K. Now she is gone to the place on the Cushions on the bench where she stood yesterday She doth now as young children do playing with her coats and at length sitteth down on the Cushions Mad. ..... Even as spiritual and dignified illuminations from ascension and by descending work the will of God determined in all Creatures diversly according to the measured purpose of the Highest in dispersing his will upon and into every one particularly whereby some become wise one in this another in that degree other some mighty in works whereby health and help comfort and joy is given to the faithful Even so ascending doth Hell infect sometime with error and sometime with infirmities So that from Heaven springeth health from below infirmities of body and soul. Whereby we find two immediate powers bringing forth two properties The one Comfort with Joy The other Infection with sorrow But this may be objected Hath it not been seen that the wicked cure diseases and restore health Whatsoever is of death is sorrow which is the ground of spiritual and bodily infection so that evil cannot work good How can it therefore be that the dead revive or restore health The cure therefore of all spiritual infection I mean the infections of such as are spiritual is in respect of his weaknesse and not of his strength Because Satan infecting may become weak whereby he cannot prevail and so give health by reason of weaknesse Otherwise with power bringing death all manner of wayes Δ. E. K. thought a thing whereunto she answered and he said ... my thought she answered .... in my degree thoughts .... known to me I than an .... she is of God and in God tha .... the thought of man E. K. She ... I hear ... a buz ... eare ..... These two immediate and supernatural properties are so dignified in Creation and Determination that the good Angels cannot cure or help such infirmities as are brought in by the subtile infection of the wicked themselves Vnlesse in body the immediate power of the second Person in Trinity be adjoyned in the aid and cure of the infected body which is the true Physitian And as he took upon him man his frailty so he is chief Governour over the same in all degrees If the soul be infected the Angels have no power to ... it or make it clean but by the will of the Father which is the Holy Ghost descending through the Angels into the propriety of the Church whereby the Disease is cured Therefore considering thou art infected not naturally but by spiritual and wicked inflammation stirring up thy body unto infection We that are good Angels cannot minister help unlesse we feel the immediate power of him which is the second and the water of Life Notwithstanding as we know how the infection grew either locally or really So can we find contrary places and things for comfort When Herod was infected by the Devil to kill very Christ the Son of God His purpose was not altered by contradiction to the Devil but by the foreknowledge of God which appointed Egypt for his safeguard So it is said unto thee It is thought good thou shouldst rest at CRACOVIA for it is a place sanctified both in fore-determination and now Therefore use the Sabbath and rest from labour Reap now and eat the fruit of thy labour Presse the Vine that thou mayest drink and be comforted For the promises of God are not in vain Neither are the Heavens fruitlesse For as it is said Thou art not bound but for the service of God Neither shalt thou be enriched by Princes but shalt enrich them Flesh may speak vainly and be without comfort But the promises of God cease not neither become uncertain This year to come is of great blood-shed prepared to stop the mouth of the Earth which gapeth for sorrow Therefore thou must be separated that the promises of God may be fulfilled which cometh not at your request but at his Determination most abundantly These Boords need not The paviment shall serve for it is neither the Earth nor mans hands but the Finger of him that liveth that 〈◊〉 Behold .... That the power of God might be known therefore he hath chosen those that are not regarded to the intent it may be said Lo This is of God Hast therefore and stay not for thy warning is great Those that are wise to sin in their fleshly imaginations are deceivers of themselves Which with us are not to be accused but rather unknown For the Kingdom of Heaven is divided from Hell and those that are of Hell are unknown from us For as ... and ... naturally know not one another such and so it is of us Sit tibi satis quod illam non novimus neque virtutem ullam descendentem ab illa vidimus Neither is the power of God in him for his own sake but for the Spirit that God hath planted in him For we have known him and again have forgotten him And yet we understand him But I teach thee a Mystery by irradiation into him and not by reflexion from himself As the heavens fly from the stink of the infected powers even so fly thou Ganislay Ganislay E. K. She calleth one who is now come here E. K. He seemeth to have his face half like a man and half like a woman his body being all covered with hair rugged Gan. ..... What wilt thou with me what wilt thou have E. K. Madimi shaketh her Coates and brusheth her Coates with ..... Mad. ..... Thus sayeth my Mother Beware of wilde hony and raw fruit The one clarified the other ripened may become good Those that know not wine become drunken but to such as know it it bringeth health Even so this Doctrine For unto him that it is tasted being ripe or ..... or becometh comfort and the Key of a pr. .... But unto him that tasteth it wildly and ..... Worket 〈◊〉 Your knowledge is not to have but to learn to ..... So that you may be both having and learned Small are the Treasures of this world in respect of the wisdom that judgeth NATVRE For unto him that judgeth truely what secret is hidden Those that seek the world shall be contemned of it But he that flieth from her shall use her as a slave or as the second mother doth her daughter Notwithstanding of my self I will be more appliable unto you then you shall be followers of me For for that cause am I become childish Therefore cease He is truely wise that sayeth God knoweth at all times what we have need of Be not tempters Be patient 5. Even as thy desire is so are all things in England Nothing kept back But for thy sake such as are thine are with them friendly used 6. If thou shouldest not be called home how shouldest thou enjoy the benefit of God his promise which hath said Thou shalt call her back c. to her preservation But first
of outward words is able to occasion it Indeed it is a point that doth deserve to be well considered of in these times especially For when young boyes and illiterate men and the number is likely to increase now that Catechizing is so much neglected are turned loose to exercise themselves in this gift as they call it and when by long practice they have attained to some readiness and volubility which doth occasion some inward lightsomeness and excitations or perchance somewhat that may have some resemblance to spiritual sorrow and compunction they presently think themselves inspired and so they become Saints before they know what it is to be Christians And if they can Pray by inspiration why not Preach also So comes in Anabaptism by degrees which will be the ruine of all Religion and civil Government where ever it prevails And I believe that this fond foolish conceit of Inspiration as it hath been the occasion of much other mischief so of that horrid sacriledge shall I call it or profanation I hope I may do either without offence for it is not done by any publick Authority that I know of the casting and banishing of THE LORDS PRAYER out of many private houses and Churches then which I think Christ never received a greater affront from any that called themselves Christians I am not so uncharitable as to believe that it is done in direct opposition to Christ by any real Christians but in a furious zeale by many I believe against set prayers But this is not a place to dispute it Certainly as the Lords Prayer is a Prayer of most incredible comfort to them that use it devoutly and upon good grounds a good foundation of Religion and sound Faith I mean so I believe that set Prayers in general are of more concernment to the setling of Peace in the Commonwealth then many men are aware of But let this 〈◊〉 for my opinion there be worse I am sure that pass currently Again A man may wonder I cannot tell whether an objection may be made of it that Dr. Dee though he were at the first deluded to which his own pride and presumption did expose him as many have been yet afterwards in process of time when he found himself so deluded and shuffled with when Edward Kelley did use such pregnant arguments to him as he did more then once to perswade him that they were evil Spirits that appeared unto them nay when he had found by certain experience that his Spirits had told him many lies foretold many things concerning Princes and Kingdoms very particularly limited with circumstances of time which when the time was expired did 〈◊〉 at all come to pass yet for all this he durst pawn his Soul for them that they were good Spirits and continued in his confidence so farre as our Relation goes to the last I answer Such is the power of this kind of Spiritual delusion it doth so possess them whom it hath once taken hold of that they seldom any of them recover themselves In the dayes of Martin Luther 2 great and zealous reformer of Religion but one that would have detested them as the worst of Infidels that had used the Lords Prayer as some have done in our dayes as appears by what he saith of it in more then one place there lived one Michael Stifelius who applying to himself some place of the Apocalypse took upon him to Prophecy He had foretold that in the year of the Lord 1533. before the 29 of September the end of the world and Christs coming to Judgment would be He did shew so much confidence that some write Luther himself was somewhat startled at the first But that day past he came a second time to Luther with new Calculations and had digested the whole business into 22. Articles the effect of which was to demonstrate that the end of the world would be in October following But now Luther thought he had had tryal enough and gave so little credit to him that he though he loved the man silenced him for a time which our Apocalyptical Prophet took very ill at his hands and wondred much at his incredulity Well that moneth and some after that over our Prophet who had made no little stir in the Country by his Prophecying was cast into prison for his obstinacy After a while Luther visited him thinking by that time to find him of another mind But so far was he from acknowledging his error that he down right railed at Luther for giving him good counsel And some write that to his dying day having lived to the age of 80. years he never recanted And was not this the case of learned Postellus who fallen into some grievous wild fancies in his latter dayes though sound enough still in other things could never be reclaimed though means were used from time to time the best and gentlest in respect to his worth and person that could be thought of But what talk we of particular men Consider the Anabaptists in general Above an hundred years ago they troubled Germany very much it cost many thousands their lives They roved up and down No sooner destroyed in one place but they sprung whilest that season lasted in another Their pretences every where were the same Revelations and the Spirit the wickedness of Princes and Magistrates and Christ Jesus to be set up in his Throne Well at last they were destroyed in most places Stories of them have been written in all Languages read every where and their lamentable end Can all this hinder but that upon every opportunity of a confused and confounded Government they start up again in the same shape and form as before the same pretences the same Scriptures for all the world miserably detorted and abused to raise tumults and seditions in all places Such is the wretchedness of man that is once out of the right way of Reason and Sobriety But withall we must say in this particular case of Dr. Dee's though his obstinacy was great and marvellous yet it must be acknowledged that great was the diligence and subtility of his Spirits to keep their hold and some things sometimes happened as his danger and preservation about Gravesend when he first here related went out of the Realm very strangely and such was the unhappiness of his misapplyed zeal that he made a Providence of whatsoever hapned unto him as he desired So much for Dr. Dee himself But of his Spirits a greater question perchance may be moved If evil wicked lying Spirits as we have reason to believe and no man I think will question how came they to be such perswaders to Piety and godliness yea such preachers of Christ his Incarnation his Passion and other Mysteries of the Christian Faith not only by them here acknowledged but in some places very Scholastically set out and declared It seemeth somewhat contrary to reason and as contrary to the words of our Saviour Every Kingdom divided against it self c. But
43. Navigationis ad Carthayum per Septentrionalia Scythiae Tartariae litora Delineatio Hydrographica Arthuro Pit Carolo Jackmano Anglis versus illas partes Navigaturis in manus tradita cum admirandarum quarundam Insularum annotatione in illis subpolaribus partibus jacentium An. 1580. 44. Hemisphaerij Borealis Geographica atque Hydrographica descriptio longè a vulgatis chartis diversa Anglis quibusdam versùs Atlantidis Septentrionalia litora navigationem instituentibus dono data An. 1583. 45. The Originals and chief points of our ancient Brytish Histories discoursed upon and examined An. 1583. 46. An advise discourse about the Reformation of the vulgar Julian yeare written by her Majesties commandement and the Lords of the privy Councell Anno 1582. 47. Certain Considerations and conferrings together of these three sentences aunciently accounted as Oracles Nosce teipsum Homo Homini Deus Homo Homini Lupus An. 1592 48. De hominis Corpore Spiritu Annima sive Microcosmicum totius Philosophiae Naturalis Compendium lib 1. Anno 1591. With many other Books Pamphlets Discourses Inventions and Conclusions in divers Arts and matters whose names need not in this Abstract to be notified The most part of all which here specified lie here before your Honours upon the Table on your left hand But by other books and Writings of another sort if it so please God and that he will grant me life health and due maintenance thereto for some ten or twelve years next ensuing I may hereafter make plaine and without doubt this sentence to be true Plura latent quà m patent Thus far my good Lord have I set down this Catalogus out of the foresaid sixt Chapter of the booke whose title is this 49. The Compendious rehearsall of John Dee his dutifull declaration and proofe of the course and race of his studious life for the space of halfe an hundred years now by Gods favour and help fully spent c. To which compendious rehearsall doth now belong an Appendix of these two last years In which I have had many just occasions to confesse that Homo Homini Deus and Homo Homini Lupus was and is an Argument worthy of the decyphering and large discussing as may one day hereafter by Gods help be published in some manner very strange And besides all the rehearsed Books Treatises of my writing or handling hitherto I have just cause lately given me to write publish a Treatise with Title 50. De Horizonte AEternitatis to make evident that one Andreas Libavius in a book of his printed the last year hath unduly considered a phrase of my Monas Hyeroglyphica to his misliking by his own unskilfulnesse in such matter and not understanding my apt application thereof in one of the very principal places of the whole Book And this book of mine by Gods help and favour shall be dedicated unto her most Excellent Majesty Royall And this Treatise doth contain three books 1. The first Intituled De Horizonte liber Mathematicus Physicus 2. The second De AEternitate liber Theologicus Metaphysicus Mathematicus 3. The third De Horizonte AEternitatis liber Theologicus Mathematicus Hierotechnicus ¶ Truly I have great cause to praise and thanke God for your Graces very charitable using of me both in sundry points else and also in your favourable yeelding to yea notifying the due means for the performance of her Sacred Majesties most gracious and bountifull disposition resolution and very royall beginning to restore and give unto me her Ancient faithfull servant some due maintenance to lead the rest of my old daies in some quiet and comfort with habilitie to retaine some speedy faire and Orthographicall writers