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before this sacrament be actually received, the said hell and of punishment, it declares that if, with the fication, yet does it dispose him to obtain the grace which the- Church of God never taught, or thought ; of God in the sacrament of Penance. For, smitten motion on the part of those who receive it, a thing the sacrament of Penance, conduct the sinner to justi- but that it is even a gift of God, and an impulse of the ment which is included therein. And as to that im- does not make a man a hypocrite, and a greater sinner, sacrament of Penance confers grace without any good hope of pardon, it exclude the wish to sin, it not only from the Lord. Whence falsely do some calumniate that it is commonly conceived either from the con- 46 ROMAN CATHOLICISM Holy Ghost who does not indeed as yet dwell in the being assisted, prepares a way for himself unto justice. 'And although this (attrition) cannot of itself, without perfect contrition, which is called attrition, because ing of Jonas, did fearful penance and obtained mercy reconciliation, nevertheless, is not to be ascribed to that sideration of the turpitude of sin, or from the fear of profitably with this fear, the Ninevites, at the preach- and falsely also do they assert that Contrition is ex- % Catholic writers, as if they had maintained that the contrition, independently of the desire of the sacra- penitent, but only moves him whereby the penitent,

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