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A60278	Sin dismantled, shewing the loathsomnesse thereof, in laying it open by confession; with the remedy for it by repentance & conversion Wherein is set forth the manner how we ought to confess our sins to God and man, with the consiliary decrees from the authority thereof, and for the shewing the necessity of priestly absolution, the removing the disesteem the vulgar have of absolution, setting forth the power of ministers. With an historical relation of the canons concerning confession, and the secret manner of it; also shewing the confessors affections and inclinations. By a late reverend, learned and judicious Divine.	Late reverend, learned and judicious Divine.	1664 (1664)	Wing S3850; ESTC R221495	353,931	367

onus qui vult levari sentiat vincula qui vult solvi let him feel the weight of his burden that would be eased as David did when he cried out Psal 38. my sins are too heavy for me to bear and the straitness of his bonds that would be freed as Paul did when he saw the law in his members bringing him into captivity unto the law of sin and thereupon exclaimed who shall deliver me from the body of this death Rom. 7.23 And no otherwise doth Christ proclaime it that none should come unto him but such as are weary and heavy laden Grow sensible then of thy oppression under sin how the Irons enter into thy soul Matth. 11. be sorrowful for captivating thy self with those bonds Resort unto the Priest shew him thy fetters and crave his assistance to strike them off and then whom the Son of man shall set free or the Priest in his name he shall be free indeed And this is the first and most remarkable consideration why unto the Priest sins must be confessed CHAP. IX The Contents Paternal affection in the Confessary Good for sheep if the sheepherd know their diseases Medicinal Confession The grief better healed when clearer opened Ghostly counsell of great importance to a Penitent Great care in the choice of a discreet Confessor Romes rigid Tenet Absolution denounced by any Priest besides the Ordinary to be invalid The inconveniencies thereof The Parochial Priest not to be deserted without just cause and the same to be approved by the Diocesan II. Priest a spiritual Father THere are other inducements besides that which hath been spoken inclining to the practick of Confession which are now distinctly but succinctly to follow in their order as first the Relation of a Spiritual Father for that Paternal affection is or should be betwixt the Pastor and his people Love being the chaine that tieth the one to his charge and the other to his due respect Now what secrets will a dutiful child conceal from an affectionate father especially secrets of that nature that may be redressed by the fathers help and may prove obnoxious by the sons concealment A good Father tenders the infirmities of his child and upon notice thereof will either cure or cover them Thus stood Saint Paul affectionate unto the Corinthians 1 Cor. 5.14 I write not these things to shame you but as my beloved sons I warn you q. d. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theoph. in 1 Cor. 5. I speak not from a malicious mind to calumniate or disparage you but unto children and that beloved pardon me if I have spoken something harshly it proceeded from love I reprove you not but warn you and who will not with patience endure a fathers warnings he proceedeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Idem ibid. many instructors you may meet withall but not many fathers and their care may be much but not like my affection and however they may instruct you yet it is I that in Christ Jesus have begotten you through my Gospel in that natural way expressing how great his love was as Theophy lact observed Now if love thus descend why should it not ascend why art thou ashamed to make known thy state to such a father who will neither write nor speak to shame thee and whatsoever he doth therein is by way of monition onely and no way prejudicial Greg Nyssen de Poen in appendice operum Paris 1618. p. 176. Take then as Gregory Nissen advised the Priest for a partner of thine affliction and as thy father shew unto him without blushing the things that are kept close he will have care both of thy credit and of thy cure See this testimony more amply before The next denomination is of a Sheepherd and flock III. Priest a Pastor Heb. 13.20 Iohn 21.16 a name which the Apostle hath given unto Christ the great Sheepherd of the sheep and Christ to his Apostle in feed my sheep Now it cannot be amiss for the sheep if the sheepherd know their (a) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Th●oph in