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cause_n	day_n	holy_a	sabbath_n	1,515	5	10.0460	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

doing nothing then employ himself in any lawfull and commendable exercise which is a Sin that never comes alone but carries after it a large train of many others And in this point it is necessary to examen ones self seriously and distinctly The 2d is to be more carefull and Solicitous to labour in the concerns of our bodies or temporall advantages then for the Salvation of our Souls It is a very Common Sin of which however one seldome or never examens himself Consider then whether you have not often totally neglected and abandoned the care of your Soul being so far from taking any care to labour in this great concern as that you have not admitted even of a thought thereof How long time have you past in this negligence The 3d. is to slight in his heart piety and good works having a distast or an aversion for them as it happens but too often to those who continue in the negligence we have just now spoke of The 4th is to defer from day to day and from time to time the amendment of ones life or immediately to desist after one has begun it The 5th is to forsake those means which God hath vouchsaf't us for our amendment Such as are the Sacraments Penance Prayer good works Or else to perform indeed these duties but so ill and with so little devotion that they do one no good Thus you must here examen your self whether when you were conscious to your self that you were in danger to commit some mortall Sin you have employed these means to the end you might avoid it The 6th is when either despairing ever to be able to amend or presuming that God will pardon us at the last hour we give our selves over totally to vice without ever concerning our selves at all to amend our lives Which is properly what St. Paul calls Rom. 2.5 to heap up a treasure of the Wrath of God against our selves All these Sins deserve to be well examined The EXAMEN upon the Second Commandment Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain THere are four sorts of Sins which are forbidden in this Commandment or which may have relation to it viz. an unlawfull Oath Blasphemy Cursing the Sins against Vows which the following verses will explain Terribile sanctum nomen violare secunda Lex prohibet tantoque reum se crimine reddit I. In vanum jurans falsi testem vel iniqui Qui vocat ore Deum nulla aut ratione coactus II. In caelum erectus numen blasphemat eique Nomina sancta adimens male sanus veraque falsis Commutans Sanctum scelerata voce lacessit III. Tum furiis ipsum se devovet atque precatur Dira sibi horrendum dictu sociisque Deoque IV. Stultaque vota vovens 1. quae vel praestare nequibit 2. Aut non sunt placitura Deo. 3. Qui vota fidemque Rite datam revocat levis 4. aut dissolvere differt To form a right judgment of this Commandment You must observe that we do not here take this word Oath as it is vulgarly understood for so Blasphemy as well as Cursing is called an Oath but we take it precisely and properly for the use which is made of the name of God to affirm or deny a thing such an use of its own nature is not bad but on the contrary it is an act of Religion when it is accompanied with the three circumstances which holy writ Heirem 4.2 requires an Oath should have Truth Justice and Necessity Hence the Commandment doth not at all forbid to Swear but to Swear in vain that is without these three conditions Wherefore the first Sin against this Commandment is the taking a wicked Oath that is 1. When one Swears an untruth which one knows to be so 2. When one Swears an unjust thing to the prejudice of our neighbour 3. When one Swears without any necessity altho ' the thing be both true and just Now there is no necessity of an oath except the thing for which one swears be of great importance One Sins moreover by an evil Oath when one either Swears to do what he never designs to do or when one swears to do an evill thing in which case the Oath doth not at all oblige but it was a mortall Sin to Swear and it would be another to fulfill his Oath These kind of Oaths are Sworn when one says that he takes God to witness of a thing or that he Swears upon his Salvation upon the damnation of his Soul by the oath he owes to God that he may perish in that instant or such like Wherein it is necessary that they examen themselves particularly well who are accustomed to Swear and declare the number of these sins as near as they can The 2. Sin is that of Blasphemy that is to revile and villify Almighty God whether it be by denying him some perfection which is proper to him as in saying that he is not Just Good Wise c. or in attributing to him something unworthy of him as to say that he is the author of evill or the like Renouncing him either by word or thought Cursing him which never happens but to such Souls as are transported with rage and fury as in losses in Gaming or upon occasion of such other Crosses It is also a kind of Blasphemy to swear by the name of God by his Death by his Blood as often as all or any of these things shall be spoken in anger or thro' contempt and reproach and always in abusing Gods holy name and the adorable Misteries of our Redemption Those who are subject to these Sins ought strictly to examen themselves in all these points The 3. Sin is Cursing that is when to affirm a thing either mov'd by anger against any one or thro' impatience of his crosses and contradictions one flyes out into a passion so far as to wish harm to himself or others as death or some misfortune to wish at the Devil or the like Which choler but too often suggests to those who do not curb their passions The 4. concerns the abuse of Vows which are promises one makes to God. This abuse is offered many ways 1. In making a vow to do that which is impossible for him to fulfill 2. In vowing to do that which is evill and displeasing to Almighty God. 3. In breaking vows which one has made 4. In deferring too long to fulfill them without any lawfull cause of that delay The EXAMEN upon the Third Commandment Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath Day THat we may rightly understand the obligations of this Commandment it is necessary that we know the intention with which it was given which was that we might Honour God upon that day which for this end he hath reserved to himself Wherefore he forbids us servile works which might divert or hinder us from applying our selves unto him Whence it follows that this Commandment does not only oblige us