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This Article is also very conformable to the practise of the Primitive Church, which opened not the door of reconciliation in presence of the People, but only to Sinners which were in publick Penance, and publickly deprived of the participation of the Sacraments, as evi∣dently appears by what I have hitherto said: As for other Sinners whose faults were not publick, they were treated in a gentler sort, and proportionable to the sins they had committed.