Wickednes is turnyd to bliss be mercy and grace in the chosyn, for the properte of God is to do good ageyn ille be Jesus our Moder in kynd grace; and the heyest soule in vertue is mekest, of which ground we have other vertues. Fifty-ninth chapter.

And all this bliss we have be mercy and grace, which manner of bliss we myte never had ne knowen, but if that propertes of goodness which is God had ben contraried, wherby we have this bliss. For wickednes hath ben suffrid to rysen contrarye to the goodnes, and the goodnes of mercy and grace contraried ageyn the wickidnes, and turnyd al to goodness and to worship to al these that shal be savid. For it is the properte in God which doith good agen evil. Thus, Jesus Criste, that doith good agen evill, is our very Moder. We have our beyng of Him wher the ground of moderhed begynnyth, with al the swete kepyng of love that endlessly folowith. As veryly as God is our fader, as verily God is our Moder; and that shewid He in all, and namely in these swete words where He seith, I it am. That is to seyen, I it am, the myte and the goodnes of the faderhed. I it am, the wisdam of the Moderhede.

I it am, the lyte and the grace that is al blissid love. I it am, the Trinite; I it am, the Unite. I am the sovereyne goodness of all manner of thyngs. I am that makyth the to loven. I am that makyth the to longen. I it am, the endles fulfilling of al trew desires. For then the soule is heyest, noblist, and worthyest when it is lowest, mekest, and myldhest; and of this substantial ground, we have al our vertues and our sensualite be geft of kynd and be helpyng and spedyng of mercy and grace, without the which we may not profitten. Our hey fader, God Almyty, which is beyng, He knew us and lovid us fro aforn any tyme; of which knoweing, in His mervelous depe charite be the forseing endless councel of all the blissid Trinite, He wold that the Second Person shuld becom our Moder, our brother, and our savior.

Wherof it folowith that as verily as God is our fader, as verily God is our Moder. Our fader wyllyth, our Moder werkyth, our good Lord the Holy Gost confirmith. And therfore it longyth to us to loven our God in whom we have our being, Him reverently thankyng and praiseyng of our makyng, mytily prayeing to our Moder of mercy and pite, and to our Lord the Holy Gost of helpe and grace.

For in these three is all our life - kynde, mercy, and grace; whereof we have mekehede, myldhede, patiens, and pite, and hatyng of synne and wickidnes, for it longith properly to vertues to haten synne and wickidness. And thus is Jesus our very Moder in kynde, of our first makyng; and He is our very Moder in grace, be takyng of our kynde made. All the fair werkyng and all the swete kindly office of dereworthy moderhede is impropried to the Second Person, for in Him we have this godly will hole and save without ende, both in kinde and in grace, of His owne proper goodnes. I understode three manner of beholdyng of Moderhede in God. The first is groundid of our kinde makeying. The second is taken of our kinde, and there begynnyth the Moderhede of grace. The thrid is Moderhede of werkyng, and therin is a forthspreadyng, be the same grace, of length, and bredth, and of heyth, and of depenes withouten end - and al His own luf.