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| more digne than ony other prayer for that Ihesu Crist hym | |||
| self made it / 967 and it is short / for it shold be coude the more | |||
| lightly / and forto withholde more esely in herte / and helpe | |||
| hym self the ofter with thorison / 968 and for a man shold be | |||
| the lesse wery to saye it / and for a man may not excuse hym | |||
| to lerne it / hit is so short and so esy / and for it compre- | |||
| hendith in hym self alle good prayers / . 969 Thexposicyon of | |||
| of this holy prayer that is so excellent and so digne / I be- | |||
| take to the maistres of theologye / Saue thus muche wyl | |||
| I saye / That whan thou prayest that god shold foryeue | |||
| the thy giltys as thou forgeuyst hem that haue agiltyd the | |||
| Be wel ware that thou be not out of charyte / 970 This holy | |||
| orison amenusith eke venyal synne / And therfore it apper | |||
| teyneth specially to penitence / 971 This prayer muste be treuly | |||
| said in very feith / and that men praye to god ordinatly . | |||
| discretly . and deuoutly . Alleway a man shal put his will | |||
| to be subiect to the wil of god / 972 This oryson muste eke be | |||
| sayd with grete humblenes and ful pure and honestly . | |||
| and not to the anoysaunce of ony man or woman / hit muste | |||
| eke be contynued with werkis of charite / 973 hit auayleth eke | |||
| ayenst the vicis of the soule / For as saith saint Iherome . | |||
| by fastyng be sauyd the vicis of the flessh / and by prayers | |||
| the vicis of the soule / 974 After this thou shalt vnderstande that | |||
| bodely peyne stont in waking / For Ihesu crist saith / wake ye | |||
| & praye ye that ye ne entre in to wicked temptacion / 975 ye shal | |||
| vnderstande that fastyng standeth in thre thinges / in for- | |||
| bering of bodily mete & drynke / & in forbering of wordly | |||
| Iolytees / & in forbering of dedely synne with al his migh | |||
| 976 And thou shalt vnderstande that god ordeyned fastinge | |||