Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich
ye [all] that our loving, and our travel deserveth, spreading abroad, and shewing the high plenteousness, largeness of Gods royal lordship in his marvellous courtesie. And this is of the abundance of love; for grace worketh our dreadful failing into plenteous and endless solace: and grace worketh our shameful falling into high worshipful rising ; and grace worketh our sorrowful dying into holy blissful life : for I saw full truly that ever as our contrariousness worketh to us here in earth, pain, shame, and sorrow, right so on the contrariwise, grace worketh to us in heaven, solace, worship, and bliss; and over-passing so far forth, that when we come up and receive that sweet reward wbich grace hath wrought to us there, we shall thank and bless our Lord endlesly, enjoying that ever we suffered woe; and that shall be for a property of blessed love that we shall know in God, which we might never have known without woe going before. And when I saw all this, me behooved needs to grant that the mercy of God and the forgiveness slacketh and wasteth our wrath,
The Forty-ninth Chapter
For it was an high marvel to the soul, which was continuantly shewed in all, and with great diligence, beholding that our Lord God, aneynst himself, may nins
THE FOURTEENTH REVELATION.
not forgive, for he may not be wrath. It were unpossible. For this was shewed, that our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we
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may not live. And therefore to the soul, that of |' his special grace, seeth so far forth of the high ' marvellous goodness of God, that we be endlesly L oned to him in love: it is the most unpossible that — ! may be, that God should be wrath; for wrath and y friendship be £o contraries; for he that wasteth ^! and destroyeth our wrath, and maketh us meek and! mild; it behooveth us needs to believe, that he be ever in one love, meek, and mild : which is contrary to wrath. For I saw full truly, that where our Lord appeareth, peace is taken, and wrath hath no steede: for I saw no manner of wrath in God, neither for ê short time, nor for long; for truly as so my sight, a if God might be wrath a while, we should neither L have life, ne steede, ne being; for as verily as we | have our being of the endless might of God, and of the endless wisdom, and of the endless goodness : also verily we have our keeping in the endless might of God, in the endless wisdom, and in the endless goodness. For though we feel in us wrath, debate, and strife, yet we be all mercifully beclosed in the mildhead of God, and in his meekhead, in his benignity, and in his buxomness. For IT saw full truly, that all our endless friendship, our steed, our life, and our being is in ¢ 10d ; for that same endless 118 a
THE FORTY-NINTH CHAPTER,
goodness that keepeth us when we sin, that we perish not, that same endless goodness continually treateth in us a peace against our wrath, and our contrarious falling, and maketh us to see our need, | with a true dread mightily to seek unto God to | have forgiveness, with a gracious desire of our salva- | tion; for we may not be blissfully saved, till we be i verily in peace and in love, for that is our salvation.
| And though we be wrath, and the contrariousness | that is in us be now in tribulation, disease, and woe, as falling into our blindness, and our pronity; yet be we sure and safe by the merciful keeping of God | that we perish not; but we be not blissfully safe, | in having of our endless joy, till we be all in peace | aud in love; that is to say, full pleased with God, and with all his works, and with all his dooms; and loving and pleasable with our selves, and with our even Christen, and with all that God loveth, as love liketh. And this doth Gods goodness in us. Thus saw I that God is our very peace; and he is our | sure keeper, when we be our self at unpeace ; and : he continually worketh to bring us into endless | peace: and thus when by the working of mercy | and grace we be made meek and mild, than we | be full safe. Suddenly is the soul oned to God, | when she is truly peaced in herself; for in him is - | found no wrath. And thus I saw when we be all | in peace and in love, we find no contrariousness in 119
THE FOURTEENTH REVELATION.
no manner of letting. And that contrariousness | which is now in us, our Lord God of his goodness | maketh it to us full profitable: for contrariousness | m is cause of all our tribulation, and all our woe: and | our Lord Jesu taketh them, and sendeth them up | T to heaven; and then they are made more sweet |, and delectable than heart may think, or tongue |, can tell. And when we come thither, we shall f; find them ready all turned into very fairness and |., endless worship. "Thus is God our stedfast ground, |. and shall be our full bliss, and make us unchange- | »
able, as he is when we be there.
