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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
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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.
¶ Of Penance and the parts of it.
¶ Of Penaunce and the partes of it.
PHILEMON. This Latin word Peni 1tentia, called in the Greek tongue metanonia, which some turn Repentance, some Penance, is as 2Chrysostom saith, not only to cease from the old evils but also to follow better offices. For it is said: Decline from evil & do good. Neither is it enough for us unto 3health, saith he, only to have plucked out the shaft, except we also lay medicines to the wound. Of these words of the holy Doc tor S. John Chrysostom, is it evident, who truly repenteth and who not. If not only a cessation from the sin, but also a diligent exercise 4of the virtue followeth the Penance than is it true & unfeigned. But if ⟨image 15⟩there be proved a continuance […] y• sin, and no correction or amendment of life, than is it manifest that such one had never no true repentance in his heart. For S. Austen saith, what other 5thing is it to repent or to do Penance, than to be sorry for the since paste, & from henceforth to abstain from those things, which he hath committed. Again he saith, 6