METHOD Eleven of bringing an end to and finishing proceedings involving the Faith is when the person denounced for heretical depravity, after a careful examination of the merits of the proceedings with a good panel of legal experts, is found to have confessed heresy and to be unrepentant and relapsed. This is when the denounced person confesses with his own mouth in court that he believes such-and-such and such-and-such and follows such-and-such practices.

Regarding such a person the procedure outlined above should be followed, and sentence should be passed | in the manner of the following text. “We, (Name), by God's mercy bishop of Such-and-Such city (or judge in the lands of Lord Such-and-Such), noted that you, Such-and-Such, from Such-and-Such place and of Such-and-Such diocese, were denounced to us (or to our predecessors) for heretical depravity,” – this should be listed – “in which, as was legally determined, you were caught by your own confession in court and by trustworthy witnesses, and that in those heresies you had persisted for such-and-such length of time with obdurate spirit,” – the details should be stated – “but that afterwards you adopted saner counsel and abjured these heresies in Such-and-Such place in the formula customary in the church. Because of this the bishop and judge mentioned above, believing that you had truly veered back from these errors and, holding Catholic beliefs, flown back to the embrace of the Church, granted you the benefit of absolution, absolving you from the sentence of excommunication in which you had previously been bound and held, provided that you returned to the Unity of the Holy Church with a true heart and unfeigned faith. They enjoined upon you a salubrious penance and | granted you mercy, because the Holy Church of God does not close her embrace to someone who returns. After all this, however, you were denounced to us, as was unpleasant for us to learn, for again falling into the damned heresies that you had previously abjured in public” or “for committing such-and-such contrary to the abjuration” – this should be listed.