the Door of the study upon me I arose and went after him and took him by the shoulders to keep him from the Door and withal called aloud to my folks Come here how here is violence offered unto me whereupon they came in all and my wife and so afterward by degrees his fury asswaged and my folks my Wife and his went away and after he had sitten two or three hours with me he saw on my head as I sat writing Michael stand with a sword and willed him to speak which he did forbear to do above a quarter of an hour as E. K. said At length he spake as followeth E. K. Here appeareth Michael on your head and hath bid me divers times to speak to you Δ I disposed my 〈◊〉 to write and Michael 〈◊〉 bring the Stone E. K. Here appear 12 with him 4 behind him and 4 on each sides of him 4 and all with swords of fire and he the hindermost of them had a Barrel of Glasse on his back full of fire the 12 were all in red Coats Michael ..... The Prophet Nunc ergo Notum faecimus Domine Rex quoniam si civitas haec aedificata fuerit ipsius mutilati fuerint descensus tibi non erit 〈◊〉 neque in Phoenicem E. K. Now they all kneel down about him They look pitifully with their faces upward as though they were praying they be all in blood red Garments and Michael his sword is as the sword I once did see him have whose edge did open E. K. Now answer me to the purpose whether I shall have the Circle of Letters which I did desire Michael ..... Is there any like unto thee O Jehovah in Heaven and in Earth or can thy enemies rise up saying against thee and shall they stand O thou whose look is more terrible unto thy Angels then all the fires which thou hast created either in the bottomlesse pit or in the life of all Elemental Creatures or above in the heavens if they were gathered together in one can be terrible to man Hast thou not made Heaven and Earth and hast put thy head no where and thy feet somewhere because without thee there is not and without thee there cannot be O thou that hast numbred the Starres and art Dominus Dominantium above those that govern them and more in knowledg then their Government Thou Thou Wilt thou suffer thy Name to be trodden under foot Thou Thou Wilt thou correct the Heavens and the whole seed of man Wilt thou drown the World with waters and root the wicked from the face of the Earth Wilt thou cast down the lothsome and wicked Cities that they may grow in the terrour of thy judgment Wilt thou send so many Plagues into Egypt Wilt thou suffer all these things to be done and many more memorable which are all in thee And thou permit one Man one Soul to be thus carried away with Satan to the dishonouring and treading under foot of thee and thy light of thee and thy truth If the King exalted him which magnified Truth before the strength and Policy of Women extolled him before his Princes and caused for his sake the building of this Temple to go forward Wilt thou not punish him that despiseth truth that preferreth the wantonnesse and 〈◊〉 of the World that errant strumpe before thy word and before the strength of a heavenly Authority Art thou so become a little one that thou art lesse then a King hast thou turned thy face so far aside that thou 〈◊〉 not this Rebellion Can one man be dearer unto thee then the whole World was or shall the Heavens be thrown head-long down and shall he go uncorrected Hast thou Mountaines and Stones untrodden on out of the which thou caust shew thy Praise and Honour Are there not yet Infants which may be sanctified to speak with the Heavens that thou so hidest thy selfe away from Justice What What if those that often cry for grace receive it not yet dost thou give it unto him that commeth from it Sane stupor Coelis stupor terris What are not so many Fires as wait upon me sufficient to arm Satan with vengeance against this Δ wicked one O thou Beast O thou roaring Lion O thou Monster O thou Whirlpool O thou terrible Murtherer E. K. Hast thou plac't headlong many thousands into Hell and dost thou linger to rage upon this imp whom thou hast so long sought for Is it not written least peradventure he find them sleeping and so overcome them But behold whom thou findest sleeping is ready for thee willing to go with thee what sparest thou art thou so bold to give authority unto thy Ministers to confound nay to so blind that thou canst not see so great an Hill Behold thy Ministers cry out unto thee and send thee word calling thee Master King Take heed the City be not built take heed the walls of it be not lifted up and as they that were the Messengers of the King made evident before his face that it was against his commodity to have the Temple of the Lord built up to have the City new shapen to have the Walls made strong because it should hinder his 〈◊〉 into Coelosyria and the rest E. K. Now