| | 236 And right so as contricion auaylleth not withoute sad | |
| | purpose of shrifte and satisfaction / right so confession ne | |
| | satisfaction auayle not withoute contricion . 237 For muche | |
| | contricion destroyeth the prison of helle / and maketh week | |
| | and feble the strength of the deuyll / and restoryth the | |
| | yefte of the holy gost and of alle vertuys 238 and interclen- | |
| | sith the soule of synne & deliueryth the soule fro the peyne | |
| | of helle and fro the company of the deuyll / And fro ser- | |
| | uage of synne / and restorith to alle goodes spirituel in to | |
| | the company and comunyon of holy chirche / 239 And ferther- | |
| | ouer hit maketh hym that was whylom sone of yre / to be | |
| | the sone of grace / And alle these thynges he putteth to | |
| | holy wryt / 240 And therfore he that wyl sette his entent to | |
| | thyse thinges he were ful wyse / For thenne he shold not | |
| | in al his lyf haue corage to synne / But thenne his body | |
| | and alle his herte he shold confourme to the seruyse of | |
| | Ihesu Crist / And therfore do hym homage 241 for certes our | |
| | swete lord Ihesu Crist hath sparid vs so benyngly in our | |
| | folyes that yf he ne had pyte on mans sowle / & sory songe | |
| | myght we alle synge / . | |
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| | ¶ Explicit prima pars penitencie . | |
| | Incipit secunda pars . | |
| 242 | T | He second part of penitence is confession / and that | |
| | is signe of contricion / 243 Now shal ye vnderstande what |
| | is confession / and whethir hit ought nedes to be or none / | |
| | And whiche thinges be couenable to very confession / 244 First | |
| | shalt thou vnderstande that confession is very shewyng | |
| | of synne to the preest / 245 this is to saye verry / For he must | |
| | confesse hym of all the condicions that be longyng to his | |
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