God was never displesid with His chosin wif; and of three properties in the Trinite, faderhede, Moderhede, and lordhede; and how our substance is in every person, but our sensualite is in Criste alone. Fifty-eighth chapter.

God, the blisful Trinite which is everlestand beyng, ryte as He is endless from without begynning, ryte so it was in His purpose endles to maken mankynd, which fair kynd first was adyte to His owen Son, the Second Person. And whan He wold, be full accord of all the Trinite, He made us all at onys; and in our makyng He knitt us and onyd us to Hymself, be which onyng we arn kept as clene and as noble as we were made. Be the vertue of the ilke pretious onyng we loven our Maker and liken Him, praysen Him and thankyng Him and endlesly enjoyen in Him. And this is the werke which is wrought continuly in every soule that shal be save, which is the godly will afornsaid. And thus in our makeyng God almigty is our kindely fader, and God alwisdam is our kindly Moder, with the love and the goodnes of the Holy Gost, which is al one God, on Lord. And in the knittyng and in the onyng He is our very trewe spouse, and we His lovid wif and His fair maiden with which wif He is never displesid. For He seith, I love the, and thou lovist me, and our love shal never be departid on to.

I beheld the werking of all the blissid Trinite, in which beholdyng I saw and understode these three properties: the properte of the faderhede, the properte of the moderhede, and the properte of the lordhede in one God. In our Fader Almyty we have our keping and our bliss as anemts our kyndly substance, which is to us be our makyng without begynnyng. And in the Second Person, in witt and wisdam, we have our keping as anempts our sensualite, our restoryng, and our savyng. For He is our Moder, brother, and savior. And in our good Lord the Holy Gost we have our rewarding and our yeldyng for our lifyng and our travel; and endless overpassing all that we desiren, in His mervelous curtesy, of His hey plentiuous grace. For al our life is in thre. In the first we have our beyng, and in the second we have our encresyng, and in the thrid we hav our fulfilling. The first is kinde, the second is mercy, the thred is grace.

For the first, I saw and understod that the hey myte of the Trinite is our fader, and the depe wisdam of the Trinite is our Moder, and the grete love of the Trinite is our Lord; and al this have we in kynd and in our substantial makyng.

And ferthermore I saw that the Second Person, which is our Moder substantial, that same derworthy person is become our Moder sensual. For we arn duble of Gods makyng, that is to say, substantiall and sensual. Our substance is the heyer parte, which we have in our fader God Almyty. And the Second Person of the Trinite is our Moder in kynde in our substantiall makeyng, in whome we arn groundid and rotid, and He is our Moder in mercy in our sensualite, takyng flesh. And thus our Moder is to us dyvers manner werkyng, in whom our parties are kepid ondepartid. For in our Moder Criste we profitten and encresin, and in mercy He reformith us and restorith; and, be the vertue of His passion and His deth and uprisyng, onyth us to our substance. Thus werkith our Moder in mercy to all His children which arn to Him buxum and obedient.

And grace werkyth with mercy, and namely in two propertes, as it was shewid, which werkyng longyth to the thred person, the Holy Gost. He werkith rewardyng and gefyng. Rewardyng is large gevyng of trewth that the Lord doth to hym that hath travellid; and gevyng is a curtes workyng which He doith, frely of grace fulfill, and overpassand al that is deservid of cretures. Thus in our fader God almyty we have our beyng; and in our Moder of mercy we have our reformyng and restoryng in whome our partes are onyd and all made perfitt man; and be yeldyng and gevyng in grace of the Holy Gost, we arn fulfillid. And our substance is our fader, God Almyty, and our substance is our Moder, God alwisdamm, and our substance is in our Lord the Holy Gost, God al goodnes. For our substance is hole in ilke person of the Trinite which is on God. And our sensualite is only in the second person, Crist Jesu in whom is the Fader and the Holy Gost; and in Him and be Him we arn mytyly taken out of Helle and out of the wretchidnes in erth and worshipfully browte up into Hevyn, and blisfully onyd to our substance, incresid in riches and noblith be al the vertue of Criste, and be the grace and werkyng of the Holy Gost.