about me and the same skilfull in Latine and Greek at the least aswell for my own books and Works fair andcorrect ly to be written such I mean as either her most Excellent Majestie out of the premisses will make choice of or command to be finished or published or such of them as your grace shall think meet or worthy for my farther labor to be bestowed on as else for the speedy faire and true writing out of other ancient Authors their good and rare workes in greek or Latine which by GODS Providence have been preserved from the spoile made of my Librarie and of all my movable goods here c. Anno 1583. In which Librarie were about 4000. books whereof 700. were anciently written by hand Some in Greeke some in Latine some in Hebrew And some in other languages as may by the whole Catalogus thereof appeare But the great losses and dammages which in sundry sorts I have sustained do not so much grieve my heart as the rash lewde fond and most untrue fables and reports of me and my Studies Philosophicall have done and yet do which commonly after their first hatching and devilish devising immediately with great speed are generally all the Realme overspread and to some seem true to other they are doubtfull and to onely the wise modest discreet godly and charitable and chiefly to such as have some acquaintance with me they appear and are known to be fables untruths and utterly false reports and slanders Well this shall be my last charitable giving of warning and fervent protestation to my Countreymen and all other in this case A fervent PROTESTATION BEfore the Almighty our GOD and your Lordships good Grace this day on the perill of my souls damnation if I lie or take his name in vaine herein I take the same GOD to be my witnesse That with all my heart with all my soul with all my strength power and understanding according to the measure thereof which the Almighty hath given me for the most part of the time from my youth hitherto I have used and still use good lawfull honest christian and divinely prescribed means to attain to the knowledge of those truthes which are meet and necessary for me to know and wherewithto do his divine Majesty such service as he hath doth and will call me unto during this my life for his honour and glory advancing and for the benefit and commoditie publique of this Kingdome so much as by the will and purpose of God shall lie in my skill and hability to perform as a true faithfull and most sincerely dutifull servant to our most gracious and incomparable Queen Elizabeth and as a very comfortable fellow-member of the body politique governed under the scepter Royal of our earthly Supreame head Queen Elizabeth and as a lively sympathicall and true symetricall fellow-member of that holy and mysticall body Catholiquely extended and placed wheresoever on the earth in the view Knowledge direction protection illumination and consolation of the Almighty most Blessed most holy most glorious comajesticall coeternall and coessentiall Trinity The Head of that Body being only our Redeemer Christ Jesus perfect God and perfect man whose return in glory we faithfully awaite and daily doe very earnestly cry
in my study and attending somewhat the return of the good messager spiritual and said that he promised to come again suddenly he appeared and answered Mur. ..... So I am write 7. 30.25 44.37.35 46. To the first S. to the second O. the third L. the fourth G. the fifth A. the sixth R. the 7th S. Δ. That maketh SOLGARS Mur ..... Add the first and last number together it maketh 53. let that be the Centre to the rest Δ. To be put to the Center of the Steptagonum Mur. ..... So. The ground hereof is to be found in the third Table in the first book I mean in the third of the seven the Table of B. B. c. being the first My name is also to be found in the same Table Form this upon a plate of lead It prevaileth as a cure against such infections My promise is done Δ. How is this to be used Mur. ..... Vse it upon the body molested adding the letters of her name in a small Circle on the back half not the letters in their forms expressed but the number of such letters Δ. We know not how to number her name in our letters Mur. ..... Take them out of the second Table any Table else of the seventh will serve so that thou take the numbers as thou findest them placed with the letters Δ. How is this to be used about her body Mur. ..... As by discretion shall be thought best It prevaileth sufficiently so it be done but thus far I teach thee and this as concerning nature The health of him which sent me be amongst you Amen The forepart of the Lamin Isabel Lister the back part of the Lamin Wednesday a Meridie circa 2d. 1583. Δ. E. K. Had been ever since nine of the Clock in the morning in a marvellous great disquietnesse of minde fury and rage by reason his brother Thomas had brought him news that a Commission was out to attache and apprehend him as a fellon for coyning of money Secondly that his wife was gone from Mistresse Freemans house at Blohley and how Mr. Husey had reported him to be a cosener and had used very bitter and grievous reports of him now of late and that his wife was at home with her mother at Chipping Norton whereupon I considering his great disorder and incumbrance toward him externally and his greater offending of God with his furious impatience internally and remembring the whole premises of God his service to be performed by us two if we would be dutifull servants to his Divine Majesty I was touched with a great pang of Compassion both that any Christian should use such speeches as he used or be of so revenging a minde and intent as he shewed himself to be and also in respect of mine own credit to be brought in doubt for embracing the company of such an one a disorderly person And thirdly that the good service of God might hereby be taken from our two executing to our great danger both in body and soul Therefore to do my duty as a man resolute upon our uniting for Gods service to do for him as for my self I made God my refuge for comfort counsel and help in this great affliction and crosse of temptation Whereupon after my vehement and humble prayers for the foresaid purpose this voyce was heard of E. K. I had upon some reasonable respect set the shew-stone with the mystery in it on the Table by E. K. also A voyce ..... Let the daughters of light Take up their garments let them open the windows of their secret Chambers for the voyce of man hath said Oh shew thy self to be a God yea perform that which thou hast already promised gather your vestures together for those that are sick have need of help you are the children of pitty and in the loins of compassion do you dwell For I have said you are And I have said my Determination shall not fail although with the sons of men my Determinations may be undetermined Come gather up your garments for the Cankers are ripe and the Biting-worm seeketh to gnaw into the Lily He hath said Let me prove them for they are not just Yea let me touch them for they are unrighteous I have granted him power but without prevailing I have given him weapons but they are not sharpned his fingers shall defile and yet not deface For I have appointed him a night and have prefixed an end thereunto to the intent it may be known That thus far I have stretched his mouth E. K. I have heard a voyce about the shew-stone very great as though men were beating down of mud walls The thumping shuffing and cluttering is such A voice ..... Arise I say for I will be revenged against the scorning of those yea of those that are sucklings Δ. After a great silence and pause appeared one on the Table without the skirts of the silke sarcenet like a woman having on a red kirtle and above that a white garment like an Irish Mantle on her head a round thing like a Garland green and like a Coronet under the Garland but not perfectly to be discerned on her breast a precious Stone of white colour and on her back another precious Stone both which Stones were set upon a Crosse in the very center of the Crosse. Δ. Your external apparel you Daughter of Light you perceive that we have somewhat noted but by the power and mercy of the external Light we trust and desire to understand somewhat of your internal vertue She said ..... 〈◊〉 hat do you think I am a Jewellers wife by my apparel Δ. We deem you to be the Messenger of him that hath for mankind purchased the Jewel of eternal Blisse by the incomparable Jewel of his most precious Blood ..... Will you have this too Δ. After a pretty while silence I said We expect the execution of the purpose for which you are sent She said ..... It is written that Pride was the first offence Githgulcag knew not himself Therefore he was ignorant E K. She is much fimbling about the Stone on her breast and regarding it E. K. Now She talketh with other whom I see not her talke is very short and quick but I cannot perceive what she saith She. ..... Read what I have said I read the former words She. ..... You will grant me that Pride is the greatest sin Pride was the cause he knew not himself Therefore Pride is the cause of Ignorance Δ. The Argument is good She. ..... Ignorance was the nakednesse wherewithal you were first tormented and the first Plague that fell unto man was the want of Science E K. Now she speaketh to other again who appeare not and they seem to answer her again She. ..... The want of Science hindreth you from knowledge of your self E K. She looketh upon Δ. and smileth Now she speaketh to the unseen people again She. ..... Whosoever therefore knoweth not himself is
ADNA E. K. Gabriel did throw a brightnesse upon E. K. after he had stroked his own face first E. K. started at it 49 AZRNZ Call it Zurza Δ. As ... Znurza E. K. Nalvage kneeleth down before the Table and useth many inclinations and gestures of reverence as Priests use to do at the Alter 48 MZRAF  FARZM  47 HALIP moreover PILAH Three syllables 46 HANDAI the Ark of knowledge IADNAH yadnah E. K. Nalvage cometh and kisseth the Table and kneeleth down and seemeth to pray 45 MRE with ERM 44 BAC a Rod CAB E. K. He kneeleth down again and useth such gestures as before GSN a rod E. K. Nalvage said Adjuva me O mi Deus He holdeth up his hand and kisseth the Table and useth wonderfull reverence He saith again Fer opem O mi Deus 43 ERNOZ delivered you ZONRENSG 42 SD and Δ which DS 41 RIP the holy ones Pir there is a point 40 ABAC govern Call it Caba 39 ALEROHO I made a Law Call it Ohorela I 38 MRASAC to whom Casarm I E. K. Now he kisseth the Table again 37 MASRG with admiration GRSAM 36 HELOBO your Garments OBOLEH 35 SBRU beautified URBS 34 SD and Δ which DS E. K. Now he useth the former reverent gestures again 33 IDLA of gathering ALDI 32 EGRP with the fire PRGE 31 PNONG I garnished GNONP 30 LIHT seats THIL 29 ABOS whose SOBA 28 NEIZ of my hands ZIEN 27 HOLBON the palms Nobloh  26 AT as TA.  25 HAMMOC trussed you together COMMAH A point 24 DO And As before O D.  23 ZMIZ of my vestures Zimz A point 22 AOHTON in the midst Nothoa Here is a point before the word A point 21 AAQ your garments QAA Three syllables E. K. Now he useth reverence to the Table again 20 QLOH measureth HOLQ 19 SD which DS Nal. Adjuva me mi Deus 18. GRPLAM a through thrusting fire Malprg as Malpurg 17 AT as TA. Now he prayeth as before his arms extended 16 AARG and the Moon GRAA A point 15 DASPZAN a Sword NAZPS AD. E. K. Now he prayeth again 14 AT as TA. 13 I is a word by it self 12 ROR The Sun Ror Here a point 11 LOZ bands Zol ... zod Δ. as ol A point 10 ARBOS in whose Sobra 9 OHPNOV of wrath Vonpho 8 ZLAC above the firmamets Calz 7 HSNAL in power exalted LANSH as Lonsh  Adjuva me O Deus   6 TLAB of Justice Balt. Here is a point 5 DAI the God Iad as Yad 4 OHOG saith GOTTO 3 GSROV over you Vorsg Here a point 2 FNOS Raign Sonf. 1 LO I Ol. E. K. Now he sitteth down in his Chair This is the end of the mighty and first Call ...... Pray that you may understand what it is Δ. Mean you presently Nal. ...... I presently Δ. I pray to that intent E. K. All the Stone sheweth fire and all is on fire nothing else appearing not like common fire but clear thin c. Now it waxeth clear E. K. And now Nalvage is on the top of the Globe and his seat remaineth in the former manner of fire Now Nalvage holdeth up his right hand and the same seemeth to be many hands There is on one of his fingers an I. It vanisheth away and so on divers fingers are words as follow I midst delivered Reign of you over my a you vestures rod saith and with the trussed the God you ark of together of Justice as knowledge in the moreover power palms you exalted of lifted above my up the hands your firmaments whose voices of seats and wrath I sware in garnished obedience whose with and hands the faith the fire to Son of him is gathering that as and liveth a beautified and Sword your triumpheth and garments whose the with beginning Moon admiration is as to not a whom nor through I end thrusting made can fire a not which Law be measureth to which your govern shineth garments the as in holy ones a the and flame in Move I  the therefore am  midst and the  of shew servant  your your of  Palace selves the  and open same  raigneth the your  amongst mysteries God  you of the  as your true  the Creation worshipper  Ballance be of 60 of friendly the 60 righteousnesse unto 49 Highest 49 and me  169 truth for   E. K. Now all the fingers be gone Δ. Nal. ...... It is the sense in your tongue of the holy and mystical Call before delivered which followeth in practice for the moving of the second Table the Kings and Ministers of government The uttrance of which is of force and moveth them to visible apparition moved and appeared they are forced by the Covenant of God delivered by his spirit to render obedience and faithful society Wherein they will open the mysteries of their creation as far as shall be necessary and give you understanding of many thousand secrets wherein you are yet but children for every Table hath his key every key openeth his gate and every gate being opened giveth knowledge of himself of entrance and of the mysteries of those things whereof he is an inclosure Within these Palaces you shall find things that are of power as well to speak as to do for every 1 Palace is above his 2 City and every City above his 3 entrance Be you therefore diligent that you may enter in not as spoilers but as such as deserve intertainment in the name and through the power of the Highest For great are the mercies of God unto such as have faith This is therefore the key of the first seven according to the proportion of the first Creation No more for this time A sign alwayes to make an end E. K. He drew a Curtain before the Stone of white colour The same Saturday after Noon hora 3½ 4. The white Curtain remained about half an hour after my prayer to God and some invitation to Gabriel and Nalvage at length the Curtain quaked as though wind blew it E. K. Me thinketh that I hear a stir within the Stone At length they appeared E. K. They have very eyes which twinkle as other mens eyes do and therefore I see them with my external eye not within my imagination as ..... ...... There are two kind of visions the one by infusion of will and descending the other by infusion by permission and ascending The first is the image of the Will of God descending into the body and adjoyned to the soul of man whose nature is to distinguish things of his own likenesse but shut up in prison in the body wanteth that power and therefore being illuminated by spiritual presence inwardly seeth now in part as he shall hereafter do in the whole But note that every vision is according to the soul of man in power and so is received of him that seeth The
