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A42885	Instruction concerning penance and holy communion the second part fo the instruction of youth, containing the means how we may return to God by penance, and remain in his grace by the good and frequent use of the sacraments. By Charles Gobinet, Doctor of Divinity, of the house and Society of Sorbon, principal of the college of Plessis-Sorbon.; Instruction de la jeunesse en la piété chrétienne. Part 2. English	Gobinet, Charles, 1614-1690.; Gobinet, Charles, 1614-1690. Instruction sur la pénitence et sur la sainte communion. English.	1689 (1689)	Wing G904C; ESTC R223681	215,475	423

ill or command them the good which they were obliged to do Whether you have failed to reprehend their evil actions and to chastise them when necessity required Whether you have not neglected to concurr towards the amendment of their lives by permitting them to live as they pleased 2. In regard of others who are not subject to you whether you have neglected fraternal correction that is whether seeing them offend God you have yet been careless to give them charitable admonitions when you might have done it to hinder them as much as in you lay from falling back into the same faults Or else whether when your could not or durst not reprehend your Neighbours fault foreseeing that he would yet fall therein you neglected either to give notice or cause notice to be given to those under whose charge he was and who ought to have a care of his Salvation according to the command of the Son of God who requires that one should declare to the Church that is to the Superiours the Sins of others when one cannot restrain him ones self We have given you an express Chapter of this Subject in the Instruction of Youth Part 4. Chap. 18. Moreover it is to be observed that every one ought to examen himself particularly concerning the Sins of his own State and condition which we shall not put here because we write now particularly for young people one may find them in other Books The EXAMEN Of the Sins of Students I Shall inform you only that Students ought to examen themselves concerning the Sins which they commit in their Studies by Idleness and loss of time which ordinarily is a very great Sin in the sight of God tho' they usually reflect not on it They must therefore examen themselves whether they have neglected to Employ their time in their Studies Whether they have spent Days Weeks Months Years without Studying or Studying but little wherein there may be a Mortall Sin. Whether they have Studyed remisly and loosely without application and desire to learn. Whether they have omitted frequently the duty of their Classe or have gotten it made by others Whether they have hindred others from Studying whether they dissuaded them whether they mocked at those who apply'd themselves to Study and were willing to learn. Whether they have neglected to attend and hearken to that which was taught them and to make their advantage of it Whether they gave themselves too much to Play and Recreation spent much time therein Whether upon that Account they have lost their School time and other Hours appointed for Study Whether they have played away a great deal of Money or spent in play in good cheer and in foolish Recreations the Monies which their Parents allowed them for their Maintenance or for other uses Whether they have sold their Books Stol'n or Cheated at Play. Whether they have contemned their Masters Scoffed at them or rendered them contemptible to their Companions Whether they have given them any disgust either in Private or Publick resisted them rebelled against them or stirred up others to disobedience or Rebellion Whether they have loved Courted the Company of naughty Knavish or Vicious Schollars Whether they have diverted others from Piety or Scoffed at those who are good and Virtuous or caused them to be laughed at by others which is a very great Sin whether they have debauched others or Sollicited them to Sin or instructed them in wickedness Whether they have read bad Authors or bad places in those that are permitted but are not corrected Whether in their Studies they have proposed to themselves any other end then the will of God and to make themselves capable to serve him in the State he shall call them to Whether in Studying they have endeavoured rather to advance themselves in Science then in Virtue and the true knowledge of their Salvation which is a sin very ordinary amongst Students and which carries a large train of evils after it INSTRUCTION Concerning the Holy Communion The Preface Of the Necessity of this Instruction and the Order to be observed therein THis Instruction is no less necessary then that of of Penance by reason that the Holy Communion is the Complement and perfection of what Penance had begun that is to say it is a perfect restauration and a certain confirmation of the Soul in the grace of God. It conserves it augments it fortifies the Soul dayly more and more in his holy grace and contributes very much towards finall Perseverance supposing it be frequently made use of and that the receiver approach unto it with those dispositions which so holy and so adorable a