An edition of A treatise on auricular confession
A treatise on auricular confession
dogmatical, historical, & practical.
by Raphael Melia
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A treatise on auricular confession: dogmatical, historical, & practical.
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CONTENTS.
Introduction
THE FIRST AND THEORETICAL PART OF CONFESSION.
CHAPTER I.
Antiquity and Universality of Confession 1
Section I. — The Voice of Human Nature calls for the Confession of Sin 1
Section II. — Confession typified or prefigured among the first Believers under the Law of Nature, previous to the Law of Moses 6
Section III. — Confession traced and commanded by God in the Mosaic Law 8
Section IV. — The belief in the necessity of Confession, and the practice of it, among Pagan nations 13
CHAPTER II.
Institution of the Sacrament of Penance in the Law of Grace 16
Section I. — Jesus Christ is the Institutor of this Sacrament 18
Section II. — By Christ's ordinance, there is no other ordinary way in Christianity for the remission of sins than Sacramental Confession 29
Section III. — Protestant evidences of the same truth 32
CHAPTER III.
The Divine Institution of Confession acknowledged by Christians of all persuasions, and the Practice thereof maintained among the same in all ages of the church 42
Section I. — The Divine Institution of the Sacrament of Penance, proved by the practice of it at the time of the Apostles 42
Section II. — The same Divine Institution and practice witnessed by the Fathers of the Church 44
Section III. — General and Particular Councils of the Church bear witness of the same 47
Section IV. — Penitential Canons witness the same 51
Section V. — The same is proved by History 52
Section VI. — The same is stated by Schismatic and Protestant Sects 61
Section VII. — The practice of Confession approved by Infidel Philosophers and others alien from the Catholic Faith 74
Section VIII. — Confession practised at the point of death by many of the Infidel Philosophers 77
Section IX. — Of other Infidel Philosophers who, at the hour of death, desired to make their Confession, bnt could not obtain such a benefit 91
Section X. — Of celebrated Statesmen and Warriors, who, at the point of death, returned to God by means of Sacramental Confession 95
CHAPTER IV.
The Benefits, both Spiritual and Temporal, Individual and Social, derivable from Confession, show its importance, and solicit its practice 109
CHAPTER V.
Objections against Confession answered 122
Objection I. — The priest who hears Sacramental Confessions may disclose what has been con- fided to him 122
Objection IL — The confessor is angry with, and scolds me 132
Objection III. — By confessing certain sins, I shall lose the good opinion of my confessor 134
Objection IV. — I am ashamed to confess certain sins 135
Objection V. — The confessor is toourigorous and exacting 139
Objection VI. — It is too hard and humbling to kneel before a man 141
Objection VII. — I make my confession to God, and this is enough 143
Objection VIII. — Confession is not of divine right, because it was introduced in the thirteenth century 145
Objection IX. — Confession, though practised in the old Church, was abrogated by Nectarius, Archbishop of Constantinople, in the year 390 146
Objection X. — The Sacrament of Penance is an inducement to sin 148
THE SECOND AND PRACTICAL PART OF CONFESSION.
CHAPTER I.
On the Examination of Conscience 152
CHAPTER II.
On Sorrow for Sin 170
Section I. — Necessity of Sorrow 171
Section II. — Interior Sorrow 172
Section III. — Supernatural Sorrow 176
Section IV. — Supreme Sorrow 198
Section V. — Universal Sorrow 203
CHAPTER III.
On the Resolution not to sin again 206
I. — Firm Resolution 207
II. — Universal Resolution 208
III. — Efficacious Resolution 211
CHAPTER IV.
On the Accusation of Sins 223
I. — Humble Accusation 223
II. — Simple Accusation 227
III. — Sincere and Full Accusation 229
CHAPTER V.
On Satisfaction, or Penance for Sins confessed 246
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