[Sidenote: First, as an enemy.] ¶ The fyrste correction is of an ennemye, the seconde is of a frynde, and the thyrde correction is of a Iustyce. [Sidenote: Chrysostom.] The fyrste saythe Chrisostome, _Corripe non vt hostis expetens vindictam, sed vt medicus instituens medicinam_. 8 Correcke not as an enemye doinge vengeaunce, but as [Sidenote: Secondly, as a friend.] a phisicyon or surgyon, mynistringe or gyuynge a medicyne. To the seconde saythe Salomon. _Plus proficit amica correctio, quam correctio turbulenta._ A frendelye 12 [Sidenote: [Fol. 88.]] correction profyteth more than a troublous correction. For yf thou speke courteysly to a man that hath offended, and with sweete wordes of compassion, he shall rather be conuerted by theym, than with hye wordes of great 16 [Sidenote: Isidore.] punysshement. And Isodorus saythe, _Qui per verba blanda castigatus non corrigetur, acrius necesse est, vt arguatur_. He that wylle not be chastysed by fayre wordes, it is necessary that he be more hardlyer and straytlyer reproued 20 [Sidenote: Jerome.] or punysshed. To the thyrde saythe sayncte Ierome, _Equum iudicium est, vbi non persona sed opera considerantur_. [Sidenote: Thirdly, as a judge.] There is an euen Iugemente, where the personne is not regarded, but the warkes are consydered. And alsoo hit 24 [Sidenote: Matt. xvi. 27.] is wrytten. _Reddet vnicuique iuxta opera sua._ He shall yelde vnto euery manne after his workes. And sayncte [Sidenote: Augustine.] Augustyne saythe, _Sicut meliores sunt, quos corrigit amor, ita plures sunt quos corrigit timor_. As those be better, 28 that be chastysed by loue, soo there be many moo that be chastysed by feare. For and they feared not the punyshement of the lawe, there wolde be but a fewe [Sidenote: Gregory.] chastysed by loue. And saynte Gregory sayth, _Facientis 32 procul dubio culpam habet, qui quod potest corrigere negligit [Sidenote: [Fol. 88_b_.]] emendare, et illicita non prohibere consensus erroris est_. He that maye correcke, and dothe not, he taketh the offence to hym-selfe of the dede; and he that dothe not forbede 36 vnlawefull thynges, consenteth to the same, &c. 172. ¶ What is the greattest offence that a manne may doo and offende god in.