Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich

unreasonable heaviness and vain-sorrow. The second, | that we abide him stedfastly for his love, without | grudging and striving against him, into lives end, for it shall last but a while. The third is, that we trust in him mightily of full and true faith: for it . is his will that we know that he shall appear | suddenly and blessedfully to all his lovers. | For his working is privy, and he will be per- | ceived ; and his appearing shall be sweet, sudden; || and he will be trusted, for he is full homely, |: curteous. Blessed mote he be. L T i Note.—The penultimate paragraph on the preceding ' page may, perhaps, be interpreted thus :—The seeking, |: which each soul may have, with his grace is common to | all; and it ought to have discretion, &c., ie. It only |

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The Eleventh Chapter

| ND after this, I saw God in a point; that is to UE say, in my understanding : by which sight I l saw that he is in all thing. I beheld with advisement, seeing and knowing in that sight, that he | doth all that is done. 1 marvelled in that sight | with a soft dread, and thought: what is sin? For I | saw truly, that God doth all thing, be it never so litle. And I saw verily, that nothing is done by app, ne by adventure, but all by the aforesaid isdom of God; if it be happ or adventure in the jsight of man, our blind-head and un-fore-sight is ithe cause. For those things that be in the foresaid [wisdom of God, been fro without beginning, which jrightfully and worshipfully continually he leadeth |to the best end: as it cometh about, falling to us [suddenly, our unwitting. And thus by our blind- [ness, and our unforesight, we say these things be iby happs and adventure. | Thus I understand in this shewing of love: for well k wot in the sight of our Lord God, is no happ, ne ad-

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THE THIRD REVELATION.

| venture. Wherefore me behoved needs to grant, that | all things that are done, are well done ; for our Lord God doth all: for in this time the working of creatures was not shewed, but of our Lord God in the | creatures ; for he is in the mid point of all things; and | all, he doth. And I am sure that he doth no sin. And here I saw verily that sin is no deed; forinall | thi$, sin was not shewed. And I would no longer marvel in this, but beheld our Lord what he would shew. And thus as it might be for the time, the rightfulness of God's work was shewed for the soul.

Rightfulness hath two fair properties. It is right, and it is full: and so be all the works of our Lord. And thereto needeth neither working of mercy ne grace: for they be all rightful, wherein faileth right nought. And in an other time, he shewed for beholding of sin naked, as I shall say ; After when he useth working of mercy and of grace. This vision was shewed to my understanding ; for our Lord will have the soul turned truly unto the beholding of him, and generally of all his works, for they be full good. And all his dooms be easie and sweet, and two great eyes bringing the soul that is turned from the beholding of the blind deeming of man, into the faire sweet deeming of our Lord God. For man, he holdeth some deeds well done, and some deeds evil : : and our Lord beholdeth them not so, for as all that || 34

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