Religious ritual acknowledgment of one's sins

A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor. Process print afterJ-A. Faivre, 1902.

A gaunt adolescent consults a weary specialist. Colour process print after C. Josef, c. 1930.

A girl making her confession to a monk from her sick bed. Lithograph by J. Woelfjle, after C. van Beveran.

A dying unscrupulous medical practitioner confesses the errors of his ways to a nurse. Coloured etching by W. Heath.

The sacrament of the Roman Catholic church: confession (penance). Etching by B. Picart.

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: pilgrims praying and confessing by the roadside. Wood engraving.

A woman confessing to a priest. Engraving by H. Austen after J. Herbert.

The levels of hell depicted as circular stone tiers; purgatory lies outside its walls. Engraving.

The sacrament of the Roman Catholic church; confession (penance). Etching after B. Picart.

1 photomechanical reproduction : lithograph

Address of a minister to the church under his pastoral care , in which it is inquired, "Whether a church is obliged, or authorized, by any precept or precedent in the New-Testament, to require a publick, formal and explicit confession, of some particular misdemeanors, which is considered by many as previously necessary to a Christian profession, to baptism, and to Christian communion, and without which, it is supposed, none that are chargeable with them, may be admitted thereto." Wherein also, "most of the passages in the New Testament, if not all, that are supposed either expressly or implicitly to countenance the practice, are carefully examined--their true meaning ascertained--objections answered--and the negative side of the question, (it is apprehended) conclusively established.".

40 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 22 cm

Confide in me : P.O. Box 162 Nottingham HO9 1HP : got a secret? you can tell me, and I won't tell anyone (confessions can be made anonymously).

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Confession

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A gaunt adolescent consults a weary specialist. Colour process print after C. Josef, c. 1930.

A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor. Process print afterJ-A. Faivre, 1902.

The sacrament of the Roman Catholic church: confession (penance). Etching by B. Picart.

Confide in me : P.O. Box 162 Nottingham HO9 1HP : got a secret? you can tell me, and I won't tell anyone (confessions can be made anonymously).

Confession

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A gaunt adolescent consults a weary specialist. Colour process print after C. Josef, c. 1930.

A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor. Process print afterJ-A. Faivre, 1902.

The sacrament of the Roman Catholic church: confession (penance). Etching by B. Picart.

Confide in me : P.O. Box 162 Nottingham HO9 1HP : got a secret? you can tell me, and I won't tell anyone (confessions can be made anonymously).

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