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

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