"The highest are not too high to need confession. The lowest are not too low to be reached by God's requirement. Kings in their palaces, and poor men in their cottages ,-preachers and hearers,-teachers and scholars-landlords and tenants,-masters and servants,-all, all are alike summoned in the Bible to confession. None are so moral and respectable that they need not confess that they have sinned. All are sinners in thought, word, and deed, and all are commanded to acknowledge their transgressions. Every knee ought to bow, and every tongue ought to confess to God. "Behold," saith the Lord, "I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned" (Jer. ii. 35). "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us" (l John i. 8)."
-- JC Ryle - Do You Confess?
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