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Excerpt from The "Enormities of the Confessional" As Put Forth by the Expelled Student of Maynooth, College, Briefly Examined, and the Student Himself Exhibited in His True Character
On the other hand, where these disorders are only half exposed, where the nature, extent, and duration of the soul's guilt is only partially discovered, where the confessor has reason to believe that there still remains something lurking, hidden and concealed, which fear, false shame, or some other motive, prevents the penis tent from disclosing; then it becomes his duty, in the fulfilment of his sacred ministry, to aid and assist him by such enquiries into the state of his soul as the symptoms which he has already detected render necessary, but which are founded entirely on the self-accusation of the peni tent himselfi? In doing this, the utmost caution and prudence are always exercised by the confessor, and not a single question is asked which the actual circumstances of the case have not rendered necessary. The instant that he has elicited from the penitent, that clear knowledge of his half expressed guilt, which should have freely and voluntarily at first, the enquiry ceases, the object of that enquiry, viz. A knowledge of the state of the penitent's conscience has been obtained, and the crime of sacrilegious falsehood to the Holy Ghost has been happily prevented. Acts 5.
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