honour and glory Amen E. K. The field appeareth a very level ground covered with pretty grass even to the brinks of the ..... It is bright if the Sun light but I see not the Sun but the clear sky over it Δ. Pausa semihora unius E. K. Now cometh the horseman and rideth by into the field and so doth Madimi Now cometh the third and so goeth away into the field Now cometh she that was left here she standeth still she hath a book in her hand covered as it were with Moss three inches at the head and four inches long and a finger thick it hath no Clasps it is plain Pausa The fourth hour after dinner repair hither again And whatsoever you shall reade out of this book receive it kneeling upon your knees and see that you suffer no Creature female to enter within this place Neither shall the things that be opened unto you be revealed unto your wives or unto any Creature as yet for I will lye with you a while and you shall perceive that I am sweet and full of comfort and that the Lord is at hand and that he will shortly visit the earth and all his whole Provinces E. K. She turneth her self into a thousand shapes of all Creatures and now she is come to her own form again She hangeth the Book in the air Give God thanks and so depart Δ. All laud thanks honour and glory be to our God our King and Saviour now and ever Amen 1587. Saturday the same day AFter Dinner about four hours or somewhat less we resorted to the place A voyce to E. K. Kneel toward the East so he kneeled at the table of Covenant with his face toward the East and I at my table opposite to him Δ ..... In the Name of God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost Amen Recte sapere intellegere doceto nos O Dominus nam sapientia tua totum est quod quaerimus Da verbum tuum in ore nostro sapientum tuam in cordibus nostris fige E. K. The Book remaineth hanging in the ayre A voice ..... Kelly I know it is troublesome for thee to kneel Sit. Pausa magna Δ ..... So E. K. rose from kneeling and did sit ..... E. K. Now she is here that last advertised us She taketh the book and divideth it into two parts and it seemeth to be two books the half cover adjoyning to one and the other half cover belonging to the other the sides with the covers are towards me ..... Wisdome is a pearceing beam which is the center of the spiritual being of the holy Spirit touching from all parts from whence the Divinity sendeth it out and is proper to the soul or unto substances that have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so that whatsoever shall have end can never attain unto that which is called Wisdome Neither can things that are subject to the second death receive any such influence because they are already noted and marked with the seat of destruction Happy is he whom God hath made a vessel of salvation for unto him belongeth joy and a crown of reward Adam your forefather and first paren in respect of his creation that is to say in respect of his imaginative composition received no strength but by the Holy Ghost for the soul of man is free from all passions and affections until it enter into the hody unto the which it is limited so that being neither good nor bad but apt unto both he is left by Divine providence and permission joyned together to the end of the one or the other But wheresoever wisdome dwelleth it dwelleth not with the soul as any property thereof but according to the good will of God whose mercy concurreth on every side into him and taketh up a mansion therein to utter out and manifest his great goodness And even as the heavens are glorified continually with the Spirit of God So is the s ul of man glorified that receiveth sanctification thereby for no man is illuminated that is not sanctified neither is there any man perfectly sanctified that is not illuminated I speak this my brethren for that you shall understand That no man did or can ever attain to wisdom that perfect wisdome which I speak of without he become a Center in his soul unto the mercies and good will of God comprehending him and dwelling in him therefore lift up your eyes and see Call your wits together and mark my words To teach you or expound unto you the mysteries of the Books that you have already received is not in my power but in the good will of God after whose Image I am Which good will of God is the descending of his holy Spirit abundantly upon you and into you opening all your senses and making you perfect men for Adam understood by that grace and his eyes were opened so that he saw and know all things that were to his understanding So have all those more and less that have been counted wise received the gifts of the Holy Ghost which setteth the soul on man so on fire that he pierceth into all things and judgeth mightily The Apostles which knew even the thoughts of men understood all things because the holy Spiritamade a dwelling place in them even so shall it happen unto you For you are the chosen of this last dayes an such as shall be full of the blessings of God and his Spirit shall rest with you abundantly Mark therefore what I have to say unto you A hundred dayes are limited unto you during the which time you shall every seventh present your selves in this place and you shall laud and praise God And behold I will be present amongst you And before these dayes pass when power is given me so to do I will enter out of this Stone unto you and you shall eat up these two books both the one and the other and wisdome shall be divided between you sufficient to each man Then shall your eyes be opened to see and understand all such things as have been written unto you and taught you from above But beware ye take heed that you dwell within your selves and keep the secrets of God untill the time come that you shall be bid SPEAK For then shall the Spirit of God be mighty upon you so that it shall be said of you LO were not these the Sorcerers and such as were accounted Vagabonds Other some shall say Behold let us take heed and let us humble our selves before them For the Lord of Hoasts is with them And you shall have power in the Heavens and in the lower bodies And it shall be taught you at all times inwardly even what belongeth to the hearts of men Then shalt thou E. K. have a new coat put on thee and it shall be all of one colour Then shalt thou Δ. also have power to open that book which God hath committed unto thee but
whom comest thou What is thy message Δ. He looked toward me And hast urged my name Saying All things have a name It is true for so they have because they are Hast thou left any thing unsaid Δ. You rehearse my speeches not onely in general but also in particular The will of God be done to his glory for the rest ..... My message is from him in whose name thou hast desired it which hath said lift up thine eyes and look unto behold I say the sum of my Commandments 1. What I am 2. Whose Ministers you are and as it is said before 3. To what end and purpose it is Then cease to plead when Judgement standeth in place For all things are determined already The 7 doores are opened The 7 Governours have almost ended their Government The Earth laboureth as sick yea sick unto death The Waters pour forth weepings and have not moisture sufficient to quench their own sorrows The Aire withereth for her heat is infected The Fire consumeth and is scalded with his own heat The B dies above are ready to say We are weary of our courses Nature would fain creep again into the bosom of her good and gracious Master Darknesse is now heavy and sinketh down together She hath builded her self yea I say she hath advanced her self into a mighty building she saith Have done for I am ready to receive my burden Hell it self is weary of Earth For why The son of Darknesse cometh now to challenge his right and seeing all things prepared and provided desireth to establish himself a kingdom saying We are now stronge enough Let us now build us a kingdom upon earth and Now establish that which we could not confirm above And therefore Behold the end When the time cometh The ..... thy sorrows shall be greater than the sweetnesse the sorrows I mean of that thou seest I mean in respect of the sweetnesse of thy knowledge Then will you lament and weep for tho e thou thoughtst were just men When you earnestly pray it shall be said unto you Labor When you would take Mercy Justice shall say Be it so Therefore I say thirst not overmnch For fear least thy capacity be confounded Neither move thou him which hath moved all things already to the end But do 〈◊〉 that which is commanded Neither prescribe thou any form to God his building All things shall be brought into an uniformal Order Whom thou sayest that thou hast not yet confirmed confirm with good counsel It is said I have accepted him Are not these News sufficient It is said 〈◊〉 shall govern me a people of himself he cannot Therefore let him believe and secondly Rejoyce that the Angel of God hath so governed him That in Election he shall govern him a people Desireth he to hear of greater blessednesse He hath also said Then shall it be said unto him O King It followeth consequently that he is called and that to a Kingly Office For whosoever is Annointed in the Lord his Kingdom is for ever Will he be the son of perdition Let him then with his fathers put on the garments of pride Desireth he news Tell him thou hast prayed for him the Devil envyeth him and his estate Tell him that I say so Say it is a shame for a Kings Son to commit theft and for him that is called to do the workes of unrighteousnesse Studiest thou to please him Give him sharp and wholesome counsel For in him I fay the state and alteration of the whole World shall begin Wouldst thou know from whence I came Thoushalt 〈◊〉 it Humbly it is not my part to meddle any further than my charge But as it is said before unto thee So shall it come to passe Moses had a rod whereby he was known and the hand of God approved Let him use therefore to carry the rod of righteousnesse about him For we are seven and in us is comprehended that rod wherewith Moses wrought As it is begun so I end What ye see here is 〈◊〉 pointing to the ..... and by him sealed and for until the time Therefore use patience herein until the time that it is said unto thee ..... Venite videte loquimini Judicia mea He that saith thus I speak of my self and as concerning my message is equal with the greatest Angels and his name is Murifri Thou hast written my name and I am of thy Kalender because thy Kalender is of God In the grounds of all thy Tables thou shalt finde my name Δ. I remember not any such name written by me but it may be contained in some new Composition or Collection Mur. ..... It is true for if thou badst remembred all those things which thou hast written then should not my message need Δ. If I might without offending you I would move two Petitions unto you one concerning the Soul and the other concerning the body Concerning the Soul is for one Isabel Lister whom the wicked Enemy hath sore afflicted long with dangerous temptations and hath brought her knives to destroy her self withall she resisteth hitherto and desireth my helping counsel which how small it is God knoweth The other is of another woman who hath great need and is driven to maintain her self her husband and three children by her hand labour and there is one that by dream is advertised of a place of Treasure hid in a Cellar which this woman hath hired thereupon and hath no longer time of hiring the said Cellar but till Midsummer next She and this dreaming Maiden digged somewhat and found certain tokens notefied unto her But so left off I would gladly have your help herein if it pleased God Mur. ..... I answer thee I will come again soon and thou shalt receive a Medecine which shall teach thee to work help in the first The second is vanity for it is not so but to the intent that after great hope of this world hath infected the weaklings minde Desperation might have the more open and ready entrance But yet she shall be comforted for thy sake Δ. The praise be unto God Mur. ..... I Go. One thing I have to say be faithfull in all things I have said Δ. I prayed and gave thanks hartily to God for his mercies and graces and so rose up Δ. Then he said write M. 49. under V. 43 under R. 35. 1. and 47. under F. 9. R. 33. I. 42 This shal lead thee to my name he that sent me be amongst yon Δ. Amen Amen Amen Δ. Note in Tabula Collecta which I first gathered of the 49. good Angels I took the third letters out of the names it is to wit out of the 49 th name and th ..... 47. 9 33. 42. which agreed very well with the letters but the five and thirtieth name did not yield R. in his third letter Therefore I am .... in the ..... Monday after supper 1583. Δ. After supper as we were together
thee I heard them when they both said thou wouldst go mad shortly Whatsoever they can do against thee assure thy self of They will shortly lay a bait for thee but eschew them Δ. Lord have mercy upon me what bait I beseech you and by whom Mad. .... They have determined to search thy house But they stay untill the Duke be gone Δ. What would they search it for Mad. .... They hate the Duke both unto the death Δ. And why Mad. .... Take heed that you deal uprightly ..... She spake to E. K. E. K. God the Creator be my witnesse of my upright dealing with and toward him meaning Δ. ever since my last coming to him Mad. .... It is good to prevent diseases E. K. By this book taking the Bible in his hand I swear that I do carry as faithfull a minde to him as any man can ever since my last coming Mad. .... Look unto the kinde of people about the Duke and the manner of their diligence Δ. What mean you by that his own people mean you or who Mad. .... The espies Δ. Which be those Mad. .... All there is not one true Δ. You mean the English men Mad. .... You are very grosse if you understand not my sayings Δ. Lord what is thy counsel to prevent all Mad. .... The speech is general The wicked shall not prevail Δ. But will they enter to search my house or no Mad. .... Immediately after the Duke his going they will Δ. To what intent what do they hope to finde Mad. .... They suspect the Duke is inwardly a Traytor Δ. They can by no means charge me no not so much as of a Trayterous thought Mad. .... Though thy thoughts be good they cannot comprehend the doings of the wicked In summe they hate thee Trust them not they shall go about shortly to offer thee friendship But be thou a worm in a heap of straw Δ. I pray you expound that parable Mad ..... A heap of straw being never so great is no waight upon a worm notwithstanding every straw hindroth the worms passages See them and be not seen of them dost thou understand 〈◊〉 Δ. I pray you make more plain your counsel Mad ..... My counsel is plain enough Δ. When I pray you is the Duke likely to go away Mad ..... In the middle of August Δ. If in the midst of August he will go and then our practises be yet in hand what shall be done with such our furniture is prepared and standing in the Chamber of practise Mad ..... Thou hast no faith His going standeth upon the determinated purpose of God He is your friend greatly and intendeth to do much for you He is prepared to do thee good and thou art prepared to do him service Many men purpose but one setteth in order Δ. As concerning Adrian Gilbert what pleaseth you to say of him and his intended voyage Mad ..... He is not in the true faith Δ. How hath it been said then That he should be the setter forth of God his faith and religion among the infidels Mad ..... That is a mystery Δ. Whether shall it be good that the Duke resort hither oft or tarry for the most part at his house at London Mad ..... Humane policie cannot prevail As many as are not faithfull in these causes shall die a most miserable death and shall drink of sleep everlasting As in one root there are many divisions so in the stem and branches are many separations Δ. Give some more light I beseech you to the particular understanding Mad ..... The fire that kindleth all these and wherein thy live is One forming them according to whatsoever the substance whereupon they are grounded So by the lesse you may prove the greater That as in particular so likewise generally All emanations are from one In the first workmanship lieth secret in one unknown And is sealed and therefore it hath an end The son through the Circles and Massie body The heart in the body The intelligence in the inward man The son from his own Centre spreadeth out the beams of his limited virtue The Hart life to two and yet the Centre of life to the whole body understanding quickneth the minde that minde I speak of putteth on a fiery shape It followeth therefore that every thing what substance soever hath a Centre From the which the Circumfluent beams of his proper power do proceed When these are perfectly known Then are things seen in their true kinde I speak this to prove that the good Angel of man which is the external Centre of the Soul doth carry with him the internal Character of that thing whereof he seeketh to be a Dignifier within the which doth lie secret the Conjunction and Separation of the proportion of their times betwixt the soul and body of man O happy therefore is that Soul which beholdeth the glory of his dignification and is partaker with him that is his keeper This known unto men the thicknesse of the earth doth not binder their speeches neither can the darknesse of the lowest aire obscure or make dark the sharpnesse of their eyes This Character at his next coming hither shall be made manifest unto him E. K. He sheweth a bloudy hand holding a bloudy Crosse with letters on it like our holy letters Δ. I beseech you how shall his provision of money from home serve his turn or how shall he here have help for his charges bearing Mad ..... Your words make me a Childe Those that fish for Dolphins do not stand upon the ground Those that sit in Counsel call not in the harvest people nor account not their works He that standeth above the Moon seeth greater things then the earth Is it not said The Lord will provide I stand above the Moon for that I dispose his life from above the disposition of the Moon To ask what Jacob his servants did was a folly because their master was 〈◊〉 A greater question to ask how blessed he was then to ask how many sheep he had Δ. I am desirous to know what you meant by saying That my words made you a Childe Mad ..... Because you ask me Childish questions His good Angel shall reveal his Character unto him and thou shalt see it pointing to E. K. But take heed thou say truely And use great reverence or else the feet that love thee shall carry thy Carkas out of the doors If be carry it upon him it shall be a token of the Covenant between him and God Δ. The image or similitude thereof mean you made in pure Gold Mad ..... I ..... So those that shall see his Standards with that signe in them shall perish utterly Δ. You mean if the same be painted or otherwise wrought in his Banners and Penons c. Mad ..... Let him use it as a Covenant between God and him Δ. How shall he frame it in Gold solid-wise or Lamine-wise Madd ..... His own Angel shall