Sacrament requires Whereas on the contrary it heaps upon the head of the unworthy receiver dreadfull and almost irreparable ruins changing the fountain of life into the cause of death and that which of it self and by its first institution was a pledge of Salvation a Sacrament of Love and Mercy into a Sentence of Condemnation or Everlasting death If one Communicate tho' not absolutely unworthy that is in the State of Mortal sin but however with some irreverence or considerable defect in Devotion he is deprived of the better part of that fruit which otherwise he might gather from this Tree of Life And not only that he doth not only lose the many favours he might by means of the Sacrament be partaker of but also he thereby contracts a great number of infirmities as tepidity or coldness in Charity indevotion insensibility in the concerns of our Soul the diminution of our Spiritual strength and Divine Graces frequent relapses into Venial and sometimes into Mortal sin Thus you see Theotime of what importance it is to perform this great action well No less then your Salvation depends upon the right performance of it Now to do this worthily as the thing deserves it is necessary we be well informed whence it is easy to perceive 1. How usefull Instruction is upon this Subject 2. The Obligation you have to apply your serious attention in the reading of it so to advantage your self the more thereby The Division I Shall divide this Treatise into two Parts whereof the First shall treat of the Doctrin The Second of the Practice of Holy Communion In the First I shall declare what it imports us to know concerning this sublime Mystery and in the Second what we are to do to receive it worthily and with fruit In the First Part I shall give some Generall Expositions of Faith it self and of the Principal Mysteries of our Faith for the greater Convenience of those who are not already so fully instructed in these so necessary concerns and Especially of young People who very seldom have sufficient knowledge of them I hope that those who shall peruse them with Care and a Desire to Learn will find therein such and so solid Instructions in all the Fundamentall Points of our Holy Religion as by that means their Hearts will become more ample and Capacious

INSTRUCTION CONCERNING PENANCE AND HOLY COMMUNION The Second Part OF THE Instruction of YOUTH Containing the Means how we may return to God by Penance and remain in his Grace by the good and frequent use of the Sacraments By CHARLES GOBINET Doctor of Divinity of the House and Society of SORBON Principal of the College of PLESSIS-SORBON The Last Edition in French now render'd into English LONDON Printed by J. B. and are to be Sold by Mathew Turner at the Lamb in High Holborn and John Tootell at Mr. Palmers the Bookbinder in Silverstreet in Bloomsbury Together with the First Part of the Instruction of Youth in Christian Piety 1689. A DEDICATORY PRAYER TO OUR LORD JESVS CHRIST MY Lord and my God permit me also to consecrate this Second Instruction to thee and lay it at the foot of thy Cross to which I invite thy Children and beg the favour of thy Benediction That which thou hast been pleased to bestow upon the First I made gives me hopes that thou hast yet reserv'd a blessing for this Second and that in respect of the things therein contained which are the Sacraments thy own work thou wilt not fail to bless it It s whole design is to instruct thy Children to teach them to frequent and make good use of the Sacraments Sacraments which with so much Charity thou hast instituted that thereby thou mightest conferr thy Grace upon us We see to our great grief that they have not that esteem which is due to them and that for want of the knowledge of their worth and grandure and the advantage which from thence arises to us many either neglect to approach unto them or at least do not always take care to provide themselves with convenient dispositions when they come Thou presentest them with holy Penance that thereby they may be freed from the Slavery of their Sins but it often happens that like the Israelites in the Aegyptian Bondage they choose rather to continue captives as before then to accept thy offer Thou bestowest upon them Celestial food for their nourishment and to strengthen them whom once thou hast received into thy Grace but by reason they are ignorant of the excellence of the gift they either refuse or neglect to take it and permit themselves Spiritually to be starv'd in the Desart of this Mortal Life This Bread of Angels agrees not with their tast so deprav'd it is that they preferr the Onions of Aegypt before this Heavenly Manna Divine Jesus open their eyes who live thus contented in their misery Make them feel the weight of their Chains make them sensible of the danger of that Servitude wherein they are detained by Sin make them ashamed so to affront thee and debase themselves as to serve the Devil that Enemy of thy Glory and their own Salvation Grant them Grace to aspire to that liberty which thy Children the Children of God enjoy that to this end they may embrace Holy Penance and thereby be entirely converted to thee and that their actions may testify the sincerity of their