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be pardoned ; whereas they who act otherwise, and by many other remedies. yet may they be omitted without guilt, and be expiated render men children of wrath and enemies of God, it doubt lay them all bare before the mercy of God to before the divine bounty to be forgiven through the ably, and without any presumption, declared in con- and it cannot be that they can estimate rightly the priest. For if the sick be ashamed to show his wound it knows not of. But, since all mortal sins, even those of thought, eluded from the grace of God, and into which we fall to the physician, his medical art cures not that which from God, with an open and modest confession. And hence, while the faithful of Christ are careful to confess knowingly keep back certain sins, such set nothing which change the species of the sin are also to be ex- We gather furthermore, that those circumstances penitents, nor are they known clearly to the judges, all the sins which occur to their memory, they without outwardly. For venial sins, whereby we are not ex- MORTAL AND VENIAL SIN 47 is necessary to seek also for the pardon of them all more frequently, although they be rightly and profit- fession, as the custom of pious persons demonstrates, plained in confession ; because that, without them, the sins themselves are neither entirely set forth by the

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