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B20816 XVI revelations of divine love shewed to a devout servant of our Lord called Mother Juliana, an anchorete of Norwich, who lived in the dayes of King Edward the Third / published by R.F.S. Cressy.; Revelations of divine love Julian, of Norwich, b. 1343.; Cressy, Serenus, 1605-1674. 1670 (1670) Wing C6902A; ESTC R29742 111,030 230

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a Light kindly coming of our endless day that is our Father God In which Light our Mother Christ and our good Lord the Holy Ghost leadeth us in this passing Life This Light is measured discreetly needfully standeth to us in the Night the Light is cause of our Life the Night is cause of our Pain and all our Woe In which Woe we desire endless meed and thank of God for we with mercy and grace wilfully know and believe our Light going therein wisely and mightily And at the end of Woe suddenly our eye shall be opened and in clearness of sight our Light shall be full Which Light is God our Maker Father and Holy Ghost in Christ Jesu our Saviour Thus I saw and understood that our Faith is our Light in our night which Light is God our endless day The Lxxxiij Chapter THis light is Charity and the measuring of this Light is done to us profitably by the Wisdom of God For neither the Light is so large that we may see clearly our blessedful day ne it is all * i e. shut up speered from us but it is such a Light in which we may live | i e. meritoriously meedfully with travel reserving the worshipful thanks of God And this was seen in the vjth Shewing where he saith I thank thee of thy service and of thy travel Thus Charity keepeth us in Faith and in Hope And Faith and Hope leadeth us in Charity and at the end all shall be Charity I had three manner of understandings in this Light of Charity The first is Charity unmade The second is Charity made The third is Charity given Charity unmade is God Charity made is our Soul in God Charity given is vertue and that is a gracious gift of working In which we Love God for himself and our self in God and all that God Loveth for God The Lxxxjv. Chapter ANd in this sight I marvelled highly for notwithstanding our simple Living and our blindness here yet endlesly our courteous Lord beholdeth us in this Working enjoying And of all thing we may please him best wisely and truly to believe it and to enjoy with him and in him for as verily as we shall be in bliss of God without end him praising and thanking as verily we have been in the foresight of God Loved and known in his endless purpose fro without beginning In which unbegun Love he made us in the same Love he keepeth us and never suffereth us to be hurt by which our bliss might be lessed And therefore when the doome is given we be all brought up above then shall we clearly see in God the privities which now be hid to us And then shall none of us be stirred to say in any thing Lord if it had been thus it had been well But we shall all say with one voyce Lord blessed mote thou be for it is thus Thus it is well And now we see verily that all thing is done as it was thine Ordinance * i e before or any thing was made The Lxxxv. Chapter THis Book is begun by Gods gift and his grace but it is not yet performed as to my sight For Charity pray we all together with Gods working thanking trusting enjoying For this will our good Lord be praid by the understanding that I took in all his own meaning And in the sweet words where he saith full merrily I am ground of thy beseeching For truly I saw and understood in our Lords meaning that he shewed it for he will have it knowing more then it is In which knowing he will give us grace to Love him and cleave to him For he beholds his heavenly Treasure and Solace in heavenly Joy in drawing of our hearts from sorrow and darkness which we are in And fro the time that it was shewed I de-desired oftentimes to wit in what was our Lords meaning And fifteen Year after and more I was answered in Ghostly understanding saying thus What wouldest thou wit thy Lords meaning in this thing Wit it well Love was his meaning Who sheweth it thee Love Wherefore sheweth he it thee For Love Hold thee therein thou shalt wit more in the same But thou shalt never wit therein other without end Thus was I Learned that love is our Lords meaning And I saw full surely in this and in all that our God made us he Loved us which Love was never slacked ne never shall And in this Love he hath done all his Works And in this Love he hath made all thing profitable to us And in this Love our Life is everlasting in our making we had beginning But the Love wherein he made us was in him fro without beginning In which Love we have our beginning And all this shall we see in God without end Deo Gratias Explicit liber Revelationum Juliane Anachorite Norwic. cujus anime propicietur Deus FINIS
