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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

those that commit it But it happens by a strange misfortune that it is but too common amongst Penitents and particularly amongst simple and young people by reason they know not how grievous a sin it is and the dreadfull consequences it draws after it This is the reason why I treat of it in this place First then Theotime you must know and hold as most certain that to conceal willingly in Confession any Mortal Sin or what you believe is a Mortal Sin is also a Mortal Sin The reason is taken from the Command of our Saviour who as the Council of Trent above-cited says giving to the Apostles and their Successors the power to remit or retain sins hath also obliged the Faithfull to Confess all the sins which after a sufficient Examen they remember Thus to conceal a Mortal Sin in Confession is a formal disobedience to the Law of Jesus Christ in a matter of the highest concern Secondly this Sin is a formal and positive untruth in a matter of the highest consequence viz. The justification and eternal Salvation of the Soul an untruth not told to Man but to God whose place the Priest holds in Confession Now to tell a lye to God is a strange Crime Remember the rigorous punishment which God by S. Peter laid upon Ananias and Saphira his wife for having told an untruth in a thing of less importance where they denied only part of the price of some goods they sold which they concealed You have not said the Apostle lyed to men but to God. Act. 5.4 And at these words they fell down dead at his feet Thirdly this Sin is not only a disobedience to the Law of God and a base lye but also a sin of Sacrilege and that one of the greatest magnitude Sacrilege is one of the heinousest sins one can commit for it is an abuse and a prophanation of a consecrated and holy thing that is to say of a thing dedicated to God and which partakes of his sanctity And as amongst holy things there are some more holy then others so amongst Sacrileges there are some greater and more enormous then others according to the proportion of the thing that is prophan'd Now the abuse and prophanation of the Sacrament of Penance by him who conceals a Mortal Sin is not only an abuse of a holy thing but of a thing most holy Because the Sacraments are not only exteriourly holy like Churches Altars and holy Vessels which are holy because they are Consecrated to holy uses but they contain holiness in themselves because they cause and bestow it upon men If then it be a horrible Sacrilege to prophane a Church overthrow an Altar abuse a Chalice judge what we ought to say of the abuse and prophanation of a Sacrament and what a horrour we ought to have of such a Sacrilege Fourthly consider the evil you do in abusing this Sacrament in particular for this Sacrament is instituted to appease and pacify our Lord and to reconcile us unto him Now in making a false Confession you provoke God to anger by those very means which he hath appointed to appease him you make him your enemy at the same time that you go to make your atonement with him and you change the Sacrament which is a Judgment or Sentence of Absolution into a Judgment or Sentence of Condemnation O how miserable are you are you not in dread of that Curse of the Prophet Woe be to you saith he that turn judgement into wormwood Amos. 5.7 Fifthly consider the great injury you do to the adorable Blood of the Son of God for by this Sacrament the merits of that blood are applied to us for the remission of our Sins and when the Priest pronounces the Sacred words of Absolution he pours upon us that pretious blood which washes us as St. John saith 1. Jo. 1.7 from the spots and stains which we had contracted by all our sins But when you are so void of grace as to make a false Confession and having made it to permit the Priest to give you Absolution you frustrate the effect of the blood of the Son of God which falling upon a Criminal and unworthy Subject as you then are is more prophaned contemned and violated then when the Jews shed it upon the Earth and unworthily trampled it under their feet Be afraid here of that menace of the Apostle in the Epistle to the Hebrews 10.28 where he saith He that despiseth Moyses his Law dieth without mercy of how much more severe punishment think ye shall he deserve who treadeth under foot the Son of God and esteemeth the blood of the Testament wherewith he was sanctified as an unholy thing and doth affront the Spirit of grace Ponder well upon these three injuries for all these you do by a false Confession Sixthly consider how little reason you have to commit so great evils in thus concealing your sins in Confession this cannot proceed but either out of fear or shame which are the two inseparable Companions of Sin as Tertullian saith in Apologet. Omne malum aut timore aut pudore natura suffudit As for fear what is it that you can apprehend in this occasion If you fear to be defamed consider that you discover your sins but to one man alone and so this cannot defame you but besides he is obliged to secrecy by all both Divine and Humane Laws and he cannot violate that secret but he makes himself worthy of death both before God and Man. So that there is no danger of your honour Are you afraid to be reprehended by your Ghostly Father this is what sometimes hinders simple people who yet in reality are not simple but blind and stupid to commit so dreadfull a sin for fear of so small an evil and to be more apprehensive of the reprehension of a Ghostly Father who doth not do it but meerly out of Charity and for your good then you are afraid of the offence of God and to be reprehended and condemned by him to be scoffed at by the Divels and lost for evermore Has not he lost his wit who makes such a choice The same is to be said of those who conceal their sins for fear of a great Penance which is yet a more unsupportable stupidity and blindness yet this happens sometimes and chiefly amongst young and ignorant people Let us now come to speak of shame which is the second reason why the Penitent conceals his sins in Confession as vain as the former And first I agree and acknowledge that Sin deserves we should be ashamed of it and that he is not truly penitent that hath not this shame and that he justly merits that reproch which God gave to a Sinner Hierem. 33. Thou hast the forehead of a dishonest woman thou wilt not blush for thy crimes But I maintain that shame ought not to hinder any one from discovering all their sins in Confession that which with-holds us from such a declaration is not shame