Private confession and the whole system of medieval confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the Apostles - John Wycliffe

“It is not confession to man but to God, who is the true Priest of souls, that is the great need of sinful man. Private confession and the whole system of medieval confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the Apostles, for of the three thousand who were turned to Christ’s Law on the Day of Pentecost, not one of them was confessed to a priest … It is God who is the forgiver.”

John Wycliffe