[6-text p 611] remenaunt of his other synnes / Nay / [304] And ferther ouere contricion sholde be wonder sorowful / & ang|uysshous / & therfore yevith him god pleynly his mercy / And therfore whan my soule was anguysshous withinne me / I had remembraunce of god / that my prayere myghte come to him / [305] fforther ouere contricion must be contenuel / & that man haue sted|fast purpos to shriven him / & for to amende him of his liff / [306] ffor sothely whiles contricion lasteth man may [MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 folio 276b] haue hope of foryeuenesse / And of this cometh hate of synne / that distroyeth synne in him selff / & eke in other folke / as to his powere / [307] ffor whiche seith Dauid / ye that louen god / hateth wikkednesse / ffor [¶ Dauid] trusteth wel to love god / is for to love that he loueth / & hate that he hateth ‖
[308] The laste thing that men shulle vnderstonde in contricion is this / wherof avayleth contricion / I seye that somtyme contricion delyuereth a man from synne / [309] off whiche that Dauid seith / I seye quod Dauid [¶ Dauid] that is to seie / I purposed fermely to shrive me and thow lord relesedist my synne / [310] And right so as contricion availeth nought withoute sadd purpos of shriffte / . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] or satisfaccion withoute contricion / [311] And more-ouere contricion distroyeth the prison of helle / & maketh weyke & febleth the strengethes of the deueles / & restoreth the yifftes of the holy goste & of alle goode vertues / [312] & clensith the soule of synne / & delyuereth the soule fro the peyne of helle / & fro the companye of the deuel / & fro the seruage of synne / & restoreth to alle goodes espirituels / & to the companye of communyon of holy chirche / [313] And ferther-ouere hit makyth him that was whilom the sone of synne / & Ire / to ben the sone of grace / & alle these thinges ben preved bi holy writte / [314] And therfore he that wol sette his entent to these thinges / he were ful
