THEN said our good Lord Jesus Christ: Are you well pleased that I suffered for you? I said: Yea, good Lord, I thank You; Yea, good Lord, blessed mayst You be.

Then said Jesus, our kind Lord: If you are pleased, I am pleased: it is a joy, a bliss, an endless satisfying to me that ever suffered I Passion for you; and if I might suffer more, I would suffer more.

In this feeling my understanding was lifted up into Heaven, and there I saw three heavens: of which sight I marvelled greatly. And though I see three heavens and all in the blessed manhood of Christ none is more, none is less, none is higher, none is lower, but [they are] fellow-like in bliss.

For the First Heaven, Christ showed me His Father; in no bodily likeness, but in His property and in His working. That is to say, I saw in Christ that the Father is. The working of the Father is this, that He gives meed to His Son Jesus Christ. This gift and this meed is so blissful to Jesus that His Father might have given Him no meed that might have pleased Him better. The first heaven, that is the pleasing of the Father, showed to me as one heaven; and it was full blissful: for He is full pleased with all the deeds that Jesus has done about our salvation. Wherefore we be not only His by His buying, but also by the courteous gift of His Father we be His bliss, we be His meed, we be His worship, we be His crown. (And this was a singular marvel and a full delectable beholding, that we be His crown!) This that I say is so great bliss to Jesus that He setts at nought all His travail, and His hard Passion, and His cruel and shameful death.

And in these words: If that I might suffer more, I would suffer more, I saw in truth that as often as He might die, so often He would, and love should never let Him have rest till He had done it. And I beheld with great diligence for to learn how often He would die if He might. And truly the number passed my understanding and my wits so far that my reason might not, nor could, comprehend it. And when He had thus oft died, or should, yet He would set it at nought, for love: for all seems Him but little in regard of His love.

For though the sweet manhood of Christ might suffer but once, the goodness in Him may never cease of proffer: every day He is ready to the same, if it might be. For if He said He would for my love make new Heavens and new Earth, it were but little in comparison; for this might be done every day if He would, without any travail. But to die for my love so often that the number passes creature's reason, it is the highest proffer that our Lord God might make to man's soul, as to my sight. Then means He thus: How should it not be that I should not do for your love all that I might of deeds which grieve me not, sith I would, for your love, die so often, having no regard to my hard pains?

And here saw I, for the Second Beholding in this blessed Passion the love that made Him to suffer passes as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth. For the pains was a noble, worshipful deed done in a time by the working of love: but Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending. For which love He said full sweetly these words: If I might suffer more, I would suffer more. He said not, If it were needful

to suffer more: for though it were not needful, if He might suffer more, He would.

This deed, and this work about our salvation, was ordained as well as God might ordain it. And here I saw a Full Bliss in Christ: for His bliss should not have been full, if it might any better have been done.

"All the Trinity wrought in the Passion of Jesus Christ"

AND in these three words: It is a Joy, a bliss, an endless satisfying to me, were showed three heavens, as thus: For the joy, I understood the pleasure of the Father; and for the bliss, the worship of the Son; and for the endless satisfying, the Holy Ghost. The Father is pleased, the Son is worshipped, the Holy Ghost is satisfied.

And here saw I, for the Third Beholding in His blissful Passion: that is to say, the Joy and the Bliss that make Him to be well-satisfied in it. For our Courteous Lord showed His Passion to me in five manners: of which the first is the bleeding of the head; the second is, discolouring of His face; the third is, the plenteous bleeding of the body, in seeming [as] from the scourging; the fourth is, the deep dying: these four are beforetold for the pains of the Passion. And the fifth is [this] that was shown for the joy and the bliss of the Passion.

For it is God's will that we have true enjoying with Him in our salvation, and therein He wills [that] we be mightily comforted and strengthened; and thus wills He that merrily with His grace our soul be occupied. For we are His bliss: for in us He enjoys without end; and so shall we in Him, with His grace.

And all that He has done for us, and does, and ever shall, was never cost nor charge to Him, nor might be, but only that [which] He did in our manhood, beginning at the sweet Incarnation and lasting to the Blessed Uprise on Easter-morrow: so long dured the cost and the charge about our redemption in deed: of [the] which deed He enjoys endlessly, as it is beforesaid.

Jesus wills that we take heed to the bliss that is in the blessed Trinity [because] of our salvation and that we desire to have as much spiritual enjoying, with His grace, (as it is beforesaid): that is to say, that the enjoying of our salvation be [as] like to the joy that Christ has of our salvation as it may be while we are here.

All the Trinity wrought in the Passion of Christ, ministering abundance of virtues and plenty of grace to us by Him: but only the Maiden's Son suffered: whereof all the blessed Trinity endlessly enjoys. All this was shown in these words: Are you well pleased? and by that other word that Christ said: If you are pleased, then am I pleased; as if He said: It is joy and satisfying enough to me, and I ask nought else of you for my travail but that I might well please you.

And in this He brought to mind the property of a glad giver. A glad giver takes but little heed of the thing that he gives, but all his desire and all his intent is to please him and solace him to whom he gives it. And if the receiver take the gift highly and thankfully, then the courteous giver setts at nought all his cost and all his travail, for joy and delight that he has pleased and solaced him that he loves. Plenteously and fully was this showed.

Think also wisely of the greatness of this word "ever." For in it was shown an high knowing of love that He has in our salvation, with manifold joys that follow of the Passion of Christ. One is that He rejoices that He has done it in deed, and He shall no more suffer; another, that He bought us from endless pains of hell.