METHOD Seven 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 be suspected | of heresy and also to have a bad reputation. This is when the denounced person is not found to be legally caught by his own confession or by evidence of the deed or by the lawful production of witnesses, but he is found to have a general bad reputation and indications are also found against him that render him otherwise lightly or vehemently suspected of heretical depravity, that is, because he had a close association with heretics, like the person who is the topic of discussion in the Chapter “Inter sollicitudines” (“Canonical Purgation”). By reason of the bad reputation, canonical purgation is to be enjoined upon such a person, and by reason of the suspicion he ought to make an abjuration of heresy according to the cited Chapter “Inter sollicitudines.”

Regarding such a person the following procedure is to be followed. Having a general bad reputation for heresy and, in addition to the bad reputation, being considered suspected of heretical depravity on the basis of other indications, he will first purge himself in public in the method treated on the topic of Method Two. Having completed this purgation, the person with the bad reputation will directly, as one otherwise and on the basis of other indications suspected of the heresy of which he is considered suspected, hold the previously mentioned book containing the Gospels that was placed before him,| and make the abjuration in the following manner.