Prep questions for the confessional (Challoner, The garden of the soul, London: Printed in the year of Our Lord, 1775)

Text: "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women..." Daniel 11:37 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry..." 1 Timothy 4:1-3

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   VI. Have you been guilty of fornication or adultery, or incest, or any sin against nature, either with a person of the same sex or with any other creature? How often? O[r] have you designed or attempted any such sin or sought to induce others to it? How often?

   Have you been guilty of self-pollution[?] Or of immodest touches of yourself? How often?

   Have you touched others, or permitted yourself to be touched by others immodestly? Or given or taken wanton kisses or embraces, or any such like liberties? How often?

   Have you looked at immodest objects with pleasure or danger? Read immodest books or songs to yourself or others? Kept indecent pictures? Willingly given ear to, or taken pleasure in hearing loose discourse, &c. Or sought to see or hear any thing that was immodest? How often?

   Have you exposed yourself to wanton company? Or played at any indecent play? Or frequented masquerades, balls, comedies, &c. with danger of your chastity? How often?

   Have you been guilty of any immodest discourses, wanton stories, jests, or songs, or words of double meaning? How often? And before how many? And were the persons, be[fo]re whom you spoke or sung, married or sin[gl]e? For all this you are obliged to confess, [by] reason of the evil thoughts these things are []t to create in the hearers.

   Have you abused the marriage bed by any [a]ctions contrary to the order of nature? Or [b]y any pollutions? Or been guilty of any ir[r]egularity, in order to hinder your having [c]hildren? How often?

   Have you without a just cause refused the marriage-debt? And what sin may have fol[l]owed from it? How often?

   Have you debauched any person that was [i]nnocent before? Have you forced any per[s]on, or deluded any one by deceitful promises, &c.? Or designed or desired so to do? How often? You are obliged to make satisfaction for the injury you have done.

   Have you taught any one evil which he knew not before? Or carried any one to lewd houses, &c.? How often?

Challoner, Richard, The garden of the soul: or, A manual of spiritual exercises and instructions for Christians who (living in the world) aspire to devotion, London: Printed in the year of Our Lord, 1775, pp. 208-209.

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