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A93388	A treatise of the best kinde of confessors by which preists [sic] in England may see how they may be, and lay Catholiks see how they may chuse the best kinde of confessors / composed by the most reverend father in God, Richard, bishop of Chalcedon, pastor of the Catholike in England.	Smith, Richard, 1566-1655.	1651 (1651)	Wing S4159; ESTC R43753	38,066	146

occasion neglect of proper Priests which so graue and so learned a Pope as Innocent 4. was would not haue sayd if he had not seen it to be tru● And how great an inconueniencie neglect of Pastors is is manifest of it self seing all communities stand by the authority of their superior and fall and are weakened by the fall or weakening of it Whereupon 1. Tim. 5. 1. Thessal 5. Heb. 15 Matth. 26. S. Cyprian Epist 55 65. S. Hieron contra Lucifer the Apostle often and earnestly exhorteth Christians to honnour and reuerence their spirituall superiors and our Sauiour sayeth if the Pastor be strucken theep are dispersed and holy Fathers note that the neglect of Pastors is the roote of schisme and heresie and that the ●ai●tye of the Church dependeth on the honnor of Pastors And Layman cited † Sup. c. 9. before noteth that by confessing to whome one will many pretending impediments of confession withdraw themselves from the Iurisdiction of their Pastor A fifth inconueniencie by libertie Fifth Inconueniencie of confessing to what Priest one will is that one may omitt annuall confession and say that he hath confessed when he hath not confessed att all 3. The sixth inconueniencie Sixt Inconueniencie is that by libertie of chusing ones Confessor occasion is taken to committ or conti new in sinn which would be much restrained if men confessed to their proper Priests For by this libertye as P. Innocent 4. in the Foresayd Bull noteth thereby shame which is a great part of pennance is taken away whiles ones confesseth his sinnes not to his proper Priest whome he hath continuall and present but to an other and sometimes to one who is a passenger to whome there is hard recourse and sometimes impossible And Azor. tom 1. l. 5. c 25. granteth that leaue to chuse a Confessour who may absolue him from sinns to be committed doth giue occasion to sinn more freely and more easily And what great difference is See Pa●is An. 1246. p. 634. there for this purpose between leaue to chuse a Confessor who may absolue one from sinns to be committed and leaue to chuse a Confessor who may absolue from sinns that are committed what difference I say is there for facilitye to sinn between leaue to chuse a Confessor who may absolue one from sinns to be committed and leaue to chuse a Confessor who may absolue one from sinns that are committed which leaue all haue who haue libertie to confess to what Priest they will For facilitye to sinn riseth not precisely of leaue to chuse a Confessor which may absolue one from sinns to be committed but from leaue to a chuse a Confessor who may absolue from sinns whether they be committed or to be committed 4. A seuenth inconueniencie The Seuēth in leauing ones proper Priest and conf●ssing to others is that thereby he is made less able to help spiritually and cure the spirituall diseases of his sheep For by confessing to him he should better know the State of the souls of his sheep and to be better able to apply proper remedyes to them to better instruct their ignorance and allso better encourage them to follow vertue and auoid such vices as they are subiect vnto But of this we haue spoken something and shall more hereafter An eight inconueniency Eight Inconueniencie is that by leauing our Pastor and confessing to others we discourage him and make him less carefull of doing his deutye or what good he can doe for vs. For he seing his sheep to leaue him and goe to others preferring them before him hath not that courage to labour for them as he would haue if he saw them preferre him before others And what harme cometh by the negligence of Pastors God himself declareth Ezechiel 54. saying my sheep are dispersed because there was no Pastor Not because there was no Pastor at all but because there was no diligent Pastor And Sotus lib. 10. de Iure Iustit q. 3. art 4. affirmeth that the roote of heresies in Germanye and England was the negligence of Pastors and surely the sheeps neglect of their Pastors occasioneth the Pastors neglect of them And if the negligence of Pastors be the occasion of such ill how much more is the want of Pastors Whereupon the same Sotus in the sayd place sayeth It is a diuine commandement that euery Diocese haue a Bishop for the peculiar care and watchfullness which is due vnto it And Bellarmin lib. 1. de Pontif. c. 2. hauing cited these words of Caluin They conuince that to euerye Church ought a Bishop to be giuen answereth If by these examples taken from most graue Fathers we conuince that to euerye Church ought to be giuen a Bishop why doth not he suffer Bishops which is plainly to affirme that examples brought by most graue Fathers conuince that euerye Church ought to haue a Byshop And it is sayd in his life l. 3 c. 5. that he counseled P. Clement 8. to prouide Byshops presently for vacant Churches least he should be guiltye of souls perishing for want of Pastors And it is memorable what S. Bede l. 3. hist Anglic. c. 7. Writeth of Senwalch King of the West Saxons in England who hauing expelled his Byshop sustained great losses and spoyles in his kingdome of his ennemies He vnderstood that by want of Byshops he wanted allso the help and grace of allmightye God wherefore he sent Embassadors into France to Agilbert beseeching him that he would returne and resume againe his Bishoprick affirming withall to make satisfaction for that which was past Thus S. Bede And if so many and so great inconueniencies follow Penitents not confessing to their proper Priests who haue charge of their souls there was some great necessitye which forced the Church to dispense therein as no doubt that was which before we rehearsed out of S. Thomas and others to witt too great number of penitents for to confess to one onely Priest and too great want of sufficient proper Priests generally for all parts And good children of the Church will rather doe what the Church of her self commandeth then what vpon necessity she dispenseth withall and onely permitteth But out of all which I haue sayd in this chapter I argue thus It is of it self farr better to auoid so many and so great inconueniencies as haue been rehearsed then to fall into them but Penitents by confessing to such Priests as haue charge of their souls doe auoid the sayd inconueniencies and by confessing to others doe fall into them Therefor it is far better to confess to those kindes of Priests then to these And what good Penitent will not doe that which of it self is far better FOVRTEENTH CHAPT That of it self it is better for a Penitent to confess to his proper Priest then to others because naturally he loueth his penitents more then others doe 1. THat of it self it is better Pastors loue their penitents more then other Priests do