Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich

his body, in which all his members be knit, he is not yet full glorified, ne all unpassible: for the same thirst and longing that he had upon the roode-tree (which desire longing and thirst as to my sight, was in him from without beginning) the same hath he yet, and shall into the time that the last soul that shall be saved is come up to his bliss. For as truly as there isa property in God of ruth and pity; as verily there 1s a property in God of thirst and longing: and of the vertue of this longing in Christ, we have to long again to him, without which no soul cometh to heaven. And this property of longing and thirst cometh of the endless goodness of God ; right as the property of pity cometh of his endless goodness: and though he have longing and pity, they been sundry properties, as to my sight. And in this standeth the point of ghostly thirst, which is lasting in him as long as we be in need, us drawing up to his bliss. And all this was seen in shewing of compassion, for that shall cease at doomsday. "Thus he hath ruth and compassion on us ; and he hath longing to have us ; but his wisdom and his love suffer not the same to come till the best time. 76

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| Ove time our good Lord said, ‘All manner of thing | shall be well :' and another time he said, * Thou shalt | see thy self, that all manner of thing shall be well.’ i And in these two the soul took sundry manner of understanding. One was this; that he will, we wit | that not only he taketh heed to noble things and to | great, but also to litle and to small, to low and to simple, and to one and to other. And so meaneth he in that he saith, * 4/4 manner of thing shall be | mell;' for he will that we wit that the least thing | shall not be forgotten. Another understanding is this; that there be many deeds evil done in our

| sight, and so great harms take, that it seemeth to | us that it were impossible that ever it should come to a good end. And upon this we look, sorrow and | mourn therefore; so that we cannot rest us in the blissedful beholding of God as we should do, And | the cause is this; that the use of our reason is now so blind, so low, and so simple, that we cannot | know the high marvellous wisdom, the might and | the goodness of the blissedful Trinity. And this l meaneth he where he saith, * Thou shalt see thy self, | that all rerner af thing shall he weh? As if he «aid, pec è

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take now faithfully and trustfully, and at the last end thou shalt be verily in fulhead of joy. And thus in the same five words beforesaid, * 7 may male all thing well ;* | understand a mighty comfort of all works of our Lord God that are for to come. There is a deed, the which the blissedful Trinity shall do in the last day, as to my sight: and what the deed shall be, and how it shall be done, it is unknown of all creatures which are beneath Christ, and shall be till when it shall be done. The goodness and the love of our Lord God will, that we wit that ıt shall be: and the might, and the wisdom of him by the same love will hill it, and hide it from us what it shall be, and how it shall be done. And the cause why he will we wit it thus is, for he will we be the more eased in our soul, and peaceable in love, leaving the beholding of all tempests that might let us of true enjoying in him,

This is the great deed ordeined of our Lord God fro , without beginning, treasured and hid in his blessed breast, only known to himself; by which deed, he shall make all thing well, for right as the blessed Trinity made all thing of naught, right so the same blessed Trinity shall make well all that is not well. And in this sight I marvelled greatly, and beheld our faith, meaning thus; Our faith is grounded in Gods word, and it longeth to our faith, that we 78

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believe that Gods word shall be saved in all thing :

i| and one point of our faith is, that many creatures | shall be damned, as angels that fell out of heaven t| for pride, which be now fiends; and many in earth