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  • "Uxor se accusans, in confessione, quod negaverit debitum, interrogetur an ex pleno rigore juris sui id petiverit" (vol.vii. p. 168).

    The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional Father Chiniquy

  • "Confessarius poenitentem, qui confitetur se peccasse cum sacerdote, vel sollicitatam ab eo ad turpia, potest interrogare utrum ille sacerdos sit ejus confessarius, an in confessione sollitaverit" (vol.vi. p. 294).

    The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional Father Chiniquy

  • At ille in Christi confessione ardens totus tempus ipsum prævenit, et pridie cal [= e].

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • At the instance of the Archbishop of Mechlin, the Academy of Louvain, in the year 1653, censured as false and erroneous the proposition: "Copula cum conjugata consentiente marito non est adulterium, adeoque sufficit in confessione dicere se esse fornicatum."

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Monophysites, who separated from the Church in the fifth and sixth centuries, were treated with less severity, being admitted, with some others, upon a mere profession of the orthodox faith [sola vera confessione recipit (Ecclesia)].

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Quarum fraus aperta patuisset, si nobis ipsorum confessione delatorum, quod in omnibus negotiis maximas uires habet, uti licuisset.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Tertullian conjectures that pagan philosophers may have been acquainted with them, but he speaks very slightingly of them (de Anima, ii.): “Quid autem, si philosophi etiam illa incursaverunt quae penes nos apocryphorum confessione damnantur, certos nihil recipiendum quod non conspiret germanae, et ipso iam aevo pronatae propheticae paraturae, quando et pseudoprophetarum meminerimus et multo prius apostatarum spirituum,” etc.

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • * Quid autem, si philosophi etiam illa incursaverunt quae penes nos apocryphorum confessione damnantur, certos nihil recipiendum quod non conspiret germanae, et ipso iam aevo pronatae propheticae paraturae, quando et pseudoprophetarum meminerimus et multo prius apostatarum spirituum: [1726] 1

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • Athanasius, opus habuissent illius discipuli confessione fidei ad impetrandam confessorum AEgyptiorum communionem: nec Petrus Athanasii successor canones violatos, concessa illis communione, quereretur, ut videmus in epistola sequenti, si AEgyptum inter ac Marcellum ejusque clerum et plebem non fuisset rupta communio.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • Confession (_publica et gloriosa confessione_) and confessed in the open

    Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

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