[6-text p 595] clene liff / [98] for certes if he be baptised withoute penaunce of his olde gilte he resceivith the marke of baptime / but not the grace ne the remission of his synnes / til he haue verry repentaunce // [99] Another defaute is this / that men don dedely synne / after that thei haue received baptime / [100] The thrid defaute is / that men fallen in venial synnes / affter here baptime / fro day to day / [101] therof seith Seynt Austyne / [Austyne] that the penaunce of goode and humble folke is the penaunce of euery daie //
[102] The spices of penaunce ben thre / that oon of hem is solempne / Another comune / And the thride prive / [103] Thilke penaunce that is so|lempne is in two maners / as is to be put out of holy chirche in lente for slaughter of children / and suche manere thinge / [104] Another is whan a man hath synned openly1] [Corpus] [folio 262a] of which synne þe fame is openly [Selden extract ds]] spoken in þe contre ¶ And þenne holy chirche by Iugge|ment [Corpus begins]] destreigneþ him for to do penance open. [105] Som penance is þat prestes enioygnen me communly in certein caas as for to gon perauenture naked in pylgrimage or bare foot [106] ¶ Pruie penaunce is þilke þat men don alday for priue synnes of whiche we schryuen vs pryuyly and resceyuen priue penance
[107] ¶ Now schalt þou vnderstande what byhoueþ and is necessarie to verray perfyte penaunce ¶ and þese standen on þre þinges [108] ¶ Contricion of herte ¶ Con|fession of mouþ // and Satisfaccion [109] ¶ ffor which saiþ Iohn Gresostomus ¶ Penitence destreigneþ man [Gresostomus] to accepte benignely euery peyne þat is him enioyned wiþ contricion of herte and schrift of mowþ wiþ satis|faccion and in werching of alle maner humilite [110] ¶ And þis is fruytful penytence aȝein þre þinges in whiche we wraþþen oure lord ihesu crist [111] þis is to sayn by delyt/ in þenking By rechelesnesse in speking ¶ By wicked synful worching [112] ¶ And aȝeins þise