the 12 he excepted fall down Mich. ..... And thy Ministers have they not said unto thee if this work of the Lord go forward if the City sent down from the Heavens may receive a place to set her selfe in if the Walls and Rampters of this that was built above shall be placed on any place of the World on earth Behold Behold will it not hinder thy cause will it not subvert thy Kingdome will it not turn thee out of Doors will it not bring thee to aterrible day before the Lord Is it not written that that day shall be terrible to Satan and his Angels And wilt thou suffer a Door to be opened wherein it may enter it behoveth thee Satan here to bend thy bow it behoveth thee now to draw up thy arrowes And if thou intend to plant on earth that it may grow time is yet now to weed out this Message from above ` Do thy Messengers give thee warning of these things dost thou hold back thy force when the Porters will betray the City would deliver it into thy hands would break down the walls before thee what I say art thou like to enter thou that loseth no opportunity art thou so negligent Behold the Doors stand open before thee why entrest thou not Dost thou want fire lo he that 〈◊〉 it hath fire for thee 〈◊〉 rumor Behold he offereth himself a companion what wouldest thou more unto these things thou hearest the sayings of thy servants which say unto thee O Satan if this City be built and the walls erected Thou canst not go into the Holy Land And lo hearest thou not them neither dost regard this opportunity whence art thou so forgetful O God great
must have patience For your Offices are above a Kingdom To conclude whatsoever with God is known and used as the true cause we are contented Nothing doubting of the goodnesse and wisdom and power of God to perform his promises and Covenant made to and with us for our services to be used to his honour and glory Most willingly and patiently we will attend the will and pleasure of the highest herein Intending hence forward by the help of God not to give our selves over unto nor easily to be inveigled or allured of the temptations of the world the flesh or Devil For which our disposition of minde and all other benefits received from above we render most humble harty and entire thanks to the Almighty most glorious and blessed Trinity Amen Amen Amen Munday Junii 18. Mane hora 8. Cracoviae Δ. After the Lords prayer and some other peculiar prayers and thanks-giving for the exceeding great mercies shewed in the Converting and Reforming of E. K. my promising to record the Act thereof as well as God should give me grace and also craving earnestly for comfort to be given to A. L. being somewhat oppressed with pensivenesse to see his own subjects and servants to triumph against him in his low estate from high and all for lack of money and wealth c. Suddenly appeared a mighty long and big arm and hand in the aire to catch at the shew-stone and E. K. meaning to save it from him put his hand on the stone and immediately the stone was out of the frame we know not how and lay by on the Cushion c. And then soon after appeared Gabriel in all manner as he was wont and on the right side of the stone that is against E. K. his right hand as he was wont Δ. Gloria Patri Filio Spiritui Sancto sicut erat in 〈◊〉 nunc semper in secula seculorum Amen Gabr. ..... The comfort and peace of the Father Son and holy Ghost be amongst you quicken and confirm you Δ. Amen E. K. I pray you what was that that would have snatcht the shew-stone Gab. ..... Let his house come that his iniquity may be seen E. K. I see many houses and besides them a fair House separated by it self the House is of stone and wood and a square thing in the end of it like a Turret The houses of the Town are low wooden houses small There appear in that odd house fellows in red Coats like Poland Coats Now I see a bigge man sitting within the house afore the window and the house is hanged with Turkie Carpets and there is wrought in one of the Carpets just afore the door a man on horsback with a sword in his hand and the man is like the man I saw at Mortlack with a Wart on his cheek There stand by him two boyes they have red Coats on one of them is a little fair boy There standeth a man by with a sword which he delivereth to him that sitteth and he looketh on it being gilt and graven on it and layeth it down on the Table Gab. ..... This is a sword wherein he putteth his trust but it shall fail him E. K. Now that man calleth the lesser boy to him and the boy thereupon runneth along a Gallery Now that man with the Wart goeth out after strouting himself and no body with him Now he calleth that lesser boy to him and maketh signe to him smiting one hand on another and drawing it under his throat as though he threatned the boy unlesse