[6-text p 594]
[84] Seint Ambrose seith that penaunce is the [¶ Ambrosius.] pleynynge of man for the gilt that he hath don and no more to do any thing / for whiche him aught to pleyne / [85] And som Doctor seith / penaunce is the weyment|ynge of man that sorowith for his synne / and peyneth him-selff for he hath mys-doun / [86] penaunce with certeyne circumstaunce / is verry repentaunce of man that halt him-selff in sorow and other peyne for his giltes / [87] And for he shal be verry penitent / he shal first biwailen the synne that he hath doun / and stedfastly purposen in his herte to haue shrifft of mouthe / and to don satisfaccion / [88] and neuere to do thing for whiche him ought more to waile / or to compleyne / and to con|tenue in goode werkes / or ellis his repentaunce may nat availe / [89] For as seint Isidor seith / he is a Iaper and [¶ Isodorus.] a gabber and no verry repentaunte / that efft-sone doth thing / for whiche him ought to repent [90] weping / and nought for to stinte to do synne / may not availe [91] but natheles men shulde hope / that at euery tyme that a man falleth be it neuere so offt / that he may arise thorugh pen|aunce if he haue grace / but certeynely [folio 269a] it is grete doute / [92] ffor as seith seint Gregory / vnnethes ariseth he oute [¶ Gregorie] of his synne / that is charged with the charge of euel vsage / [93] And ther-fore repentyng folke that stinte for to synne / and forlete synne / or synne for-lete hem / Holy chirche holt hem seker of here saluacioun [94] And he that stinteth and verrily repenteth him in his last ende / Holy chirche yit hopeth his saluacion bi the grete mercy of oure lord ihesu for his repentaunce / but taketh the seker weye that is certeyne //
[95] And now sithen I haue declared yow whath thinge is penaunce / Now shulne ye vnderstonde that ther ben thre accions of penaunce / [96] The first is if a man be baptized after that he hath don synne / [97] seint Austyn seith / but he be penitent [¶ Austyne] for his olde synful liff / he may nat bigynne / the newe
