Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich

that dyeth out of the faith of Holy Church; that is to say, those that be heathen: and also many that hath received Christendome, and liveth unchristen life, and so dyeth out of charity; all these shall be damned to hell without end, as Holy Church teacheth me to believe: and standing all this, methought it was unpossible that all manner of thing should be well, as our Lord shewed in this time. And as to this, I had no other answer in shewing of our Lord but this; ‘ That, that is unpossible to thee, is not unpossible to mee ; I shall save my word in all thing, and I shall make all thing well? And in this I was taught by the grace of God, that I should stedfastly hold me in the faith as I had before understood. And therewith, that I should stand and sadly believe, that all manner thing shall be well, as our Lord shewed in the same time; for this is the great deed that our Lord God shall do: in which deed he shall save his word in all thing; and he shall make well all that is not well. But what the deed shall be, and how it shall be done, there is no creature beneath Christ tha* wot it, n ne shall

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I took of our Lords meaning in this time.

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AND yet in this I desired as I durst, that I might have some sight of hell, and of purgatory. But it was not my meaning to take proof of any thing that longeth to our faith; for I believed sothfastlie that hell and purgatory is for the same end that Holy Chureh teacheth for; but my meaning was, that I might have seen for learning in all thing that longeth to my faith, whereby I might live the more to Gods worship, and to my profit And for ought that I could desire, I ne could see of this right nought, but as it is before said in the first shewing; where that Isaw the Devil is reproved of God, and endlessly damned. In which sight 1 understand, that all the creatures that be of the devils condition in this life, and therein ending, there is no more mention made of them before God and all his holy ones then of the devil; notwithstanding that they be of mankind; whether they have be-christened or not. For though the revelation was shewed of goodness, in which was made litle mention of evil: yet I was not drawn thereby from any point of the faith that Holy Church teacheth me to believe.

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i | For I had sight of the passion of Christ in divers | shewing ; in the first, in the second, in the fourth, | in the eighth, as it is before said; wherein I had lin part feeling of the sorrow of our Lady, and | of his true friends that saw his pains: but I saw 7 not so properly specified the Jews that did him i | to death; but notwithstanding I knew in my faith, : hat they were accursed and damned without end, 7 saving those that were converted by grace. | And I was strengthed, and learned generally to | keep me in the faith, in every point, and in all as | | I had before understood, hoping that I was therein | with merey and the grace of God, desiring and l praying in my meaning, that I might continue | therein unto my lives end. It is Gods will that | we have great regard to all the deeds that he jhath done; for he will thereby that we know, rust and believe all that he shall doe. But evermore us needeth leave the beholding what the eed shall be; and desire we to be like to our rethren which be the saints in heaven, that will right nought but Gods will Then shall we only | enjoy in God, and be well apaid both with hiding | and shewing. For I saw verily in our Lords mean- | ing, the more we busie us to know his privities in that or in any other thing, the farther more ishall we be from the knowing. | | 51 FE

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