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A potacio[n] or dry[n]king for this holy time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all…A potacio[n] or dri[n]kynge for this holi time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all…
A potacio[n] or dry[n]king for this holy time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all penitent sinners, newly prepared by Theodore Basil.A potacio[n] or dri[n]kynge for this holi time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all penitent synners, newly prepared by Theodore Basille.
printed for Joha, 1542printed for Ioha, 1542
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
PHIL. Eyes verily. After the have repented you of your wickedness, ye must than amend your life, & bring forth fruits worthy of Penance, as the 1scripture commandeth. Ye must practise in your living all godliness & innocency. Fasting, prayer and alms must diligently be exercised of you in your daily conversation. 2Ye must go from virtue to virtue, & from faith to faith. As ye have walked before in darkness, so must ye walk now in light. Your whole life must now be nothing else, than a perfect meditation of purity and innocency. Except ye labour to do this, surely ye have no part of Christ, neither is the death of Christ a satisfaction for your sins, but y• 3wrath of God abideth still upon you. God hath blessed you in christ Jesus, that every one of you should turn away from his wickednesses ⟨image 41⟩as the scripture saith. God hath 4not called us, saith S. Paul, unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification and holiness. These things once done, than remaineth 5there a true & perfect satisfaction to our neighbour, whom we have offended or hurt either in word or deed. For a satisfaction or amends must needs be made to our neighbour, or else we walk not after the order of Charity, nor according 6to the law of nature, which commandeth every man to do to another, as he would other should do to him. Therefore God in the old law commanded that if any m• did steal from his neighbour an ox or a sheep, he should restore and give him again five oxen for an 7ox, & four sheep for one sheep. We read also in the Gospel of Luke, y• Zacheus said unto Christ: behold