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Chief Articles of Faith

Article XI. Of Confession

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Of Confession they teach that Private Absolution ought to be retained in the churches, although in confession an enumeration of all sins is not necessary. For it is impossible according to the Psalm: Who can understand his errors? .

Philip Melanchthon, The Augsburg Confession (1530), in the translation of the Triglot Concordia (1921). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg (eBook #275).