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A potacio[n] or dry[n]king for this holy time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all…A potacio[n] or dri[n]kynge for this holi time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all…
A potacio[n] or dry[n]king for this holy time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all penitent sinners, newly prepared by Theodore Basil.A potacio[n] or dri[n]kynge for this holi time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all penitent synners, newly prepared by Theodore Basille.
printed for Joha, 1542printed for Ioha, 1542
Title page typeset from the transcription.
¶ The potation for Lent. › ¶ Of Confession.¶ The potacion for Lente. › ¶ Of Confession.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
PHI. Why auricular Confession should be condemned & exiled from the bounds of christianity I see no cause, but that it should be approved, retained, maintained & used, I find causes many, yea and those right urgent and necessary.
PHI. Why au riculare Cōfessiō shuld be cōdēned & exiled from ye boūdes of christianite I se no cause, but that it shoulde be approued, retayned, maynteyned & vsed, I fynd causes many, yea and those ryght vrgent and necessary.
CHRI. Much absurdity & wickedness hath both been conspired, learned, practised, & done in this auricular Confession, as histories make mention, neither want we experience of this thing.
CHRI. Muche absurditie & wickednes hath both bene conspired, learned, practised, & done in this auriculare Confessiō, as histories make mencion, neyther want we expery ence of this thinge.
PHIL. I can not deny these things to be true. There is no thing so good and of so great excellency, but it may be abused. The abuse thereof is to be 1taken away, and not the thing it ⟨image 34⟩self. That Confession hath be• great lye abused, it can not be denied, as many other things in the church have ben also, yet ought it not there fore to be rejected & cast away, but rather restored to the old purity & to the use, for the which it was first instituted. And so shall it not only not hurt, but also profit very highly, & bring much utility and profit to the christen congregation.