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1due to defects in our own power of vision, there are others, more or less objective, that remain and must remain so long as we view the world of spiritual reality through a glass darkly, so long as we are constrained to think and speak of it in enigmas borrowed from things that appear, and to feel our way through its mazes guided by our sense of an increasing or decreasing vitality, of a waxing or waning charity. Half-truths, broken away from the unity to which they belong, present jagged edges that will fray the mind and lacerate the heart until we see them pieced on to their complementary fragments. Yet of these even, Love is the meaning, and they are shewn us by Love, and for the sake of Love. For a mind so unprepared as ours, for a capacity so limited, for a love so imperfect, the halftruth may be relatively and practically truer than the whole—may guide us for our present need where a fuller light would but bewilder and blind us. We have many things yet to learn, but we cannot bear them now. Even could we compass them with our mind, yet our will might be relaxed and our effort unnerved owing to the alloy of self which still vitiates our purest charity, Hence all God's * shewings," be they clear or obscure, * homely and courteous,” or harsh and austere, are alike * Revelations of Divine Love." “Wouldst thou xvi PREFACE wit thy Lord’s meaning in this thing? Wit it well: Love was His meaning.” All alike are directed to the more perfect adjustment of the human will to the Divine—to the deepening of that bond of affection which ties men to God, and through Him - to one another, into one spiritual organism of which Love is the soul. G. TYRRELL. PD TP ne Oe QUU — um FL dE Gies c pa onini Fiz -— Mte AM
2ESOS PSS LEESE RSA SSS OOS SECEDE EV QD D ARM RE UAR t BLE CON LL IO TO HIS MOST HONOURED LADY, THE LADY MARY BLOUNT, OF SODINGTON | Mapam, Tue just and grateful resentment which : I have of the unmerited kindness, and friendship l of your late most worthy and noble husband Sir | George Blount, of your Ladiship, and your whole | family, obliged me, impatiently to desire an occa- | sion, to make a public acknowledgement thereof. | Permit me therefore here, to offer to your Ladyship | this small present, in whieh notwithstanding, I can | challenge no interest or right, but only the care of | publishing it. The author of it, is a person of your | own sex, who lived about three hundred years since, | intended it for you, and for such readers as your self, | who will not be induced to the perusing of it by | curiosity, or a desire to learn strange things, which | afterward they will at best vainly admire, or perhaps |j out of incredulity contemn. But your Ladiship will, | I assure myself, afford her a place in vour closet, AIA ERRER TT TF ELC MEG MED COT Get LOR Y. where at your devout retirements, you will enjoy her saint-hke conversation, attending to her, whilst with humility and joy, she recounts to you the wonders of our Lords love to her, and of his grace in her. And being thus employed, I make no doubt but you will be sensible of many beams of her lights, and much warmth of her charity, by reflection darted into your own soul. Now that such may be the effects of this book, is the desire of (Madam) Your Ladyships most humble, and most obliged Servant in our Lord, H. CRESSY. XX — M — MÓMA—— A RÀ TO THE READER
3Dzgvovr READER, WiTsoEvER benefit thou mayest reap by this book, thou art obliged for it to a more venerable Abbot of our nation, by whose order and liberality it is now published, and by consequence sufficiently approved. I conceived it would have been a prejudice to the agreeable simplicity of the stile, to have changed the dress of it into our modern language, as some advised. Yet certain more out of fashion, words or phrases, I thought meet to explain in the margine.! I was desirous to have told thee somewhat of the happy virgin, the compiler of these Revelations: but after all the search I could make, I could not discover any thing touching her, more than what she occasionally sprinkles in the book it self. The postscript acquaints us with her name, Juliana: as likewise her profession, which was of the strictest sort of solitary livers; being inclosed all her life (alone) within four walls: whereby, though all mortals were excluded from her dwelling, yet saints and angels, and the Supream King of both, could, and did find admittance. Moreover, in the same postscript we find, that the place in a high manner dignified by her abode, and by the access of her l+ See list of words at end of volume | xxi TO THE READER
