I understood three manners of beholding of Motherhood in God: the first is grounded in our Nature's making; the second is taking of our nature,- and there beginneth the Motherhood of Grace; the third is Motherhood of working,-and therein is a forthspreading by the same Grace, of length and breadth and height and of deepness without end. And all is one Love.
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