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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

for Penitents to confess to their proper Priests who haue charge of their souls then to others I proue by the greater loue which proper Priests who haue charge of their Penitents souls naturally haue more then other Priests haue who haue no such charge of the souls of their Penitents because his greater loue will make him more carefull and diligent to doe his Penitents all the good he can rather then an other who less loueth them For the greater loue will cause the greater care And that a Pastor or proper Priest who hath charge of his Penitents souls naturally loueth them more then others who haue no such charge is euident because he accounteth his penitents his owne sheep and naturally one loueth what it his own more then an other who accounteth it not his own Whereupon well wrote Bellarmin lib. 1. de Pontif. c. 3. It is certain that Princes will take more care of their own then Vicars will doe of that which is other mens And our Sauiour Ioan. 10. A good pastor giueth his life for his sheep as if it were the property of a good Pastor to loue his sheep so much as for loue of them to giue his life for them And as himself sayth Ioan. 15. the greatest signe of loue is to giue his life for one See more of this in S. Chysostome lib. 2. de Sacerdotio c. 2. 2. Secondly because the Penitents of a Pastor or proper Priest are specially committed to him by God And surely who loueth God will specially loue them who are so committed to him by God more then others will to whome God hath not especially committed them For Gods speciall charge will make him who loueth God to haue a more speciall care of them then others who haue no such speciall charge As we see all honest men haue à more speciall care of children committed to them by their parents then others haue to whome such children were neuer committed And hereupon our Sauiour sayd Ioan. 20. to S. Peter Doest thou loue me more then theise Feed my sheep thereby shewing that naturally Pastors loue more Christs sheep then others doe And likewise the Councel of Trent sesl 13. c. 1. sayth to Bishops who are the cheif Pastors lett them remember that they are Pastors and that they ought so to gouerne their subiects as they loue them like children and brethren And Cardinall Bellarmin In vita Bellarm l. 3. c. 2. wrote thus to a Byshop who desired to giue ouer his Bishoprick to become religious who loued vs and gaue his life for vs vouchsafed to say to Peter and in him vnto all Pastors if thou louest me feed my sheep Is there any that dare say Notable words of Bellarmin to our Lord I will not feed thy sheep l●ast I leese my soul vnless there be some who loue thems●lues and not God A true louer of God sayth with the Apostle I had rather be anathema from Christ for my brethren then not vndertake that burden which the loue of God hath imposed vpon me Albeit there can be no danger of saluation where charitye reigneth No dāger of saluation where charity reigneth Behold in S. Paul the exceeding loue of a good Pastor to his sheep behold allso how there is no danger in taking charge of souls so it be done for loue of God Nay ordinarily the greater the charge of souls is the greater is the holiness as Bozius sheweth that there are more Popes Saints then anye Archbyshops or Byshops of one Episcopall sea in the world and more Archbyshops Saints then Byshops of any one Sea in his prouince and more Byshops Saints then Curats of any one Parish in his Diocese And allbeit charge of souls be of it self more dangerous then not charge is yet taken with the greater grace and greater assistance of God which he allwayes affordeth greater to them to whome he giueth greater charge it is not more dangerous and it is farr more meritorious And what 's Chrysostom sayeth It is a maruel if any Rector be saued he speaketh as Estius Hebr. 13. v. 17. well noteth of such as vpon ambition onely putt themselues into that function as is euident by the words following because for one lawfully called and faithfully exercising that office as Chrysostom himself did there is no danger And what S. Chrysostome Some Saints h●ue refused to be Priests as well as to be Pastors sayth of Rectors may be sayd of simple Priests or Religious if theise take such courses of life for wrong ends And if some Saints haue refused to be Byshops more haue accepted it and some allso haue refused to be simple Priests not for the danger but for humilitye because they thought not thēselues worthy of such a function Zacheus vpon confidence of Christs loue accepted his offer to come to his house and the Centurion vpon humilitye refused it both well but he better So it be God who imposeth charge of souls vpon vs and we accept it for his loue it cannot but be more acceptable to him to accept it then to refuse it and less dangerous to vs because God in his goodness bindeth himself to assist vs far more in accepting for his loue the burden which he imposeth vpon vs then in refusing it when he imposeth it and less danger is when God far more assisteth vs. And hence some write and gather it out of the Apocalypse c. 2. and 3. that God giueth to euery Byshop a speciall Angel Gardian 3. Thirdly I proue that a Pastor or Proper Priest with charge of souls loueth more his Penitents then an other who hath not such charge because a Pastor is like to a Father to his sheep and an other is but like a Paedagog For as the Apostle sayeth to the Corinthians 1. Corinth 4. Though yee haue ma●y thousand Paedagogs yet yee haue not manye Fathers for I haue begotten yee in Christ by the gbospel And Pastors are the proper Fathers of their Parishioners because they begett them in Christ by baptisme and giue them their first spirituall life And the loue of a Father is naturally greater then is the loue of anye Paedagog Sotus allso lib 10. de Iure lustitia q. 3. art 1. sayeth The mercenarie flyeth because he is a mercenarie to whome the sheep are not proper because the sheep belong not to him for as Christ sayeth they are not his own as not commended to him by Christ it followeth that he loueth them not to witt with that loue which was demanded of Peter whether he loued him more then the rest In What is commō to all is neglected of all Aristotle which words he sheweth why the Penitents are the Pastors own and proper to him to witt because they are cōmitted to him by Christ and that therefor there is a speciall loue in a good Pastor towards his sheep as there was in S. Peter which is not in others to whome Christ hath not commended his sheep and he addeth