letted me but sin And so I beheld generally in us all and methought if sin had not been we should all have been clean and like to our Lord as he made us And thus in my folly before this time often I wondred why by the great foresaid Wisdom of God the beginning of sin was not letted for then thought me that all should have been well This stirring was much to be forsaken and nevertheless Mourning and Sorrow I made therefore without Reason and Discretion but Jesu that in this Vision Informed me of all that me needed answered by this Word and said Sin is * i. e. behoveful behovely but all shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well In this naked Word sin our Lord brought to my mind generally all that is not good and the shameful despite and the uttermost Tribulation that he bear for us in this Life and his dying and all his Pains and Passion Bodily and Ghostly and the Pains of all his Creatures Ghostly and Bodily For we be all in part troubled and we shall be troubled following our Master Jesu till we be full purged of our deadly Flesh and of all our inward Affections which be not very good And the beholding of this with all the Pains that ever were or ever shall be And with all this I understood the Passion of Christ for the most Pain and over-passing And all this was shewed in a touch and readily passed over into Comfort for our good Lord would not that the Soul were afraid of this ugly sight but I saw not sin for I be-believe it had no manner of substance ne no part of being ne it might not be known but by the Pain that is caused thereof And this Pain is something as to my sight for a time for it purgeth and maketh us to know our self and ask Mercy for the Passion of our Lord is Comfort to us against all this and so is his blessed Will and for the tender Love that our good Lord hath to all that shall be saved he comforteth readily and sweetly meaning thus It is true that sin is cause of all this Pain but all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well These Words were shewed full tenderly shewing no manner of blame to me ne to none that shall be safe Then were it great unkindness of me to blame or wonder on God of my sin sithen he blameth not me for sin And in these same Words I saw an high marvellous privity hid in God Which privity he shall openly make and shall be known to us in Heaven In which knowing we shall verily see the cause why he suffered sin to come In which sight we shall endlesly have joy The xxxiij Chapter THus I saw how Christ hath Compassion on us for the cause of sin And right as I was before in the Passion of Christ fulfilled with Pain and Compassion like in this I was in party fulfilled with Compassion of all my even Christen for full well he loveth people that shall be saved that is to say Gods Servants Holy Church shall be shaked in Sorrow and Anguish and Tribulation in this World as men shaketh a Cloath in the Wind And as to this our Lord answered shewing on this manner Ah A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless Worship and of everlasting Joy Ye so far forth I saw that our Lord enjoyeth of the Tribulation of his Servants with Pity and Compassion and to each person that he loveth to his Bliss for to bring he layeth on him something that is no * i e. impediment lack in in his sight whereby they be | i e. humbled lowed and despised in this World scorned and mocked and cast out And this he doth for to * i e. hinder let the harm that they should take of the Pomp and of the Pride and of the vain Glory of this wretched Life and make their way ready to come to Heaven in bliss without end Everlasting For he saith I shall all to break you from your vain Affections and your vicious Pride and after that I shall gather you and make you meek and mild clean and Holy by | i e. uniting oning to me And then saw I that each kind Compassion that man hath on his even Christian with Charity it is Christ in him that each manner naughting that was shewed in his Passion it was shewed again here in this Compassion Wherein were two manner of understandings in our Lords meaning that one was the bliss that we be brought to wherein he will that we * i e. rejoyce enjoy That other is for Comfort in our Pain for he will that we | i e. know wit that all shall turn us to Worship and to profit by the vertue of his Passion And that we wit that we suffered right naught alone but with him and see him our ground And that we see his Pains and his Tribulation pass so far all that we may suffer that it may not be full thought And the well-beholding of this will save us from grudging and dispair in the feeling of our Pains And if we see verily that our sin deserveth it yet his Love excuseth us and of his great courtesse he doth away all our blame and beholdeth us with ruth and pitty as Children Innocents and * i e. unspotted unloathful The xxjx. Chapter BUt in this I stood beholding generally | ie darkly sweinly and mourningly saying thus to our Lord in my meaning with full great dreed Ah good Lord How might all be well for the great harm that is to come by sin to thy Creatures And here I desired as I durst to have some more open declaring wherewith that I might be eased in this And to this our blessed Lord answered full meekly and with full lovely cheir and shewed that Adams sin was the most harm that ever was done or ever shall be into the Worlds end And also he shewed that this is openly known in all Holy Church in Earth Furthermore he learned that I should behold the glorious * i e. satisfaction Asseethe for this Asseeth-making is more pleasing to the blessed God-head and more Worshipful for mans Salvation without Comparison than ever was the sin of Adams harmful Then meaneth our blessed Lord thus and in this Teaching that we should take heed to this For sithen that I have made well by the most harm then it is my will that thou know thereby that I shall make well all that is less The xxx Chapter HE gave understanding of two parties that one party is our Saviour and our Salvation This blessed part is open clear fair and light and plenteous for all Mankind that is of good will and that shall be is comprehended in this part Hereto we be bound of God and drawn and counselled and learned inwardly by the Holy Ghost and outward by