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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. Trueth it is y• ye say. Such have not in them the true Penance.
PHIL. Trueth it is y• ye saye. Such haue not in them the true Penaūce.
THEO. What is than to be done? How may we come by & get such penance that may set such a burning love in our hearts towards virtue, that for the very love of it, we may freely hate vice, & cease to do evil.
THEO. What is thā to be done? How maye we come by & get such penaūce that maye set such a brennynge loue in our hertes towardes vertu, that for the very loue of it, we maye frely hate vyce, & cease to do euell.
PHIL. It 1is hard for a natural man which understandeth not those things y• pertain to the Spirit of God to do this of his own strength & power. For true Penance is the gift 2of God. Every good gift and every perfect gift cometh from above, descending from the father of light. S. Ambrose saith: Those are good 3tears, which wash away the fault. Moreover they, whom God beholdeth, lament their offence. Peter denied first, and he wept not. For the the LORD had not looked upon him. He denied the second time, & wept ⟨image 18⟩