes Deuout Persons detracting vnto their good works and beeing cause that they leaue them and in perticular if he