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Scruples at Confession (II)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Walter Hilton
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Some men in shrift tell a long fit in fair words, as it were a long treatise, and with a dry heart and cold as lead, more by custom than by contrition of heart. Those men though they say mickle they receive not ever in shrift the virtue of the sacrament. And truly againward, there are many simple Christian men rough and rude, that when they are touched then loathe their life in sin. They wail and weep if they may, and run to Holy Church for help. And if they would shew their sin fully, scarcely then they shew any so clearly as they would. But they are letted sometime for simpleness, sometime for uncunning and sometimes because they are so sorry and ashamed of themselves that they desire to shew all their sins with the circumstance and they cannot bring them forth.

Type
Research Article
Information
Life of the Spirit , Volume 10 , Issue 119 , May 1956 , pp. 504 - 509
Copyright
Copyright © 1956 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 Edited by Clare Kirchberger. Cf. Lite of the Spirit, April 1956.

2 Text defective: ‘for of the burionys they all’.

3 Pain here has both the sense of suffering and penance.

4 The word appears to be ‘sees’.

5 Perhaps ‘wavering’?

6 This is St James!, 5, 13, ‘aequo animo’ (Vulgate).

7 Cf. Hosea II, 4.

8 ‘feyned’.

9 Text obscure; the sense seems to be as given here.

10 provided that.

11 probably ‘quitteth’.