multiplicati sunt inimici nostri c. E. K. He is gone Δ. Si multiplicati sunt inimici nostri propter peccata nostra ut 〈◊〉 nobis incumbat lucta Misericordiam Dei imploramus ut ipse nostram etiam multiplicet fortitudinem c. Gab. ..... Pluck up your hearts bow your knees audite quae dicit Dominus Thus saith the Lord If you will prevaile against the wicked and rejoyce among the sanctified you must observe and keep such commandments as are ordained by the God of Truth unto those that are partakers of his Covenant Ask Counsel of God Remember it Be milde E. K. Gabriel also noted 〈◊〉 Commandments in a pair of Tables after he had pronounced them Fast and pray Be Charitable Vse true Friendship in the service of God Persevere to the end Are not these Commandments necessary to be kept of all Christian men Δ. They are undoubtedly Gab. ..... And must of necessity be kept of those that are faithful E. K. He standeth as though he stood behind a Desk and preached or taught Gab. ..... Well thou sayest Lo our enemies are multiplied multiply thou therefore our strength O God Nature is subject unto you for the name of the Lord not as unto Kings but as unto the Ministers of his eternal will whereby your justification is settled above the works of Nature already for behold 〈◊〉 participate the mercies of God through his Son Christ Jesus in 〈◊〉 in that we open unto you those things that have been sealed even from the Just for the which we are become slaves unto Corruption shewing our selves in divers shapes to the dishonour of our Creation Yet are we quickned and revived because we are become the finger of God and you are sanctified and withal justified because you are touched with the finger of him that reviveth all things Therefore Rejoyce Rejoyce be Joyful and sing Praises unto God and faint not saying Our enemies are risen up against us yea they are multiplied for thus saith the Lord and it is already spoken by the Holy Ghost E. K. He maketh now great obedience or reverence Foelices sunt quibus 〈◊〉 spes est E. K. He looketh now up unto a thing like a Throne Et omne opus operatio Dei E. K. Now there cometh a beam down into his head and he is covered with a great thing like a white cloud E. K. Now the Stone is all on fire Now the fire ascendeth upward the streaming beam stretcheth into his head still E. K. There appeareth a little woman a far off and she is so clear and transparent that there appeareth a man child in her She hath a Coat as though it were Crimson and hath a long little face and hath a strange silk attire a bout her head .... as ... Videtur esse uxor mea Gab. ..... Go woman thy grief shall be lesse than it hath been E. K. Habet multos tanquam parvos nigros canes post se. Now goeth one and tyeth their mouths with packthred Gab. ..... So God useth to give a suaffle to the wicked E. K. A great wind bloweth on Gabriel Δ. De Angliae meo privato statu cupio aliquid audire tum ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tum propter famae meae rationem Gab. ..... 〈◊〉 paululum iterum venero My Lord saith Let my servants sit up and take their rest I will visit them forthwith in peace Δ. After a great quarter of an hour he came again E. K. He appeareth now clothed with all his garment hanging with bells of Gold and flaming fire coming from them with silverish flames He hath hanging about his Crown as if they were seven Labells the tops of which come from above from an uncertain place and distance Gab. ..... Venite Morvorgran E. K. He calleth with a loud voice E. K. Now cometh a big black man with a white face and after him hath 24. They stand in four rows and in every row six Gab. ..... Let me see thy seale Mor. ..... Behold power is given to me Neither is the liquor that thou ministrest of any taste with me Neither shall I be overcome for I have placed my seat here Gab. ..... But by whose permission Gag lah nai E. K. Now Morvorgran falleth down on his knees and the rest on their face Medicina Dei malis Justicia vera E K. They tremble that lie flat on the ground E. K. Morvorgran sheweth to Gabriel on his own left breast a Character Gab. ..... For 19 moneths Behold the will of God Because thou hast conspired and risen against the Lord in his chosen and hast said It is to weet those that are subject unto thee Let us rise up against him and persecute his soul let us secretly entrap him for without doubt he is rich And because your conspiracies are not of theft onely but also of murder Therefore I seal thee with a weaker power And be it unto thee according unto the word of God that judgeth Righteously From evil unto worse From worse unto confusion From confusion unto desperation From desperation unto damnation From damnation unto eternal death E. K. Now Gabriel did put another prick to the Character on his left breast Mor. ..... Cursed be that God and defaced be his power for he handleth us in unjustice and dealeth with us without mercy Because he is not merciful nor just E. K. Gabriel goeth from me to one of the 24. and sealeth them Now thy go all away and he breaketh off the points of their Swords They go by him Δ. Quis est iste Morvorgran quo modo haec nobis instituit inferre mala Gab. ..... Dockum thou shalt carry this malice unto thy grave But I have made weak thy strength Blessed be those that entertain those that are annointed in the Lord for they also shall taste of the oil of his mercy I had care of you saith the Lord neither will I suffer you to perish in the way Therefore be thankful and forsake the world for the world hath forsaken you and conspired against you But these things are nothing Behold lastly thus saith the Lord. E. K. Now cometh a salet or helmet on Gabriel his head or an half sphere A great noise of many voices is heard as of Pillars that fell Now that thing is taken off his head Gab. ..... Thus saith the Lord. The world on both sides shall rise up against thee and they shall envy thee E. K. Now cometh a beam from above again into Gabriel his head Gab. ..... Gna semeroh Jebusan gonsag vi cap neph Jehuslach omsomna dedoilb E. K. Looking up he said thus Hoc est Ne paveas repentino terrore eruentes tibi potentias Impiorum Laskie Dominus E. K. Now cometh about his face little things of smoke and he putteth them from his face He would open his mouth and they come upon his mouth They rise out of a pit before him inumerable Gabriel seemeth to be as
big as one of us  E. K. They swarm continually  Dominus ille Abraham Gab. ..... Adhuc D s laboro E. K. Now cometh a fire down by the same beam that came into his head E. K. Now cometh another streaming beam down to him   erit in latere tuo  Adjutor meus E. K. Looking up ..... Now cometh a bigger fire down on him   custodiet pedem tuum ne capiaris E. K. Now they run headlong down into a great pit in the earth and one pincheth me by the head Spera igitur in dominum Deum tuum  For thou shalt overcome  erit tibi Victoria maxima  in Deo propter Deum  qui est Dominus Deus exercituum E. K. Now the aforesaid spirits invade Gabriel again Gab. ..... What I suffer is not lawful for man to see Therefore Cease for a while and suffice nature But return and hear of my commandment E. K. He is gone but his Desk standeth still Sunday à meridie hor a 2. Octob. 13. Gab. ..... And hereby I teach you that those afflictions which you suffer in soul either for your offences towards God or for the imperfections of your mindes being void of brotherly charity toward your neighbours And so from you generally hereafter how great or how many soever ought not to be manifested or made open to the world but perfectly shadowed in Charity bearing your own infirmities and so the infirmity of others with quiet and hidden minde For the anguish of the soul is compared with prayer dwelling in one house which ought to laugh with the World and to weep towards heaven For every sin is noted and the least thing as well amongst the Celestial bodies as the Terrestiall is perfectly considered of For sin hath his end and his end is punishment And so contrarywise of Vertue Wisdom in the one and twentieth Ent ... ie or L ... His ground is upon mildnesse which mildnesse purifieth the body and exalteth the soul making it apt and ready to behold the heavens receive glorious illuminations and finally bringeth in the soul to participate with us not earthly but everlasting wisdom The Son of God was sanctified in his flesh through mildnesse and was not of this world because he was the mildnesse of his Father Therefore be you meek Be fervent in meeknesse Then shall you take up that Crosse which Christ spoke of following him which Crosse is the Compassion in mildnesse over thy brethren for sin sake Not as worldlings do looking but not lamenting The other part is in suffering mildly the afflictions of the world and flesh Hereby you become Martyrs for that you mortifie your selves which is true Martyrdom He that forsaketh the world for the love of God in his Son Christ shall have his reward But he that forsaketh himself shall be Crowned with a Diadem of Glory Thus saith the Lord I am jealous over you because you have vowed your selves unto me But great are the temptations of the flesh and mighty is his strength where the spirit is weak But thus saith God It is better to fill up the Soul with heavenly contemplation and coelestical food to reign in heaven and to be beloved of him Then to pamper the filthy flesh whose delight destroyeth both body and Soul It is written He that bridleth not his flesh is given to riotousnesse which is the sleep of death and the slumber to destruction But this is true abstinence when contemning the world you fly the delight therein refraining from pleasures of the body Temperating the flesh and making it weak and that for the Lord his sake For the flesh and spirit rejoyce not at once Neither can the full belly grone out true prayers Feed therefore the Soul with the love of our society And bridle your flesh For it is insolent One thing I say look to your servants See that in one house there dwell not delighters in vertue and holinesse mingled with such as harbour vice upon vice Whose drunkennesse is abomination and whose diet stirreth up fornication For wickednesse is amongst them and they fear not God neither do they abstain according as the holy Ghost by his Church hath taught Make them clean Then shall you feel our presence amongst you And we will all of us defend you from the rage of wickednesse We delight in the God of truth and in the worshippers of Justice Thus sayeth the holy Ghost Lo I have made me a Tabernacle where the God of Gods reigneth in Justice And I will sanctifie those places which rejoyce in charity Mingle therefore your Alms with charity And let your prayers and fasting be mingled with Alms deeds For he that prayeth and fasteth without mercy is a lyar Moreover let your friendship 〈◊〉 such as is of charity and not of this world Neither for the worlds sake but for the service of God All friendship else is vain and of no account Charity is the gift 〈◊〉 the Holy 〈◊〉 which Holy 〈◊〉 is a kindling fire knitting things together through Christ Jesus in the true wisdom of the Father Which fire is of no small account neither to be reckoned of as the Heathens have done For happy are those which are fed with charity For it is the meat of us that are anointed which is the son of God and the light of the world Δ Is charity the son of God Gab. ..... It is so He that walketh in charity walketh in God for charity is the will of the father is his own delight and illumination of the faithfull through his Holy Spirit The charity of the Church is the Holy Ghost But he that dwelleth in charity dwelleth in the bloud of the Lamb which is the will of the father which is the Holy Ghost Blessed are those that dwell in charity Persevere to the end Not negligently but with good will which good will is called fear Which 〈◊〉 is the beginning of wisdom the first step into rest He that continueth to the end receiveth his reward But he that leaveth off is a damned Soul Many men begin but few end Neither is your justification by the beginning but from the end Paul was justified Because he died the servant of God and not for his preaching sake He that 〈◊〉 to the end is the Childe of God inheriter of everlasting life and equal with joy himself Not the joy of joyes but that joy which God hath made equal with the joyes of his son Christ in the company of the faithfull Even in this place many persons had conspired against you But the strength of God hath sealed them And they shall not be unpunished For the Angel of the Town is sealed and his seal is to destruction Thrice cursed are those which dwell within his government But you are safe and shall be safely delivered from them In England They condemne thy doings and say Thou art a Renegade For they say Thou hast despised
It may be undetermined I will also see whether you be strong inwardly or privily rotten For with the world your weaknesse is great Whosoever overcometh shall rejoyce But I will be a God in my Covenant and will hold on my promise Fight therefore as it becometh you and cast off the world Make flesh subject and strangle your Adversary For unto such belongeth the entrance into my Chambers and the use of my will as the Horn of my glorie For it is written light dwelleth not in darknesse Neither hath darknesse comprehended any light For darknesse is the Cave of errour and the reward of sinners Thus sayeth he which beholdeth your sorrows And it is a fight for many daies which appeareth neither in the one nor in the other nor giveth he answer untill the end E. K. There is one come in like a Ghost and he taketh all the hangings away which beautified the place like to Curtains Now all the sides of the stone are darkish and the Cloud standeth in the very middle thereof Now the bands seem brighter then ..... because the place is so darkish Δ. O Lord many daies Combat is assigned us And forasmuch as Militia est vita hominis super Terram we are now in a great uncertainty of our Combat ending E. K. There standeth the number of 40. upon a great Labell and nothing else Δ. This 40. O Lord what betok eneth it dayes weeks or years Well Whatsoever it be Blessed be the name of the Highest Our God King and Father E. K. Δ. E. K. Now is one come in very brave like a Preacher I take him to be an evil one Δ. Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini E. K. He saith nothing Not so much as Amen ..... Are you so foolish to think that the power of God will descend into so base a place E. K. The power of God descending descendeth to beautifie the place And whatsoever he beautifieth he doth it mercifully And so through his mercy he descendeth among us that put our trust in his mercies ..... It is true But unto those that are righteous Δ. Christ his coming hath been to save sinners His conversation was among sinners halt lame blinde and diseased So likewise Now our frailty or impurity will not exclude his presence or the Ministery of his faithfull Angels ..... What in this base manner Δ. Do you mislike the manner ..... Can any that hath any drop of wisdom like it Δ. Are you wise ..... Or else I could not see thy imperfections Δ. Which be they Accuse me ..... What greater imperfection then to imagine much more believe that the Angels of God will or may descend into so filthie a place as this corruptible stone is Considering the clearnesse and bignesse of the aire or the places that are prepared in mans bodie for such entrances Δ. Who causeth thee to come here ..... Thy folly Δ. Art thou good or bad ..... I am good or else I could not see the bad Δ. Ergo thou art a lyar for thou sayd'st No good Angel would or might come here into this stone Δ. Thus will God be glorified against wicked Satan and his Ministers His fetch was very subtile As To bring in doubt all the Actions performed in this ftone What canst thou answer E. K. He sayeth nothing Neither can he say any thing He seemeth to be a very foolish Devil Δ. Mendacem oportet esse memorem Now be packing hence ..... I will abide here Δ. Where God will permit thee there mayest thou be But we will as now cease And we thank God highly of this comfort and victory We beseech him that we may as prosperously overcome all other Diabolical assaults or sophistical or untrue perswafions and all his Temptations Amen Glory Honour power and praise be to our Almighty and living God the Lord of Hosts Jehovah now and ever Amen Saturday Novemb. 