Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich

turn his face to look up on his loving lord, which 8 was to him full near, in whom is full comfort: but j as a man that was full feeble and unwise for the time | he entended to his feeling and enduring in woe, In | which woe he suffered seven great pains. The first was the sore brusing that he took in his falling, which was to him much pain. The second was the heaviness of his body. ‘The fird was feebleness that followed of these two. The fourth was, that he was | blinded in his reason, and stonnyed in his mind, so ] far forth, that almost he had forgotten his own love. The fifth was, that he might not rise. The sixth was pain most marvellous to me; and that was that he lay alone. I looked all about and beheld, and far, ne near, ne high, ne low; I saw to him no help. The seventh was, that the place that he lay in, was long, hard, and grievous. I marvelled how this servant might thus eekly suver ali this woe. Andp. 1233 j - | E 1 1

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I beheld with avisement, to wit, if I could perceive | w in him any default; or if the lord should assign him | In any manner of blame. And verily there was none |») seen; for only his good will and his great desire M was the cause of his falling. And he was as un- | lothful, and as good inwardly, as he was when he |a stood before his lord, ready to do his will And i right thus continually, his loving lord full tenderly :ij beholdeth him; and now with a double chear: one y outward full meekly and mildly with great rewth and ẹ pity ; and this was of the first. Another inward more iy ghostly: and this was shewed with a leading of my understanding into the lord in [the] restoring, which -f I saw him highly enjoy for the worshipful resting and <h noble, that he will, and shall bring his servant to, by y his plenteous grace ; and this was of the other shewing. ix And now was my understanding led again into the y first, both keeping in mind: then said this courteous K lord in his meaning: ‘To my beloved servant, what 4 harm and disease he hath had, and taken in my service for T my love, yea, and for his good nill? Is it not reason ;: that I reward him, his frey and his dreed, his hurt and. | his maym, and all his woe? and not only this, but falleth . it not to me to give him a gift, that be better to him, and 3 more worshipful than his omn heal should have been ; or else methinketh I did him no grace. | And in this, an b inward ghostly shewing of the lords meaning de- 3. scended into my soul, in which 1 saw. that it behooved 124

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" Ineeds to be, standing his great goodness and his own i " orship, that his dear worthy servant which he loved : Iso much, should be highly and worshipfully rewarded “without end, above that he should have been if he ad not fallen ; yea, and so far forth, that his falling nd all his woe that he hath taken thereby, shall be urned into the high over-passing worship and endless liss: and at this point, the shewing of the example anished, and our good Lord led forth my undertanding, iu sight and in shewing of the revelation o the end. But notwithstanding all this fortheading, the marvelling of the example went never rom me; for methought it was given me for answer o my desire: and yet could I not take therein full ‘understanding to my ease in that time; for in the ervant that was shewed for Adam, as I shall say, I aw many divers properties that might by no manner e direct to single Adam. And thus in that time I tood mickle in three knowings; for the full undertanding of this marvellous example was not given e in that time. In which misty example, the privities of the revelation be yet much hid. And notwithstanding this, I saw and understood that every shewing is full of privities: and therefore me be- 10oveth now to tell three properties, in which I am somedeal eased. The first is, the beginning of » feaching that I understood there in the same time. Whe second is, the inward learning that I have uader- L5

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