for to take the Cross as I did; the which Cross shall be to you a
great refreshing in all your temptations, if ye have mind of the
pains that I suffered thereon.[122] And certainly the pains of the
Cross may well be called refreshing of temptations, for the more
pain ye suffer for My love, the more like ye be to Me. And if ye be
so like to Me in passion, needs ye must be like to Me in joy.[123]
Therefore for My love, daughter, suffer patiently bitter things, and
not sweet things; and doubt in no wise, for thou shalt be strong
enough for to suffer all things patiently."

The first doctrine of this glorious virgin is this:

"A soul which is verily mete[124] to God, as much as it hath of the
love of God, so much it hath of the hate of her own sensuality. For
of the love of God naturally cometh hate of sin, the which is done
against God. The soul, therefore, considering that the root and
beginning of sin reigneth in the sensuality, and there principally
is rooted, she is moved and stirred highly and holily with all her
mights against her own sensuality; not utterly to destroy the root,
for that may not be, as long as the soul dwelleth in the body living
in this life, but ever there shall be left a root, namely of small
venial sins. And because she may not utterly destroy the root of sin
thus in her sensuality, she conceiveth a great displeasaunce against
her sensuality, of the which displeasaunce springeth an holy hate
and a despising of the sensuality, by the which the soul is ever
well kept from her ghostly enemies. There is nothing that keepeth
the soul so strong and so sure as doth such an holy hate. And that
felt well the Apostle, when he said: Cum infirmor, tonc fortior sum
et potens;[125] that is: When I am sick and feeble in my sensuality
by hate of sin, then am I stronger and mightier in my soul. Lo, of