23. à Meridie hora 1½ Lubek E. K. Here appeareth the same bad one sitting who last appeared The Cloud with the sword appeareth at last with two wreaths on one side and two on the other spirally This Creature taketh the cloudy pillar and throweth it from him divers times He sayeth Call as long as thou wilt I will keep thee for seeing any more sights here Δ. Or Lord attend unto thy glory Attend unto thy honour regard the arrogancy of this Luciferine brag against thy younglings expressed Δ. And of the Lord Alb. Laskie c. ..... He shall come to destruction as thou and thine to miserable beggery Because he hath consented to them that are Ministers of iniquity spirits of falshood E. K. He looketh on a bare book when he saith thus ..... The power of God entreth into the Soul of man and doth visit the Chambers of his understanding openeth his will with power The spirits of darknesse are ready for every place and can deceive saying This is of God Vnto these you have 〈◊〉 and have sworn it as a Covenant between God and you But I am come from God and am entred indeed and will make you hungry in your own foolishnesse that you may become wise None hath entred here with power but I. And I will tarry here And I will be a wall betwixt you and your imaginations and betwixt those that have tempted you and your weaknesse For thou hast called upon God and he hath heard thee and I am he that sayeth so unto thee ..... Laws of salvation are ready follow them The way into darknesse is wide and easie and where light is it encreaseth joy Be thou therefore warned by me Nay I have said Δ. Thou hast said here That thou art God is that true For thou hast said Thou hast called upon God and he hath hard thee And I am he that sayeth so unto thee ..... I see thee And thy wisdom is nothing Make of me what thou canst I am the messager of God ..... Avoid darknesse avoid darknesse avoid darknesse E. K. He plucketh down violently in the stone the Clouds and all becometh light in the stone ..... Ly here with thy fellows Those that are of wisdom let them understand Δ. O Sapientia patris aeterni illumina mentes nostras ut tibi serviamus in sanctitate Justitia toto vitae nostrae tempore Amen ..... Carmathar a Knight of the Rhodes was thirteen years deceived with one that appeared as he thought in glorie wisdom in the image of Christ. Antony was beguiled in divers wayes The Prophets Apostles have doubted in many things But because they faithfully believed they were not rejected Their hope became fruitfull and they blessed with understanding from above If so be also you repent and be sorry in that you have yielded unto the instruments of wickednesse and follow on as they your fathers have done you shall also become wise But I say unto you That which you have consented unto is amisse and false worse then errour it self For where have you tasted anie
Let us seek other wayes Then you are not counted perseverers neither are your works worthy reward But humane reason can perswade and give judgement against these follies much more are they damnable and deserve correction in the voice and judgement of such as are pure He that dealeth with the wicked is a lyar and shall have his reward But the end of comfort is in the purenesse of spirit But O you of little wisdom you rise up against the windes and yoke your wits against the mountains Nay you cast your selves down headlong where there is no mercy For what blasphemie is it to say If it be the will of God it must follow Is not man subject to the bringing in of his own labours And are not they allowed to his comfort being brought in The soul of man is the Image of God after his form which keepeth within himself the power of his divinity in the heavenly Spirit whereby he hath Authority to consent with God in the workmanship of his Will and Creatures Which Power being sealed already giveth unto man as King of himself to consent to his own salvation conjoyning and knitting himself together either with perseverance in the assured hope of mercy or with wilfull drunkennesse to the reward of such as fall Therefore Become Holy For the soul beautifieth when it is beautified in it self Resist not the Will of God which is mighty on you Be not obstinate Be humble Rejoyce not for this World But be glad that your names are sealed and that you shall correct the World Despair not through weaknesse for from whom cometh strength If puddles become Seas the end is more wonderful But yet greater when sinners are called to the knowledge and performance of God his Will thorough his mercies Even as one day perisheth and is not although he hath been Even so it is and shall be the state of this World For the Earth must sing O Sanna with the Heavens And there must be One veritie And Hierusalem shall descend with an horn of glory to the end The Sun and Moon shall be witnesses and wonder at their stay The Kings of the Earth shall become proud in themselves and are unable to be tamed with man But I will yoke them saith the Lord with correction And force them one to imitate anothers steps Yea they shall tread the grapes alike For in my Vineyard Corruption shall not dwell with Authority Neither shall the Prince of Darknesse usurpe my further honour E. K. He speaketh much in a smaller voice than he did I cannot perceive it He turned back and spake ..... I speak these things for your understanding and that you may be strengthened E. K. He turneth back again as before and speaketh I know not what ..... My dear brethren therefore rejoyce in Comfort and the image of Peace and remain faithful that you may be fed with that food that shall preserve and alwaies rest before the mighty flames of Zanzor where there dwelleth no defiled Creature nor any unrighteousnesse E. K. He turneth now back again as before speaking He seemeth now to lean against a Pillar of Copper great and round And he is become lesse than he was Now he standeth on the top of the Pillar Now he kneeleth down his back being turned A voice saith to him ..... Swear ..... 1 He said ..... It is done He said ..... The first voice openeth his mouth and saith There is a great rumbling and roushings of falling of Towns or Houses as it were in the Stone He said ..... The will of God is sealed in this Prophesie and it shall endure A voice ..... Swear ..... 2 He said ..... I have done He said ..... It thundereth and it is the second voice The effect of God his Will is not of time and therefore not to be known of man till that moment and end of time shall appear wherein it must be published and finished with power E. K. Now it thumbleth again very terribly as though a vvhole Town should fall down into a great Valley A voyce ..... Swear ..... 3 He said ..... I have ..... And it is the third and the last voyce All things that are crooked shall be made straight The winde of the heavens shall walk through all the earth Wisdom shall sit in her Majestie Crowned in the top of an Hill with exalted glorie It is the end E. K. Now all dasheth in a flame of fire Pillar and he and all and so flieth upward A voyce ..... He that hath ears let him hear Another voyce It shall be Amen E. K. Now the Curtain cometh before all as it vvas at the beginning this day Δ. O Lord for thy great mysteries declared unto us this day we most humbly thank thee But on our parts there remaineth some matter .... thy hands by some of thy good Ministers we desire to have some advertisement as of the Lord Alb. Laskie Secondly of Vincent Seve c. E. K. A very little Creature appeareth and saith The little one A word and away The hearts of Princes are the secrets of the Lord Such they are as unlock the doings of this world Δ. Of A. L. his delay in coming contrary to our defire and expectation I would gladly understand the cause c. The little one Those things that are of wickednesse are not of our remembrance This stay shall hinder a third part of his glory But all your life is not of him Nor he of you If he become good he shall be well rewarded He is forward Vincent is in France E. K. He is gone suddenly This Creature stood betvveen the Curtain and the forepart of the stone it vvas one of the least Creatures that ever I savv Δ. All Honour praise and thanks be to our God Almighty now and ever Amen Thursday Januarii 9. The Lord Albert Laskie came to Stetin Hor. 2½ à Meridie Fryday Janurii 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hora prima incipiebat per 2. horas durabat Stetini Sonday 12. Januarii 1584. Stetin Δ. After Dinner we were talking together of our affairs A voyce in E. K. his head said Jam venit hora. Δ. After Supper as I had a desire to shew to E. K. some places of St. Johns Apocalypsis a voyce said to him Equus albus est initium Doctrinae vestrae Et est verbum Dei 10. 9. sunt Novemdecim Δ. Hereupon seeking in the 19. Chapter of the Apocalypsis we found the Text Equus albus c. versu 11. A voyce Ne dubites Sum enim servus Dei To this purpose appertain these places of Scripture c. These are the dayes wherein the Prophet said No faith should be found on the earth This Faith must be restored again and man must glorifie God in his works I am the light of God Δ. Then by like He is VRIEL ..... I am a witnesse of the light These are the times when Justice and truth must take place Behold I touched him
and he became a Prophet Δ. Mean you Esdras Vriel Yea in his ninth Chapter of the fourth book There you shall finde manifestly the Prophesie of this time and this action Δ. Alak we think the time very long before we entred in the right trade of our true lessons Ur. When you have the book of God before you Then I will open these secrets unto you Δ. But Alak the time is very long thereunto the more is our grief Ur. The Bible it is Δ. I meant somewhat of our other book which is to be written Ur. I will speak of that also Δ. This delay is greatly to our grief and occasion of many temptations Ur. The temptations of the world are nothing unto the wise happie are they that feel temptations with emptinesse of the belly The Timber is not yet seasoned or else thou shouldest Prophesie I mean not thee E. K. Δ. Vincat manifesta veritas E. K. He is gone Honor Gloria Laus benedictio sit Deo Nostro qui in ALBO EQUO Justitias suas facturus est Amen Monday Januarii 13. Mane hora. 9½ Stetin Δ. After our long discourse upon the 9 th Chapter of Esdras c. Vriel came and stood he ..... Iy upon E. K. his head not visibly Ur. Read the sixth Chapter For faith must flourish The world is rotten and is skalden in their own sins Δ. E. K. Read it and in the 28. verse thus it is Florebit autem fides vincetur corruptela ostendetur veritas quae fine fra ..... Diebus tantis c. E. K. A voyce saith Open the Shew-stone E. K. At length appared one in a long vvhite Garment The Curtain went aside and the feet of men appear not now This man seemeth twice so high as Δ. He hath nothing on his head but long hair hanging down behinde him He is tied or girded about as though he vvere tied vvith many girdles URIEL I am Vriel said this man The light and hand of him that created Heaven and Earth that talked with Esdras and did comfort him in affliction and the same that hath talked with you Yea from the beginning of this action Therefore gird your selves together and hear the voice of the Lord Listen I say to such things as are hid I say to them that dwell above the Heavens Behold this is the last sleep of the world and the time that the power of the highest hath armed himself saying Come O ye strength of the Heavens and follow me For the earth hath cried vengeance and hath cursed herself and despaireth Come I say For I will place the seat of righteousnesse That my Kingdom may be in One And that my people may flourish Yea even a little before the end And what is this E. K. He spake these four words in another Tune E. K. He looketh up to heaven A voyce Blessed art thou which respectest thy Justice and not the sins of man Ur. This is the voice of the Angel that now taketh place Δ. May we be so bold as to demand the name of that Angel Ur. No It is not lawfull I swear by all things that are contained within this holy book By the seat of God and him that sitteth thereon That the words which have been spoken in this Action and shall be now spoken by me are true Three years are yet to come even in this moneth that beginneth the fourth year shall the Son of perdition be known unto the whole world Suddenly creeping out of his hole like an Adder leading out her young ones after her to devour the dust of the earth Δ. The sentence is dark in respect of the time Consider well Δ. I suspect 42 moneths now and then to be understood for an year Ur. This moneth in the fourth year shall Antichrist be known unto all the world Then shall wo wo dwell amongst the Kings of the earth For they shall be chosen all anew Neither shall there any that ruleth now or reigneth as a King or Governour of the ..... le live unto the end of the third year But they shall all perish Their Kingdoms be overthrown The earth wasted The Rivers become bloud with the bloud of men and beasts mixed together In this time shall the Turkish state be rooted up and cast from the earth And instead of him shall enter in that Devil the father of liars and such as dwell in the house of Vanity Behold This * Prince shall fly through his Kingdoms as the Greyhound after his spoyl devouring his possessions and cutting down the wicked But he shall become proud The Prophets of the Lord shall descend from Heaven cloathed with their old Garments very fresh and not stained Thy eyes shall see them Out of these books shall the true Doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles be gathered Which are not to be understood but with the spirit of understanding the spirit of wisdom and truth Behold I will say unto you my self Come Hear For the voyce of the Lord is with power Therefore be milde and of humble spirit For lo the time shall come And I have seven books such as shall be delivered unto one of you And I will meet thee walking in the fields And will stretch forth my hand saying Come Then shall thine eyes see those things that thy spirit doth And thou shalt become a man of understanding For I will give thee bread and thou shalt eat it such as shall be the bread of sufficient comfort E. K. It thundreth in the stone Of thee pointing to E. K. thus sayeth the Lord. Thou art flesh and become stuhborn Thy judgement waxeth dull and thy heart sealed But I will unseal thee and thou shalt be partaker But because thou hast offended me not with power in worldly things I will make thee a great Seer Such an one as shall judge the Circle of things in nature But heavenly understanding and spiritual knowledge shall be sealed up from thee in this world For thou art become stony and hast cried out against my Saints Notwithstanding your life shall be together Thou shalt be a workman of nature looking into the Chambers of the earth The Treasures of men Many things are pluckt from thee which were thine But not from you because I have promised them What is be that bridled the windes Δ. At your prayers Or who is he that preserved you from the bloudy imaginations of men and hatreds of the world invincible Is it not be that is God of Heaven and Earth Is it not he that made both flesh and Soul Yea even he it is that sayeth Fly from the wickednesse and society with Devils Leave off to sin against the Lord for he is of great power This is the last time that any shew shall be made in this stone For lo the promise of the most highest shall be fulfilled E. K. Now I see all those men whose feet I saw before
