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Excerpt from Sacramental Confession and Priestly Absolution: A Lecture Delivered Before the Exeter Branch of the Church Association, on the 23rd of January, 1878, Saville in the Chair; Revised, With Notes and Appendices
Although it will be necessary for me to Speak at greater length of the Confessional, than of the priestly claim to bestow forgiveness in the tribunal of the Confessional, the latter question is far the more important. If the priest did not claim the power of forgiving the sins which have been confessed to him, if he did not teach that through auricular confession only men can be absolved from their sins against God, * the practice might not only be permissible, but in some exceptional cases might be productive of good. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
