Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich
And therefore it seemeth to us oftentimes as we were in peril of death, and in a party of hell, for the sorrow and the pain that sin is to us. And thus we are dead for the time fro the very sight of our blessedful life. But in all this I saw faithfully that we be not dead in the sight of God, ne he passeth never from us; but he shall never have his full bless in us till we have our full bless in him, verily seeing his fair blessedful chear, for we are ordained thereto in kind, and getten thereto by grace. Thus I saw how sin is deadly for a short time to the blessed creatures of endless life ; and ever the more clearly that the soul seeth the blissful chear by grace of loving, the more it longeth to see it in fulhead; that is to say, in his own likeness: for notwithstanding that our Lord God dwelleth now in us, and is here with us, and colleth us, and becloseth us for tender love that he may never leave us, and is more near to us than tongue may tell, or heart may think: yet may we never stint of mourning, ne of weeping, nor of seeking, nor of longing, till when we see him clear in his blessedful chear: for in that precious sight there may no woe abide, nor weal fail. And in this I saw matter of mirth, and matter of mourning: matter of mirth, that our Lord our maker is so near to us, and in us, and we m him by faithfulness of keeping of are 191
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his great goodness, Matter of mourning for our ghostly eye is so blind, and we so boarn down with weight of our deadly flesh, and darkness of sin, that we may not see our Lord God clearly in his blessedful chear; No, and because of this darkness, searce we can believe or trowe his great love and our faithfulness of keeping. And therefore it is that I say, we may never leave off mourning, ne weeping: this weeping meaneth not all in pouring out of tears by our bodily eye, but also to more ghostly understanding; for the kindly desire of our soul is so great, and so unmeasurable, that if it were given us to our joy and our comfort, all the nobly that ever God made in heaven and in earth, and we saw not the fair blessedful chear of himself, yet should we never leave mourning ne of ghostly weeping; that is to say, of painful longing, till when we see verily the fair blessedful chear of our Maker. And if we were in all the pain that heart may think, or tongue may tell; and we might in that time see his blessedful chear, all this pain should us not grieve. Thus is that blessedful sight end of all manner of pain to loving souls, and fulfilling of all manner of joy and bliss And that shewed he in the high marvellous words where he saith ; «I it am that is highest; I it am that thou lovest; I it am that is all? It longeth to us to have three 192
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manner of knowings. The first is, that we know our Lord God. The second is, that we know ourself; what we are by him in kind and in grace: the third is, that we know meekly that our self is against our sin and against our feebleness. And for these three was all this shewing made, as to my understanding.
The Seventy-second Chapter
ALL this blessed teaching of our Lord God was shewed by three parts; that is to say, by bodily sight, and by word formed in my understanding, and by ghostly sight. For the bodily sight, I have said as I saw as truly as I can: and for the words, I have said them right as our Lord shewed them me: and for the ghostly sight, I have said some deal, but I may never full tell it. And therefore of this ghostly sight I am stirred to say more as God will give me grace. God shewed ^o manner of sickness that-we have: that one is unpatience, or slouth; for we bear our travel and our pain heavily. That other is despair or doubtful dreed, as I shall say after: generally he shewed sin wherein all is comprehended, but in special he shewed none but
, | these two. And these two are it that most travelleth and troubleth us, as by that our Lord shewed me. | Of which he will we be amended; |I speak of such | 193 N
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And therefore it seems to us oftentimes as we were in peril of death, and in a party of hell, for the sorrow and the pain that sin is to us. And thus we are dead for the time fro the very sight of our blessedful life. But in all this I saw faithfully that we be not dead in the sight of God, ne he passes never from us; but he shall never have his full bless in us till we have our full bless in him, verily seeing his fair blessedful chear, for we are ordained thereto in kind, and getten thereto by grace. Thus I saw how sin is deadly for a short time to the blessed creatures of endless life ; and ever the more clearly that the soul sees the blissful chear by grace of loving, the more it longs to see it in fulhead; that is to say, in his own likeness: for notwithstanding that our Lord God dwells now in us, and is here with us, and colls us, and becloses us for tender love that he may never leave us, and is more near to us than tongue may tell, or heart may think: yet may we never stint of mourning, ne of weeping, nor of seeking, nor of longing, till when we see him clear in his blessedful chear: for in that precious sight there may no woe abide, nor weal fail. And in this I saw matter of mirth, and matter of mourning: matter of mirth, that our Lord our maker is so near to us, and in us, and we m him by faithfulness of keeping of are 191
TITES SEX TEEN TH REVELATION,
his great goodness, Matter of mourning for our ghostly eye is so blind, and we so boarn down with weight of our deadly flesh, and darkness of sin, that we may not see our Lord God clearly in his blessedful chear; No, and because of this darkness, searce we can believe or trowe his great love and our faithfulness of keeping. And therefore it is that I say, we may never leave off mourning, ne weeping: this weeping means not all in pouring out of tears by our bodily eye, but also to more ghostly understanding; for the kindly desire of our soul is so great, and so unmeasurable, that if it were given us to our joy and our comfort, all the nobly that ever God made in heaven and in earth, and we saw not the fair blessedful chear of himself, yet should we never leave mourning ne of ghostly weeping; that is to say, of painful longing, till when we see verily the fair blessedful chear of our Maker. And if we were in all the pain that heart may think, or tongue may tell; and we might in that time see his blessedful chear, all this pain should us not grieve. Thus is that blessedful sight end of all manner of pain to loving souls, and fulfilling of all manner of joy and bliss And that showed he in the high marvellous words where he says ; «I it am that is highest; I it am that you lovest; I it am that is all? It longs to us to have three 192
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manner of knowings. The first is, that we know our Lord God. The second is, that we know ourself; what we are by him in kind and in grace: the third is, that we know meekly that our self is against our sin and against our feebleness. And for these three was all this showing made, as to my understanding.
The Seventy-second Chapter
ALL this blessed teaching of our Lord God was showed by three parts; that is to say, by bodily sight, and by word formed in my understanding, and by ghostly sight. For the bodily sight, I have said as I saw as truly as I can: and for the words, I have said them right as our Lord showed them me: and for the ghostly sight, I have said some deal, but I may never full tell it. And therefore of this ghostly sight I am stirred to say more as God will give me grace. God showed ^o manner of sickness that-we have: that one is unpatience, or slouth; for we bear our travel and our pain heavily. That other is despair or doubtful dreed, as I shall say after: generally he showed sin wherein all is comprehended, but in special he showed none but
, | these two. And these two are it that most travels and troubles us, as by that our Lord showed me. | Of which he will we be amended; |I speak of such | 193 N
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