Triumphus tibi in inferno ubi non est Laus nec Gloria Quae jam infusa sentio doceo Sed modo lingua ideomate praedicto E. K. He turneth round when he speaketh Nal. ..... Omnis Caro maximè est sibi applicabilis in natur a perfectione sua Igitur revelanda sunt Mysteria Dei non ut audiantur sed ut intelligantur E. K. Now cometh a great smoak now I see nothing now he is gone A voice ..... Hear E. K. I see no body E. K. Methinketh that two speak or else this voice giveth an eccho ..... The unpatient and troublesome spirits of indignation wrath blasphemy and disobedience continually contend bear arms and ravenously run wilfully against those that are the .... Messagers and Angles of the Dignified and Triumphant Glory which is now the Ministery of him that is Dignified in his Father To the honour and glory of those that are humble and faithful in obedience Yea those wicked ones keep open wars against God and his Annointed in Heaven and Earth onely for the safeguard and true keeping of such as love God and follow his Commandments rejoyce in Truth and are visited in Righteousnesse Dark speeches to the flesh but words mixed with humane understanding wher ein briefly I will manifest the envy between the wicked in respect of their enviousnesse and those that are justified in Heaven which fight in the government of mans soul in the Creatures of God Not in that they know they shall overcome But in that they are envious and proud from the beginning Their contention is evidently amongst you which are joyned in the service of God Not as Deservers but as Chosen whose vessels and power are best known unto God E. K. One standeth on my left shoulder and saith Sinister ..... Dost thou not hear how like a fool he speaketh without all reason Thou art a spirit of lying Thou art one farthest from the glory of God Thou art a sower of lyes and a teacher of false doctrine E. K. Thus faith he on my left hand Sinister ..... Speak for I have power over thee Canst thou deny it Dexter ..... Thou thinkest so because thou hadst power But the brightnesse thou badst is turned into iniquity True it is thou hadst power to banish the wicked out of Paradise But me thou knowest not because thou hast not banished me In respect of thy dignification which sprang with power I say with the Hallelujab But in respect of thy 〈◊〉 Thus saith the Lord Posui tenebras à tergo meo Sinister ..... Fy upon God that ever he created me Dexter ..... Even thus do they seek continually to enter into the weakest vessel of envy not to triumph for they know they shall not but they hinder the time with man wherein they may offend his conscience E. K. I hear howling and lamenting Dexter ..... Such are those of whom thou seekest aid and comfort Those that appear unto thee have sought thy soul And the fruit of them is according to their destruction Believe them not It is said before Thou dealest with devils What reward shall he reap that fighteth against the Highest Or taketh part with such as are banished from Righteousnesse Much more shall his punishment be which seeketh help of those that are dishonoured For dishonour ..... to imperfection and is become a monster for destruction It is written .... Nothing can stand before the Lord that is imperfect Much more that imperfection weakened which obeyeth the imperfect Leave for the kingdom of Righteousnesse is at hand And thou must vow Hear the Lord That thy sins may be forgiven thee For the Prophesies of the Lord are not uttered to the world with the seales of the wicked Therefore become holy that thou mayest augment the benefit of God bestowed amongst you and render it to the world as the message of truth with thanksgiving Meum est pauca dicere Δ. Sed quis sis Nescimus an non idem Naluage qui nobiscum prius egisti hodie Nal. ..... I am E. K. Why call you those Devils with whom I deal not offending my conscience but intending to do good to my self and my neighbours If you be of God where is the fruit of your doctrine c. Nal. ..... If they were not Devils and enemies of truth they would praise and honour God in his Messengers of truth But because these Actions are true and the truth of them shall be the destruction of their kingdom Therefore devilishly and enviously they resist the will of God Denying the power Blaspheming his truth and infecting his vessels In our Doctrine there is nothing taught but the state of the world here and to come The prophesies of time and the knitting up of God his mysteries opened from time to time to those that are his sanctified as testimonies in the Creation and Operation of his Creatures whereof this doctrine is a part The Prophets in their times were not ignorant by revelation of the good will of their Creator The Apostles in Christ his Kingdom were made partakers of the mysteries to come of the state of mans salvation and ending of this combat which is in that day when all Creatures shall receive their reward The Church of God is alwayes garnished and furnished with spiritual Revelations as a Mansion or Dwelling-place of the Holy Ghost These latter dayes and end of harvest must have also Labourers For no Age passeth away but through the hands of God who maketh the end of his doings known to the World To the end the World may consent unto him in Glory So that this Doctrine is the mysteries of the word of God sealed from the beginning now delivered unto man for that Reformation which must be in One unity established unto the end The very part of that Circle which comprehendeth the Mysteries of the Highest in his Prophets Apostles and Ministers yet to come which are alive and shall bear witnesse of eternal Comfort The fruit of our Doctrine is that God should be praised For of our selves we seek no glory But we serve you to your comfort teaching you the will of God in the self same Christ that was crucified sold and died in the Patriarchs and published to the World by his Disciples and is now taught unto you in the remission of sins .... greatest in the World for the end of all things The very key and entrance into the secret mysteries of God in respect of his determination on earth bringing with it reward in the end of eternal glory which is the greatest Treasure Those that tempt thee do it in respect of the fear they have of the power of God springing in thee Let this suffice The World is vain in respect of eternal joyes Heaven and Earth passeth away The reward of the Righteous endureth E. K. Nal. ..... What do you see imperfect in all that hath been delivered Δ. Nal. ..... You have 49 Tables In those Tables are contained
added Three dayes before you take your voyage shall you meet me here For I have something to say unto you which shall be hidden till then Let Lasky stretch out his lims For I will love him and let him gape wide And take much for the Vessel is wide that he shall drink of Let him not despair for he that governeth the windes and dwelleth not in the hands of man be it is that shall comfort him Glory be to God the Father Glory be to God the Son Glory be to God the holy Ghost All the Heavens rise up and glorifie God Δ. Amen Map ..... Hallelujah Δ. I beseech you as concerning the rest of the Calls or invitations we are most ready to receive them now Map ..... Pray that those three dayes to come may satisfie those three dayes that are past Δ. I beseech you to let me understand whether I shall take with me onely this Table-Cloath Map ..... With the shew-stone that is made for your self A voyce ..... Cause the book to be made all ready Δ. I understand that I shall cause the leaves to be silver'd and so prepared Δ. Misericordias Domini in eternum cantabo Ejus nomen sit benedictum ex hoc nunc in sempiterna seculorum secula Ille solus est Deus Noster Omnipotens eternus vivus Illi soli omnis honor laus Gloria Amen Saturday Cracoviae 2 Mane circa 7. Post preces aliquot 〈◊〉 meas statim ferè apparuit E. K. I see him that we call Gabriel sitting in his Chair alone Gabr. ..... God is a spirit essential and in himself Essential and working by himself Essential in all works and dignifying them by himself So that the beginning and ending of all things that are already or are in him already and to come is placed in the fountain and well-spring of all life comfort and encrease Whereby we see that the heavens and the mighty powers therein from the highest unto the lowest things that shall have an end and the earth with all that she bringeth forth yea the lower parts though after another manner and by another course do all hang and are established in and upon the unspeakable 〈◊〉 in the providence of him How therefore can the Heavens run awry Or the earth for the 〈◊〉 sake want a comforter Or the lower places look for comfort If it be so therefore that the heavens cannot erre Or if the power of God be so mighty and so full of prevailing If in the house of light there be no darknesse or from the Heavens can descend no wickednesse And why because they are dignified in the power of God What is he that should live and distrust the Lord But 〈◊〉 The power and quality of the Devil is not onely manifest but also still contendeth against the power and will of God stirring up and provoking man to fast at full Bankets to study for good and evil To rise up against the Lord and against his power And to vex the Lord himself which cannot be vexed at the wickednesse of the Devil Even for this cause sayeth the Lord unto you How long will you wallow in wickednesse How long will you be drunken with folly How long will you rise up against the Lord and against me * Saying And if this be the power of God Are these the Messagers of the highest Is this the will of God Or can it be that he hath care of the earth But these are the blasphemies of your mouth But I see I must differre my self for a time and must raise up a Table where there shall eat more worthy Consider what it is to deal with Devils Is it not to take part with Rebels Is it not to be Traitors against the annointed in his own Kingdom Is it not a greater sin then the sin of the Devil For why The Devil sinneth in himself and therefore had his fall But your sin is in your selves and by the Devil and therefore it is the greater But as it is said before Where is there a moniment upon the earth that the people have raised up in the remembrance of wickednesse Many there be that say Lo there is Hierusalem Lo there was the Lord buried Lo there the flouds divided themselves with all the rest in remembrance of the Lord But none there is that say Lo in this place the wicked have risen up and prevailed Therefore to cleave unto the Lord is good and to follow a sensible Doctrine which bringeth with it self the loathsomnesse of wickednesse and the study to do well that the wicked may be confounded Alas let the whole earth rise up thrusting up his hand even this hand can gather them all together what therefore can the Lord do when he frowneth O unreasonable Creatures and worse then beasts more ignorant then the beasts that grase in the Mountains Are you not afraid of the power of God when it becometh a skourge For doubt you not to deal with those that are wicked you of no faith wherefore hath the Lord made the earth but to be glorified in the creatures thereof And what is he that glorifieth God on earth but man Think you not therefore that the Lord bath not care of his people Think you that there is a Seat upon earth wherein he hath not hidden the might of his free power Doth Satan get a Soul that he is not privy of Believe O you of little Faith for it is the power of God it is the Key of the whole world which is the Key of mans conscience If he lock not the door but depart and leave it open Wo be to that Soul for the Prince of darknesse entreth and is possessed to the eternal wo of his dwelling place If therefore the earth be a Cave unto him that made it as appeareth by his Prophets and by the Son of God What are you Or how empty are you When you think it is in vain that the Lord hath appeared unto you But in you two is figured the time to come For many shall cleave unto the Lord even at the first call And many shall doubt of the Lord and not believe him for a season But as you two shall dwell in one Center if you yet do look forward and step right So shall the face of the whole earth be for 800. one hundred and fifty years For the fruit of Paradise shall appear that nothing may be on earth without comfort For lo the first shall be last and it shall be a Kingdom without corruption Now now hath the Serpent wallowed his fill Now Now are all things in the pride of their wickednesse Now now is the Heir ready most like his father But wo unto the earth through his government For his Kingdom shall have an end with misery And these are the latter dayes And this is the last Prophesie of the World Now now shall one King rise up against
doth the God of Heaven and earth mean to deale with the World Think you not that this is more than love Look therefore narrowly into your selves Vncover the doings of your life and secret Chambers Enter into judgement with your selves Vnto thee I speak To E. K. Hast thou not run astray from the Lord and committed Idolatry Δ. He told E. K. of his faults which E. K. would not expresse to me and I desired him to listen to them and to do as it appertaineth to a Christian c. Gab. ..... But thus saith the Lord I am a pure Spirit that participateth not with the defiled neither can I enter in mercy into that house which is defiled A great saying my Brethren For hereby you are monished to make your consciences clean to open your selves in pureness to the Lord that he may enter into you with comfort For so long as thou dealest with wicked spirits will the Lord keep back his hands and thou keepest back the Lord. For shall it not be said hereafter Lo is not this man known to have dealing with the wicked And as the foolish voices of the people are Is not this he that can constrain the wicked with further arguments by repetition of thy doings Well if thou wilt be the Minister of God If thou wilt go forward in his works If thou wilt see the happy times that are to come thou must abstain from evil and thou must sweep thy house clean Thou must put on thy best garments And must become humble and meek Let not thy life be a scandal to the will of the Lord and to the greatnesse of his works For the power that is within thy soul in respect of his essential quid is of great force and ability to perform those things that proceed with power which is the cause that the wicked ones obey thee for they fear themselves when they see the seal of thy Creation This is therefore the Cause that God finding thee as he passeth by by his Angel fit in matter but my brother God knoweth far unfit in life O Consider the dignity of thy Creation Consider that the affection of God toward thee is more than love See how he beareth with thy infirmity from time to time O I say yet Enter into judgement with thy self And consider that thou art now at a Turning where there lieth two wayes One shall be to thy comfort The other to thy perpetual wo. Let not good ground bring forth weeds lest it choke her self Δ. We will call unto God for his mercies graces and help c. O consider my brother that the appearing and works of the devil are but of necessity That is to say that he that is good by resisting of the devil may manifest and make plain to the powers and spirits of Heaven the strength of his faith and assurance of his Hope and so necessarily by the promise of God inherit everlasting life to the which he is elected To the wicked that because of their disobedience and partaking with them that are the Angels of darknesse even those that strive against the Lord they might worthily be damned according to the necessity of God his judgement See therefore they appeare unto thee either for the greatness of thy wickedness or else because they suspect thee to be elected If thou therefore think thy self elected despise them If thou therefore think to be a spirit dignified and in glory Then be faithful in the assurance of hope and resist the devil that we may testifie thee before the heavens and before the God of Justice E. K. He weepeth Δ. E. K. and I also could not hold our teares Ah my brother great are the joyes of Heaven Remember what Hell is for to thee the Fornace was open Remember the vision thou hadst of hell and of her powers at Mortlake For nothing my brother is done without a cause Remember thou couldst not abide it No not to see Think thyself accursed therefore if thou feel it For if Sodom had seen it they would have been converted E. K. He prayeth 1. I have now told you of the Jealousie of God and of the cause thereof 2. I have also told you that the house of God must be clean and without spot E. K. Now there cometh a brightnesse about him 3. Lastly I have told you of that necessity which causeth the devils to work and appear and have exhorted you to the love of God and repentance which were the things I onely had 〈◊〉 speak of Δ. O Lord seeing we are uniformly desirous that the Action may proceed and that we crave thy mercy and graces as well for the pardoning of our wickedness past as for the confirmation of us in thy service What shall we look for touching the proceeding being thus stayed to our great grief Gabr. ..... You have to receive the will of God but what it is I know not those three dayes you begin your Journey And you are also to learn what the Angel is and how many Subjects he hath Δ. Which Angel Gab. ..... That governeth Hyleich which is the matter of the 4 Elements And which onely is an Element The Princes and Governours also of the 4 Elements and of their Generation how they receive mixtion and in what quantity With their Ministers that are under them Δ. I said to E K. These shall be part of your practice and portion Gab. ..... You are all to joyn joyntly in the Harvest of the Lord The Angels also of the †48 angles of the heavens and their Ministers For they are these that have the thunders and the windes at Commandment These make up the time and then cometh the Harvest E. K. He is gone Δ. Non nobis Domine non nobis sed nomini tuo da gloriam Tu enim Altissimus Omnipotens sempiternus vivus verus Deus noster es unus Trinus Cui Angelicus caelestisque chorus decantat perpetuò Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus Dominus Deus Zebaoth Amen Friday Cracoviae Junii 8. Mane hora 7½ Post preces ejaculationes varias gratiarum actiones pro magna misericordia Dei erga nos propter E K. qui jam patefecit mihi horrenda multiplicia heresium blasphemiarum dogmata quibus illi hostes Jesu Christi illum imbuerant quòd jam onfessione 〈◊〉 vellet sacrosanctum mysterium corporis sanguinis Christi recipere issisque malis Angelis renunciare omnes illorum fraudes detegere c. Conversio E. K. ad Deum abdicatis omnibus Diabolicis experimentis c. Nihil apparuit hodie Albeit the like had never happened to us that I remember but that either Cloud Vail or some Voice was perceived by E. K. Yet this doing we not onely took patiently but E. K. used many good reasons to prove that servants ought to attend so long as it pleased their Master to have them await his coming
