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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

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 Accedite ad Deum Illuminamini Psal 33. v. 5. Printed in the Year MDCLXX Permissu Superiorum To his most Honoured Lady the Lady Mary Blount of Sodington Madam THe just and grateful Resentment which I have of the unmerited kindness and friendship of your late most Worthy and Noble Husband Sir George Blount of your Ladiship and your whole Family obliged me impatiently to desire an occasion to make a publick Acknowledgement thereof Permit me therefore here to offer to your Ladyship this small Present in which notwithstanding I can challenge no Interest or Right but only the Care of publishing it The Author of it is a Person of your own Sex who lived about Three Hundred years since intended it for You and for such Readers as your self who will not be induced to the perusing of it by Curiosity or a desire to learn strange things which afterward they will at best vainly admire or perhaps out of incredulity contemn But your Ladiship Will I assure my self afford Her a place in your Closet where at your Devout Retirements you will enjoy her Saint-like Conversation attending to her whilst with Humility and Joy She recounts to you the Wonders of our Lords Love to Her and of his Grace in Her And being thus employed I make no doubt but you will be sensible of many Beams of her Lights and much warmth of her Charity by reflection darted into your own Soul Now that such may be the effects of this Book is the desire of Madam Your Ladyships most Humble and most Obliged Servant in our Lord H. CRESSY To the Reader Devout Reader WHatsoever benefit thou mayst reap by The V. R. F. Jo. Guscoyn L. Abbot of Lambspring this Book thou art obliged for it to a more Venerable Abbot of our Nation by whose order and liberality it is now published and by consequence sufficiently Approved I conceived it would have been a prejudice to the agreeable simplicity of the Stile to have changed the Dress of it into our Modern Language as some advised Yet certain more out of Fashion Words or Phrases I thought meet to explain in the Margine I was desirous to have told thee somewhat of the happy Virgin the Compiler of these Revelations But after all the search I could make I could not discover any thing touching her more than what she occasionally sprinkles in the Book it self The Postscript acquaints us with her Name Juliana As likewise her Profession which was of the strictest sort of Solitary Livers being Inclosed all her life alone within four Walls whereby though all Mortals were excluded from her dwelling yet Saints and Angels and the Supream King of both could and did find Admittance Moreover in the same Postscript we find that the Place in a high manner dignified by her abode and by the access of her Heavenly Guest was the City of Norwich The Time when she lived and particalarly when these Celestial Revelations were afforded her she her self in the beginning of the Book informes us was in the year of Grace MCCCLXXIII that is about three years before the death of the famous Conquerour King Edward the Third At which time she her self was about Thirty years of age And to conclude in the last Chapter of the Book she signifies that more than Fifteen years after these Revelations had been shewed her how for resolution of a certain Doubt of hers touching the meaning of one of them Our Lord himself was pleased to answer her Internally in Ghostly understanding As for the Manner of these Revelations it was the same of which we read innumerable Examples both among Ancient and Modern Saints The Objects of some of them were represented to the Imagination and perhaps also to the outward Sight sometimes they were represented in Sleep but most frequently when she was Awake But those which were more pure in time and withall more certain were wrought by a Divine Illapse into the Spiritual part of the Soul the Mind and Understanding which the Devil cannot counterfeit nor the Patient comprehend though withal it excluded all Doubt or Suspicion of Illusion But the principal thing which I desire to recommend to the Reader 's Consideration is the preceding Occasion and Subsequent Effects of these Divine Favours bestowed by Almighty God on his Humble Devout Handmaid She was far from expecting or desiring such unusual Supernatural Gifts Matters stood thus with her She thought her self too much unmortified in her Affection to Creatures and too unsensible of our Lords Love to her Therefore to cure the former she requested a Sickness in extremity even to death in her own and others Conceit a Sickness full of bitter pain and anguish depriving her of all outward Refreshments and of all inward Comforts also which might affect the sensual Portion of the Soul And for a remedy to the Latter she begg'd of our Lord that he would Imprint in her Soul by what way he thought best a deep and vigorous Conception and Resentment of those most violent Torments which he in his infinite Love suffered for her on the Cross to the end she might be even forced to return to him a suitable affection Yet in making these Requests she expressed a perfect Resignation as to the manner to his Heavenly Will The only graces that she did and might and so may we desire absolutely without any Condition were a true Spiritual Hatred and Contempt of her self and of all worldly or sensual Contentments a perfect Sorrow and compunction for Sins past and a Cordial Love and Reverential Fear of Almighty God These were the Gifts she desired And as for the means of procuring these Graces she proposed the best to her seeming yet so as being assured that God knew what was best for her she left them to his Divine pleasure It was no doubt by Divine Inspiration that she at first made such Petitions both for the Substance and Manner and therefore God granted them as she desired yea in a manner more extraordinary than she durst pretend to as the Reader may observe And how wonderful the Effects of them were the whole contexture of her Discourses upon each Revelation will excellently demonstrate And now since she her self professes that the Lights and Torches which God was pleased to give her were intended not for her self alone but for the Universality of God's true Servants for whose benefit also she wrote them the Devout Reader will I hope think himself obliged not to content himself with a fruitless admiring but will after her example aspire to alike affectuous operative Contemplation of the meer Nothingness of Creatures of the inconceivable ugliness of Sin of the infinite tenderness and indefectibility of God's Love to his Elect and of the Omnipotency of Divine Grace working in