Chapter XI
"All thing that is done, it is well done: for our Lord God does all." "Sin is no deed" AND after this I saw God in a Point, that is to say, in my understanding, - by which sight I saw that He is in all things.
I saw and considered, seeing and knowing in sight, with a soft fear, and thought: What is sin? For I saw truly that God does everything, be it never so little. And I saw truly that nothing is done by hap nor by adventure, but all things by the foreseeing wisdom of God: if it be hap or adventure in the sight of man, our blindness and our lack of foresight is the cause. For the things that are in the foreseeing wisdom of God from without beginning, (which rightfully and worshipfully and continually He leads to the best end,) as they come about fall to us suddenly, ourselves unwitting; and thus by our blindness and our lack of foresight we say: these be haps and adventures. But to our Lord God they be not so.
Wherefore me is fitting for needs to grant that everything that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God does all. For in this time the working
of creatures was not shewed, but the working of our Lord God in the creature: for He is in the Mid-point of all thing, and all He does. And I was certain He does no sin.
And here I saw truly that sin is no deed: for in all this was not sin shewed. And I would no longer marvel in this, but saw our Lord, what He would shew.
And thus, as much as it might be for the time, the rightfulness of God's working was shewed to the soul.
Rightfulness has two fair properties: it is right and it is . And so are all the works of our Lord God: thereto needs neither the working of mercy nor grace: for they be all rightful: wherein fails nothing. But in another time He gave a Shewing for the seeing of sin nakedly, as I shall tell: where He uses working of mercy and grace.
And this vision was shewed, to my understanding, for that our Lord would have the soul turned truly to the seeing of Him, and generally of all His works. For they are good; and all His doings are easy and sweet, and to great ease bringing the soul that is turned from the seeing of the blind Deeming of man to the fair sweet Deeming of our Lord God. For a man beholds some deeds well done and some deeds evil, but our Lord beholds them not so: for as all that has being in nature is of Godly making, so is all that is done, in property of God's doing. For it is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done - the highest - so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord has ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.
I saw surely that he changes never His purpose in no manner of thing, nor never shall, without end. For there was no thing unknown to Him in His rightful ordinance from without beginning. And for that everything was set in order before anything was made, as it should stand without end; and no manner of thing shall fail of that point. For He made all things in fulness of goodness, and for that the blessed Trinity is ever pleased in all His works.
And all this shewed He blissfully, signifying thus: See! I am God: see! I am in all thing: see! I do all thing: see! I lift never my hands off my works, nor ever shall, without end: see! I lead all thing to the end I ordained it to from without beginning, by the same Might, Wisdom and Love whereby I made it. How should any thing be amiss?
Thus mightily, wisely, and lovingly was the soul examined in this Vision. Then saw I truly that me behoved, of need, to assent, with great reverence enjoying in God.
THE FOURTH REVELATION