Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich
| holdings: the one was endless continuant love; | with sureness of keeping, and blissful salvation, | for of this was all the shewing. That other, was | the common teaching of Holy Chureh, of which | L was before enformed and grounded, and wilfully
« | having in use and understanding. And the beholding of this came [went] not from me; for by the shewing, I was not stirred, nor led therefro in no manner point. But I had therein teaching to love it, and like it; whereby I might, with the help »fof our Lord and his grace, increase and rise to more heavenly knowing, and higher loving. And thus in all this beholding, methought it behoved needs to see and to know that we be sinners, and do many evils that we ought to leave, and leave many good deeds undone that we ought to {11
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do: wherefore we deserve pain, blame, and wrath. |:
And notwithstanding all this, I saw verily that our
Lord was never wrath, ne never shall: for he is God, [is he is good, he is truth, he is love, and he is peace; [553 and his might, his wisdom, his charity, and his unity : [7.e. oneness with the soul, see below] suffereth him | not to be wrath: for I saw truly that it is against the | property of his might to be wrath; and against the " property of his wisdom, and against the property | ar of his goodness. God is that goodness that may |,.
not be wrath, for God is not but goodness. Our |», soul is oned to him, unchangeable goodness: and between God and our soul is neither wrath nor |.
forgiveness iu his sight; for our soul is so fulsomely oned to God of his own goodness, that between God and our soul may be right naught. |,
And to this understanding was the soul led by love, and drawn by might in every shewing. That |) it is thus, our good Lord shewed; and how it is ip, thus verily of his great goodness; and that he will we desire to wit; that is to say, as it longeth to his creatures to wit it. For all thing that the simple soul understood, God will that it be shewed and known. For those things that he will have privy, mightily and wisely himself hideth them for love; for I saw in the same shewing, that much privity is hid, which may never be known into the time that God of his goodness hath made - pi
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| us worthy to see it, And therewith I am well apaid, | abiding our Lords will in this high marvel And || now I yield me to our mother Holy Church, as
: a simple child oweth.
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l Two points belonging to our soul are debt [due]. One | is, that we reverently marvel That other is, that | we meekly suffer, every enjoying in God ; for he will è ithat we know that we shall in short time see | clearly in himself all that we desire. And notwith- * [standing all this, I beheld and marvelled greatly, | what is the mercy and forgiveness of God. For by the teaching that I had before, I understood that ` {the merey of God shall be forgiveness of his wrath, after the time that we have sinned: for methought | {that to a soul whose meaning and desire is to love, the wrath of God were harder than any other pain. And therefore I took [saw], that the forgiveness of his wrath should be one of the principal points of his mercy. But for ought that I might behold and desire, I could not see this point in all the shewing. But how I saw and understood of the t [working of mercy I shall say some deal, as God z[wil give me grace. I understood thus; man is w Jchangeable in this life, and by simpleness and uncunning falleth into sin: he is unmighty. and un- 113 H
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| holdings: the one was endless continuant love; | with sureness of keeping, and blissful salvation, | for of this was all the showing. That other, was | the common teaching of Holy Chureh, of which | L was before enformed and grounded, and wilfully
« | having in use and understanding. And the beholding of this came [went] not from me; for by the showing, I was not stirred, nor led therefro in no manner point. But I had therein teaching to love it, and like it; whereby I might, with the help »fof our Lord and his grace, increase and rise to more heavenly knowing, and higher loving. And thus in all this beholding, methought it behoved needs to see and to know that we be sinners, and do many evils that we ought to leave, and leave many good deeds undone that we ought to {11
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do: wherefore we deserve pain, blame, and wrath. |:
And notwithstanding all this, I saw verily that our
Lord was never wrath, ne never shall: for he is God, [is he is good, he is truth, he is love, and he is peace; [553 and his might, his wisdom, his charity, and his unity : [7.e. oneness with the soul, see below] suffers him | not to be wrath: for I saw truly that it is against the | property of his might to be wrath; and against the " property of his wisdom, and against the property | ar of his goodness. God is that goodness that may |,.
not be wrath, for God is not but goodness. Our |», soul is oned to him, unchangeable goodness: and between God and our soul is neither wrath nor |.
forgiveness iu his sight; for our soul is so fulsomely oned to God of his own goodness, that between God and our soul may be right naught. |,
And to this understanding was the soul led by love, and drawn by might in every showing. That |) it is thus, our good Lord showed; and how it is ip, thus verily of his great goodness; and that he will we desire to wit; that is to say, as it longs to his creatures to wit it. For all thing that the simple soul understood, God will that it be showed and known. For those things that he will have privy, mightily and wisely himself hides them for love; for I saw in the same showing, that much privity is hid, which may never be known into the time that God of his goodness has made - pi
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| us worthy to see it, And therewith I am well apaid, | abiding our Lords will in this high marvel And || now I yield me to our mother Holy Church, as
: a simple child ows.
The Forty-seventh Chapter
l Two points belonging to our soul are debt [due]. One | is, that we reverently marvel That other is, that | we meekly suffer, every enjoying in God ; for he will è ithat we know that we shall in short time see | clearly in himself all that we desire. And notwith- * [standing all this, I beheld and marvelled greatly, | what is the mercy and forgiveness of God. For by the teaching that I had before, I understood that ` {the merey of God shall be forgiveness of his wrath, after the time that we have sinned: for methought | {that to a soul whose meaning and desire is to love, the wrath of God were harder than any other pain. And therefore I took [saw], that the forgiveness of his wrath should be one of the principal points of his mercy. But for ought that I might behold and desire, I could not see this point in all the showing. But how I saw and understood of the t [working of mercy I shall say some deal, as God z[wil give me grace. I understood thus; man is w Jchangeable in this life, and by simpleness and uncunning falls into sin: he is unmighty. and un- 113 H
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