he kept secret Now he cometh to a door and knocketh and one like an Italian letteth him in There he hath in the corner a frame of wood and a great stone in the middle of it of about 16 Inches square and there is a fire on that stone on the middle of it Now he taketh that engine or frame with the fire between him and that man like an Italian and carrieth it into another Chamber There they have a dead mans hand Now he taketh out os his Casket a black box of yern as it should seem by the blacknesse of it The box is about a foot long Now he hath set down the box and the same is open and therein appeareth an image of wax of blackish colour like shooemakers wax There is one like an Angel made of red stuffe standing at the head of the image holding like a Skarf over the face of the image The image is marvellously scratched and rased or very rudely made with knobs and dents in the legs of it Now he looketh four wayes And speaketh the man with the Wart on his face The house aforementioned seemeth to stand without the stone and beyond the stone Now they poure bloud out of a Bason upon the fire and lay the hand upon it and it frieth in the fire Now he and the Italian-like man have put on Apparel black like Gowns each of them and the engine seemeth now to be set in a Chimney Gab. ..... Be it as it was E. K. There be six smokes like six men standing about them and they go like smokes out at a window and there standeth one like a Gyant man and he taketh them and windeth them up as they come out at the window Now all that shew is vanished away Gab. ..... This is the cause that Lasky is poor This is the seventh image that he hath scraped so Δ. As it is the seventh so I trust it is the last Gab. ..... This is three years four moneths and ten dayes since they begun so long hath the Angel of the Lord been ready for thy safe-guard O Lasky standing at the window and ready to binde up mischief prepared against thee This mischief shall light upon his own head But if thou remain my servant and do the works that are righteous I will put Solomon behinde thee and his riches under thy feet Be therefore comforted in me for the breath thou breathest is mine and the body that thou dwellest in is the work of my hands The earth from whence thou camest is mine also It is I therefore that cast down and none but I that raise up again E. K. All the stone is become full of a smoke Gab. ..... Art thou sure that the Sun shineth Δ. I am as much as my eye may judge Gab. ..... So sure it is that he shall reign and be the King of Poland Δ. Alwayes I understand a condition if he do c. Δ. The will of God be done to his honour and to the comfort of his Elect. Gab. ..... Make haste for your journey Δ. O Lord the man is ready in manner but hability wanteth and to ask thy help herein we dare not but as thy will is so be it Gab. ..... To talk with God for money is a folly to talk with God for mercy is great wisdom Δ. Lord this mighty arm and hand which
him that A. L. should not go to the Emperours Court for lack of money for he should get none here Likewise it willed him to go up into his Study and he would shew him all the effect of our Instructions received E. K. complained to me how he was thus greivously molested by such means and almost brought in despair But I comforted him as well as I could my self being inwardly most sorrowful and made my moane to God by prayer when I was alone for him and our Cause Moreover he could not be perswaded by me that good Angels would undertake to help us to any relief by money or treasure affirming that it appertained to the wicked ones seeing they were the Lords of this World and the kingdom of God was not of this World c. .... Said that the wicked were in the world and of the world but the Elect were in the world but not of the World Si de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod suum est diligeret quia vero de mundo non estis sed ego elegi vos de mundo propterea odit vos mundus Ergo dedi eis sermonem tuum 〈◊〉 eos odio habuit quia non sunt de mundo sicut ego non 〈◊〉 de mundo Non r go 〈◊〉 tollas eos de mundo sed ut serues eos à malo De mundo non sunt sicut ego non sum de mundo c. To be of the world was to be in love with the trade of the vanities of this world and to follow them And that money and riches were things indifferent good if they were well used and evil if they were evilly used And that Bonis omnia cooperabantur ad bonum Therefore the godly as the Patriarchs and many now adayes might have money but to use not abuse it and that such is our case and necessary request to God c. Sunday Cracovie Junii 24. à Meridie horam circiter tertiam Δ. Note while at my lodging by Saint Stephens I was writing the Note on the page going next before of the Tentations of Friday and Saterday