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Be it therefore known unto him, that no kind of Confession, either public or private, is disallowed by us, that is any way requisite for the due execution of that ancient power of the Keys which Christ bestowed upon his Church: the thing which we reject, is that new pick-lock of Sacramental Confession, obtruded upon mens consciences, as a matter necessary to salvation, by the Canons of the late Conventicle of Trent. where those good Fathers put their curse upon every one, that either shall ^adeny, that Sacramental confession was ordained by divine right, and is by the same right necessary to salvation: or shall ^baffirm, that in the Sacrament of Penance it is not by the ordinance of God necessary for the obtaining of the remission of sins, to confess all and every one of those mortal sins, the memory whereof by due and diligent premeditation may be had; even such as are hidden and be against the two last Commandments of the Decalogue, together with the circumstances which change the kind of the sin; but that this confession is only profitable to instruct and comfort the penitent, and was anciently observed only for the imposing of Canonical satisfaction. This doctrine, I say, we cannot but reject: as being repugnant to that which we have ⟨p. 83⟩learned both from the Scriptures and from the Fathers.

Be it therefore knowne unto him, that no kinde of Confession, either publick or private, is disallowed by us, that is anie way requisite for the due execution of that ancient power of the Keyes which Christ bestowed upon his Church: the thing which wee reject, is that new pick-lock of Sacramentall Confession, obtruded upon mens consciences, as a matter necessarie to salvation, by the Canons of the late Conventicle of Trent. where those good Fathers put their curse upon everie one, that either shall ^adeny, that Sacramentall confession was ordayned by divine right, and is by the same right necessary to salvation: or shall ^baffirme, that in the Sacrament of Penance it is not by the ordinance of God necessarie for the obtayning of the remission of sinnes, to confesse all and every one of those mortall sinnes, the memory wherof by due and diligent premeditation may be had; even such as are hidden and be against the two last Commandements of the Decalogue, together with the circumstances which change the kinde of the sinne; but that this confession is only profitable to instruct and comfort the penitent, and was anciently observed onely for the imposing of Canonicall satisfaction. This doctrine, I say, wee cannot but reject: as being repugnant to that which wee have