[1] In de Cressy's version: "I saw Him and sought Him." [2] The Handkerchief of S. Veronica. [3] "so discolouring." [4] _i.e. according to_. [5] "for be that" = _for by [means of] that_; or possibly the Old English and Scottish 'forbye that' = _besides that_. [6] "onskilful" = without discernment or ability; unpractical. S. de Cressy, "unreasonable." [7] "hend" = at hand; (handy, dexterous;) courteous, gentle, urbane. _THE THIRD REVELATION_ CHAPTER XI "All thing that is done, it is well done: for our Lord God doeth all." "Sin is no deed" And after this I saw God in a Point,[1] that is to say, in mine understanding,--by which sight I saw that He is in all things. I beheld and considered, seeing and knowing in sight, with a soft dread, and thought: _What is sin?_ For I saw truly that God doeth all-thing, 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 unforesight is the cause. For the things that are in the foreseeing wisdom of God from without beginning, (which rightfully and worshipfully and continually He leadeth to the best end,) as they come about fall to us suddenly, ourselves unwitting; and thus by our blindness and our unforesight we say: these be haps and adventures. But to our Lord God they be not so. Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth 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 doeth. And I was certain He doeth no sin. And here I saw verily that sin is no deed: for in all this was not sin shewed. And I would no longer marvel in this, but beheld 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 hath two fair properties: it is right and it is full. And so are all the works of our Lord God: thereto needeth neither the working of mercy nor grace: for they be all rightful: wherein faileth nought. But in another time He gave a Shewing for the beholding of sin nakedly, as I shall tell: where He useth working of mercy and grace.