Page:Bookofcraftofdyi00caxtiala.djvu/74

 and sufficient to religious and devout persons, nevertheless all Christian men, both secular and religious, after the doctrines of the noble Clerk the Chancellor of Paris, in their last end should be examined, enquired, and informed, more certainly and clearly, of the state and the health of their souls.

I. And First thus: Believest thou fully all the principal articles of the faith; and also all Holy Scripture in all things, after the exposition of the holy and true doctors of Holy Church; and forsakest all heresies and errors and opinions damned by the Church; and art glad also that thou shalt die in the faith of Christ, and in the unity and obedience of Holy Church?

The sick man answering: Yea.

II. The Second Interrogation shall be this: Knowledgest thou that often times, and in many manner wises, and grievously, thou hast offended thy Lord God that made thee of nought? For Saint Bernard saith upon Cantica canticorum: I know well that there may no man be saved but if he know himself; of which knowing waxeth in a man humility, that is the mother of his health, and also the dread of God, the which dread, as it is the beginning of wisdom, so it is the beginning of health of man's soul.

He answereth: Yea.

III. The Third Interrogation shall be this: Art thou sorry in heart of all manner of sins that thou hast done against the high Majesty, and the Love of God, and the Goodness of God; and of all the