cap. 5. ad Eph. p. 552. diseases Christ the Arch sheepherd differs herein from all others for whereas some sheepherds are clothed with the fleece feed upon their milk and kill their sheep for meat contrariwise Christ clotheth them feedeth them and was slain for them likewise and His sheepherds herein differ from our sheepherds for how ever they are clothed with the fleece fed with the milk and reap temporal things yet have they not power over their lives to kill them but to feed and preserve them yea if by negligence any of their flock suffer damage it will be set upon their head and reckoning It was wittily observed by that learned and ancient Father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clom Alex. Strom. l. 1. pag. 203. Clomons Alexandrinus that the Sheepherd and the Cook view not the sheep alike The Butcher handles him if fat and fit for the slaughter the sheepherd contented with the fleece and milk and increase hath care and watcheth over his flock Let the sheep then distinguish the sheepherds voice from a stranger and to him let their griefs be unfolded And let the same mind be in the sheepherds that was in Christ Jesus He that is studious to heal the vices of humane infirmity Qui studet humanae infirmitatis emendare vitia ipsam infirmitatem suis debet sustinere quodammodo pensare hum●ris non ab●●c●re Nam pastor ille Evangelicus lassam ovem vexisse legitur non abjecisse Ambr. l. 1. de Poen c. 1. saith Ambrose must take upon him the infirmity it self and bear it as it were upon his own shoulders not cast it off for that Evangelical sheepherd is said to have born the wearied sheep and not to have cast it off And can thy infirmities be better known to any than unto him that will take them to himself and bear the burden upon his own shoulders IV. Priest a spiritual physician Tacentibus non facilè potest medela opportuni necessarii sermonis adhiberi Ex lib. Clement MS. The fourth Correspondence is as unto a Physician wherein that adage of our Saviour holdeth the whole need not the Physician but the sick And as a sick patient possesseth his Physician with each remarkable passage in his sickness that the grief being fully apprehended the remedy may be the better applied So should it be in the case of spiritual diseases also The Fathers are very plentiful in their inlargements upon this Medicinal Confession God saith Origen as he hath prepared medicines for the body Sicut corpori medicamenta praeparavit ità etiam animae medicamenta praeparavit in his sermonibus quos per divinas Scripturas seminavit atque d●spersit Archiatros est salvator qui possit curare omnem languorem infirmitatem Discipuli verò ejus Petrus vel Paulus sed Prophetae Medici sunt bi omnes qui post Apostolos

of which one is for reconcilement to an offended Brother Sentit Jacob●s ut nostras infir●●tates alter alteri d●tegentes coasilio consolatione ●●●tud●●●s juvem●s ib. sect 12. another to a Brother also for reconcilement but with God of this writeth thus St James in those words would have us to understand that detecting our infirmities one to another we should aid our selves with mutual counsel and consolation where Counsel and Consolation is the scope of this confession and that end one who is not of the Clergy may afford Calvin is thought of some to be too precise and rigid in his Tenets let a moderate man speak Cassander who delivers it as a conclusion agreed upon by the Protestants of Germany for that many sinners in doubtful cases have need of counsel Multi propter ambiguos casus opus habent consilio ideò hortandi sunt homines ut addant enumerationem ut juvari consilio atque excitari magis ad poenitentiam de multis rebus admoneri possint Cassand consult art 11. de Confes therefore men are to be exhorted to number out their sins in confession that they may be relieved by counsel be the more excited to repentance and admonished of many matters Equidem credo hac de re controversiam nullam fuisse futuram si non salutaris haec consitendi medicina ab imperitis importunis Medicis multis inutilibus traditiunculis infecta contaminata fuisset quibus conscientiis quas extricare levare debebant laqueos injecerunt tanquam tormentis quibusdam excarnificarunt huic rei occurretur si pii tantùm ac prudentes viri huic ●●ilissimo sanctissimo audiendae confessionis absolutionis impartiendae Ministerio praeficiantur Id. ib. The same prudent Divine was of opinion that there had been no controver sit about this point if this healing medicine of Confession had not been by many unskilful and unseasonable Physicians infected and defiled with many and those unprofitable traditions whereby they have cast snares upon the Consciences and much tortured the same which they ought to have eased and freed from such intanglings and tells us that the onely help and redress of this abuse is if Godly and wise men were substituted to this most holy and profitable ministery of hearing Confessions and granting absolutions I shall make up this point with the testimony of a domestick Divine Dr Willet Willet Synops controv 14. Qu. 6. Sect. 2. of auric Confession p. 645. who hath these words Confession of sins such as the Scripture alloweth we acknowledge There are private Confessions either to God alone as Daniel confesseth 9.4 or for the easing of our Consciences to man also as to him whom we have offended Matth. 