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¶ Satisfaction.

AS pertaining unto satisfaction, this wise understand, that he that loveth God hath a commandment (as S. John saith in the fourth Chap. of his first Epistle) to love his neighbour also: whom if thou have offended thou must make him amends or satisfaction, or at the lest way if thou be not able, ask him forgiveness, & if he will have mercy of God, he is bound to forgive thee. If he will not: yet God forgiveth thee, if thou thus submit thy self. But unto Godward Christ is a perpetual ¹and an everlasting satisfaction for evermore.

AS pertainyng vnto satisfactiō, this wise vnderstād, that he that loueth God hath a commaundement (as S. Iohn sayth in the fourth Chap. of his first Epistle) to loue his neighbour also: whom if thou haue offended thou must make him amendes or satisfactiō, or at the lest way if thou be not able, aske him forgeuenes, & if he will haue mercy of God, he is bound to forgeue thee. If he will not: yet God forgeueth thee, if thou thus submit thy selfe. But vnto Godward Christ is a perpetuall ¹and an euerlastyng satisfaction for euermore.

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As oft as thou fallest through frailty, repent & come again and thou art safe & welcome, as thou mayst see by the similitude of the riotous son,