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| that is dispair of the mercy of god that comyth somtyme | |||
| of to muche outrageous sorow and somtyme of mykyl | |||
| drede ymagenyng that he hath do so muche that it wold not | |||
| auaylle hym though he wold repente hym and do good . | |||
| 620 thurgh whiche dispeyr or drede / He haboundeth his herte | |||
| to euery maner synne As saith seynt Austyn / 621 Whiche | |||
| that is dampnable yf it contynue to his ende / hit is cle- | |||
| ped synnyng in the holy goste / 622 This horryble synne is so | |||
| perylous that he that is dispeyred that ther is no felonye | |||
| ne no synne that he doubtyth for to doo as shewd wel by | |||
| Iudas / 623 Certes thenne abouen alle is this synne most dis- | |||
| playsaunt and most aduersary to Crist 624 Certes he that | |||
| dispeyreth is lyke the coward champyon recreaunt & nede- | |||
| les dispeyreth / 625 For certes the mercy of god is euer redy to | |||
| the penitent / hit is aboue al his werkis / 626 Alas can not a | |||
| man bethynke hym on the gospel of saynt luke / Luce xvo | |||
| Where as Crist saith that as wel shal ther be more ioye in | |||
| heuen vpon a sinful man that doth penitence than vpon nyenti | |||
| and nyne rightful men that neden no penitence / 627 loke ferther | |||
| in the gospel the ioye and the feestis of the good man that | |||
| had lost his sone / whan his sone with repentaunce was re- | |||
| torned to his fader / 628 Can they not remembre eke as saith | |||
| saint luke xxiijo . How that the theef that was honged beside | |||
| Ihesu / Sayde lord remembre on me whan thou comest to thy | |||
| Regne / 629 forsoth said Crist / this day shalt thou be with me in | |||
| paradys / 630 Certes ther is none so horrible synne of man that it | |||
| ne may in his lif be distroied by penitence thurgh vertu of þe | |||
| passion of Crist / 631 Alas what nedeth man thenne to be dispey | |||
| red sithen his mercy is so redy / aske & haue / 632 Thenne cometh | |||