E. K. was at my Lord A. L. his lodging at the Franciscan Fryars where he lay at Physick and at the same time this happened as followeth As my Lord A. L. and E. K. face together conferring and consulting of our affairs of Gods mercies and of sundry tentations of the spiritual enemy and afterward as the Lord A. L. was reading Rofensis psalm de Fiducia in Deum suddenly upon E. K. his right shoulder did a heavy thing seem to sit or rest whereof he told the Lord A. L. And afterward was this voyce uttered by that Creature in Latine Lasky veniet tempus cum tu portabis versum sedecimum illius Psalmi undecimi in vexillo tuo vinces inimicos tuos Then A. L sought in Davids Psalter for the eleventh Psalm and sixteenth verse thereof and while he was so about that Psalm The voyce said that he meant not that Psalm of David but the eleventh Psalm of Roffensis which Psalm the Lord A. L. was then in reading to E. K. and was about the verse Hic labor ac dolor c. being the sixth verse By and by after the voyce said in English Trust thou in God Hereupon the Lord A. L. did read forth that Psalm of Roffensis and when he came to the sixteenth verse thereof being Si ambulavero in medio tribulationis me custodies adversus inimicos tu ... Manum tuam extendes dextera tua me salvabis Thereupon the voyce said Put to the first line of the next verse And that was Domine tu omnia pro me perficies And as he would have read further the voyce willed him to stay at those words and said as followeth I swear unto thee by the true and living God that this shall come to passe Then E. K. said unto the Creature In the name of God Who art thou And he answered in Latin and said Ego Sum AVE cras plura audietis Δ. Gloria laus honor gratiarum actio perennis sit Deo Nostro omnipotenti Misericordi Amen Munday 25. Junii Mane hora 7. Cracoviae Δ. Orationem Dominicam pronunciavimus aliquot aliâ—â— or atiunculas ex Psalmis c. After we had sit awhile together conferring of Ave his Vision c. A voyce said bring up the shew-stone Δ. I had set it down on the Table behinde the Cushion with the Crosses for I had furnished the Table with the Cloath Candles c. as of late I was wont Hereupon I set up the stone on the Cushion E. K. There appeareth in the stone like a white Curtain all over the stone After awhile it was drawn and layed on the back-side of the stone on a heap together Now here standeth one in a white Garment with a white Cerclet about his head like a white smock I remember not that ever I saw this Creature before his Garment is tucked up ..... Who is he that is rich Δ. The Lord of all ..... He it is that openeth the store-houses not such as fly away with the winde but such as are pure and without end Δ. Blessed be his name for ever ..... To the pure in spirit and such as he delighteth in Amen Dixit Dominus Invoca nomen meum mittam vobis verbum quo fabricavi terram responsum dabit de se testimonium dabit de se ut in testimonio vincat malos E. K. Now is there fire come and hath consumed this Creature all to pieces and he is fall'n down to ashes Now he riseth up and he is brighter then he was before ..... So doth the glory of God comfort the just and they rise again with a threefold glorie Δ. A place was made E. K. Now he spreadeth the aire or openeth it before him and there appeareth before him a square Table Now he taketh off the Table a black Carpet Now he taketh off a green Carpet Now he taketh off a white Carpet Now he taketh off a red Cloath And now the Table appeareth to be made of earth as Potters Clay very raw earth E. K. The Table hath four feet of which two touch the ground and two do not The feet seem also to be of the earth The Table is square E. K. On the left corner farthest from E. K. did a T appear on the Table Out of the top of this T do four beams issue of clear collour bright ..... That part pointing to that T of the Table of the earth of those that govern the earth that is are governed by the seven Angels that are governed by the seven that stand before God that are governed by the living God which is found in the Seal of the living God Tan with the four which signifie the four powers of God principal in earth c. ..... Move not for the place is holy and
