A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men

Ryght Profytable Treatyse
Compendiously Drawen Out Of
Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of
Holy Men, A

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Title: A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of
Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men
Author: Thomas Betson
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[Transcriber's Note: Abbreviated words and syllables are shown in
[brackets]. ã,õ,ê,î,û = vowel with overline (following m or n) ¶ =
symbol [*V*] [*R*] = Verse and Response symbols ]

A
ryght profytable treatyse
compendiously drawen out of many
and dyvers wrytynges
of holy men
by Thomas Betson
Printed in Caxton's house by Wynkyn de Worde about 1500
* * * * *
Cambridge at the University Press
1905
The tract here reprinted is one of twenty-six formerly bound together in
a remarkable volume (AB. 4. 58) which was presented to the University
in 1715 by King George the First together with the rest of the Library
of John Moore, Bishop of Ely.
The name of the author is only known from the colophon. It will be
seen from the facsimile that the fourth letter of the name is not certainly
an s. Herbert (p. 204) on the information of W. Cole gives the name as

Betton: but it seems probable that we are right in reading it as Betson.
Mr Bernard W. Henderson, who has very kindly examined the copy in
the Library of Exeter College, Oxford, and Mr F. Madan, to whom he
has shown it, are decidedly of opinion that the letter is a blurred s.
The date of printing is fixed by competent authorities as 1500, on the
evidence of the states of the printer's mark and of the cut of the
Crucifixion.
FRANCIS JENKINSON
This facsimile has been taken from the original in the Library of the
University of Cambridge.
I certify that I have printed 250 copies only of this facsimile, that the
impressions have been rubbed off the plates and the negatives
destroyed.
P. DUJARDIN
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[Illustration]
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¶ Here begynneth a ryght profytable treatyse cõpendiously drawen out
of many & dyuers wrytynges of holy men / to dyspose men to be
vertuously occupyed in theyr myndes & prayers. And declared the
Pater noster. Aue. & Credo. in our moder tonge with many other
deuoute prayers in lyke wyse medefull to religyous people as to the
laye people with many other moost holsomest Instruccyons / as here
after it shall folowe.
¶ The famous doctour Iohan gerson Chaûceler of Parys / takynge his
groûde of holy scrypture. & accordynge with all other doctours sayth
thus.
[Illuminated O]

Oure moost mercyfull fa[der] lord god knowyng our freelte & redynes
to all s[yn]nes. is euer redy duryng this wretched & mortall lyf / by
many & dyuers ways to forgyue vs our trespace / & to graûte & gyue
vs his grace / yf so be that truly we ordeyne vnto hym these treuthes
folowynge sayd & done with all our herte. The fyrst / thou shalt saye.
Blessyd lorde I knowleche [that] I haue synned ayenst thy goodnes thus
and thus Rehersynge thy synnes. And I am dyspleaseth therwith by
reason of the whiche I do penaunce & wyll do. For I knowe well that I
haue greued the & broken thy cõmaûdementes. In the whiche thou only
ought to be worshypped. The seconde saye this treuthe. Good lorde I
haue good purpose & desyre with thyn helpe to be ryght ware herafter
that I fall not in to synne / & I entende to flee the occasions after [the]
possibilyte of my power. The thyrde is this. Mercyful lorde I haue a
good wyll to make an hole confessyon of all my synnes whan place &
tyme cõuenient may be had acordynge to thy cõmaûdement & all holy
chirche. These thre treuthes who soeuer sayth [with] his herte
vnfaynyngly in what place [that] euer it be / he may be sure [that] he is
in [the] state of helth & grace & he shal haue euer lastynge lyf though
he had done all the synnes of the worlde. And yf he decessed [with]out
ony other confession