"All that is speedful for us to learn and to know, full courteously
will our Lord shew us"
Our Lord God shewed two manner of secret things. One is this great
Secret [Counsel] with all the privy points that belong thereto: and
these secret things He willeth we should know [as _being_, but as]
_hid_ until the time that He will clearly shew them to us. The other
are the secret things that He willeth to make open and known to us; for
He would have us understand that it is His will that we should know
them. They are secrets to us not only for that He willeth that they
be secrets to us, but they are secrets to us for our blindness and
our ignorance; and thereof He hath great ruth, and therefore He will
Himself make them more open to us, whereby we may know Him and love
Him and cleave to Him. For all that is speedful for us to learn and to
know, full courteously will our Lord shew us: and [of] that is this
[Shewing], with all the preaching and teaching of Holy Church.
God shewed full great pleasance that He hath in all men and women that
mightily and meekly and with all their will take the preaching and
teaching of Holy Church. For it is His Holy Church: He is the Ground,
He is the Substance, He is the Teaching, He is the Teacher, He is the
End, He is the Meed for which every kind soul travaileth.
And _this_ [of the Shewing] is [made] known, and shall be known to
every soul to which the Holy Ghost declareth it. And I hope truly that
all those that seek this, He shall speed: for they seek God.
All this that I have now told, and more that I shall tell after, is
comforting against sin. For in the Third Shewing when I saw that God
doeth all that is done, I saw no sin: and then I saw that all _is_
well. But when God shewed me for sin, then said He: _All_ SHALL _be
well_.