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HERE BEGINNETH THE EIGHT AND TWENTIETH CHAPTER
That a man should not presume to work in this work before the time that he be lawfully cleansed in conscience of all his special deeds of sin.
BUT if thou asketh me when they should work in this work, then I answer thee and I say: that not ere they have cleansed their conscience of all their special deeds of sin done before, after the common ordinance of Holy Church.
For in this work, a soul drieth up in it all the root and the ground of sin that will always live in it after confession, be it never so busy. And, therefore, whoso will travail in this work, let him first cleanse his conscience; and afterward when he hath done that in him is lawfully, let him dispose him