to any place to them And that about our own affairs we are contented to use patience for a long time but to await the Lord his coming or message is a time better spent than in any humane affairs c. He very plainly and at large made manifest his conversion to God from the practices with wicked spirits Yea that he was ready to burn whatsoever he had of their trash and experiments That he would write in a book the manifold horrible Doctrine of theirs whereby they would have perswaded him ..... That Jesus was not God ..... That no prayer ought to be made to Jesus ..... That there is no 〈◊〉 ..... That mans 〈◊〉 doth go from one body to another childes quickening or 〈◊〉 ..... That as many men and women as are now have alwayes been That is so many humane bodies and humane souls neither m re nor lesse as are now have alwayes been ..... That the generati n of mankind from Adam and Eve is not an History but a writing which hath an other sense ..... No Holy Ghost they acknowledged ..... They would not suffer him to pray to Jesus Christ but would rebuke him saying that he robbed God of his honour c. And so of very many other most blasphemous Articles and Points of Doctrine whereof more shall be spoken in another place This forbearings of our Instructors presence I did expound or conjecture to be done greatly for the honour of God many wayes if the same were recorded somewhat near to the very manner of the thing as it was for so should appear to the posterity how truely it had been said before that he should be converted to God How truely God did prepare E. K. his soul to be a vessel cleansed and so made apt for his visiting of him in mercy and comfort whereby the life of E. K. now being amended and his dealing with the wicked clean left off should not be a scandal to the will of the Lord and to the greatness of his works as was noted unto us in the last Action Also I said that not onely his Conversion recorded should be a more evident argument of his so oft repeated Election But his patient attending this present day Δ two hours and a half and taking all things in such sort as became an humble and patient servant will be a more sure and evident argument that it was no light pang such as he hath made outward shew diverse times before but a very harty and sincere conversion such as without all doubt will be found very acceptable to the highest Moreover he declared that about nine or ten dayes past he did intend to have gotten away secretly by the help spiritual of those with whom he had so long dealt And therefore that till now he dealt hypocritically But whereas they to fore were ever accustomed to threaten him Beggery a thing which he most hated and feared That now he careth not if he should have want yea he took it neither to be shame or sin to beg and that he now made more account of God his favour and life eternal then he doth of all transitory wealth and riches and to be entangled within the danger of these wicked spirits their snares with all Also he now perceived his great errour wherein he was of late when he would for an assured temporal maintenance have forsaken the dealing with the wicked and so more willingly would have followed these actions without repining Saying now that he is no perfect Christian who for money must be hired to forsake the Devil and his works c. And as for the issue of these actions he would never either doubt or mislike howsoever they fell out assuring himself That God would do all things best and for his honour c. Many other his sayings very glodly I omit thinking these sufficient here Δ. O Almighty eternal and most mercifull God we thank glorifie and praise thee O blessed and most glorious Trinity we will for ever Magnifie thy unspeakable providence favour Election and Conversion unto thee O Blessed Jesu we will for ever extol thy loving kindnesse and long suffering toward us and thy Triumphant proceeding against Satan and his Ministers for thy Elect sake O holy Ghost the directer into all truth and comforter of thy Elect confirm and establish our hearts with thy gracious and continual zeal and love of truth purity of life Charitable humility and constant patience to thy well-pleasing untill the end That after this life through the mercy of the father and Merits of our Lord Jesus Christ and thy charitable embracing of us we may for ever enjoy the heavenly Kingdom among the blessed Angels and all the dignified company of mankind Amen Amen Amen Munday Junii 11. Mane hora 7¼ Cracoviae Δ. After our prayers due and thanks to the Almighty for his great mercies and power shewed in the conversion of E. K. we stayed still attending some shew as we were accustomed to receive and among divers our short discourses of our faith hope patience constancy humility and other our duties requisite in this action and in the service of God E. K. of himself said these sentences worthy to be recorded as the evident token of his sound and faithfull turning and intent to cleave unto the Lord. 1. E. K. I acknowledge my sins have deserved that this seven years I should have no shew or sight of his good Creatures 2. E. K. If I should sit thus for seven years attending the pleasure of God I would be contented 3. E. K. I repent me nothing of that I have done in forsaking those I was wont to have to do withall c. E. K. In the stone nothing appeared all this while of our sitting here Δ. Nihil visible apparuit in Chrystallo sacrato praeter ipsius Chrystalli visibilem formam ut E. K. dixit Δ. Hora 11. we left off so we attended 3. hours and 3. quarters Δ. I will affirm nothing in this case but this my conjecture may be recorded The cause of the non-appearance the last Friday and now this Mounday may be this 1. That as we lost and refused three dayes assigned by our instructours to finish all in So now we shall call and request three dayes and have nothing as these two dayes it hath fall'n out and it is possible one day more we shall have the like non-appearance Or else 2. According to the premisses Onely three dayes before our journey shall be begun we shall have that delivered us which in the three last dayes we should have received c. Or else 3. That great Caveat before noted on Saturday Junii 2. last past may have some forewarning of this our patience to be used after our Conversion unto God The words then recorded are these This Action shall never come to passe untill there be no remembrance of wickednesse or Hell left amongst you And yet after for a time you
neque sibi ullus omnia sponce nascenria vel ultro ab aliis oblata quae sibi maximè sunt necessaria recipiat Mucuae inde hominum emerserunt societates mutuae amicitiae mutuae operae Mutua dona Rerum commutatio emptionis rerumque venditionis contractus Aliique diversi hominum existunt status unde hominum inter homines cum hominibus multiplicia procurantur officia commerciaque Neque omnium istorum sola est utilitas vel quae 〈◊〉 voluptas scopus ille vel finis quem attingere conantur student Sed aliud aliquibus est propositum quod Divinius quidem est quod virtutem vel Honestatem nominare possumus quae caelitus 〈◊〉 hominum informet mentes orner sibique coaptet Adeo ut sedibus illas reddat celestibus dignas Illud illud ergo est Illustrissime vir quod excellentiam vestram tam mihi pridie reddid 〈◊〉 benignam perhumanam Illud est quod vestram refricabit memoriam vestrum insigniter acuet ingenium in Causa mea suae Caesareae Majesti tam proponenda quam commendanda eoque tractanda modo quo illa tractari Arcana debeant quae a paucis credantur a paucioribus intelligantur verissima licet sint ex sese utilissima Quo citiùs Caesarea sua Majestas mirabilent hanc maximam Dei non Providentiam solum sed bonitatem etiam amplexus fuerit eo cit us abundantiùs meae ad illum legationis constabit sinceritas bonitas utilitas Voluissem equidem hunc inclusum libellum 〈◊〉 inclusas vestrae 〈◊〉 ipsemet atrulisse Sed cum venia sit dictum ex digiti pedis mei offensa cuticula non cam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ho lie pedes venire Proinde amico meo hoc onus imposui ut cum vestrae Excellentiae manuum deosculatione omnia mea vobis orferat servitia hocque quicquid est pro sua Caesarea Majestate traderet munusculi Prage 24. Augusti 1584. Joannes Dee The Superscription of this Letter was thus Illustrissimo Domino Domino Don Gulielmo de Sancto Clemente serenissimi atque Catholici Hispaniarum Regis Negotiorum apud sacram Caesaream Majestatem c. Praefecto Domino meo Observandissimo Monday Augusti 27. Mane circa 9. †Pragae Precibus finitis I propounded to God of Madimi four things First what was the cause of the errour recorded Febr. 18. this Anno 1584. at Lasko of Sir Henry Sidney his death Secondly In what sense is this to be understood which Madimi willed me to say to Rodolphus An Angel of the Lord hath appeared unto me Thirdly Madimi said as concerning the time of my wife and children and houshold to be moved hither Let that be my charge to answer thee Fourthly Madimi willed me to write to Rodulphus And I have done and caused it to be delivered to Don Wilhelmo de Sancto Clemente the Spanish Embassadour to deliver it to the Emperour God prosper it Amen E. K. Here she is Δ. The eternal roots of verity bring forth fruit to the comfort of such as delight in the pure verity for the service of God c. And you Madimi as a Minister of the Highest in verity are unto me welcome Mad. ..... Even as mans fingers or a thing touching moving or forcing an instrument musical is the cause without the which it cannot sound or drink up the air which again seeking issue and feeling a stay is the objectum cause of concord or dissonancy according to the inward spirit and imagination of the thing that moveth or of the finger moving So the earthly part of man which hath no motion of it self radicall moveth by touch or finger whatsoeve spiritual and sendeth out sounds not according to her self but according to the fiery yea invisible and spiritual power wherewithal it is moved Hereby we learn that mans body and his organical motions hath three manner of movers centraliter by the property and perfection of the Soul a superiore and by descension from the Angels or participants of understanding E contrario and ascending spirits wicked and tempters all moving But here you must note That as the Sun depriveth the Moon in respect of her end which is to give light but not of her self So do the Angels and higher powers drown and overshadow the soul in man when they are present working from God and in themselves as from abov and not by the soul as any root or first cause of the motion But when the Devil entreth and ascendeth he worketh not by force but by enticement and so allureth the soul to grant of his possession whereby he entreth and becometh strong Those that have ears let them hear for my words are wisdom and the grounds of many Sciences Then by a similitude is the world wax Mans body wax and the natural motions of things naturally extended wax also But our purpose is of man which at one instant receiveth three impressions Missive Natural and Offensive Whereby you may perceive That man greatly needeth to pray against temptation For the last Seal is sign of him that oweth the wax Happy are those that can watch and pray for such they are that grant not any room or interest to the wicked ascender I answer you If you be but as a string Challenge but your own duty But take heed you be in tune E. K. She speaketh but I cannot expresse it Δ. I pray you let nothing of your words that you utter to us or before us be unrecorded Mad. ..... You are not worthy to write it for it is the harmony of the heavens Stay a while for I would open that unto you which I perceive I may not but I come again Δ. We read over the premises and weighed them as instructions of the three divers movers of mans senses internally c. And so after a quarter of an hour E. K. Here she is again Mad. ..... For he that purifieth his house and straweth rushes and beautifieth the chambers with Garlands is worthy to receive because of his aptnesse such as are messagers of understanding and light My friends and brethren marvellous is the God of Wisdom in all his doings and works and full of variety are the works of his hands E. K. Now she speaketh again I understand it not ..... But to the Answer The end of my purpose Satan perceiving you E. K. as well to be moved by him because of your own grant as by the motion wherewithal you were moved and illumenated and being the father of suttlety and a froward understanding 〈◊〉 even in this one sentence yea with this one lye to overturn or at least to Hemish the worthinesse of our message and of your receiving because he saw the course of nature and the doings of man and that this man Mr. Simon Hagek young Hagek would first visit thee therefore he thrust in a shingle of his own