hearts That they may encrease and be strengthen'd in thy Grace by means of this Celestial Bread and that by frequently feeding upon thy pretious Body and Blood they may happily pass through the dangers of this Life to the Land of Promise which is thy Heavenly Kingdom where thou livest and Reignest Eternally AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER I Here present you Dear Reader with this Second Instruction for the use of young People and also of all such as are pleased to make use of it that they may learn how they may rightly employ these two grand means Penance and the Holy Eucharist instituted by Christ for our Salvation I have discoursed already of these two Sacraments in the Second Part of the First Instruction But I did it with that brevity which is necessary to be observed in matters which one treats of only in passant or by the by as accessories to the main point he designs to handle Since that time I have often observed that what I had said of them was not enough to give young People a full view or a perfect understanding of these two Sacraments and to facilitate the use thereof Therefore it seemed to me very convenient that they should have a Book wherein they might be solidly instructed in what concerns these two important Subjects and benefit themselves thereby upon either of these two occasions viz. 1. When they find themselves moved to return to God by a sincere Repentance and to consecrate themselves wholly to his Service by a true change of their former course of life and to this effect have need to make a general Confession of their life past as we have said in the Second Part the Sixth Chapter of the first Instruction 2. When after this general Confession they are willing to continue in the frequent use of these two Sacraments that they may do it as far as it may be needfull to conserve them in the grace of God and to advance in Virtue And this was the motive I had to undertake this Instruction wherein I supply what was defective in the former aend perform the two things I have but even now spoken of For in the four first parts of the Instruction concerning Penance I shew them the proper means whereby they may return to God The first of which is an exhortation to change our life and totally to addict our selves to Virtue In the Second I shew them the way to compass this design by treating at large of Contrition of the enormity of Sin and the practice of this great Virtue In the Third and Fourth I treat of Sacramental Confession and Satisfaction and whatsoever else is necessary for the worthy receiving of that Sacrament Afterwards in the Fifth Part I speak of the means to conserve the Grace which one hath received by the Sacrament and to persever in a truly holy and Christian life And the Instruction which follows concerning Communion may also serve for the same end For it is most certain that this Divine Sacrament is one of the chiefest means which God hath bestowed upon us to conserve us in his Grace Hence it is easy to perceive that this Instruction is not so much a Second Book as a continuation or conclusion of the first I made I have taken an occasion to intermix some necessary points which one is obliged to know as the explication of the Principal Mysteries of our Faith which I have plac'd in the first Part of the Instruction concerning Communion and that of the three Theological Virtues Faith Hope and Charity which you will find in the Second Part of the same Instruction Virtues which are the ground-work of our Salvation and upon which as St. Augustin de Verb. Apost hath it the house of God which is raised up by his Grace is built I have also taken occasion to explain the Commandments of God in the examen of Sins which I have plac'd at

the end of the Instruction concerning Penance And this I have done that one might have in this one Book the explication of the Principal points of Christian Doctrine which every one is obliged to know and that one may be inform'd of these important truths which often through his negligence he is ignorant of either because he conceives them not so necessary or that he thinks he knows them sufficiently well already which happens but too often not only to young People but to many others Thus you see Dear Reader what I have to tell you upon the Subject of this Instruction After which I have no more to do but to exhort you to benefit your self thereby You will not fail herein if you read it with this design and with a desire ot improve your self And as I have composed it with no other intention except that of assisting you in your approach to God and conserving you in his grace I hope that if you also reade it with this intent God will bless both yours and my design This is what I demand with all my heart beseeching him with all possible humility that he will enlighten your Soul rightly to understand the truths which he hath comprised in these great Sacraments and that you may draw in abundance from these two Fountains of our Salvation the Celestial Waters of Divine Grace which will preserve you in this life from the mortal heats of Sin and rendering you fertil in Virtue and good works make you deserving of Everlasting Life the