‘Dearest brother in Christ N, do you desire in the sight of this church to confess and [also] condemn your sin in the presence of God, that we may know that your mind is delivered from that depravity in which you were formerly held, and that we may join you once more to the fellowship of our church, from which you were formerly alienated by your own perversity?’

And the accused shall reply:

‘Indeed I desire and I ask earnestly that above all things I may be called back by God's kindness and yours to my former state, from which I wickedly and pitifully fell.’

‘Men and brethren, in accordance with our duty, we have brought before your eyes and have gathered in your presence this accused man, our brother, who is ready to acknowledge publicly before you the deformity of his sin, by which he offended our common Lord God and this his most holy church, so that he may prove to us openly that his mind has been changed and that his moral failure has been corrected. Which matter, although it has brought much shame on him, shall nevertheless greatly increase the glory of God and the standing of our church. Therefore it is for this reason that he presents himself, that he may once more be united with you before God, and again enjoy that brotherly intercourse which was recently interrupted. In which matter intermissam ut iterumnecessitudinem colat. In quo meae partes sunt, ut ex Sacris apud vos Scripturis repetam primum quid separatim ac proprie de praesentis rei crimine statui debeat, deinde quae communis omnibus nobis de communi fragilitate nostra cogitatio suscipienda sit. Principio Sacrarum Scripturarum auctoritas duo nos de peccato docet: alterum est quod omnes sine ulla exceptione peccatorum in carcerem detrudimur: alterum quod ad hunc fìnem vincula nostra referuntur, non ut semper in illis iaceremus, sed ut ex illis immensa[m] et infmita[m] Dei Patris misericordia[m] propter Christum explicaremu[r/s].