Section 1
pp. 5–63 passages
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Sect. 1.
The first Ground is, That in the troubles of conscience, it is meet and convenient, there should always be used a private Confession. For James saith, Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, 1thereby signifying that Confession in this case, is to be used as a thing most requisite. For in all reason, the Physician must first know the disease, before he can apply the remedy: and the grief of the heart will not ⟨p. 6⟩be discerned, unless it be manifested by the confession of the party diseased; and for this cause also in the grief of conscience, the scruple, that is, the thing that troubleth the conscience must be known.
The first Ground is, That in the troubles of conscience, it is meete and conuenient, there should alwaies be vsed a priuate Confession. For Iames saith, Confesse your faults one to another, and pray one for another, 1thereby signifying that Confession in this case, is to be vsed as a thing most requisite. For in all reason, the Physitian must first know the disease, before he can applie the remedie: and the griefe of the heart will not ⟨p. 6⟩be discerned, vnlesse it be manifested by the confession of the partie diseased; and for this cause also in the griefe of conscience, the scruple, that is, the thing that troubleth the conscience must be knowne.