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REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE
Introduction
First Revelation
-- Of His precious crowning
with thorns; and therewith was comprehended and specified the
Trinity, with the Incarnation, and unity betwixt God and man's soul;
with many fair shewings of endless wisdom and teachings of love: in
which all the Shewings that follow be grounded and oned.
Second Revelation
-- The changing of colour of His fair face in token of His dearworthy Passion.
Third Revelation
-- That our Lord God, Allmighty Wisdom, All-Love, right as verily as
He hath made everything that is, all-so verily He doeth and worketh
all-thing that is done.
Fourth Revelation
-- The scourging of His tender body, with plenteous shedding of His blood.
Fifth Revelation
That the Fiend is overcome by the precious Passion of Christ.
Sixth Revelation
The worshipful thanking by our Lord God in which He rewardeth His
blessed servants in Heaven.
Seventh Revelation
-- [Our] often feeling of weal and woe; with ghostly understanding
that we are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the
Goodness of God.
Eighth Revelation
-- Of the last pains of Christ, and His cruel dying.
Ninth Revelation
-- Of the pleasing which is in the Blissful Trinity by the hard
Passion of Christ and His rueful dying: in which joy and pleasing He
willeth that we be solaced and mirthed with Him, till when we come to
the fulness in Heaven.
Tenth Revelation
-- Our Lord Jesus sheweth in love His blissful heart even cloven in two,
rejoicing.
Eleventh Revelation
-- An high ghostly Shewing of His dearworthy Mother.
Twelfth Revelation
-- That our Lord is most worthy Being.
Thirteenth Revelation
-- That our Lord God willeth we have great regard to all the deeds
that He hath done: in the great nobleness of the making of all
things; and the excellency of man's making, which is above all his works;
and the precious Amends that He hath made for man's
sin, turning all our blame into endless worship.
Fourteenth Revelation
-- That our Lord is the Ground of our Prayer. Herein were seen two
properties: the one is rightful prayer, the other is steadfast trust;
which He willeth should both be alike large; and thus our
prayer pleaseth Him and He of His Goodness fulfilleth it.
Fifteenth Revelation
-- That we shall suddenly be taken from all our pain and from all our
woe, and of His Goodness we shall come up above, where we shall have
our Lord Jesus for our meed and be fulfilled with joy and bliss in Heaven.
Sixteenth Revelation
-- That the Blissful Trinity, our Maker, in Christ Jesus our Saviour,
endlessly dwelleth in our soul, worshipfully ruling and protecting
all things, us mightily and wisely saving and keeping, for love; and
we shall not be overcome of our Enemy.
Transcribed by John Ockerbloom ([email protected])