[6-text p 675] seint Austyne / that suche shamefast folke / ben next for-yevenesse & remission / [988] That other signe is humylite of confession / of which seith seint Peter / [¶ Peter.] humbleth yow vnder the myght of god / the honde of god is myghti in confession / ffor ther-bi god foryevith the thi synnes / for he alone hath the power / [989] & this humylite shal be in herte / & in signe outwarde / ffor right as he hath humilite to god in his herte / Right so sholde he humble his body outwarde to the preste that sitteth in godis place / [990] ffor [MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 folio 305b] whiche in no manere / sithen that criste is souereyne / and the preste meene & mediatour bi|twex criste & the synnere / & the synnere is the laste bi wey of reson / [991] than sholde nat the synnere sitte as highe as his confessour / but knele biforn him / or at his feete / but if maladie distorbe hit / ffor he shal nat take kepe who sitte there / but in whos place that he sitteth / [992] A man that hath trespased to a lorde / and cometh to axemercy / & maketh his accorde/And he sette him doun anoon bi the lorde / men wold holde him outrageous / & nat worthi so sone to haue remission ne mercy / [993] The .iij. signe is that thi confession shulde be ful of teres if ye may / & if ye may nat wepe with youre bodily eyghe / lete thin herte wepe / [994] suche was the confession of seint Peter ffor after that he had for-sake ihesu criste / [¶ Petrus.] he went out & wept ful bitterly / [995] The .iiij. signe is that he lett nat for his shame to shewe his confession / [996] suche was the confession of the Magdaleyne / that spared for no shame of hem that were [¶ Magdaleyne.] at the fest for to go to oure lorde ihesu criste / & biknowe to him hir synne / [997] The .v. signe that a man be obeisaunt or a woman to resceive the penaunce that is to him enioyned / ffor certis ihesu criste / for the giltes of oo man was obediente to the deth //
[998] The secunde condicion of verray confession / is that hit be hastily don / ffor certis if a man had a dedly wounde / euer the lenger that he tarieth to warisshe
