4. A Second Doubt and is Solution

61. There still remains a doubt in this article: whether it is necessary in particular to confess preceding sins as aggravating circumstances?

62. I reply that although this be licit and perhaps useful, yet it does not seem necessary to confess them in particular, because insofar as they make things worse, they can be sufficiently expressed in confession without expressing the sins in particular previously dismissed, namely, by saying: ‘I have repented elsewhere of great and many sins and believe God has remitted them for me; and for that reason was I in now sinning more ungrateful’.