BOOK III. q. 1. which three Doctors seem to be borne out by three holy Fathers; Saint Anselm in Comment. upon Matt. xii. Saint Isidor. de Summo Bono, 1. 2. Saint Austin. For me, as I dare not reprove so great Authors, so I hold it an holy course, thus to think of God in his goodness, that there are no men, which, while they live, are not in time and place visited by the regard of his divine grace. Bellarm. Recognit. p. 103. Quia dum noscerem, &c. Thirdly, Popish Doctors, disagreeing. BECAUSE, while I write this, there is great controversy hac recog- amongst our writers about the Kingdom of Christ, I thought good to explain myself further. I hold therefore that heed is to be taken of godly men, lest they so uphold Christ's temporal Kingdom, that they deny his poverty. That his Kingdom therefore was not temporal but spiritual, besides the ancient, is well taught by two accurate Interpreters, Cornelius Jansenius, and Adamus Sasbout, &c. Bellarm. Recognit. p. 23. THE PEACE OF ROME. BOOK IV. CONTAINING ABOVE THREESCORE DIFFERENT OPINIONS DECADE I 1. The Gloss and Gratian, against Navarre and the common opinion. BOOK IV. THOUGH the Gloss (1. and 2. in cap. Lachrymæ) and Quamvis Gratian (de Pœn. dist. 1.) hold a man excluded from Glossa, &c. Confession by his contrition; so as being once throughly contrite, he is not of necessity in due time to confess; which they prove by divers Authorities from the Canon Law, and from St. Chrysostom, and St. Austin: yet we must with a sure faith hold, and defend, that although by the contrition of the heart alone, without actual confession, our sins are remitted, yet that he to whom they are pardoned, is bound in due time (if opportunity can be had) to confess them. Navarrus in his Commentaries upon the Seven distinctions of Penance, abridged by Gregory Sayrus; chap. 4. of his Summa Sacram. Pœnitentia, printed at Venice, with Privilege, an. 1601, p. 6. 2. Navarre against some nameless. THAT Sacramental Confession was not instituted in Confess. Paradise, nor brought in by the law of nature, see de- Sacram. non fended against some of their nameless Writers, by Navar. radiso, &c. Sum Pænit. cap. 5. p. 11. a Martin de Azpilcueta, or Aspicueta; born in 1491, at Varasayn, near Pampeluna, in Navarre; died at Rome, in 1586. His works were published, in 3 vols. folio; Roma, 1590: Lugd. 1591, and 1597.-H. esse in Pa BOOK IV. A nullo puro 3. The same Author against other Catholics. THAT Confession was not instituted by any mere man, homine, &c. or any human law, but only by Christ himself; and that it was not instituted by Joshua to Achan, against the error of some nameless Catholics, is maintained by Navar. Sum. Pænit. c. 5. p. 11. Errasse etiam eos. Infertur errasse Glossam, &c. Errare 4. Some nameless Catholics confuted by Navar. THE errors of those which held the Sacrament of Penance was instituted by St. James, chap. v. see also confuted. Sum. Poenit. c. 5. 5. The Gloss, Panormitan, Decius, against Durandus, Major, Navarre. FURTHER it follows necessarily, that the Gloss (Summa de Pon. dist. 5.) erreth,which teacheth, that the full confession of sins was not instituted by any authority of the Old or New Testament, but only by the Tradition of the Universal Church: which opinion is followed by Panormitan and Decius, but is confuted by all, but especially by Durandus and Major. Sum. Pan. c. 5. p. 12. 6. Navar. against Cajetan. IT is further implied that Cajetan erred, who upon Cajetanum. John xx. teaches, that Sacramental Confession was instituted by Christ, but not commanded. Sum. Pœnit. c. 5. p. 12. Etiam Petrum ab Osma errasse, &c. 7. Sixtus the Fourth, and others, against Petrus It is yet inferred further, that Petrus ab Osma erred, Sum. BOOK IV. 8. Navarre against the Canon. nem, &c. THE Canon is deceived, which (in Relect. de Sacram.) Infertur teaches, that penance and outward confession was neces-falli Canosary to salvation, not only under the time of the Gospel, but of the Law also; and under the time of nature, in act, if it might be had, or in desire and purpose, if it might not. Sum. Pœn. c. 5. 