Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich
| hath being in kind is of God’s making, so is all | thing that is done, in property of God's doing. For | itis easie to understand that the best deed is well | done ; and so well as the best deed that is done, | and the highest, so well is the least deed done: : and all in the property and in the order that our I Lord hath it ordeined to, fro without beginning. i| | For there is no Door [doer] but he. | I saw full truly, that he changed never his pur- : | pose in no manner of thing, ne never shall without | end: for there was nothing unknown to him in his | rightful ordinance, fro without_beginning. And therefore all thing were set in order ere anything i was made, as it should stand without end; and | no manner of thing shall fail of that point; for he . ! hath made all thing in fulhead of goodness. | And therefore the blessed Trinity is ever full l pleased in all his works. And all this shewed | he full blessedly, meaning thus, ‘See I am God: j | See I am in all things : See I do all things : See I never . | left my hands of my works, ne never shall without end : | See I lead all thing to the end that I ordaine it to, Jro i j without beginning, by the same might, wisdom, and love, that 1 I made it with. Hom should anything be amiss?’ Thus : | mightily, wisely, and lovingly was the soul examined i] in this vision. Then saw I verily that me behoveth i needs to assent with great reverence and joy in God.
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Che fourth Webelation The Twelfth Chapter
ND after this I saw beholding the body plen- A tuously bleeding, in seeming of the scourging, as thus: the fair skin was broken full deep into the tender flesh, with sharp smitings, all about the sweet body: the hot blood ran out so plenteously, that there was neither seen skin, ne wound, but as it were all blood. And when it came where it should have fallen down, there it vanished: notwithstanding the bleeding continued a while, till it | might be seen with advisement. And this was so plentuous to my sight, that me thought if it had been so in kind and in substance for that time, it should have made the bed all on blood, and have | passed over all about. Then came to my mind, that God hath made waters plentuous in earth to our service, and to our bodily ease, for tender love that he hath to us. But yet liketh him better, that we take full holsomely his hlessed blood to wash us from sin, 36 É
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i { for there is no liquor that is made that liketh him so well to give us: for it is most plentuous, as it is | most precious, and that, by the vertue of the blessed
| Godhead; and it is our own kind, and blessedfully
| overfloweth us by the vertue of his precious love. | The dear worthy blood of our Lord Jesu Christ, | also verily as it is most precious, as verily it is most plentuous. Behold and see the vertue of this precious plenty of his dear worthy blood. It descended down into hell, and brake her bonds, and | delivered them all that were there which belongeth [to the court of heaven. The precious plenty of his dear worthy blood overfloweth all earth, and is ready to wash all ereatures of sin which be of good-will, have been, or shall be. The precious | plenty of his dear worthy blood ascendeth up into ‘| heaven in the blessed body of our Lord Jesu Christ: 1 and there is in him bleeding, praving for us to the 4 Father, and is and shall be as long as us needeth. 1 And evermore it floweth in all heaven, enjoying i the salvation of all mankind that be there, and 1 shall be fulfilling the number that faileth.
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The Fifth Webelation The Thirteenth Chapter
ND after, or that God shewed any words, he A suffered me to behold him a conveniable . time, and all that I had seen, and all the understanding that was therein, as the simpleness of the soul might take it. Then he without voyce and opening of lps formed in my soul these words, ‘ Herewith is the fiend overcome.’ This word said our Lord, meaning his blessed passion, as he shewed before. In this our - Lord shewed a part of the fiends malice, and fully his unmight, for he shewed that the passion of Him is the overcoming of the fiend. God shewed | that the fiend hath now the same malice that he had before the incarnation; and also sore he travelleth : and as continually he seeth, that all souls of salvation eseape him worshipfuly by the , vertue of His precious passion, and that is his - sorrow, and full evil ıs he ashamed. For all that | God suffereth him to do turneth us to joy, and him to shame and pain And he hath as much j. 38 |
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| has being in kind is of God’s making, so is all | thing that is done, in property of God's doing. For | itis easie to understand that the best deed is well | done ; and so well as the best deed that is done, | and the highest, so well is the least deed done: : and all in the property and in the order that our I Lord has it ordeined to, fro without beginning. i| | For there is no Door [doer] but he. | I saw full truly, that he changed never his pur- : | pose in no manner of thing, ne never shall without | end: for there was nothing unknown to him in his | rightful ordinance, fro without_beginning. And therefore all thing were set in order ere anything i was made, as it should stand without end; and | no manner of thing shall fail of that point; for he . ! has made all thing in fulhead of goodness. | And therefore the blessed Trinity is ever full l pleased in all his works. And all this showed | he full blessedly, meaning thus, ‘See I am God: j | See I am in all things : See I do all things : See I never . | left my hands of my works, ne never shall without end : | See I lead all thing to the end that I ordaine it to, Jro i j without beginning, by the same might, wisdom, and love, that 1 I made it with. Hom should anything be amiss?’ Thus : | mightily, wisely, and lovingly was the soul examined i] in this vision. Then saw I verily that me behoves i needs to assent with great reverence and joy in God.
p. 35
Che fourth Webelation The Twelfth Chapter
ND after this I saw beholding the body plen- A tuously bleeding, in seeming of the scourging, as thus: the fair skin was broken full deep into the tender flesh, with sharp smitings, all about the sweet body: the hot blood ran out so plenteously, that there was neither seen skin, ne wound, but as it were all blood. And when it came where it should have fallen down, there it vanished: notwithstanding the bleeding continued a while, till it | might be seen with advisement. And this was so plentuous to my sight, that me thought if it had been so in kind and in substance for that time, it should have made the bed all on blood, and have | passed over all about. Then came to my mind, that God has made waters plentuous in earth to our service, and to our bodily ease, for tender love that he has to us. But yet likes him better, that we take full holsomely his hlessed blood to wash us from sin, 36 É
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THE TWELFTH CHAPTER
i { for there is no liquor that is made that likes him so well to give us: for it is most plentuous, as it is | most precious, and that, by the vertue of the blessed
| Godhead; and it is our own kind, and blessedfully
| overflows us by the vertue of his precious love. | The dear worthy blood of our Lord Jesu Christ, | also verily as it is most precious, as verily it is most plentuous. Behold and see the vertue of this precious plenty of his dear worthy blood. It descended down into hell, and brake her bonds, and | delivered them all that were there which belongs [to the court of heaven. The precious plenty of his dear worthy blood overflows all earth, and is ready to wash all ereatures of sin which be of good-will, have been, or shall be. The precious | plenty of his dear worthy blood ascends up into ‘| heaven in the blessed body of our Lord Jesu Christ: 1 and there is in him bleeding, praving for us to the 4 Father, and is and shall be as long as us needs. 1 And evermore it flows in all heaven, enjoying i the salvation of all mankind that be there, and 1 shall be fulfilling the number that fails.
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The Fifth Webelation The Thirteenth Chapter
ND after, or that God showed any words, he A suffered me to behold him a conveniable . time, and all that I had seen, and all the understanding that was therein, as the simpleness of the soul might take it. Then he without voyce and opening of lps formed in my soul these words, ‘ Herewith is the fiend overcome.’ This word said our Lord, meaning his blessed passion, as he showed before. In this our - Lord showed a part of the fiends malice, and fully his unmight, for he showed that the passion of Him is the overcoming of the fiend. God showed | that the fiend has now the same malice that he had before the incarnation; and also sore he travels : and as continually he sees, that all souls of salvation eseape him worshipfuly by the , vertue of His precious passion, and that is his - sorrow, and full evil ıs he ashamed. For all that | God suffers him to do turns us to joy, and him to shame and pain And he has as much j. 38 |
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