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though those sins be most hidden, and committed only are more dangerous, than those which are committed instituted by the Lord, and is of divine right necessary giveness or retention of sins. declared their sins in general only, and not rather cised this judgment without knowledge of the cause ; needs be by penitents enumerated in confession, even our Lord Jesus Christ, when about to ascend from carried, in order that, in accordance with the power that all the mortal sins, of which, after a diligent ex- From the institution of the sacrament of Penance, which sometimes wound the soul more grievously, and earth to heaven, left priests his own vicars, as presi- against the two last precepts of the decalogue sins amination of themselves, they are conscious, must neither, indeed, could they have observed equity in understood that the entire confession of sins was also which the faithful of Christ may have fallen, should be dents and judges, to whom all the mortal sins, into enjoining punishments, if the said faithful should have for all who have fallen after baptism ; because that specifically, and one by one. Whence it is gathered as already explained, the universal Church has always For it is manifest, that priests could not have exer- of the keys, they may pronounce the sentence of for- torted and forced, not free and voluntary. [Chap. 4-]

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