fruit of pious endeavours and our last end Amen The Approbation WE Underwritten Doctors of Divinity of the Faculty of Paris certify that we have read a Book Entitled Instruction concerning Penance and the Holy Communion c. Composed by Charles Gobinet also Doctor Principal of the Colledge of Plessis-Sorbon wherein we have found nothing but what is conformable to the Principles of Faith and Christian Morality which are there treated in a manner very clear for the Instruction of Youth moving for the Conversion of Sinners and extreme usefull for the Edification of the Just if they will follow the light and means which are therein suggested to them that they may advance in Piety by the frequent and worthy use of the Sacraments of Penance and the Eucharist Given at Paris this Third of December 1667. I. Charmeluc B. Le Blond J. Jollain The Division of the Instruction concerning Penance Pag. 1. PART I. COntaining an Exhortation to a true Conversion and amendment of Life Pag. 2. PART II. Of Contrition the first part of Penance Pag. 21. PART III. Of Confession Pag. 97. PART IV. Of Satisfaction Pag. 151. PART V. Of the preservation of Grace after Confession against relapse into Sin. Pag. 187. An Examen of Conscience Vpon the Commandments of God and the Church and upon the Seven Capital Sins Pag. 229. A Table of the CHAPTERS Of Instruction concerning Penance and the means to return to God by a true Conversion PART I. COntaining an Exhortation to a true Conversion and amendment of life Pag. 2. Chap. 1. An Exhortation which God made to men and particularly to Young People to return to him by Penance Pag. 3. Chap. 2. Reflections upon the said Exhortation and first upon the matter therein contain'd Pag. 5. Chap. 3. The Second Reflection upon the Goodness of God in Exhorting us himself to our Conversion Pag. 6. Chap. 4. The Third Reflection upon the Injury which those do who refuse to be Converted or deferr their Conversion Pag. 8. Chap. 5. The Fourth Reflection upon God's Anger against those who refuse to yield to these Exhortations Pag. 12. Chap. 6. Of the great Punishment which God lays upon those who refuse or deferr their Conversion Pag. 15. Chap. 7. The Conclusion of the Exhortation Pag. 19. PART II. OF Contrition Pag. 21. Chap. 1. What we are obliged to do in Virtue of the precedent Exhortation Ibid. Chap. 2. What Penance is Pag. 23. Chap. 3. What Contrition is Pag. 26. Chap. 4. Of the qualities or Conditions which true Contrition ought to have Pag. 29. Chap. 5. Of Perfect and imperfect Contrition Pag. 34. Chap. 6. Of the means to obtain Contrition Pag. 38. Chap. 7. Of the first means to obtain Contrition which is threefold Avoiding Sin Works of Penance and Prayer Pag. 40. Chap. 8. Of the Motives of Contrition and first of the grievousness of Sin. Pag. 43. Chap. 9. Of the same Subject of the grievousness of Sin. Pag. 46. Chap. 10. A further illustration of the grievousness of Sin. Pag. 49. Chap. 11. Of the deplorable effects of Mortal Sin to discover better the grievousness thereof Pag. 53. Art. 1. Of the death of the Soul or the sad effects which Sin produces in his Soul who commits it Pag. 54. Art. 2. Of the effects of Sin in Heaven and upon Earth Pag. 60. Art. 3. Of the effects of Sin in Hell. Pag. 64. Art. 4. A continuation of the same Subject Pag. 67. The Conclusion of this Article of the pains of Hell. Pag. 75. Art. 5. Of the effects which Sin produces in respect of God himself Pag. 78. Art. 6. Of the effects of Sin in the Person of Jesus Christ Pag. 81. Chap. 12. The practice of Contrition upon the precedent Motives Pag. 87. Chap. 13. Of Examples of Penance taken out of Holy Writ Pag. 89. PART III. OF the Treatise of Penance which is Confession Pag. 97. Chap. 1. Of the Institution and necessity of Confession ibid. Chap. 2. What Sacramental Confession is Pag. 99. Chap. 3. Of the Conditions necessary for a good Confession Pag. 102. Chap. 4. Of the defects in Confession Pag. 104. Chap. 5. Of the Conditions necessary to make the Confession entire Pag. 107. Chap. 6. An observable Advice concerning the Number of Sins Pag. 109. Chap. 7 An observable Advice concerning the Circumstances of Sins Pag. 112. Chap. 8. How great an evil it is to conceal a Mortal Sin in Confession Pag. 115. Chap. 9. Of the Preparation for Confession or the Examen of Conscience Pag. 123. Chap. 10. Of the distinction which must be made betwixt Mortal and Venial Sin. Pag. 126. Chap. 11. Of the Confession of Venial Sins Pag. 128. Chap. 12. Of Interiour and Exteriour Sins or of the Sins of Thought and Action Pag. 132. Chap. 13. Of the Sins of Action and Omission Pag. 134. Chap. 14. Of the Sins of Ignorance Passion and Malice Pag. 136. Art. 1. Of the Sins of Ignorance Pag. 137. Art. 2. Of the Sins of Frailty or of Passion Pag. 139. Art. 3. Of the Sins of Malice Pag. 141. Art. 4. Of the Sins which spring from Vitious Habits Pag. 144. Chap. 15. Of the Sins that are committed by Error or by Doubt Pag. 146. Chap. 16. Of the Sins which we commit in others Pag. 148. PART IV. OF the Treatise of Penance which is of Satisfaction Pag. 151. Chap. 1. What Satisfaction is ibid. Chap. 2. That God pardoning the Sin obliges to a Temporal punishment Pag.