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1due to defects in our own power of vision, there are others, more or less objective, that remain and must remain so long as we view the world of spiritual reality through a glass darkly, so long as we are constrained to think and speak of it in enigmas borrowed from things that appear, and to feel our way through its mazes guided by our sense of an increasing or decreasing vitality, of a waxing or waning charity. Half-truths, broken away from the unity to which they belong, present jagged edges that will fray the mind and lacerate the heart until we see them pieced on to their complementary fragments. Yet of these even, Love is the meaning, and they are shewn us by Love, and for the sake of Love. For a mind so unprepared as ours, for a capacity so limited, for a love so imperfect, the halftruth may be relatively and practically truer than the whole—may guide us for our present need where a fuller light would but bewilder and blind us. We have many things yet to learn, but we cannot bear them now. Even could we compass them with our mind, yet our will might be relaxed and our effort unnerved owing to the alloy of self which still vitiates our purest charity, Hence all God's * shewings," be they clear or obscure, * homely and courteous,” or harsh and austere, are alike * Revelations of Divine Love." “Wouldst thou xvi PREFACE wit thy Lord’s meaning in this thing? Wit it well: Love was His meaning.” All alike are directed to the more perfect adjustment of the human will to the Divine—to the deepening of that bond of affection which ties men to God, and through Him - to one another, into one spiritual organism of which Love is the soul. G. TYRRELL. PD TP ne Oe QUU — um FL dE Gies c pa onini Fiz -— Mte AM
2ESOS PSS LEESE RSA SSS OOS SECEDE EV QD D ARM RE UAR t BLE CON LL IO TO HIS MOST HONOURED LADY, THE LADY MARY BLOUNT, OF SODINGTON | Mapam, Tue just and grateful resentment which : I have of the unmerited kindness, and friendship l of your late most worthy and noble husband Sir | George Blount, of your Ladiship, and your whole | family, obliged me, impatiently to desire an occa- | sion, to make a public acknowledgement thereof. | Permit me therefore here, to offer to your Ladyship | this small present, in whieh notwithstanding, I can | challenge no interest or right, but only the care of | publishing it. The author of it, is a person of your | own sex, who lived about three hundred years since, | intended it for you, and for such readers as your self, | who will not be induced to the perusing of it by | curiosity, or a desire to learn strange things, which | afterward they will at best vainly admire, or perhaps |j out of incredulity contemn. But your Ladiship will, | I assure myself, afford her a place in vour closet, AIA ERRER TT TF ELC MEG MED COT Get LOR Y. where at your devout retirements, you will enjoy her saint-hke conversation, attending to her, whilst with humility and joy, she recounts to you the wonders of our Lords love to her, and of his grace in her. And being thus employed, I make no doubt but you will be sensible of many beams of her lights, and much warmth of her charity, by reflection darted into your own soul. Now that such may be the effects of this book, is the desire of (Madam) Your Ladyships most humble, and most obliged Servant in our Lord, H. CRESSY. XX — M — MÓMA—— A RÀ TO THE READER
3Dzgvovr READER, WiTsoEvER benefit thou mayest reap by this book, thou art obliged for it to a more venerable Abbot of our nation, by whose order and liberality it is now published, and by consequence sufficiently approved. I conceived it would have been a prejudice to the agreeable simplicity of the stile, to have changed the dress of it into our modern language, as some advised. Yet certain more out of fashion, words or phrases, I thought meet to explain in the margine.! I was desirous to have told thee somewhat of the happy virgin, the compiler of these Revelations: but after all the search I could make, I could not discover any thing touching her, more than what she occasionally sprinkles in the book it self. The postscript acquaints us with her name, Juliana: as likewise her profession, which was of the strictest sort of solitary livers; being inclosed all her life (alone) within four walls: whereby, though all mortals were excluded from her dwelling, yet saints and angels, and the Supream King of both, could, and did find admittance. Moreover, in the same postscript we find, that the place in a high manner dignified by her abode, and by the access of her l+ See list of words at end of volume | xxi TO THE READER
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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