172. ¶ What is the greattest offence that a manne may doo and offende god in.
Isidore.
Jerome.
Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
[Fol. 89.]
Luke v. 32.
Augustine.
Chrysostom.
Bernard.
Augustine.
[Fol. 89b.]
Mary Magdalen.
Luke vii. 48.
Luke vii. 50.
The author’s protestation.
Be it knowen to all men bothe spirytuall and temporall, that I make protestacion before god and man, that I entende not to wryte any-thynge that is or 52 maye be contrary to the faythe of Chryste and al holy churche. But I am redye to reuoke my sayenge, if any-thynge have passed my mouthe for wante of lernynge, and to submytte my-selfe to correction, and my boke 56 to reformatyon. And as touchynge the poyntes of
[Fol. 90.]
The author’s experience of forty years as a householder.