165. How a man sJiouldpray. 1 1 3 



prcKeptis dd aueriiiur, quod in oratione postulat non nuretu'r : 



12 He that dothe not goddes commaundementes, he 

 deserueth not to haue his prayer harde. The seconde 

 impediment, saj-the Anastasius, is. Si non dimittis iniuriam, Aaastasins. 

 que tibi facta est, non orationem pro te/acis, sed maledictwnem 



1 6 super te inducis : If thou forgyue not the wronge done 

 vnto the, thou doste not praye for thy-selfe, but thou 

 enducest goddes curse to fall vppon the. And Isodorus Isidore, 

 saj-the, Sicut nullum in vulnere proficit medicamentum, si 



20 adhuc ferrum in eo sit : ita nihil proficiat oratio illius, cuius [FoL 8i ; 

 adhuc dolor in mente vel odium manet in pec tore. Lyke as 

 the playster or medycjue can -not heale a wounde, if there 

 be any yren styckinge in the same, ryghte soo the prayer 



24 of a man profyleth hynn not, as longe as there is sorowe 

 in his mynde, or hate ab3-d}Tige in his breste. For 

 sa}'ncte AustvTie sajiihe. Si desit charitas, frusira hdbentur Augustine. 

 cetera. If charitie wante, all other thj-nges be voyde. 



28 VVherfore thou muste se that thou stande in the state of 

 grace, and not infecte with deedly synne, and than praye 

 if thou wylt be harde. 



165. \ Howe a man sholde praye. 



It is to be vnderstande that there be dyuers maner 

 of prajanges, Quedam publico, et quedam priuata ; That Public 



prayer. 



is to saye, some openlye, and some priuately. Prayer 

 4 openly muste nedes be done in the churche by the 

 m)'nystratours of the same people. For it is done for 

 all the comynaltye, and therfore the people in that oughte 

 to conferme the3rm-selfe to the sayde m}-nystratours, and 

 8 there to be presente to praye vnto god after a dewe 

 maner. Oratio priuata. The prayer pryuately done. Private 



, J . prayer. 



oughte to be doone m secrete places, for two causes. [FoI. 8i«.] 

 For prayer eleuateth and lyfteth vp a mannes m}-nde 

 12 to god. And the mynde of man is sooner and better 



