The kindness of God assigneth no blame to His chosen, for in these is a godly will that never consent to synne. For it behovyth the ruthfulhede of God so to be knitt to these that ther be a substance kept that may never be departid from Hym. Fifty-third chapter.

And I saw that He will we wettynn He takith not herder the fallyng of any creatur that shall be save than He to toke the fallyng of Adam which we knowen was endlesly lovid and sekirly kept in the tyme of all His nede, and now is blisfully restorid in hey, overpassing joyes. For our Lord God is so good, so gentill, and so curtes that He may never assigne defaute in whom He shall ever be blissid and praysid. And in this that I have now seyd was my desire in partie answerid, and myn grete awer sumdele esid be the lovely gracious shewing of our good Lord - in which shewing I saw and understode ful sekirly that in every soule that shal be save is a godly wille that never assent to synne, ne never shall; which wille is so good that it may never willen ylle, but evermore continuly it will good and werkyth good in the syte of God. Therefore our Lord will we knowen it in the feith and the beleve, and namly and truly, that we have all this blissid will hole and safe in our Lord Jesus Christe. For that ilke kind that Hevyn shall be fulfillid with behovith nedes, of Gods rythfulhede, so to be knitt and onyd to Him that therin were kept a substance which myte never, ne shuld, be partid from Him, and that throw His owne good will in His endles forseing purpos. And notwithstonding this rythfull knitting and this endles onyng, yet the redemption and the ageyn byeng of mankynd is nedefull and spedefull in everything, as it is don for the same entent and to the same end that Holy Church in our feith us techith.

For I saw that God began never to loven mankynd. For ryte the same that mankynde shal ben in endles bliss fulfilland the joye of God as anempts His werks, ryte so the same mankynd hath ben, in the forsyte of God, knowen and lovid from without begynnyng in His rytefull entent and be the endles assent of the full accord of al the Trinite. The Mid-Person would be ground and hede of this fair kinde, out of whom we be al cum, in whom we be all inclosid, into whome we shall all wyndyn, in Him fynding our full Hevyn in everlestand joye be the forseing purpos of all the blissid Trinite from without begynnyng. For er that He mad us, He lovid us; and whan we were made we lovid Hym; and this is a love made of the kindly substantial goodnes of the Holy Gost, mytye in reson of the myte of the myte of the Fadir, and wise in mend of the wisdam of the Son. And thus is man soule made of God, and in the same poynte knitt to God.

And thus I understond that mannys soule is made of nought - that is to sey, it is made, but of nought that is made, as thus: Whan God shuld make mans body, He tooke the slyppe of erth, which is a matter medlid and gaderid of all bodily things, and therof He made mannys bodye. But to the makyng of manys soule, He wold take ryte nought, but made it. And thus is the kynd made rytefully onyd to the maker, which is substantial kynd onmade, that is God. And therefor it is that ther may, ne shall, be ryte nowte atwix God and mannys soule. And in this endles love mans soule is kept hole as the matter of the revelations menyth and shewith, in which endless love we be led and kept of God, and never shall be lost. For He will we wetyn that our soule is a lif, which lif, of His goodnes and His grace, shall lestin in Hevyn without end, Him loveand, Him thankand, Him praysand. And ryte the same we shall be withoute end, the same we were tresurid in God, and hidde, knowen, and lovid from withoute begynnyng. Wherfore He will we wettyn that the noblest thing that ever He made is mankynd.

And the fullest substance and the heyest vertue is the blissid soule of Criste. And furthermore, He will we wettyn that His derworthy soule was preciousley knitt to Him in the makeing, which knott is sotil, and so myty that it is onyd into God, in which onyng it is made endlesly holy. Furthermore, He will we wettyn that al the soules that shall be savid in Hevyn without end ar knitt and onyd in this onyng, and made holy in this holyhede.