9. Navar. and Scotus, &c. against the Gloss. THE Gloss erreth (Sum. de Poen. dist. 5.) that saith Errasse that Sacramental confession was not in use in the Greek Glossam. Church, as is largely taught by Scotus, 4. Dist. 17. and the Council of Cologne, fol. 151. Sum. Pœnit. c. 5. p. 12. 2. 10. Navar. against Cajetan. A MAN is bound to contrition and confession, so oft as Tenetur any action is to be done, which requires contrition and homo, &c. confession to go before it, such as the Sacrament of the Eucharist; howsoever Cajetan teach the contrary, in Sum. verb. Communio, and upon 1 Cor. xi. who holds, that he sins not deadly which communicates upon contrition had, before he confess himself, though he have opportunity of confession; which opinion is condemned by the Tridentine Council. Sum. Pænit. c. 6. p. 15. 1. DECADE II. 11. Navarre against Paludanus, &c. NAVARRE holds, there is no precept that ties us, upon Non esse ulpain of sin, to confess before any Sacrament save the lum, &c. Eucharist. Paludanus, in 4. d. 7. q. 2, saith, that to the Sacrament of Confirmation, of Orders, of Extreme Unction, an actual confession of our sins is necessary. Sum. Pænit. c. 6. fol. 15. 2. 12. Paludanus and Antoninus, against Thomas and Navarre. addunt Pa How oft we commit one and the same sin, is ill put by Malè autem Paludanus and Saint Antoninus among the circumstances ludanus, &c. to be confessed: for the second sin is not the circumstance VOL. IX. K BOOK IV. of the first; whereupon neither Aristotle nor Saint Thomas number this Quoties among the circumstances. Sum. Pænit. c. 7. fol. 16. 2. Circum 13. Jo. Major against Thomas, Paludanus, Gabriel, Antoninus, Adrian, Cajetan, Prierias. WE are not bound to confess those circumstances stantias que which do aggravate the fault, but change it not into anaggravant. other kind of sin, as the common opinion teacheth; Saint Thomas, Paludanus, Gabriel, St. Antoninus, Adrian, Cajetan, Prierias. The contrary opinion (which is defended by Jo. Major, 4. d. q. 3,) makes the conscience. full of scruples and fear. Sum. Panit. c. 8. fol. 18. 1. Difficile est 14. Thomas, Scotus, Major, differing. It is hard to know, what circumstances change the autem, &c. action from one kind into another: whereof are three divers opinions one of Saint Thomas, 4. d. 16. q. 3; the other of Scotus; the third of Jo. Major, in 4. dist. 17. q. 4. Sum. Poenit. c. 8. f. 20. 2. Non igitur 15. Alensis against Navarre: Navarre against Lyra, Major, Antoninus, Adrian. THE circumstance of time is not necessary to be concircumstan- fessed; as that we have sinned upon an Holy-day : tia temporis, whence Alensis is deceived, which holds, that a mortal &c. Dubium est tores, &c. sin upon an Holy-day is double in respect of the guilt, though single in respect of the act: and Lyra, Exod. xx, and Major, 4. d. 17. q. 4, and Anton. part iii. art. 17, and Adrian, upon 4. De Confess. q. 4, are deceived, which teach, that in that precept of the Decalogue only mortal sin is forbidden. Sum. Poenit. c. 9. f. 24. 1. 16. Adrian, Major, Silvester, &c., against other nameless Divines and Navarre betwixt both. Ir is doubted by our Doctors, whether he that sins inter Doc- mortally before others, and yet not with any purpose to give occasion of sinning to others, be bound to confess the circumstance of his scandal given: for Adrian, in 4. De Confess. q. 4, and Jo. Major, 4. dist. 38, and Silvester, say he must confess it: others deny it. Navarre determines betwixt both. Sum. Pœnit. c. 9. fol. 26. 2. |