you that dare open his mouth saying God hath need of us Tell therefore what is the cause that God hath visited you Δ The 〈◊〉 judgments and determinations of the highest c. ..... Be silent thou answerest before thou art called .... What is there none of you that answereth me No where art thou Job where art thou Moses where art thou Zyrom where art thou Syracasba where art thou Daniel where art thou Jonas where art thou Ezechiel where art thou Holy holy Esdras where art thou You lesser Prophets where are you You number without number whom the Lord hath talked witha wherefore shew you not your selves All these were full of the Holy Ghost All these mortified their flesh for the love of God Yet what are you not able to render account or to shew the true cause why God hath visited you Goa visited you so long and so oft so mercifully and so abundantly and are you silent and ignorant Why Mandata tua justa sunt Domine What was this the cause that God visited you for that you should fulfill his Commandments and teach his people the way of salvation True it is it was the cause that moved you to obedience But the very cause why God appeared unto you you know not Behold the Commandments of God are just true whose sons you are if therefore you follow not the Commandments of your father you are disobedient But why your Father hath commanded you Lo I teach you When God of very God the true light beauty and honour of his Father conteined or was full of the image of an heaven and earth and by the omnipotent conjoyned and equal power and strength of them both joyned in one was brought forth and had his real beginning he determined also in the self-same Image and Idea the due and proper order just law and determination of all things that were comprehended which law and things together have their course co-essential both in heaven and earth distinguishing all things into their real beginnings limitation of time and determination between their extreams This order or law begun in the bosome of the Word of God keepeth so his proper course and order and law of his own establishment That those things that before were wrought in God might also receive working and being substantial to the end of God his progression This is the self-same that we spoke of before in the name of divine Necessity against the which no prayer prevaileth nor resistance can be made This Necessity was the cause O you Prophets and Children of God that God dwelt amongst you This Necessity was the instrument that brought you to the stage of your election This Necessity was the cause that God chose you This Necessity maketh of wax honey of tar milk of long ranging return of Infidels Christians of disobedient holy ones Finally of the unperfect and evil rage and roming astray of mankind the true number of such as return from wickednesse and are chosen to eternal joy from the beginning But this may seem unto you a strange and stumbling Doctrine I have 〈◊〉 the Basis. Δ We read the premisses which seemed to us very pithy and ponderous and full of mysteries Δ I noted two Prophets names not before ..... This Necessity is two-fold one that is to say the firs contemplative and fix The other working and leading to an end In the first do dwell two great and mighty Judges Justice and Mercy In the second dwelleth the son and image of Justice leading on by order for the course of things that are led on by the later have not true Justice but the image of Justice This is the cause that the elect and chosen may erre and go astray and lose the benefit both of the end of his Election and first determination For why All things come on and keep their course even as they are led by the image of Justice Man onely excepted which by reason of his free-will draweth out of order 〈◊〉 from the mark refuseth that which is good and through the burden of his flesh inclineth unto evil E. K. He teacheth himself In the which evil whilst he dwelleth and continueth lo the course of necessity taketh hold upon him and draweth him unto the scope or end whereunto he inclineth himself For behold Although he be before sanctified unto the Lord and made a chosen vessel wherein if he continue necessarily he shall enjoy the reward and glory of the sanctified Yet if he lose that Necessity and fly from his own law and condition taking part with the filthinesse and iniquity of his enemy through Satan or his flesh of Necessity he must perish For as those that are good tied unto the law of goodnesse are glorified if they continue so likewise are the evil tyed unto the law of wickednesse the Necessity whereof is damnable This is the cause that the Prophets are visited Because God found them punishing their flesh despising the vanities of the world and resisting Satan For lo the Lord looked down unto the earth And he saw them despising wickednesse fearing him and grounded in the faith of redemption Therefore he thrust himself in amongst them and through the first part of necessity in merc he visited them Take heed ô yo that the Lord of necessity visiteth in Justice for your burden shall be great and intolerable E. K. He is gone Δ We read and discoursed a pretty while E. K. Here he is again ..... Now unto the rest What is therefor that necessity divine against the which there is no prayer nor resistance For why it is evident That sinners may return and those