Hereupon I prayed a little to the same purpose and read the petition c. We desire God of his great and infinite mercies to grant us the help of these heavenly mysteries that we may by them be directed how or by whom to be aided and relieved in this necessity that we are in of sufficient and needful provision for meat and drink for us and our Family wherewith we stand at this instant much oppressed and the rather because that might be hurtful to us and the credit of the actions wherein we are vowed and linked unto his heavenly Majestie by the ministry and comfort of his holy Angels to lay such things as are the ornaments of our House and the coverings of our bodies in pawn either unto such as are Rebels against his divine Majestie the Jews or the people of this City which are malicious and full of wicked slanders I Jane d ee humbly request this thing of God acknowledging my self his servant and handmaiden to whom I commit my body and soul. E. K. Here is one with a leather coat and a spade with a white Coronet on his head round hath a bag on one side of him and on the other side a bottle it seemeth like an husbandman but a young fair man he is Jane Dee Give ear unto me thou Woman is it not written that Women come not into the 〈◊〉 much lesse ought they to come before the testimony of the will of God to be fulfilled mightily and to come against the World and against the pomp for money and iniquity but because thou hast humbled thy self and hast refused to tarry 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as it becommeth thee I will answer to thy infirmities and will talk with thee He that hath his House inhemmed with a Ditch which is deep and swelled with water must needs make a Bridge over that he may be at liberty else is he a Prisoner unto the waters but if he want Wood and have no shift to enter into the fields is it not Wisdome to break his Dining Tables and to set himself free why cryest thou unto me Bebold let thy House yeeld and the covering of thy body give place to the necessity of hunger Behold God suffereth his Elect chosen vessels oftentimes to be without Mansion or apparel But lo he feedeth the Sparrows but I will not reprehend thee because thy soul is frail but be faithful and obedient and that truly as thou art yoked Behold I have blessed thy Children and of thy seed and bones will I build a new and they shall have Houses and shall be served of such as the people salute saying hail Master Be thou patient and full of repentance and do that thou hast to do and not that thou hast done For lo mercy is with thee and well shall come unto thee Behold the Scourge is with you and of necessity you must be tempted that your Faith may worthily be glorified and that you may be praised in me Behold thou seekest Counsel of me I will counsel thee Behold I would dig for thee but I should do contrary to my selfe because I have given power and he that possesseth the earth is against me But such as I have I will give thee and it shall be sufficient more then thy vessels can hold or thy dayes can thank me for Consider that to morrow commeth not before he be brought in Neither canst thou have until thy power come But cast up thy eyes and hope for better things Lo since I cannot give thee that thou desirest really yet I bow my head and so I counsel thee let thy husband arise and gird himself together and let him take his eyes with him and let him hast out of this place For my thinks they dissemble Lo let him stand before Steven and let him visit Lasky peradventure he find him not living But if he live he is dead there shall you see that I will relieve thee and do good unto him and will bind up the Jawes of the persecutor that he may go on Thou art a Woman and thy infirmities follow thee I counsel not without a cause neither did I stirre thee up to speak But for thy faith I will reward thee But one storme is to come take it patiently thou shalt be the more whiter and more neerer Behold I go before and he that followeth me doth well unto himself for I do well unto those that follow me Cast away your murmurring and sweep your Houses take heed of Spiders and of the whore Rats This is the first time that I have answered to this kind in the latter 〈◊〉 Lo I go Δ Lord it was said unto us as a Watch-word when Stevens Messengers should come for us that then we should go Now his Messengers are not yet come c. ..... If the Bridegroom invite thee himself what needest thou his servant Δ Now is the difficulty for money greater for if we had tarried together lesse money would have served then now it will do c. ..... Thou hast asked counsel I have counselled thee if it please thee hear me it shall be well with thee if thou tarry but much better if thou go I have numbred thee but be not proud but because I have numbred diminish not thy self least when I find not the number I find not thee also if thou wilt any thing else there are and they can say unto thee but who speaketh with thee thou knowest not E. K. He is gone Δ Seeing here is matter unlooked for we are stirred to ask questions not thought of before Therefore O Lord send whom it please thee to us A voice ..... Sunt aliae horae Deo nostro Omnipotenti sit omnis Laus Honor Gloria Jubilatio Amen ✚ Pragae Wednesday 27 Martii Manè circa horam 9. E. K. came to me and asked me the Circle or Copy thereof which was shewed to him at Oxford and he had written out or described by the light that was shewed to him by the spiritual Creature he intended as he said to shew it to a Jesuit and to ask his counsel of it c. having a great misliking of our spiritual friends saying that they were the great Devils and so the lesser that he dealt withal before gave place unto them c. Hereupon I told him I would ask our friends counsel before I delivered any thing of theirs to their enemie c. He would presently have it and with great threats most terrible and dangerous to me he willed me to deliver it strait wayes I being occupied with writing a letter to the Queens Majestie said assoon as I had leasure I would give it him he said he would tarry my leasure I told him that would scarce be this seven night I had so many letters to write he thereupon grew in such a rage that he said I should not passe one foot beyond him before I did deliver it him at 〈◊〉 he rose to shut
cutting and nature Not to the intent it should be credited but to the intent it should be a stumbling block to the action in time to come which is now My brethren he is a marvellous work-man and one that striketh now the most strings in a manner all But he hath his reward Therefore do I deny it to be spoken by me or of me Δ. So by God his Grace I did conceive and undoubtedly think and of many other things besides that I have occasion of reforming the Records that the heavens may agree as the phrase was used Mad. ..... Many there are not But such as are gather them together let me sift them Δ. I thank God for that his mercy Δ. Now I beseech you to the second my present request before propounded it may please you to give answer Mad. ..... When the King sendeth a Present to a Noble man or unto any one that he favoureth he loveth or delighteth in The Messager carrieth it delivereth it within his house E. K. She seemeth to smile ..... He to whom it is sent enjoyeth it he useth it yea peradventure being a dainty dish eateth of it Afterward the King sendeth to him by the same messager saluteth his houshold and commandeth him to say Thus sayeth the King Go to such a man and salute him Tell him that I will visit him and that I say so Behold he sitteth still and 〈◊〉 not neither doth he the Commandment of his Superiour For lo sayeth he The King commanded me not his messager came and would so But whether the King will so or no I know not But hearest thou Thou wicked man hast thou not eaten of his meat and enjoyed the benefit of his present before Yes A threefold benefit which shall continue untill the * seventh Angel and untill the third woe Man begetteth a Son and lo his wife is with Childe and she 〈◊〉 for the time of her deliverance If the question be moved unto him his wife not yet delivered whether he have issue or fruit of his body say thou unto me what shall he answer Δ. As it shall please God Mad. ..... That is no answer Δ. Then he may say He is in hope to have the issue his wife goeth great withall may this seem an answer 〈◊〉 beseech you Mad. ..... Though the Childe be not yet born he hath issue Deliverance is by reason of the issue and not called issue of the deliverance for he is a son as well unborn as born So is it of you Thou hast prayed unto God and he hath heard thee And lo the issue which he giveth thee is Wisdom But 〈◊〉 the Mother of it is not yet delivered For If woman know her times and seasons of deliverance Much more doth he which is the Mother of all things But thou mayest rejoyce that there is a time of deliverance and that thy gift is compared to a woman with childe For as the one is and shall be visible so is wisdom granted and shall appear yea a lively and most perfect Creature Behold the Angels of the Lord have been sent down from God unto him E. K. here is sight which is of this houshold in God He hath brought unto thee that which he tasteth not himself And yet thou doubtest saying How shall I say the Angel of the Lord hath appeared unto me Unto thee Δ we are we have appeared for unto thee sent And because his eye hath seen therefore we have joyned him vnto thee that in the time of darknesse thou mightest see Δ. It is to be made perfect before the time of his visitation And before the time of thy visitation thou must be made perfect And because it is of thee and not of him Therefore doth not God impute unto him his offences but placeth in you the figure of time to come Supra lib. 15. 1584. Junii 2. For some there be that naturally shall draw in the 〈◊〉 of the Lord. And other some there be that must have their times and seasons For thy houshold affairs I say nothing yet neither for thy Letter sent or Messenger Nam Deus agit in 〈◊〉 sicut vult I have nothing else to say unto thee but blessed be those that believe in the Lord for they have their reward E. K. She goeth away divided into a great many pieces of fire Deo Nostro Omnipotenti eterno sapienti sit omnis honor Laus Gloria Note At noon this day I received Letters from the Lord Laskie from my wife and from my brother Nicolas Fromonds in England how Mr. Gilbert Mr. Sled Mr. Andreas Firmorshem my Book-seller used me very ill in divers sorts The Dates of the Letters from England were of the 15. and 16 th day of April 1584. My wife is in great sorrow for my brother Nicholas At night after Sun set Emerich Sontag brought me word from the Spanish Ambassadour that he had delivered to the Emperour this day my Letters and Book and that he took them graciously and thankfully and said that within three or four dayes he would let the Spanish Ambassadour understand when he would give me audience Deus bene vertat ad sui nomiuis honorem Laudem Amen Saturday Septembris 1. Ante Meridiem Circa 10. †Pragae Δ. As I and E. K. sat in my little Study after our talk of divers matters and of my expecting audience at the Emperour his hand c. E. K. saw three little Creatures walk up and down in the Sun-shine about an handfull from the pavyment and the Creatures themselves very small not an hundfull long like little shadows or smokes and the path wherein they walked seemed yellow They walked a good while to and fro till at length I suspected that they were sent to us and so prepared the shew-stone But E. K. said he had rather see them thus out of the stone I said that in the stone we have warrant that no wicked thing shall enter but without the stone Illuders might deal with us unlesse God prevented it c. E. K. said again he had rather deal thus ..... His meaning is above thy sight E. K. Now two of them seem to kneel down in the Sun beams ..... Blessed be God the Father God the Son and God the holy Ghost the most holy and blessed Trinity One true mighty perfect everlasting and incomprehensible God Δ. Amen Amen Amen ..... Which will be comprehended with those that live in the Heavens the true Church of God of such as measure him by faith and not reason which hath sent us to do his will Both in that he will turn his heart And in that he doth vouchsafe to make you witnesses of his secret purposes and determinations in hand The 1 middlemost said I am the midst of the third and the last Δ of the spirit of life Vnderstood in this temporal controversie and conflict of mans Soul but
not according to his eternal and immensurable proportion The 2 on the right side said I am the second of the third which dwell in the spirit and power of God in earth I have power to scourge them that resist the power will and commandment of God and I am one of those that stand and is perpetual For even as the father son and holy spirit are one but of themselves and being dilated is full of power and many So are we one particularly in power but separated notwithstanding spiritually of and amongst others and dilated in the will of God and into the branches of his determinations but particularly living and joyntly praising God E. K. Now 3 the other the third on the otherside standeth up and sayeth 3 ..... The Kingdom of God and of his son Christ which is true God and the substance of his father True God of true God is contrary to the Kingdom of this world Δ. The Confession and belief of the Catholick Church not to be talked of now E. K. What is that God of God E. K. They are disappeared but their path appeareth in the aire in sun-beams still Δ. Half a quarter of an hour they had disappeared E. K. They are here again ..... Happy are those that are of his Kingdom for it hath no end yea happy are those that are the sons of saith and not of the world which is called Reason Which is blinde and is scaled with the mark of destruction Because she prosecuted and put to death the Son of God the God of righteousnesse and light of all that live I am the last of the first of the fourth and I have power to gather up the blessings of God and to set them if they be disdained in a better soyl Ejus officium est transplantatio Donorum Dei 3. For thus sayeth the God of Hoasts If he dream and will not hear me Gather up that he hath and that which should be given him that his life may be short and his house without comfort that he may passe away nakedly as a shadow As lo behold we go and we will dwell there yea even in the skirts of their Garments will we take up our habitation And why Behold this hath God said In the morning watch them and see how they rise In the day time give ear unto them and listen unto their counsels Stand over them in the night and note their filthinesse And when it exceedeth the number strike We are they that must direct your practises ..... Behold let us give Testimony of our names My name is Ga E. K. He in the middle My name is Za Δ. The three names make one name of 7. Letters Gazavaa My name is Vaa So we are called by position Thou shalt finde us amongst the mercifull Tables delivered unto Enoch and so unto you 1. The middlemost I am of the third Table and am extream 2. I am of the third but of the humanity and the second 3. And I am the fourth but Angular and extream Linear of the uppermost ..... We are gone E. K. They are out of sight A voyce Follow that which is commanded thee Δ. AEterno Omnipotenti Trino uni Deo sit omnis honor Laus Gloria Δ. Ga Vltimus spiritus vivorum Za Flagillator 〈◊〉 potestati voluntati praecepto Dei Vaa Transplantator Donorum Monday Septembris 3. Mane Δ. Nota. Sathanae astutum violentum Stratagema Δ. There was great disquietnesse in E. K. being come home from our Hosts house where he had lyen all night upon a form by reason he had been which he never was the like afore as he said with wine overcome suddenly yet intending with himself to take heed of being overshot in drinking of wine being requested by the Hostes to give her a quart of wine upon the good bargain he had in a Clock he bought of her for five Suckats In this company of drinking was Alexander the Lord Laskie his servant who came with us to Prage Unto whom E. K. when the drink on the sudden had overcome him said he would cut off his head and with his walking staffe did touch him fair and softly on the neck sitting before him This Alexander being half drunken himself by by took those words in great snuffe and went to defend himself and so took his weapon to him and thereupon they by caused Alexander to go down It was supper time and I that night refrained to suppe and so tarrying at my Lodging and looking out saw Alexander sitting on the great stone against our Lodging I called to him and told him that they were at supper And he came over to me and he had wept much he complained of E. K. his former words and the touch of the staffe how it was against his credit to take that in good part and spake many Souldiers terms of stout words not worthy the recording I thereupon went to our Hosts house and would understand the very truth and there I found E. K. fast on sleep on a form most soundly for which I was right sorry And yet better pleased to perceive the words of E. K. which so moved Alexander being half drunken to have been spoken by E. K. when wine and not wit bare rule and so pleaded long time with Alexander that of words spoken so as they were no such exact account was to be given to him c. And after two hours perswasion caused Alexander to go to bed in our Lodging where he used to lye For he would have gone out to our former Inne in those raging half drunken pangs he was in which I thought not good This Monday morning E. K. coming home and seeing Alexander as he came in he said they tell I should have spoken words which greatly offended thee yesternight and that I touched thee with my staff c. I know nothing of it and shoke hands friendly with Alexander Well saith Alexander Si fuisset alius c. E. K. came up to me I told him how sorry I was for this mischance and told him of the Watchmen perceiving Alexander his disquiet mind and hearing his words they came to me and charged me to have a care of the peace keeping as they did indeed And farther said that Alexander in his rage said that rather or before he should cut off his head that he would cut E. K. in pieces So soon as I had expressed that word of this drunken Alexander likewise whom now I saw quiet and E. K. also quiet suddenly E. K. fell into such a rage that he would be revenged of him for so saying and for railing on him in the street as he did c. Much a do I Emericus and his brother had to stop or hold him from going to Alexander with his weapon c. At length we let him go in his dubblet and hose without a cap or hat on