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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00457	The art of dying well. Deuided into tvvo books. / Written by Roberto Bellarmine of the Society of Iesus, and Cardinall. ; Translated into English for the benefit of our countreymen, by C.E. of the same Society.; De arte bene moriendi. English	Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621.; Coffin, Edward, 1571-1626.	1621 (1621)	STC 1838.5; STC 1838.5; ESTC S90457	138,577	338

many men to come to ●his Sacramēt with very little or no fruit ●t all Confession and that for no other cause but ●or that they enter not into their hart when they prepare themselues for to mak their confession Some there be who goe about this matter so negligently that in generall only and after such a confuse fashion they can say that they haue broken all the commaundements and committed all the deadly synnes to such there should be giuen no other then a general and confuse absolution yea they are not worthy of this for they confesse perhaps that which they haue not done that which indeed they haue done they confesse not others there be that haue learned distinctly and orderly to recount their synnes but they make no account of the quality of the person of the place of the tyme of the number and of other circumstance which is a notable and dangerous neg●gence for it is one thing to strike a pri● another to strik a lay man when as to t● the former is annexed an excommu●cation and not to the latter againe it one thing to haue carnal knowledg w●● a virgin another thinge with a religio● Nun another thing with a married w●mā another thing with his own kinsw●mā another thing with a harlot Morou● it is one thingto haue committed it on●● another thing to haue fallen ten times into the same synne for the same synne oftentymes repeated is not one syn but manifold Finally there are some which is more to be wondered at who are persu●ded that the inward synnes as the desires of fornication adultery murther theft and the like are not synnes vnlesse they be actually cōmitted by the exteriour wor● Yea they scarce account wanton looks or lasciuious wordes to be synnes and yet our Sauiour Christ sayth in plain tearms He who shall see a maryed Woman to lust after her Matth. 5. hath already committed adultery in his hart Wherefore he who will haue care or his conscience and make a profitable good confession let him reade some good book of the art of confessing his synnes or let himselfe seeke out a vertuous and learned ghostly Father and let him enter into his owne hart discusse his conscience that not hastily and briefly but exactly seriously and let him diligently examine his thoughts desires deeds words and also omissions and then let him lay open his soule vnto his vertuous skilful Phisitian let him humbly craue absolution of him and be ready to do that pennance which his Ghostly Father shal thinke necessary to impose There remayneth satisfaction of which our Ancestours most wise and prudent men did make more far account then we seeme now to do for they when seriously they did consider that it was far more easy to make satisfaction vnto God on earth then in purging flames of the next life did impose most heauy and very long penaltyes and as for tyme they enioyned pennances of seauen yeares of fifteen of thirty and sometymes of their whole life and as for the quality they enioyned very frequent fasts and yet more frequent prayers agayne they did forbid their penitents to go to the bathes that they shold not ride go in coach or vse any brauery in apparell that they should absteyn● from playes from sports from spectacles in the open theaters and finally thei● whole life was consumed as it were i● griefe and mourning as became true penitents I will alleadge one only example In the tenth Toletan Councell we reade the Bishop of Bracchara called Potamius for that he had defiled himselfe with touching a woman for so speaketh the Councell without all compulsion of others voluntarily of his owne accord to haue shut himselfe vp in prison and for nyne moneths to haue done pennance then by his own letters freely to haue manifested this his synne and pennance which he had vndergone vnto the Concell of the Bishops And then the Councell further to haue determined that he should continue in doing pennance al the dayes of his life when as notwithstanding the Councell there declareth that it had delt more fauourably and mercifully with him then the rules and seuerity of the Ancient Fathers did permit This was the ancient seuerity Now we are become so weake and tender forsooth that a pennance imposed of fasting in bread and water for a few dayes with the seauen psalmes and letanyes to be rehearsed in the same and an almes of a little mony bestowed on the poore doth seeme seuere inough although it be imposed for cleansing the soule f●●m many great syns and enormityes But that wherein heere we fauour selues we shall grieuously smok for in purgatory Gods iustice requiring full satisfaction vnlesse in this life our contrition be so great as proceeding from most feruent charity that it be able to obteyne of the mercy of God full remission and pardon of all synne and punishment due vnto the same truly a contrite and humble hart doe much mooue the bowels of the mercy of God our Father for the goodnes of our Lord is such as he cannot hold whē he seeth the prodigall child truly penitent but that he must goe and meet him but that he must imbrace him but that he must kisse him but that he must giue him a ring of peace but that he must wipe away all teares of sorrow replenish him with teares of ioy more sweet then all hony and what else can be deuised more comfortable CHAP. XIIII Of the fourteenth Precept of the Art dying well which is of the Sacrament of Order THE two Sacraments that ensue now briefly to be considered do not apperteyne vnto all Christians but one to Clergy men to wit Order the other to lay men to wit matrimony let vs speake a little of the first I meane not all things that belong to this Sacrament but those things only which are necessary to this art of liuing dying well Orders in number are seauen fower lesser and three greater of which the chifest which is Priesthood is deuided into two for there are greater Priests which are called Bishops and lesser which are single priests before all these Orders is giuen prima tonsura which is it were a gate vnto all the Orders and properly maketh them clarks or Clergy men and for that the things which are required of these inferiour Clarks especially what concerneth vertuous religious life by greater reason are to be exacted of thē who haue taken the lesser or greater Orders and especially of Priests and Bishops therefore I will restraine my speach to consider and explicate those things only which do belong to these inferiour Clarkes Two thinges there be in these Clarks that require explication First the rite or manner of their ordering then the office which they are to exercise in the Church The rite or manner of their ordering as appeareth by the Pontificall is this that first of all some little part of their haires be clipped of by