[6-text p 597] verray penitent is blessed after þe sentence of [Salomon.] Salomon
[128] ¶ In þis penitence or contricion man schal vn|derstonde .iiij. þinges; þat is to say what is contricion And whiche ben þe causes þat meuen a man to con|tricion and how he schulde be contrite and what con|tricion avayled to þe soule [129] þanne it is þus þat contricion is þe verray sorwe þat a man resceyueþ in his herte for his synnes wiþ sadde purpos to schryuen him and to do penaunce / and neuer more to don synne [130] and þis sorwe schal ben in þis maneres as saiþ Seint Bernard ¶ hit schal be greuous and heuy and ful [Bernardus] scharp and poynant in herte [131] ¶ ffirst for a man haþ agilt his lord and his creatour ¶ And more scharp and poynant for he haþ agult his fader celestial [132] ¶ And ȝet more scharp and poynant ¶ ffor he haþ wraþþed and agilt him þat bought him þat with his precious blood haþ deliuered vs fro þe bandes of synne and fro þe cruelte of þe deuel and fro þe peynes of helle
[133] ¶ These causes þat oughten to meuen a man to con|tricion ben vj ¶ ffirst a man schal remembre him of [.vj. causes] his synnes [134] but loke þat þilke remem|brance be to him no delyte by no wey: but gret schame & sorwe for his gulte ¶ ffor Iob saiþ ¶ Synful men don [Iob] werkes worþy of confessioun. [135] ¶ And þerfore saiþ Ezechie ¶ I wol remembre me alle þe ȝeres of my lyff [Ezechiele] in bitternesse of myn herte ¶ [136] And god saiþ in þapocalips ¶ Remembreþ ȝow fro whennes þat ȝe ben [Apocalips] falle ¶ ffor biforn þat tyme þat ȝe synned ȝe were þe children of god and lymes of þe regne of god [137] ¶ But for ȝoure synne ȝe ben waxe þralles and foule and membres of þe feende / hate of aungeles sclaundre of holy chirche and foode of þe false serpent perpetuel mateere of þe furye of helle [138] ¶ and þat more foul and abhom|inable ffor ȝe trespassen so often tyme as doþ þe hound þat torneþ to eten his spuyng [139] and ȝet
