THese three (they say) are the true and proper partes of penance, contrition, [error 5] and painefull sorrow of the hart, confession to the Priest, and satisfaction to God for our sinnes, Concil. Trident. sess. 14. can. 4. Rhemist. Math. 3. sect. 2.
Argu. Contrition is proued, Psal. 51.17. A contrite hart is a sacrifice to God. Confession, Math. 3. They were baptized in Iordane confessing their sinnes. Satisfaction▪ Math. 11.21. They would haue repented long agoe in sackecloth and ashes, Bellarm. cap. 19.
Ans. 1. That godly sorrow and contrition of the hart, is necessary to true repentance, we neuer will deny, but that this sorrow is any satisfaction to Gods iustice, we abhorre it as a monstrous blasphemy. Secondly, Confession and ac∣knowledgement of our sinnes vnto God, and in some cases, where the consci∣ence is not satisfied, to the Minister or some other faithfull man, we do willingly graunt: but that it is necessary to make generall confession of sinnes to the Priest, that place proueth it not: for Iohn had had shriuing worke enough for many yeeres, to heare euery mans particular confession: Thirdly, that sitting in sackecloth and ashes, was no satisfaction for sinne, but an outward signe of true sorrow for sinne.
WE doe make two partes onely of true repentance, according to the scrip∣tures, that is, the mortifying of the olde man with his works, by dying vnto