April c. 1880 A.D. (Church of England) Rev. Canon Meyrick—Confession
April c. 1880 A.D. (Church of England) Rev. Canon Meyrick—The Confessional Meyrick, Mr. “THE REVD CANON MEYRICK ON CONFESSION.” Church Society. c. 1880? http://www.churchsociety.org/publications/catracts.asp . Accessed 19 Mar 2015. THE REVD CANON MEYRICK ON CONFESSION (Late Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Oxford) Church Association Tract 312 I. What it is. It is a system authoritatively instituted in 1215 by Innocent III. (the Pope that made our King John his vassal and released him from his engagements to observe Magna Charta), according to which every man and woman is bound at least once a year to confess to his parish priest all the grave sins that he has committed since his last confession. The priest, sitting in his tribunal as the representative of God, listens to his statements, inquires into his frame of mind, passes judgment on his state, and, if he thinks proper, conveys to him God’s pardon for his sins in the form of an absolution, on the...