end reade that which hereafter we shall say of it The reading also of good Books is a most powerfull means to conserve and keep us in the straight path of virtue We treated of this in the Instruction of Youth 2d Part. Chap. 16. which I exhort you to read once more upon this occasion All these are general remedies and common to all sort of Sins There are others more particular against each Sin considered in its kind which it would be too long to declare in this place as also it would be useless since we have treated of them elsewhere as for example the remedies against idleness in the 3d. Part. Chap. 7 and against impurity in the 8th and 9th Chap. and in all the 4th Part. Where we have treated of Christian virtues and the means to resist contrary vices A Table of SINS Or An Examen of Conscience upon the Commandments of God's Law and of the Church and upon the Seven Deadly Sins Sin being a transgression against the law of God it follows that to understand well in what one hath sinn'd he must know first what it is that God Commands what that he forbids and to examin his Conscience rightly it is necessary he run over the Commandments of God as they stand in order and see whether and how many ways he hath transgress'd them for we offend God diverse ways This is the reason why I shall digest here the ten Commandments of Gods Law with all the sins that may be committed against each one of them that thence you may take what may concern you And for the greater facility I have for my diversion drawn up into Latin verse the several obligations which each Commandment imports with the transgressions opposed against them I offer them to those who understand and like them others may benefit themselves by the following explication The EXAMEN upon the First Commandment I am the Lord thy God thou shalt have no other Gods before me Exod. 20. THis Commandment includes the obligations of many virtues viz. of Faith of Hope of Charity of Religion and of the care of our Salvation It obligeth us to believe in God to hope in him to love him above all things give him the worship and honour due to him and to seek after the Salvation of our Soul which he hath created to his own image and likeness to enjoy him for all eternity All these things are comprized in these three verses Credere prima homines sperare amare Deumque Condigno cultu venerari orare Animaeque Aeternam curare jubent mandata salutem Opposite to these are first the Sins against Faith whereof some totally destroy it others offend against it in a high degree I st a fidem sanctam laedunt perimuntque nefanda 1. Ignorare fidem 2. dubiis aperire vagantem Incertumque animum 3. graviter qui his fixus adhaeret Ille fidem violat 4. gravius qui mente superba Eligit ipse sibi quod credat vel neget 5. inde Omnia blasphemo qui pernegat impius ore Sancta nil credens nisi quod tangitque videtque 6. Qui favet his vel facta probat 7. consortia quaerit 8. Dicta librosque legens avido bibit ore venena 9. Alta Dei nimio scrutans temerarius ausu Quae penetrare nefas homini mysteria 10. ridens Sacratos ritus 11. divinaque verba retorquens Ad pravos sensus miscens sacra profanis 12. Quique futurorum vult nosce recondita servat Quae Deus ipse sibi vel facta obscura requirit Artibus illicitis observans somnia vel quae Caeca superstitio Cacodaemonis arte maligna Reperit ut noceat prosit ve aut clausa recludat 1. The first sin against Faith is that of Ignorance when one is ignorant of what he is obliged to know To be ignorant of the four principall Mysteries without the express belief whereof we cannot be saved viz. the Unity of one God the Trinity of Persons the Incarnation of the Second Person for the Redemption of mankind and life everlasting To be ignorant of the Apostles Creed or not to know the sense and meaning of it as far as ones capacity and the means he hath to be instructed will permit To be ignorant of the Sacraments and particularly of those which one either hath or ought to receive Not to know the Comandments of God and the Church All these ignorances ordinarily speaking are mortal Sins wherefore one ought carefully to examin himself and reflect well whether he hath sought the means to be instructed as Catechisms Sermons reading and the like 2. The Second Sin against Faith is a doubt of the truth of any of the points of Faith. It happens sometimes against our will and then it is either none or at least not a Mortall Sin but perhaps some venial negligence But if it be voluntary it is a Mortall Sin and this in two cases 1st When one either seeks it or willingly gives some occasion of it as by reading ill Books by discoursing too freely concerning matters of faith by examining them with too much curiosity by giving himself too much liberty to judg of them according to humane reason 2ly This doubt is voluntary when one willingly detains himself in it and gives his consent unto it 3. The Third is the Sin of Error that is when from a doubt one proceeds to affirm and positively believe something contrary to the receiv'd Doctrine of the Church altho' it be but in one single article and such a belief is always a mortal Sin and if one maintain it obstinately without submitting himself to the Church it is Heresy whereof we are going about to speak 4. The Fourth Sin is Heresy That is an error in any point of faith maintain'd with obstinacy wherein one follows his own judgment in opposition to that of the Church and chooseth in points of Religion the things which he is willing to believe or to deny whence it is called Heresy that is to say a choice 5. The Fifth is Impiety which is different from heresy in this that Heresy will believe some truths but not all But Impiety denys all and believes nothing You ought Theotime to examin your self very strictly whether you have fallen into any of these Sins and if you have perform yet some more strict and severer Penance But above all communicate your thoughts with some learned and Pious person who may restore you to your self and put you in the right way 6. The sixth Sin against Faith is to favour Hereticks or Impious men as in supporting and approving what they do 7. The Seventh is to be pleased with their Company and discourse to continue therein with danger of embracing their opinions 8. The Eighth is to read their Books whether with pleasure or danger 9. The Ninth is the Sin of Curiosity to examin the Misteries of Faith or the Secrets of divine Providence by pure humane reason which leads ordinarily