that erre may be brought into the right way and that by Prayer Behold no man is penitent but he useth Prayer No man satisfieth but he useth Prayer No man taketh part with the Church but in Prayer for Prayer is the Key sanctified by the Holy Ghost which openeth the way unto God Necessity had determined the destruction of Ninevee necessity also saved it For lo when they should necessarily have received reward for their wickednesse they prayed and resisted necessity It appeareth therefore not yet what necessity that is that Prayer prevaileth not against Note here The later necessity is necessity leading malum ad malum bonum ad bonum which necessity is that which is tyed unto every thing leading it unto the end that it desireth Even as God seeing the Prophets for sake the loathsomnesse of their flesh and framing themselves to the necessity which leadeth unto good of his meer mercy in the first thrust himself amongst them fixing their later and desired necessity with a necessity of his Omnipotent and unspeakable mercy wherein there dwelleth two things Joy and Perseverance These therefore as the Prophet which are visited with God in mercy are fed nourished and fostered as the Prophets were with these two dishes Whereof the greatest is Perseverance Herein I teach you that he that is first
despised and withall was urged with replies to the contrary by him made and promises in that case of the loss of his souls health if they were not of God Whereunto upon as it were some farther taste of them or opinion grounded upon the frailty of zeal he ceased not also to pawn unto me his soul c. which his perswasions were the chief and onely cause of my this so long proceeding with them And now also at this instant and before a few dayes having manifest occasion to think they were the servants of Sathan and the children of darkness because they manifestly urged and commanded in the name of God a Doctrine Damnable and contrary to the Laws of God his Commandements and Gospel by our Saviour Christ as a Touchstone to us left and delivered did openly unto them dislike their proceeding and brotherly admonished the said Worshipful and my good friend Mr. JOHN d ee to beware of them And now having just occasion to determine what they were to consider all these things before mentioned by me and wisely to leave them and the rather because of themselves they as that by their own words appeareth upon our not following that Doctrine delivered gave unto us a Quietus est or pasport of freedome But the Books being brought forth after some discourse therein after a day or two had and their words perused spoken heretofore did as it were because of the possible verity thereof Deo enim omnia sunt possibilia gave us cause of further deliberation so that thereby I did partly of my self and partly by the true meaning of the said Mr. d ee in the receiving of them as from God and after a sort by the zeal I saw him bear unto the true worship and glory of God to be as that was by them promised by us promoted descend from my self and condescend unto his opinion and determination giving over all reason or whatsoever for the love of God But the women disliked utterly this last Doctrine and consulting amongst themselves gave us this answer the former actions did nothing offend them but much comforted them and therefore this last not agreeing with the rest which they think to be according to the good will and wholesome Law of God maketh them to fear because it expresly is contrary to the Commandement of God And thereupon desiring God not to be offended with their ignorance required another action for better information herein in the mean vowing fasting and praying Mrs. d ee hath covenanted with God to abstain from the eating of fish and flesh untill his Divine Majesty satisfie their mindes according to his Laws established and throughout all Christendome received To this their request of having an action I absolutely answer that my simplicity before the Highest is such as I trust will excuse me And because the summe of this Doctrine given in his name doth require obedience which I have as is before written offered I think my self discharged And therefore have no farther cause to hazzard my self any more in any action Wherefore I answer that if it be lawful for them to call this Doctrine in question it is more lawful for me to doubt of greater perril considering that to come where we are absolutely answered were folly and might redound unto my great inconvenience Therefore beseeching God to have mercy upon me and to satisfie their Petitions doubts and vows I finally answer that I will from this day forward meddle no more herein 22. of April 1587. By me EDWARD KELLY. Aprilis 24. Trebonae Δ. PRayers to God made in respect of this strange and