[6-text p 680] techynges or orisons / [1039] ye shull vnderstonde / þat orisons or prayers / is for to seye / a pitous will of hert/ þat redresseth it in god / and expresseth it by worde outwarde to remeve harmes / and to haue thynges espirituell and durable / and somtyme temperell thynges / of which orisons / certes in the Orison of the Pater noster hath Ihesu Crist enclosed most thynges [1040] Certes privyleged it is of the thynges in his dignytee / for which it is more digne than ony prayer / for þat Ihesu Crist hym self made it/ [1041] and it is short/ for it shold be couthe more lightly / and for to withholde it/ more esely in hert/ and help hym self þe ofter with the orison / [1042] and for a man shold be þe lasse werie to seye it / and for a man / may nat excuse hym to lerne it/ it is so short / and so esy / and for it comprehendeth in it self all gode prayers [1043] The exposicion of this holy prayer / þat is so excellent and digne I betake to the maisters of Theologie / save þus moch woll I sey / þat whan þou prayest / þat god shold foryeve the thy giltes / as þou foryeuest/ hem þat agylten to the / be full wele ware / þat þou ne be nat out of charitee / [1044] This holy orison amenuseth eke veniall synne / and þerfore it apperteneth specially to Penitence /
[1045] this prayer most be truely seid and in verrey feith and þat men praye to god ordinatelye and dis|cretely and deuoutly / and all-weye a man shall putte his wille to be subgette to þe will of god. [1046] this orison most eke be seide with grete humblesse and full pure honestly and nat to the anoysaunce of ony man or womman / it most eke be contynued with the werkes of charitee / [1047] it auayleth / ayeinst þe vices of þe soule ffor as seith Seint Ierom by fastyng ben salved þe vices of þe flessh and by prayer / the vices of the soule
[1048] After this þou shalt vnderstonde / þat bodely peyne stant in wakyng for Ihesu Crist seith waketh and prayeth/ þat ye ne entre in wykked
