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in one of these] Which have beene mentioned before in this Chapter, that is, faults of infirmitie, ignorance, and inconsideration. confesse] With repentance for his fault, or els, neither confession, nor oblation would doe him any good: and this the offender ought to doe in other sacrifices for sin, though it be not so expressed; with offering of sacrifices there was confession of sins as a part of the offerers profession of repentance. The Hebrews write that this confession was thus to be made. I have thus or thus committed such a sinne, I am ashamed, and it repents me; I will never returne to the same againe. And some make this to be the reason, why the Priests were commanded to eate the remainder of the sacrifice for sin, alone, and that within the Court, not so much as those of their owne house admitted, lest by this meanes the offerers sins confessed to the Priest, might be divulged. And some here note, that it belonged to the Priests to determine betwixt sins and trespasses; between sins of lesse and greater weight, (of which we may see the foregoing Chapter) and that according to the estimation of the trespasse, a greater or lesser sacrifice might be prescribed; for this was not left arbitrary to each private man, for so one sacrifice might easily have beene substituted in the place of another: Nor doth this confession make for the private confession of the Papists, for it seemeth this was not spoken of hidden faults, because the matter was brought before the Judge, vers. 1.

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