““[each] confess those sins by which he remembers that he has mortally offended his Lord and God; whilst the other sins, which do not occur to him after diligent thought, are understood to be included as a whole in that same confes sion." 6 The last-quoted phrase is of great dogmatic importance,, inasmuch as it demands a merely formal (not a material) integrity of confession and declares that mortal sins omitted without fault are forgiven by what theologians call indirect remission. The holy Synod does not, how ever, deny that confession may be difficult, but says that the difficulty is counterbalanced " by many and great advantages and consolations.””
