[6-text p 595] clene lyf / [98] for certes / if he be baptised with oute penitence of his olde gilt / he receyueth the mark of baptesme / but nat the grace / ne the remission of hise synnes / til he haue repentance verray [99] ¶ Another defaute is this / that men doon deedly synne / after þat they han receyued baptesme / [100] ¶ The thridde defaute is ‖ that men fallen in venyal Synnes after hire baptesme / fro day to day ‖ [101] ther of seith seint Augustyn ‖ That penitence / of goode and of humble folk. is the penitence of euery day.
[102] ¶ The speces [species] of penance / been .iij. ‖ that oon [[iij. Sp]eces of penaunce:] of hem / is solempne ‖ Another is commune ‖ and the thridde is priuee [103] ¶ Thilke penance þat is so|lempne / is in two maneres / as to be put out of holy chirche in lente / for slaughtre of children / and swich manere thyng [104] ¶ Another is / whan man hath synned openly / of which synne / the fame is openly spoken in the contree / and thanne holy chirche / by Iuge|ment destreyneth hym / for to doon open penance ‖ [105] Commune penance is / that preestes enioynen men communly / in certeyn cas / as for to goon perauenture naked in pilgrymage / or barefoot [106] ¶ Pryuee penance / is thilke þat men doon al day for priuee synnes / of whiche / we shryue vs pryuely and receyue pryuee penance
[107] ¶ Now shaltow vnderstande / what bihoueth [[What] bihoueth to penitence] and is necessarie to verray perfit penitence / and this stant/ on .iij. thynges ‖ [108] Contricion of herte ‖ Con|fession of Mouth / and Satisfaccion ‖ [109] for which / seith seint Iohn Crisostomus [folio 237a] ¶ Penitence destreyneth man / to accepte benygnely euery peyne / þat hym is enioyned / with contricion of herte / & shrift of Mowthe / with satis|faccion / and in wirkynge of alle manere humylitee / [110] And this is fruytful penitence agayn .iij. thynges / in whiche we wrathe oure lord Ihu crist ‖ [111] this is to seyn / by delit in thynkynge / by recchelesnesse in spekynge / by wikked synful wirkynge / [112] And agayns thise /