The Fiftieth Chapter
AND in this deadly life mercy and forgiveness is our fb way, that evermore leadeth us to grace. And by th
you [all] that our loving, and our travel deserves, spreading abroad, and showing the high plenteousness, largeness of Gods royal lordship in his marvellous courtesie. And this is of the abundance of love; for grace works our dreadful failing into plenteous and endless solace: and grace works our shameful falling into high worshipful rising ; and grace works our sorrowful dying into holy blissful life : for I saw full truly that ever as our contrariousness works to us here in earth, pain, shame, and sorrow, right so on the contrariwise, grace works to us in heaven, solace, worship, and bliss; and over-passing so far forth, that when we come up and receive that sweet reward wbich grace has wrought to us there, we shall thank and bless our Lord endlesly, enjoying that ever we suffered woe; and that shall be for a property of blessed love that we shall know in God, which we might never have known without woe going before. And when I saw all this, me behooved needs to grant that the mercy of God and the forgiveness slacks and wastes our wrath,
The Forty-ninth Chapter
For it was an high marvel to the soul, which was continuantly showed in all, and with great diligence, beholding that our Lord God, aneynst himself, may nins
THE FOURTEENTH REVELATION.
not forgive, for he may not be wrath. It were unpossible. For this was showed, that our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we
SAGA LALLA AAA
may not live. And therefore to the soul, that of |' his special grace, sees so far forth of the high ' marvellous goodness of God, that we be endlesly L oned to him in love: it is the most unpossible that — ! may be, that God should be wrath; for wrath and y friendship be £o contraries; for he that wastes ^! and destroys our wrath, and makes us meek and! mild; it behoovs us needs to believe, that he be ever in one love, meek, and mild : which is contrary to wrath. For I saw full truly, that where our Lord appears, peace is taken, and wrath has no steede: for I saw no manner of wrath in God, neither for ê short time, nor for long; for truly as so my sight, a if God might be wrath a while, we should neither L have life, ne steede, ne being; for as verily as we | have our being of the endless might of God, and of the endless wisdom, and of the endless goodness : also verily we have our keeping in the endless might of God, in the endless wisdom, and in the endless goodness. For though we feel in us wrath, debate, and strife, yet we be all mercifully beclosed in the mildhead of God, and in his meekhead, in his benignity, and in his buxomness. For IT saw full truly, that all our endless friendship, our steed, our life, and our being is in ¢ 10d ; for that same endless 118 a
THE FORTY-NINTH CHAPTER,
goodness that keeps us when we sin, that we perish not, that same endless goodness continually treats in us a peace against our wrath, and our contrarious falling, and makes us to see our need, | with a true dread mightily to seek unto God to | have forgiveness, with a gracious desire of our salva- | tion; for we may not be blissfully saved, till we be i verily in peace and in love, for that is our salvation.
| And though we be wrath, and the contrariousness | that is in us be now in tribulation, disease, and woe, as falling into our blindness, and our pronity; yet be we sure and safe by the merciful keeping of God | that we perish not; but we be not blissfully safe, | in having of our endless joy, till we be all in peace | aud in love; that is to say, full pleased with God, and with all his works, and with all his dooms; and loving and pleasable with our selves, and with our even Christen, and with all that God loves, as love likes. And this does Gods goodness in us. Thus saw I that God is our very peace; and he is our | sure keeper, when we be our self at unpeace ; and : he continually works to bring us into endless | peace: and thus when by the working of mercy | and grace we be made meek and mild, than we | be full safe. Suddenly is the soul oned to God, | when she is truly peaced in herself; for in him is - | found no wrath. And thus I saw when we be all | in peace and in love, we find no contrariousness in 119
THE FOURTEENTH REVELATION.
no manner of letting. And that contrariousness | which is now in us, our Lord God of his goodness | makes it to us full profitable: for contrariousness | m is cause of all our tribulation, and all our woe: and | our Lord Jesu takes them, and sends them up | T to heaven; and then they are made more sweet |, and delectable than heart may think, or tongue |, can tell. And when we come thither, we shall f; find them ready all turned into very fairness and |., endless worship. "Thus is God our stedfast ground, |. and shall be our full bliss, and make us unchange- | »
able, as he is when we be there.
The Fifties Chapter
AND in this deadly life mercy and forgiveness is our fb way, that evermore leads us to grace. And by th
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