Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich
{for failing of all manner of comfort save the jmighty privy keeping of God. 1 mean of two [manner of people that know him not, as it may [be understood by two persons: that one was | Pilate, that other person was St. Dionise of France, {which was that time a Paynius; for when he saw | wonders and marveils, sorrows and dreads that befell at tha! time, he said, © Fither the world 51
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is now at an end, or else, he that is maker of kinds suffereth." Wherefore he did write on an altar, ‘This is an altar of the unknown God. God, of his goodness, maketh plannets and the elements to work in their kind to the blessed man, and to the cursed. In that time it was withdrawn from both: wherefore it was that they that knew him not were in sorrow that time. Thus was our Lord Jesu pained for us, and we stand all in this manner of pain with him, and shall do till that we come to his bliss, as I shall say hereafter.
The Nineteenth Chapter
In this time I would have looked fro the cross, and I durst not; for I wist well, whiles that 1 beheld |! the cross I was sure and safe. Therefore I would not assent to put my soul in peril, for besides the cross, was no sureness for dreed of fiends. Then | had I a proffer in my reason, as ıt had been friendly ` said to me, * Look up to heaven to his Father. And ‘ then saw I well with the faith that I felt, that’. i there was nothing between the cross and heaven: that might have diseased me. Here me behoved : to look up, or else to answer; I answered inwardly | with ali the might of my so, and said, ‘Nay, 7 i ' i !
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THE NINETEENTH CHAPTER
may not, for thou art my heaven. This I said, for that I would not; for I had leaver have been in that pain till dooms-day, than have come to heaven otherwise than by him; for I wist well that he that bound me so sore, he should unbind me when he would. Thus was I learned to choose Jesu for my heaven, whom I saw only in pain at that time: me liked no other heaven than Jesu, which
| shall be my bliss when 1 come there; and this hath ever been a comfort to me, that I chose
1 Jesu to be my heaven by his grace, in all this time | of passion and sorrow. And that hath been a ] learning to me that I should evermore do so, to i choose Jesu only to my heaven in weal and in woe. | And though I as a wretch hath repented me; as [ said before; if I had wist what pain it had [ been, I had been loath to have prayed it; here | I saw verily that it was grudging and frailty of | the flesh without assent of the soul, in which God assigneth no blame. Repenting and wilful choise be 1 two contraries, which I felt both at that time. And | those be two parts, that one outward, that other | inward. "The outward party is our deadily flesh, ' which is now in pain, and now in woe, and shall , be in this life: whereof I felt much at this time; and that part was that [in which] I repented. The | inward party is a high and a blessedful life, which
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is all in peace and love: and this is more privily felt; and this party [it] is in which mightily, wisely, and wilfully I chose Jesu to my heaven. And in this I saw truly, that the inward party is master and soveraign to the outward, nought charging nor taking heede to the wills of that; but all the intent, and the will is set endless to be oned to our Lord Jesu: that the outward party should draw the inward to assent, was not shewed to me, but that the inward party draweth the outward party by grace, and both shall be oned in bliss without end by the vertue of Christ, this was shewed.
The Twentieth Chapter
Axp thus saw I our Lord Jesu languring long time; for the uning of the God-head gave strength to the man-head for love to suffer more than all men might; 1 mean not only more pain than all men might suffer, but also, that he suffered more pain than all men of salvation that ever was from the first beginning into the last day, might tell or fully think — having regard to the worthiness of the highest worshipful King, and the shameful and despiteous painful death. For he that is highest and worthiest, was foulest condemned and utterly D4
{for failing of all manner of comfort save the jmighty privy keeping of God. 1 mean of two [manner of people that know him not, as it may [be understood by two persons: that one was | Pilate, that other person was St. Dionise of France, {which was that time a Paynius; for when he saw | wonders and marveils, sorrows and dreads that befell at tha! time, he said, © Fither the world 51
THE NINTH REVELATION,
is now at an end, or else, he that is maker of kinds suffers." Wherefore he did write on an altar, ‘This is an altar of the unknown God. God, of his goodness, makes plannets and the elements to work in their kind to the blessed man, and to the cursed. In that time it was withdrawn from both: wherefore it was that they that knew him not were in sorrow that time. Thus was our Lord Jesu pained for us, and we stand all in this manner of pain with him, and shall do till that we come to his bliss, as I shall say hereafter.
The Nineteenth Chapter
In this time I would have looked fro the cross, and I durst not; for I wist well, whiles that 1 beheld |! the cross I was sure and safe. Therefore I would not assent to put my soul in peril, for besides the cross, was no sureness for dreed of fiends. Then | had I a proffer in my reason, as ıt had been friendly ` said to me, * Look up to heaven to his Father. And ‘ then saw I well with the faith that I felt, that’. i there was nothing between the cross and heaven: that might have diseased me. Here me behoved : to look up, or else to answer; I answered inwardly | with ali the might of my so, and said, ‘Nay, 7 i ' i !
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THE NINETEENTH CHAPTER
may not, for you are my heaven. This I said, for that I would not; for I had leaver have been in that pain till dooms-day, than have come to heaven otherwise than by him; for I wist well that he that bound me so sore, he should unbind me when he would. Thus was I learned to choose Jesu for my heaven, whom I saw only in pain at that time: me liked no other heaven than Jesu, which
| shall be my bliss when 1 come there; and this has ever been a comfort to me, that I chose
1 Jesu to be my heaven by his grace, in all this time | of passion and sorrow. And that has been a ] learning to me that I should evermore do so, to i choose Jesu only to my heaven in weal and in woe. | And though I as a wretch has repented me; as [ said before; if I had wist what pain it had [ been, I had been loath to have prayed it; here | I saw verily that it was grudging and frailty of | the flesh without assent of the soul, in which God assigns no blame. Repenting and wilful choise be 1 two contraries, which I felt both at that time. And | those be two parts, that one outward, that other | inward. "The outward party is our deadily flesh, ' which is now in pain, and now in woe, and shall , be in this life: whereof I felt much at this time; and that part was that [in which] I repented. The | inward party is a high and a blessedful life, which
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THE NINTH REVELATION,
is all in peace and love: and this is more privily felt; and this party [it] is in which mightily, wisely, and wilfully I chose Jesu to my heaven. And in this I saw truly, that the inward party is master and soveraign to the outward, nought charging nor taking heede to the wills of that; but all the intent, and the will is set endless to be oned to our Lord Jesu: that the outward party should draw the inward to assent, was not showed to me, but that the inward party draws the outward party by grace, and both shall be oned in bliss without end by the vertue of Christ, this was showed.
The Twenties Chapter
Axp thus saw I our Lord Jesu languring long time; for the uning of the God-head gave strength to the man-head for love to suffer more than all men might; 1 mean not only more pain than all men might suffer, but also, that he suffered more pain than all men of salvation that ever was from the first beginning into the last day, might tell or fully think — having regard to the worthiness of the highest worshipful King, and the shameful and despiteous painful death. For he that is highest and worthiest, was foulest condemned and utterly D4
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