new doctrine requiring his Divine Majesty to be merciful unto us and to give us wisdom and faith that we may herein please him and that we cannot finde how we may do the thing required being contrary to the Laws of Moses Christ his Church and of all Nations Therefore seeing God is not contrary to himself we desired that we might not be contrary to him or his Laws c. Δ. Not long lo there appeared a great flame of fire in the principal Stone both standing on the Table before E. K. which thing though he told me I made no end of my Prayer to God And behold suddenly one seemed to come in at the south window of the Chappel right against E. K. But before that the stone was heaved up an handful high and set down again well which thing E. K. thought did signifie some strange matter toward Then after the man that came in at the window seemed to have his nether parts in a cloud and with spred-abroad arms to come toward E. K. At which sight he shrinked back somewhat and then that Creature took up between both his hands the stone and frame of gold and mounted up away as he came E. K. catched at it but he could not touch it At which thing being so taken away and at the sight thereof E. K. was in a great fear and trembling and had tremorem cordis for a while But I was very glad and well pleased ¶ Here appeareth a fire in this other stone also and a man in the fire with flaxen hair hanging down upon him and is naked unto his Paps and seemeth to have spots of blood upon him He spake and said as followeth If I had intended to have overthrown you or brought you to confusion or suffered you to be led into temptation beyond your strength and power then had the Seas long ago swallowed you Yea there had not a soul lived amongst you But the law and tidings to mankind of gladness are both grounded in me I am the Beginning and the Ending And behold happy is he that delighteth in me for in me is truth and understanding Whatsoever you have received you have received of me and without me you have received nothing Behold I my self was even the figure of misery and death for your sins Why therefor disdain you to be figured after me I will gather the four quarters of the earth together and they shall become one And as I have made you the figure of two people to come and amongst them the executors of my Justice So likewise have I sanctified you in an holy Ordinance giving you the first fruits of the time to come Happy is he that is a Serpent in the wilderness hanged up upon the Cross being the will and figure of my determination and Kingdom to come I am even in the doors and I will overthrow all flesh I will no more delight in the sons of men * Contrary to my self I teach you nothing For this Doctrine is not to be published to mortal men but is given unto you to manifest your faith and to make you worthy in the sight of the heavens for believing in me of your vocation to come Therefore I say unto you Rejoyce and be not careful for to morrow for I even I have provided for you Sin no more
to be afraid of it Of the Transmutation of Metals what may be done by Art I will not take upon me to determine I am apt enough to believe that some strange things in that kind may be done if a man will go to the cost of it and undergoe the trouble upon so much uncertainty of the event But that which we call ordinarily and most understand by it The Phylosophers Stone is certainly a meer cheat the first author and inventor whereof was no other then the Divel Legi etiam Spiritum supernorum revelatione traditam antiquitus artem faciendi Auri me aetate idem usu evenisse c. saith one Jo. Franc. Picus Mirandula of the learnedst Author that I have seen of that subject in defence of it I meant If he mean Supernos Spiritus such as appear in form of Angels of Light such as deluded Dr. Dee and daily doth those that hunt after Revelations and Prophecies and unlawful Curiosities I grant it But that any good Angels did ever meddle in a practice commonly attended with so much imposture impiety cousenage as this commonly is I shall not easily grant Though I must add I make great difference if we will speak properly between Arts faciendi auri a thing I do not deny to be feasible by natural means and that we call the Phylosophers Stone as before already intimated And for that objection of his why evil Spirits should not be the Authors or revealers of it unto any though otherwise for some other reasons he thinks it probable because it is not likely that God would suffer 〈◊〉 to give such power unto men like themselves whom only among men they favour and respect that is wicked ungodly men First I answer That is a very weak objection since we know by constant experience of present and future Ages that they are not of the best of men commonly that are the