Seemingly rare in libraries in the British Isles, with COPAC finding only two copies, in the Bodleian and in Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Theologian Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) read philosophy and theology at the Society of Jesus at Salamanca and was ordained priest in 1572. He taught at the universities of Alcalá de Henares, Salamanca and Coimbra, as well as in Rome. He was one of the most highly respected thinkers of the Second Scholasticism, alongside Domingo de Soto and Roberto Bellarmino. This work on sacramental confession numbers among the 58 works of Jesuit penitential literature published between ‘1554 (when the first manual for confessors was published) and 1650 (when approximately the Jansenists began three campaign against this literature)’ complied by Maryks in his Saint Cicero and the Jesuits (2008). Maryks mentions in a footnote the omission of this, Suárez’s contribution to Probabilism, from his biography.