Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich

HIS is a Revelation of Love, that Jesu Christ ale our endless blisse made in xvi. shewings: of which, The first is of his precious crowning of thornes, and therein was conteined and specified the blessed Trinity, with the incarnation and the uniting between God and mans soul, with manie faire shewings and teachings of endeless wisdom and love: in which all the shewings that follow be grounded and joyned. The second, is of the discolouring of his faire face, in tokening of his dear worthie passion. The third is, that our Lord God Almighty, all wisdom and all love, right also verilie as he hath made all thinges that are right, also verilie he doth and worketh all things that are done. 1 A

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The fourth is, scourging of his tender bodie with plenteous shedding of his precious blood. The jijih is, that the fiend is overcome by the precious passion of Christ. The sixth is, the worshipfull thanking of our Lord God, in which he rewardeth all his blessed servants in heaven. The seventh is, oftentimes feeling of weale and woe. Feeling of weale is gracious touching and lightning, with true sikernes of endeles joy: the feeling of woe is of temptation by heavines, and wearines of our fleshlie living with ghostelie understanding, that we be kept also verelie in love, in woe as in weal, by the goodnes of God. The eighth is, the last paines of Christ and his cruell dying. The ninth is, of the liking which is in the blessed Trinity of the hard passion of Christ after his rufull and sorrowful dying: in which joy and liking he will that we be in solace and mirth with him, till that we come to the glorie in heaven. The /enth is, our Lord Jesu Christ [shewing] by love his blessed heart even cloven iu two. The eleventh is, an high ghostlie shewing of his deare worthie Mother, | The twelfth is, that our Lord God is all soveraign being. 2

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The thirteenth is, that our Lord God will that we have great regard to all the deedes which he hath done, in the great nobletie of all things making,

| and of the excellency of mans making, the which is above all his works; and of the precious amends \ that he hath made for mans sin, turning all our i blame into endeles worship. Than meaneth he j thus, * Beholde and see, for by the same might, wisdome aud goodness that I have done all this, by the same i might, wisdome and goodness I shall make well all that | is not well, and thou shalt see it’ And in this he will | that we keep us in the faith and truth of Holie | Church, not willing to wit his privities, not but as | it longeth to us in this life.

The fourteenth is, that our Lord God is the ground of our beseekinge. Herein was seen tro fair properties: that one is rightful praier: that other is verie trust, which he will both be one like | [alike] large, and thus our praier liketh him, and he | of his goodness fulfilleth it,

The jijteenth is, that we should soudeinlie be

; taken from all our paine, and from all our woe, and | of his goodnes we shall come up above, where we shall have our Lord Jesu to our meed, and for to | be fulfilled with joy and blisse in heaven.

The szvteenth is, that the blessed Trinitie, our

| maker, in Christ Jesu our Saviour, endleslie dwelleth

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in our soule, worshipfullie rewarding and commanding all things, us mightilie and wiselie saving and keeping for love, and we shall not be over-come of our enemy.

The Second Chapter

Tuis Revelation was made to a simple creature unlettered, living in deadhe flesh, the year of our Lord, a thousand three hundreth lxxiij, the xiiijth daie of Maie: which creature desired before three gifts by the grace of God. The first, was mind of the passion. The second, was bodilie sickness. The third, was to have of Gods gift three