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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

slain King Francis the first but that he repented thereof the Frier absolved him but kept not his counsel revealing the matter to the King who commended it to the Parliament at Paris where the cause was heard and the Traytor adjudged to suffer pains of death and the Frier not so much as questioned for the breach of the seal For the like offence and by the Arrest of the same Court was the Lord of Haulte-ville executed who in the time of sickness being like to die Hist de Paris pag. 305. onfessed the like purpose of murdering his Prince he recovering of his sickness and being accused of his Confessor had judgment to die for Treason And not many years since one Peter Barriers was tormented upon the wheel by the Hist de Paris pag. 144. judgment of the Lord Steward of the Kings houshold for that at Lyons he had confessed unto a certain Jacobine a resolution to destroy his Soveraign the Confessor being not able to take him off from his hellish design revealed the same to the Storetary of State whereupon the Traytor was apprehended and deservedly executed And at home a Noble Historian mentioneth Lord Bacans hist of King Henry 7. pag. 125. that when Perkin Warbeck had personated Richard Duke of York smothered in his infancy so at life as he could hardly be discerned from the Duke himself and found many and great adherents Henry the VII that prudent Prince being lost in a wood of suspicions and not knowing whom to trust had intelligence with the Confessors and Chaplaines of great men Imagining that through those peeping holes he might discern mens thoughts and take the depth of their hearts and sound their affections and as Confessors are too oft the bars to keep in so they may sometimes be the keys to unlock treacherous attempts And such was the fate and fall of a great Peer of this Land Edward Bowhen Duke of Buckingham Hall Chron. An. RR. Henrici 8.13 He was executed May 17. 1522. where a Monk instilled and induced the Duke to the treason and John Delacourt Priest his Confessor was one that accused him who by his Peers was found guilty and had judgment by the Duke of Norfolk then Lord high Steward and for that offence lost his head And lastly James Hamilton Arch-Bishop of Saint Andrews in Scotland was executed as accessary to the Parricide of the King of Scots Ex judicio sacrifici qui hoc quondam ex Regicidis inter confitendum fe audivisse affirmarat Cambd. Eliz. ad An. Dom. 1571. pag. 192. Grandfather to our late Soveraign upon the accusatiō of a Priest who gave in evidence that some of the traytorous Parricides had in confession detected so much unto him For mine own part I confidently aver there is no honest Priest in offences of this nature that concern the safety of the sacred Person of his Soveraign or the State that will give sleep to his eyes or slumber to his eye lids till he shall have unfolded the same to the Magistrate next at hand Yea Garnet himself arraigned for his treachery in this point Action against F. Garnet pag. 99. openly said I willingly acknowledge such laws as forbid treasons to be concealed to be just and wholesome for it is not fit that the safety of the Prince depend upon another mans conscience and accordingly doth a Frier of their side conclude in certain Articles maintained in the Vniversity of Paris Potest quis id quod novit sub sigillo Secreti manifestare si id quod novit vergit in detrimentum Reipublicae vel in perniciem totius communitatis Jacob. Lup. tract de Confes Propos 36. A Priest may discover that which he had notice of under the seal of secrecy if that which he knoweth tend to the detriment of the Common-wealth or to the destruction of the whole Commonalty Sins then or treacherous attempts against the dignity of the Crown or State or the fundamental laws thereof as dangerous or destructive of the publick good must be held in under no seal and folded up in no secrecy but brought into the light that the danger may be averted and the offender punished and all others warned to be faithful and obedient For in just fears even divine positive laws lose their hold and obligation Religion commanding such things which make ad lucrum custodiam charitatis saith Saint Bernard for the gain and preservation of charity But whatsoever and whensoever they prove contrary unto charity and destructive thereof Si contraria fortè charitati visa fuerint nonne justissimum esse liquet ut quae pro charitate inventa fuerunt pro charitate verò u●i expedire videtur vel omittantur vel intermittantur vel in aliud fortè commodius demutentur Bern. tract de dispens praecepto It is very just that such ordinances as were made for the good of charity if they appear prejudicial to the same should be omitted or intermitted or for charities sake altered into better as the Father prudently adviseth And what greater breach can there be of charity than to rake up such offences under silence by the concealment whereof the King and State may be so highly impaired and the just laws thereof not executed upon the Malefactors Thou wilt say what must be done in these cases where the finners conscience is perplexed and cannot be quieted without confession and absolution from a Priest and confess he dare not for fear of detection Indeed many are the reasons that fight for the seal but more that fight against it And in cases of this nature I say what have I to do to judge these things that are without the law of charity and secrecy and further say how I could heartily wish them known that the offenders may be made manifest and punished and the peace of the Realm secured Although the Casuists are generally concurrent in this That such sins may be omitted in Confession as would either scandalize the Confessor indanger the Penitent or defame a third person Setting aside then sins of this nature I could very well approve of a fitting privacy in the carriage and exercise of this Ministerial function Poena revelantis Confession●m quod ultra peccatum mortale debet detrudi in Monasterium deponi Sum. Angel verb. Confes ult nu 19. Marriage in the Clergie no obstacle to the seal and wish those Canons revived that punished the betrayers and publishers thereof with deprivation and loss of all spiritual preferments and with incapability for attaining any future advancements It will be here said How can any penitent secure himself of such secrecy at the hands of the Married Clergie As if the relation of a husband were not distinct from the office of a Minister By the like reason exclude all married men from being Privy Counsellors to his Majesty or from being acquainted with any designes which require privacy Yea a Priest by the same reason must be