Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich
stance is in our Father, God Almighty: and our substance is in our Mother God all wisdom: and our substance is in our Lord God the Holy Ghost, all goodness; for our substance is whole in each person of the Trinity, which is one God. And our sensuality is only in the Second Person, Christ Jesu, in whom is the Father and the Holy Ghost. And in him, and by him, we be mightily taken out of hell, and out of the wretchedness in earth ; and worshipfully brought up into heaven, and blessedfully oned to our substance; encreased in riches and nobly, by all the vertue of Christ, and by the grace and working of the Holy Ghost.
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Ax» all this bliss we have by mercy and grace: which manner bliss we might never have had and known, but if [unless] that property and goodness which is in God had been contraried, whereby we have this bliss: for wiekedness hath been suffered to rise contrary to that goodness; and the goodness of mercy and grace contraried against that wickedness, and turned all to goodness and worship to all that shall be saved : for it is that property in God which doth good against evil. Thus Jesu Christ that doth good against evil is our very Mother. We have our being 150
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of him, where the ground of Mother-head beginneth, with all the sweet keeping of love that endlesly followeth. As verily as God is our Father; as verily is God our Mother; and that shewed he in all; and namely, in these sweet words there he saith, ‘J it qm ;' that is to say, ‘I it am, the might and the goodness of the Father-head: I it am, the wisdom and the kindness of the Mother-head : I :t am, the light and the grace, that is all blessed love: I it am, the Trinity: I it am, the Unity: I it am, the high sovereign goodness of all manner thing: I it am, that maketh thee to long: I it am, the endless fulfilling of all true desires.’ For there the soul is highest, noblest, and worshipfullest, yet it is lowest, meekest, and mildest. And of this substancial ground we have all our vertues in our sensuality by gift of kind, and by helping and speeding of mercy and grace; without which we may not profit, Our high Father Almighty God, which is being, he knoweth us, and loved us fro before any time. Of which knowing in his full marvellous deep charity, by the fore-seeing endless counsel of all the blessed Trinity, he would that the Second Person should become our Mother, our Brother, and our Saviour. Whereof it followeth, that as verily as God is our Father, verily God is our Mother. Our Father willeth, our Mother worketh. Our good Lord the4Holy Ghost confirmeth ;
and therefore it longeth to us to love our God in `p. 160 a od ee ee baia Ë am eed ee ee Ee ee te ee
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whom we have our being, him reverently thanking and praising of our making, mightily praying to our Mother of mercy and pity, and to our Lord the Holy Ghost, of help and grace: for in these three is all our life—kind, mercy, and grace: whereof we have mild-head, patience and pity, and hating of sin and wickedness, for it longeth properly to vertues to hate sin and wickedness. And thus is Jesu our very Mother in kind of our first making: and he is our very first Mother in grace by taking of our kind made ; all the fair working, and all the sweet kindly offices of dear worthy Mother-head is impropred to the Second Person: for in him we have this goodly will whole and safe without end, both in kind and in grace, of his own proper goodness. I understood ¿Aree manner of beholdings of Motherheadin God. The frst is, ground of our kind making. The second is, taking of our kind, and there beginneth the Mother-head of grace. The third is, Motherhead in working: and therein is a forth-speeding, by the same grace, of length, and bredth, of height and of deepness without end, and all is one love.
| The Sixtieth Chapter
Bur now me behooveth to see a little more of this forth--preading, as 1 understood in the weaning of ‘ 1 I
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stance is in our Father, God Almighty: and our substance is in our Mother God all wisdom: and our substance is in our Lord God the Holy Ghost, all goodness; for our substance is whole in each person of the Trinity, which is one God. And our sensuality is only in the Second Person, Christ Jesu, in whom is the Father and the Holy Ghost. And in him, and by him, we be mightily taken out of hell, and out of the wretchedness in earth ; and worshipfully brought up into heaven, and blessedfully oned to our substance; encreased in riches and nobly, by all the vertue of Christ, and by the grace and working of the Holy Ghost.
Lhe Fifty-ninth Chapter
Ax» all this bliss we have by mercy and grace: which manner bliss we might never have had and known, but if [unless] that property and goodness which is in God had been contraried, whereby we have this bliss: for wiekedness has been suffered to rise contrary to that goodness; and the goodness of mercy and grace contraried against that wickedness, and turned all to goodness and worship to all that shall be saved : for it is that property in God which does good against evil. Thus Jesu Christ that does good against evil is our very Mother. We have our being 150
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of him, where the ground of Mother-head begins, with all the sweet keeping of love that endlesly follows. As verily as God is our Father; as verily is God our Mother; and that showed he in all; and namely, in these sweet words there he says, ‘J it qm ;' that is to say, ‘I it am, the might and the goodness of the Father-head: I it am, the wisdom and the kindness of the Mother-head : I :t am, the light and the grace, that is all blessed love: I it am, the Trinity: I it am, the Unity: I it am, the high sovereign goodness of all manner thing: I it am, that makes you to long: I it am, the endless fulfilling of all true desires.’ For there the soul is highest, noblest, and worshipfullest, yet it is lowest, meekest, and mildest. And of this substancial ground we have all our vertues in our sensuality by gift of kind, and by helping and speeding of mercy and grace; without which we may not profit, Our high Father Almighty God, which is being, he knows us, and loved us fro before any time. Of which knowing in his full marvellous deep charity, by the fore-seeing endless counsel of all the blessed Trinity, he would that the Second Person should become our Mother, our Brother, and our Saviour. Whereof it follows, that as verily as God is our Father, verily God is our Mother. Our Father wills, our Mother works. Our good Lord the4Holy Ghost confirms ;
and therefore it longs to us to love our God in `p. 160 a od ee ee baia Ë am eed ee ee Ee ee te ee
5 x —9 So ae
$ l 1 1 q 3
THE SIXTIETH CHAPTER,
whom we have our being, him reverently thanking and praising of our making, mightily praying to our Mother of mercy and pity, and to our Lord the Holy Ghost, of help and grace: for in these three is all our life—kind, mercy, and grace: whereof we have mild-head, patience and pity, and hating of sin and wickedness, for it longs properly to vertues to hate sin and wickedness. And thus is Jesu our very Mother in kind of our first making: and he is our very first Mother in grace by taking of our kind made ; all the fair working, and all the sweet kindly offices of dear worthy Mother-head is impropred to the Second Person: for in him we have this goodly will whole and safe without end, both in kind and in grace, of his own proper goodness. I understood ¿Aree manner of beholdings of Motherheadin God. The frst is, ground of our kind making. The second is, taking of our kind, and there begins the Mother-head of grace. The third is, Motherhead in working: and therein is a forth-speeding, by the same grace, of length, and bredth, of height and of deepness without end, and all is one love.
| The Sixties Chapter
Bur now me behoovs to see a little more of this forth--preading, as 1 understood in the weaning of ‘ 1 I
THE FOURTEENTH REVELATION,
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