| ### QUESTION 9 ### OF THE QUALITY OF CONFESSION ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider the quality of confession: under which head there are four points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether confession can be lacking in form? #### (2) Whether confession ought to be entire? #### (3) Whether one can confess through another, or by writing? #### (4) Whether the sixteen conditions, which are assigned by the masters, are necessary for confession? ####  |