Christ Jesus. For the food of mercy that is His dearworthy blood and precious water is plenteous to make us fair and clean; the blessed wounds of our Saviour be open and enjoy to heal us; the sweet, gracious hands of our Mother be ready and diligently about us. For He in all this working useth the office of a kind nurse that hath nought else to do but to give heed about[1] the salvation of her child.
It is His office to save us: it is His worship to do [for] us,[2] and it is His will [that] we know it: for He willeth that we love Him sweetly and trust in Him meekly and mightily. And this shewed He in these gracious words: I keep thee full surely.
CHAPTER LXII
God is Very Father and Very Mother of Nature: and all natures that He hath made to flow out of Him to work His will shall be restored and brought again into Him by the salvation of Mankind through the working of Grace"
FOR in that time He shewed our frailty and our fallings, our afflictings and our settings at nought,[3] our despites and our outcastings, and all our woe so far forth as methought it might befall in this life. And therewith
- ↑ "entend about."
- ↑ S. de Cressy has here "to do it." This MS. seems to have: "to don us," possibly for to work at us. carry out our salvation to perfection, or, to take in hand for us, "to do for us." See The Paston Letters, vol. ii. (Letter 472), May 1463, "he prayid hym that he wold don for hym in hys mater, and gaf hym a reward; and withinne ryth short tym after, his mater sped."
- ↑ "our brekyngs and our nowtyngs."
