Chapter — Concina, Compendium

Chapter I — A census of the proscribed propositions

I.

I. Alexander VII proscribed forty-five propositions, of which the first is of this kind: A man is at no time of his life whatever bound to elicit an act of faith, hope, and charity by force of the divine precepts pertaining to those virtues.

II.

II. Innocent XI, out of the sixty propositions which he proscribed, condemned three regarding this matter, and they are the following:

  1. Whether he sins mortally who should elicit an act of the love of God only once in his life, we dare not condemn.

  2. It is probable that the precept of charity towards God does not, of itself, rigorously oblige even once in every five years.

  3. It obliges then only, when we are bound to be justified, and have no other way by which we can be justified.

III.

III. Alexander VIII, in the year 1690, condemned thirty-one propositions, among which are the following in order:

  1. In truth he sins who hates sin merely on account of its baseness and its unbecomingness to nature, without any respect to God offended.

  2. The intention by which one detests evil and pursues good merely that he may obtain heavenly glory is not right, nor pleasing to God.

  3. Everything that is not from Christian supernatural faith, which worketh by love, is a sin.

  4. Whoever serves God even with a view to the eternal reward, if he lack charity, is not free of vice, as often as he acts even with a view to beatitude.

  5. Attrition which is conceived from fear of hell and of punishments, without the love of God for his own sake, is not a good supernatural movement.