Christus consulit cuidam regi, qui inobediens fuerat consiliis virginis marie, quod vadat ad papam et petat ab eo absolucionem de certis grauibus peccatis suis hic contentis, non occultando peccata nec excusando, sed humiliando se toto corde, quia summa peccata per summum pontificem sunt absoluenda.
The Call to Humble Obedience
Christ instructs the disobedient king to seek absolution from the Supreme Pontiff, promising divine protection and reward for his humility.
The Son of God speaks to his bride, saying: "Because the king disobeyed my mother's counsel, I, the Son of God—who dwell within my mother—now advise him to go and travel to the Supreme Pontiff, humbly seeking absolution for his sins." For the most serious sins must be set right with the Supreme Pontiff, who holds the highest authority. He truly possesses the highest authority, for he sits in my seat on earth and has the power to bind and to loose in my name. Therefore, if the king follows my counsel, I will give him a most precious treasure, defend him from his enemies, and settle all his debts—whether bodily or spiritual—if he is unable to pay them himself; and I will count every step he takes out of love for me and reward him in eternal life.
The Path of Sincere Confession
The king is directed to confess his specific sins, including perjury and the corruption of church offices, without excuse or concealment.
But when the king reaches the Supreme Pontiff, he must humble himself before him with all his heart, not hiding his sins or making excuses, but seeking absolution for his disobedience to the laws of God's holy Church, for the excommunication by which he is bound, and for his public perjury. This includes the unusual burden placed on the community of the people of his kingdom, the promotion of unworthy clergy to church offices through his influence, and those things which the same king had attempted against the praiseworthy statutes of the kingdom and the bishops.
Read the original Latin
Filius dei loquitur sponse dicens: Quia rex inobediens fuit consiliis matris mee, ideo nunc ego filius dei, qui sum in matre, consulo ei, quod egrediatur et vadat ad summum pontificem, petendo humiliter absolucionem a peccatis suis.
Nam summa peccata emendanda sunt cum summo pontifice habente potestatem summam. Ille enim est summe potestatis, qui in sede mea sedens in mundo potestatem habet ligandi et soluendi nomine meo.
Ideo, si rex acquieuerit consilio meo, dabo ei preciosissimum thesaurum et defendam eum ab inimicis suis omniaque debita sua soluam vel corporaliter vel spiritualiter, si ipse non sufficit soluere, et quemlibet passum pedis quem laborauerit amore meo numerabo et remeciar ei in eterna vita.
Cum vero ipse rex peruenerit ad summum pontificem, humiliet se ei ex toto corde, non occultando peccata nec excusando sed petendo absolucionem de inobediencia constitucionum sancte ecclesie dei, de excommunicacione, qua innodatus est, et publico periurio,
de insolito grauamine communitatis populorum regni sui et de promocione indignorum clericorum ad ecclesiastica beneficia occasione sua et de hiis, que idem rex attemptauerat contra laudabilia statuta regni et episcoporum.
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