b. In the Time of the Gospel Law after Lateran Council IV

34. If the third member [nn.18, 21] be held to, namely that confession falls only under a precept of the Church, it cannot be rejected easily save either because the Church would not have accepted the imposition of so hard a precept on Christian men if it were not a divine precept; or because there is no place found where this precept is imposed by the Church without this being before the time the saints reckoned a precept about confession was obligatory. For if the chapter from Gregory IX, Decretals V tit.38 ch.12, ‘About penances and remissions’, be alleged, it is clear that that chapter is from Innocent III in the [Fourth] Lateran Council [1215 AD].