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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56533	Additionals to The mystery of Jesuitisme Englished by the same hand.	Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662. Provinciales.	1658 (1658)	Wing P640; ESTC R3011	88,221	157

of Confessors any other opinions containing a doctrine pernicious as was that of the Articles they might be added thereto as was accordingly done by the same both on the 30 of March and the 26. of April 1653. when they judg'd that the XVII Propo●itions ensuing were not to be tolerated in the practick and that it was the duty of Superiours to make provision of their Authority tha● they should not be taught as may be seen by the copy of the Decree of the said Faculty hereunto annexed To the end therefore that I might in all things obey the order of your Eminences directed to me as far as lyes in my power and at the same time not omit any thing that my Episcopall Function may oblige me to as to what concerns the weeding out of these pernicious Doctrines I shall be ready to admit the Religious men of the Society aforesaid to receive Confessions when there shall not be wanting any of the qualifications requisite provided alwayes that being legally authorized they promise and swear that they will never in the practick adhere to those XVII Propositions at least which I shall to morrow propose to the Ecclesiasticks and Regulars of my Diocesse to the end they may be abhorr'd by all a proceeding I hope your Eminences will allow as justi●iable There are yet two things whereof I think it not amiss upon this occasion to give your Eminences some account of The former is that the Regulars do not observe the Decree of the Congregation made concerning the affairs and requisitions of the Bishops and Regulars dated the 15. of Iune 1647. hereafter mentioned wherein it is declared That it is not lawfull for Regulars to give absolution in cases reserved to the Ordinaries of the places or that might be reserved to them for the future And consequently that they cannot exercise that power if they have not obtained leave to that purpose of the Ordinary Now though I took great care to have the said Decree communicated to all Superiours of the Regular orders the 3. of Octob. 1647. yet hath there been with me but one single Religious man of the Order of S. August to desire that power which I accordingly granted him because he was a prudent and pious man Others there are that pretend they have I know not what priviledges or communications of priviledge● nay they disclaim the Decree as nul because it was granted without their being heard thereto Others there are that affirm it only to be declarative and consequently that it is of no force against their priviledges which they say cannot be made invalid but by a Decree formally levell'd against them Nay there are some so teme●arious as presumptuously to affirm that it is not in the power even of our holy Father the Pope himself to revoke or abridge their Priviledges as being such as have been granted them by way of reward for their merits The second thing I have to represent unto your Eminences is that there are severall Regulars who receive Confessions within my Diocesse though they have not been approved either by my Predecessors or my self Upon which account it was that not long since I caus'd notice to be given to all the Regulars as it appears by the copy of the Mandate hereunto annexed that they should come and present the Deed or Writing wherein are to be seen the names and the time of Approbation which they had received either from me or my Predecessors This hath been done by many and so that it soon discovered the great number of those that have intruded into the Office of Confessors within my Diocesse without the said Approbation But one thing happened which I cannot sufficiently admire that is that when the Mandate came to the knowledge of the Abbot of Saint Angelo Internuncius of his Holinesse in the Low-Countries he sent to me that I should revoke the said Mandate though it did not comprehend any thing which had not been observed from all Antiquity and that it had been established for a Rule in the Provinciall Councell of Maechlin and confirmed by Pope Paul V. in the title ● c. 1. of the Sacrament of Penance in the termes recited in the Article hereunto annexed And all this notwithstanding the express command of our most holy Father the Pope that it should be observed as may be seen in his Brief of the 16. of May 1648. concerning the cause of the Bishops of Angelopolis By which Brief it is enjoyned that the Regulars even of the Society of Iesus approved in a Diocesse by the Bishop thereof to hear the Confessions of secular persons shall not have power to receive the like Confessions in another Diocesse without the approbation of the Bishop of the said Diocesse as I doubt not but is well known to your Eminences And thus much I conceiv'd it my duty to discover to your Sacred Congregation in order to the good of Ecclesiasticall discipline having so great a confidence of your Piety● zeal and vigilance as that you will vouchsafe to afford me some more effectuall means and remedies whereby I may be enabled to oppose those abuses which ought not to be neglected In the mean time having with all submission acknowledg'd the reverence I have for your purple I remain Your Eminences most humble Servant IAMES Arch-bishop of MAECHLIN ●russels July 17. 1654. PROPOSITIONS That ought not to be tolerated in the practick and should be condemned by the Authority of Superiours I. A Confessor ought not to deferre or deny absolution to a Penitent that goes on in an habituall course of sinning against the Lawes of God Nature and the Church though he discover not the least hope of fu●ure amendment provided he only say that he is sorry for what is past and promise to reform himself II. That it is sometimes lawfull to absolve a person that is in a next occasion of sinning such as if he please he may but will not avoid nay though he seek it and engage himself therein directly and of set purpose III. To abuse a marry'd Woman is not Adultery if the hu●band consent thereto and the rest too too horrid to be translated IV. It is lawfull to dismisse those with the Sacramentall Absolution who had not said over half their Confessions by reason of the great concourse of Penitents as i● may frequently happen for instance on great Festivals and dayes of Indulgence V. That it is law●ul as well in Judgement as out of Judgement to swear with a mentall Reservation without any regard had to the intention of him who obliges a man to swear VI. It is sometimes allowable and that so as a man shal not be guilty of any mortall sinne to kill an adverse party or to defame him even by charging him with crimes he is no way guilty of VII It is lawfull for an Ecclesiastick or a Religious man of any Order to kill a Detractor who threatens to discover notorious crimes of him or his Religion when there