Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich

manner of goodness, save the treasure that was in the earth: and that was grounded within the lord in marvellous deepness of endless Jove. But it was not all to his worship, till his servant hath thus nobly dight it, and brought it before him in himself present. And without the lord was right nought but wilderness. And I understood not all what this example meant; and therefore I marvelled from whence the servant came: in the servant is comprehended the Second Person of tlie Trinity ; and in the servant is comprehended Adam ; that is to say, all men. And therefore when I say the Son, it meaneth, the Godhead, which is even with the Father. And when I say the servant, it meaneth Christs manhood, which is rightful Adam. By the nearhood of the servant, is understood the Son ; and by the standing on the left side is understood Adam. The lord is God the Father: the servant is the Son, Jesu Christ: the Holy Ghost is the even love that is in them both. - _ When Adam fell, Gods Son fell for the right oning - | "M BU ae mites Pete peces peer :

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out of hell. By the wisdom and the goodness that was in the servant, is understood Gods Son; by the poor cloathing as a labourer standing near the left side, is understood the manhood of Adam, with all the mischief and feebleness that followeth: for in all this our good Lord shewed his own Son and Adam but one man. ‘The vertue and the goodness that we have, is of Jesu Christ: the feebleness and blindness that we have, is of Adam; which two were shewed in the servant: and thus hath our good Lord Jesu taken upon him all our blame. And therefore our Father may nor will no more blame assigne to us, than to his own dear worthy Son Jesu Christ, Thus was he the servant before his coming into the earth ; standing ready before the Father in purpose, till what time he would send him to do the worshipful deed by which mankind was brought again into heaven; that is to say, notwithstanding that he is God even with the Father, as anenst the Godhead, but [yet] in his fore-seeing purpose that he would be man, to save man in fulfilling of the will of his Father, so he stood before his Father as a servant, wilfully taking upon him all our charge. And then he start full readily at the Father's will; and anon he fell full low in the maidens womb, having no regard to himself, ne to his hard pains. The white kirtle is the flesh: the single-head is, that there was righ’ nought between ihe God-head and the tn

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Man-hood: the straitness is poverty; the old is of Adams wearing; the defaulting is the sweat of Adams travel; the shortness sheweth the servantlabourer. And thus I saw the Son stand, saying in his meaning: ‘Loe my dear Father, I stand before thee in Adams kirtle, all ready to start and to run; I would be in the earth to thy worship when it is thy mil to send me, how long shall I desire it?’ Full truly wist the Son when it was the Fathers will; and how long he should desire; that is to say, as anenst the God-head, for he is the wisdom of the Father. Wherefore this meaning was shewed in understanding of the manhood of Christ: for all mankind that shall be saved, by the sweet incarnation and passion of Christ, all is the manhood of Christ; for he is the head, and we be his members: to which members the day and the time is unknown, when every passing woe and sorrow shall have an end, and the everlasting joy and bliss shall be fulfilled. Which day and time for to see, all the company of heaven longeth and desireth ; and all that be under heaven, which shall come thither, their way 1s by longing and desiring. Which desiring and longing was shewed in the servant standing before the Lord; or else thus, in the Son standing before the Father in Adams kirtle: for the longing and desiring of all mankind that shall be safe appeared in Jesu; for Jesu is 1n all that may be safe, and all that be saved 134

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