Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich
Gop the ,blessedful Trinity which is everlasting being, right as he is endless from without beginning; right so it was in his purpose endless to make mankind. Which fair kind was first dight to his own Son the Second Person; and when he would by full accord of all the Trinity, he made us all at ones [once]. And in our making he knit us, and oned us to himself: by which oning, we be kept as clean, and as noble as we were made; by the vertue of that each [the] precious oning, we love our Maker, and like him, praise him, and thank him, and endlesly enjoy in him. And this is the working w hich | is wrought continually in each soul that shall be | saved: which is the godly will before said. And thus in our making God Almighty is our kindly Father. And God all wisdom is our kindly mother, with the love and the goodness of tbe Holy Ghost, which is all one God, one Lord. And in the knitting, and in the oning be is our very true spouse, and we his loved wife, and his fair maiden; with which wife he was never displeased, for he saith, “I lore thee, and thou lovest me, and our love shal! never. part in tro I beheld the working of | 150 |
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| all the blessed Trinity. In which beholding, I | saw and understood these three properties; the | property of the father-head, and the property of the | mother-head, and the property of the lordship in | one God. In our Father Almighty we have our
.| keeping, and our bliss, and, aneynst our kindly substance which is to us, our making fro without | | beginning. And in the Second Person, in wit and | wisdom we have our keeping: and aneynst our i : sensuality, our restoring, and our saving; for he lis our Mother, Brother, and Saviour. And in our i| good Lord the Holy Ghost we have our rewarding, | and our yielding for our living and our travel, and endlesly over-passing all that we desire in his marvellous courtesie of his high plentuous grace; for all our life is in tiree: in the first our being: and in the second, we have our encreasing: and in the third, we have our fulfilling. The frst is kind; the second is mercy; the third is grace. [Cf. p. 152, Nature, Redemption, Grace, from Father, Son, Holy Ghost.] For the frst, I saw and understood, that the high might of the Trinity is our Father, and the deep wisdom of the Trinity is our Mother, and the great love of the Trinity is our Lord, And all these have we in kind, and in our substantial making. And furthermore, I saw that the Second ‚| Person which is our Mother substancially, the same deer worthy person is now become our mother
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sensual ; for we be double of Gods making; that is to say, substancial and sensual. Our substance is the higher party which we have in our Father God Almighty: and the Second Person of the Trinity is our Mother in kind, in our substancial making, in whom we be grounded and rooted: and he is our Mother of mercy, in our sensuality taking. And thus our Mother is to us diverse manner working, in whom our parts be kept undeparted: for in our Mother Christ we profit and encrease ; and in mercy he reformeth us and restoreth, and by the vertue of his passion, his death, and his uprising oned us to our substance. This worketh our Mother in mercy to all his beloved children, which be to him buxom and obedient. And grace worketh with mercy, and namely in two properties, as it was shewed, which working longeth to the Third Person the Holy Ghost. He worketh rewarding and giving. Rewarding is a gift of trust that the Lord doth to them that hath traveled. And giving is a courteous working which he doth freely of grace, fulfilling and over-passing all that is deserved of creatures. Thus in our Father God Almighty we have our being. And in our Mother of mercy Jesu Christ, we have our reforming, and our restoring, in whom our parts be oned, and all made perfect man. And by yielding and giving in grace of the Holy Ghost we be fulfilled. And our sub- 158
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Gop the ,blessedful Trinity which is everlasting being, right as he is endless from without beginning; right so it was in his purpose endless to make mankind. Which fair kind was first dight to his own Son the Second Person; and when he would by full accord of all the Trinity, he made us all at ones [once]. And in our making he knit us, and oned us to himself: by which oning, we be kept as clean, and as noble as we were made; by the vertue of that each [the] precious oning, we love our Maker, and like him, praise him, and thank him, and endlesly enjoy in him. And this is the working w hich | is wrought continually in each soul that shall be | saved: which is the godly will before said. And thus in our making God Almighty is our kindly Father. And God all wisdom is our kindly mother, with the love and the goodness of tbe Holy Ghost, which is all one God, one Lord. And in the knitting, and in the oning be is our very true spouse, and we his loved wife, and his fair maiden; with which wife he was never displeased, for he says, “I lore you, and you lovest me, and our love shal! never. part in tro I beheld the working of | 150 |
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| all the blessed Trinity. In which beholding, I | saw and understood these three properties; the | property of the father-head, and the property of the | mother-head, and the property of the lordship in | one God. In our Father Almighty we have our
.| keeping, and our bliss, and, aneynst our kindly substance which is to us, our making fro without | | beginning. And in the Second Person, in wit and | wisdom we have our keeping: and aneynst our i : sensuality, our restoring, and our saving; for he lis our Mother, Brother, and Saviour. And in our i| good Lord the Holy Ghost we have our rewarding, | and our yielding for our living and our travel, and endlesly over-passing all that we desire in his marvellous courtesie of his high plentuous grace; for all our life is in tiree: in the first our being: and in the second, we have our encreasing: and in the third, we have our fulfilling. The frst is kind; the second is mercy; the third is grace. [Cf. p. 152, Nature, Redemption, Grace, from Father, Son, Holy Ghost.] For the frst, I saw and understood, that the high might of the Trinity is our Father, and the deep wisdom of the Trinity is our Mother, and the great love of the Trinity is our Lord, And all these have we in kind, and in our substantial making. And furthermore, I saw that the Second ‚| Person which is our Mother substancially, the same deer worthy person is now become our mother
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sensual ; for we be double of Gods making; that is to say, substancial and sensual. Our substance is the higher party which we have in our Father God Almighty: and the Second Person of the Trinity is our Mother in kind, in our substancial making, in whom we be grounded and rooted: and he is our Mother of mercy, in our sensuality taking. And thus our Mother is to us diverse manner working, in whom our parts be kept undeparted: for in our Mother Christ we profit and encrease ; and in mercy he reforms us and restores, and by the vertue of his passion, his death, and his uprising oned us to our substance. This works our Mother in mercy to all his beloved children, which be to him buxom and obedient. And grace works with mercy, and namely in two properties, as it was showed, which working longs to the Third Person the Holy Ghost. He works rewarding and giving. Rewarding is a gift of trust that the Lord does to them that has traveled. And giving is a courteous working which he does freely of grace, fulfilling and over-passing all that is deserved of creatures. Thus in our Father God Almighty we have our being. And in our Mother of mercy Jesu Christ, we have our reforming, and our restoring, in whom our parts be oned, and all made perfect man. And by yielding and giving in grace of the Holy Ghost we be fulfilled. And our sub- 158
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