5.24 or to any other faithful man the Minister or some other that we may be holpen and comforted by our mutual prayers thus he And surely this detection of sins is so evident an introduction for a remedy and ease against them that even natural men with half an eye have discerned it Plutarch by name Thou sayest unto a vitious man Tu dicis vitioso homini cum vitiis tuis te abde morbunque insanabilem p●stilentem perfer celaque invidiam vel superstitionem veluti palpitationes quasdam tradere te eis qui docere vel sanare possunt cave At vero Prisci aegrotos suos in publico propon bant ut praetereuntium quivis si quid vel ipse in codem morbo conflictatus vel similiter laboranti opitulatus medelae nosceret id aegrotanti signi ficaret aiuntque artem hoc modo experientia adjuvante crevisse hoc modo etiam vitae vitia animique prav is affectiones expediebat detegere ut cuivis liceret iis inspectis consideratis dicere iratus et hoc cave rivalitate vexaris istud facito amas ipse quoque aliquando amavi sed resipui Nam dum vitia suanegant occultant velant penitùs ea in sese desigunt Plut. de occultè vivend Xyland Interp. p. 116. hide thy self with thy vices indure thy pestilent and dangerous disease conceal the envy and superstition as certain pantings and beware thou give not thy self to such as can instruct and heal thee But the Ancients exposed their sick men to open view that such as passed by and had been sick of the same disease or had given ease and help thereunto might signifie so much unto the sick man and they affirm that the art it self improved by such experience to have been much better'd thereby and increased In like manner it may seem expedient to lay open the sins of our life and the evil affections of the mind that it may be lawful for any man beholding and considering the same to say Art thou angry take heed of this Art thou vexed with jealousie do this Art thou in love I my self was so but have repented Now whiles some men hide their vices deny and conceal them what do they but fasten them more thoroughly and surely to themselves CHAP. VI. The Contents Divers offices and administrations in the Church The peoples confession unto John at Jordan wherein they were particular The Confession of the Believers at Ephesus to Saint Paul Proofs from the Fathers for Confession to the Priests of the Gospel Such Confession withdraweth not from God but leadeth to him Testimonies of the worthiest Divines of the Church of England for confession seconded with Divines of the Reformation from the Churches beyond the Seas GODS Church is a body consisting of divers members 1 Cor. 12.4 5. so necessary as none can be missed so distinct as none can be confounded so decent as none can be vilified so useful as none can be spared and so subordinate as none can be translated all of them distinguished in their places functions and offices and enabled with gifts for administrations and with administrations for operations In this holy calling there is 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God inabling whom he calleth and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. the administration he calleth to Minister unto for every vocation is an office and imployment 3. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 works and uses for this office is not idle but laborious Now all of these are diverse in themselves but not in their Author The gifts are not alike yet from the same Spirit the ministrations are different yet from the same Lord the operations are distinct yet from the same God that worketh all in all In. S. ordine discrimen gradu potestate Amongst which the Lords Officers are divers He hath set in the Church first Apostles secondarily Prophets thirdly Teachers fourthly helps and governments fiftly diversities of Tongues The Ministery is a function distinct from other offices in kind and in it self in degree also and the end whereof the common good of the Church Quorsum depluere de coelo jussit varia haec donorum genera benignissimum Numen nisi humani