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The fifth that he that repents must confess all the sins, that he can remember with all their circumstances to his own priest, or one in his stead, if he will receive pardon. This kind of confession is a mere forgery of mans brain. I. There is neither precept nor example of it in the Scriptures. II. David and others have repented¹ and have received remission of their sins without confessing of their sins in particular to any man.

The fift that he that repents must confesse all the sinnes, that he can remember with all their circumstances to his owne priest, or one in his stead, if he will receive pardon. This kind of confession is a mere forgery of mans brain. I. There is neither precept nor example of it in the Scriptures. II. David and others haue repented¹ and haue receiued remission of their sinnes without confessing of their sinnes in particular to any man.

1. 1Psalm. 32. 3. 2. Sam. 12. 1•.

The last, that the sinner by his works and sufferings must make satisfaction to God for the temporal punishment of his sins. A flat blasphemy. The scriptures mention no other¹ satisfaction but Christs; and if his be sufficient, ours is needless: if ours needful, his imperfect. Papists write that both may stand together. Christs satisfaction (they say) is as a plaster in a box unapplied: mans satisfaction as a means to apply it: because it prepares us to receive it. Ah, good divinity: for even in common sense the satisfaction of Christ must first ⟨p. 70⟩