The application of redemption

And in this Case, we need not, nay we should not make confession of our secret sins; for we have no Command to carry us unto this, no Example to warrant such a practice, nor yet have we the Institution of any Ordinance, which may challenge our attendance to it. And this you must carefully heed, and maintain against that cunning forgery of the Popish confession, which ⟨p. 627⟩they have imposed upon all their followers and drudges. Their […] and Opinion is this:

And in this Case, we need not, nay we should not make confession of our secret sins; for we have no Command to carry us unto this, no Example to warrant such a practice, nor yet have we the Institution of any Ordinance, which may challenge our attendance to it. And this you must carefully heed, and maintain against that cunning forgery of the Popish consession, which ⟨p. 627⟩they have imposed upon al their followers and drudges. Their 〈…〉 and Opinion is this:

That every man is bound once, at the least before the Sacrament, to confess in particular all and every one of his mortal sins, whereof he stands guilty, into the Ear of the Priests; the memory whereof by due and diligent premeditation, may be had, even such as are hidden, and are against the two last Commands of the Decalogue, together with the Circumstances which may alter the kind of the sin; If not (say they) let him be accursed.

This Canonical Institution, is the erecting of an Engine of Cruelty, to rack mens Consciences, and pick mens Purses to satisfy their own greedy covetous desires; and to set up their Lawless Sovereignty in the hearts of such, who have captivated themselves to their Directions and Counsels: for thus they have a noose upon mens Consciences, and hold men between hopes and fears, leaving them between Heaven and Hell, as they suit their minds. If they please their Humours, then they pardon them, and pull them out of Hell: If they satisfy not their expectations in giving so much for good use, or paying so much yearly to further the Catholic Cause, then their sins are such, to Hell they must go, they cannot be acquitted: This made their Drudges even weary of their lives, as never seeing an end of their misery, nor knowing what would become of their souls: And it's that which is called by John in the […], The torment of a Scorpion when he stings a man,