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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I Confes- sion Confession N time of Parliament it used to be one of the first things the House did, to Petition the King that his Confessor might be removed, as fearing either his Power with the King, or else, lest he should reveal to the Pope what the House was in doing; as no doubt he did when the Catholic Cause was concerned. 2. The Difference between us and the Papists is, we both allow Contrition, but the Papists make Confession a part of Contrition; they say a Man is not sufficiently contrite, till he confess his Sins to a Priest. 3. Why should I think a Priest will not reveal Confession ? I am sure he will do any thing that is forbidden him, haply not so often as I. The utmost Punishment is Deprivation; and how can it be proved, that ever any Man revealed Confession, when there is no Witness ? And no Man can be Witness in his own Cause. A mere Gullery. There was a time when 'twas public in the Church, and that is much against their Auricular Confession. Competency THAT which is a Competency for one Man, is not enough for another, no more than that which will keep one Man warm, will keep another Man warm; one Man can go in Doubletand Hose, when another Man cannot be without Com- a Cloak, and yet have no more Clothes than is petency necessary for him. Great Conjunction THE greatest Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter happens but once in eight Hun- dred Years, and therefore Astrologers can make no Experiments of it, nor foretel what it means; not but that the Stars may mean something, but we cannot tell what, because we cannot come at them. Suppose a Planet were a Simple, or an Herb, how could a Physician tell the Virtue of that Simple, unless he could come at it, to apply it ? XXVII Conscience HE that hath a Scrupulous Conscience, is like...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217056595 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217056598 |
| Weight | 0.38 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.26 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 110 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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