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...conscience troubled with any weighty matter. After which confession the priest shall absolve him (if he humbly and heartily desire it) after this sort. Our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left power to bis Church to absolve all sinners who truly repent, and believe in him; of bis great mercy forgive...

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...appeared not a little surprising; especially as the words of the Episcopal formula of absolution, viz. Our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left power to his church, to absolve all sinnsrs who truly repent, &c And these others. — And by his authority committed to me, I absolve...

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...the most eminent Divines of the Age, in which this form was first introduced £. That * The words, " who hath left power to his Church to absolve " all sinners who truly repent, and believe in him," were inserted by our Reformers. 1 he rest of the form they copied with little variation from the Roman...

...state of his mind, is directed, provided his answers prove satisfactory, to express himself thus. : " Our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left power to his Church to atsplve all sinners, who truly repent and believe in him, forgives th«e thine offences i and by his...