Et quoniam saepius evenit, ut hi qui longe sunt positi, prius ab aliis quae sunt emendanda, cognoscant: si quas fortasse fraternitati vestrae sacerdotum vel aliorum culpas intulerit, una cum eo residentes subtili cuncta investigatione perquirite, et ita vos in ea quae Deum offendunt, et ad iracundiam provocant, districtos ac solicitos exhibete, ut ad aliorum emendationem et vindicta culpabilem feriat, et innocentem falsa opinio non affligat.
And for that it often times chanceth that they which be far off shall sooner learn by report of other, such things as are to be reformed: if it be so that your brotherhood hear by him of faults among your priests or other, sitting in examination along with him make all diligent search and scruting thereof, and in such things as offendeth God and provoketh His wrath, shew yourselves so careful and hard to be entreated that, both to the correction of other, the offender be stricken with punishment, and the innocent through false surmise be not oppressed.
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