How al thyng shal be wele and Scripture fulfillid, and we must stedfastly holdyn us in the faith of Holy Chirch as is Crists wille. Thirty-second chapter.

On tyme our good Lord seid, Al thyng shal be wele, and another tyme He seid, Thu shalt sen thiself that al manner thyng shal be wele. And in these two, the soule toke sundry understondyng. On was this: that He wil we wetyn that not only He takith hede to noble thyngs and to grete, but also to litil and to smale, to low and to simple, to on and to other. And so menyth He in that He seith, Al manner thyngs shal be wele. For He will we wetyn the leste thyng shal not be forgottyn. Another understondyng is this: that there be dedes evyl done in our syte and so grete harmes takyn, that it semyth to us that it were impossibil that ever it shuld cum to gode end, and upon this we loke sorowyng and morning therefore, so that we cannot restyn us in the blisful beholdyng of God as we shuld doe. And the cause is this, that the use of our reason is now so blynd, so low, and so symple, that we cannot know that hey, mervelous wisdam, the myte, and the goodness, of the blisful Trinite; and thus menyth He wher He seith, Thou shalt se thiself that al maner thyng shal be wele. As if He seid, "Take now hede faithfuly and trostily, and at the last end thou shalt verily sen it in fulhede of joye."

And thus in these same five words afornseid, I may make al thyngs wele etc. , I understond a myty comforte of al the works of our Lord God that arn for to comen.

Ther is a dede the which the blisful Trinite shal don in the last day, as to my syte. And whan the dede shall be and how it shal be done, it is onknown of all creatures that are beneath Criste, and shal be, till whan it is don. And the cause He wil we know is for He wil we be the more esyd in our soule and pesid in love, levyng the beholdyng of al tempests that myte lettyn us of trewth, enjoyeng in Hym. This is the grete dede ordeynyd of our Lord God from without begynnyng, treasured and hid in His blissid breast, only knowen to Hymself, be which dede He shal make al thyngs wele. For like as the blisful Trinite made al thyngs of nowte, ryte so the same blissid Trinite shal make wele al that is not wele.

And in this syte I mervelid gretely and beheld our feith, merveland thus: Our feith is growndid in Goddys word, and it longyth to our feith that we levyn that Goddys word shal be savid in al things. And one peynt of our feith is that many creatures shal be dampnyd - as Angells that fellyn out of Hevyn for pride which be now fends, and man in herth that deyth oute of the feith of Holy Church, that is to say, thei that be ethen men, and also man that hath receyvid Christendam and livith uncristen life, and so deyth out of charite - all these shall be dampnyd to Helle without end, as Holy Church techyth me to belevyn.

And stondyng al this, methowte it was impossibil that al manner thyng should be wele as our Lord shewid in this tyme. And as to this I had no other answere in shewyng of our Lord God but this: That is impossible to the is not impossible to Me. I shal save My worde in al things, and I shal make al thing wele. Thus I was tawte by the grace of God that I should stedfasty hold me in the faith as I had afornehand understonden, and therewith that I should sadly levyn that al thyng shal be wele, as our Lord shewid in the same tyme. For this is the great dede that our Lord shal done, in which dede He shal save His word in al thing, and He shal make wele al that is not wele. And how it shal be don there is no creature benethe Criste that wot it, ne shal wetyn it, till it is don, as to the understondyng that I toke of our Lords menyng in this tyme.