Of the properties of the Trinite; and how mannys soule, a creature, hath the same properties, doyng that that it was made for: seyng, beholdyng, and mervelyng his God, so, by that, it semyth as nowte to the selfe. Forty-fourth chapter.

God shewid in al the Revelations oftentymes that man werkyth evermore His will and His wership lestyngly withoute ony styntyng. And what this worke is was shewid in the first, and that in a mervelous grounde. For it was shewid in the werkyng of the soule of our blisfull Lady Seynt Mary, treuth and wisdam; and how, I hope, be the grace of the Holy Gost, I shal say as I saw.

Treuth seith God, and wisedam beholdyth God; and of these two comyth the thred, that is, an holy, mervelous delyte in God, which is love. Wher treuth and wisdam is, verily there is love, verily commend of hem bothyn, and al of God makyng. For He is endles soverain trueth, endles severeyn wisdam, endles sovereyn love onmade. And man soule is a creature in God, which hath the same propertyes made, and evermore it doith that it was made for: It seith God, it beholdyth God, and it lovyth God, wherof God enjoyith in the creature, and the creature in God, endlesly mervelyng, in which mervelyng he seith his God, his Lord, his Maker, so hey, so gret, and so good in reward of hym that is made, that onethys the creature semyth owte to the selfe. But the clertye and the clenes of treuth and wisdam makyth hym to sen and to beknowen that he is made for love, in which God endlesly kepyth him.