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confess his sins publicly, nevertheless this is not com- and is still also in use, has always been commended by very prudent to enjoin by any human law that sins, year, by all and each, when they have attained to those is manifestly refuted who are not ashamed to may in punishment of his sins, and for his own humilia- from the Fathers assembled in the Council of tion, as well as for an example to others as for the the most holy and the most ancient Fathers with a years of discretion. Whence, throughout the whole especially such as are secret, should be made known Wherefore, since the secret sacramental confession, mand and is a human invention, and that it took its edification of the Church that has been scandalised Lateran. For the Church did not, through the Council by a public confession. THE PRACTICE OF CONFESSION 49 Church, the salutary custom is, to the great benefit of to be instituted of divine right but that the precept of Lateran, ordain that the faithful of Christ should which was in use from the beginning in holy Church, of confession should be complied with, at least once a teach, that confession is alien from the divine com- manded by a divine precept ; neither would it be great and unanimous consent, the vain calumny of alone, although Christ has not forbidden that a person confess a thing which it knew to be necessary, and