greatest and richest But Secondly There is no great cause to fear that any thing hitherto revealed or hereafter to be revealed I believe of this secret should enable men good or bad to do much hurt in the world The greatest hurt is to themselves who are deluded yea and beggerd many first or last and to some few not very wise whom they cousen as themselves have been cousened And for this that they can do no more we are beholding not to the Divel who certainly would not be vvanting to himself or to any opportunity to do mischief by himself or his Agents but to God vvho doth not give him the povver So much to 〈◊〉 out of my respect to his name and for the better satisfaction to the Reader I ovve the sight and use of the book to my Learned friend Dr. Windett before mentioned I am much confirmed in that opinion of the Divel being the Author by vvhat I find of it in the book vvhich hath given me this occasion to speak of it Were there nothing else but the gross and impudent forgeries that have been used to commend it unto men some entituling the Invention to Adam himself others to Solomon and the like and the many books that have been counterfeited to the same end and again the most ridiculous and profane applying expounding of Scriptures a thing usually done by most that are abettors of it those things vvere enough to make a man to abhor it Sure enough it is that not only Dr. d ee but others also vvho had part of that precious Powder brought unto them by Spirits and expected great matters of it vvere all cheated and gull'd and I believe it cost some of them a good deal of money Prince Rosemberg particularly by those Spiritual Chymists Let them consider of it that have been dealing in such things as they shall see cause So still we see that in all these things as we said before the Divel is not beholding to others as might be suspected but others have been beholding to him As for his Divinity in highest points if he spake the truth it was for his own ends as we said before He can do it who makes any question In controverted points we may observe that he doth serve the scene and present occasion and I make no question but had Dr. d ee gone to Constantinople and been entertained there with respect his Spirits there would have shewed themselves as good Mahometans as elsewhere good Roman Catholicks or Protestants We have somewhere a very pretty Tale I would say a curious Observation if I thought it true concerning the nature of the Serpent or Addar handsomly expressed how she traineth her yong ones to set them out abroad into the world that they may shift for themselves Twenty days as I remember are spent in that work Now whether it be so really I cannot say certainly but I suspect it It is not in Aristotle and I looked in Aldrovandus and I could not finde it But whether it be so or no let no body wonder for this was the maner of Preaching formerly and may be yet perchance in some places among Monks and Fryars in great request They would make a story of Man or Beasts as they thought fit themselves and their Fancies best served pretty and witty as much as they could whether it had any ground of truth or no no man required The moralization was good If the Divel have done so here it was not through ignorance for he is too good a Naturalist and I believe there is somewhat even in Nature though we know it not why both in sacred and prophane History Spirits and Serpents are so often joyned of which is true and real but as hath been said it served his turn and that is enough And although having considered it as an Objection how the Divel cometh to speak so much truth as will be found in this Book no man I think will expect I should give an account of any false Doctrine or Divinity that it may contain Yet one point I think fit to take notice of and protest against it as false erronious and of dangerous consequence and that is where it is said That a man in some cases may kill another man Prince or other without apparent cause or lawful Authority and therefore punishable by the Laws of Man who nevertheless may expect a great reward at the hands of God for his act How this may agree with the Principles of New Lights and Anabaptistical Divinity I know not it is very contrary to the Principles of that Orthodox Divinity lately professed and established by Law in England I have now said in this main Objection as I apprehended it what I think was most proper and pertinent and I hope may satisfie But I have somewhat else to say which in this case of Divels and Spirits in general I think it very considerable and may satisfie perchance in some cases where nothing else can We talk of Spirits and read of Spirits often but I think it is very little that we know
pretty similitude if true whereof see in the Preface of the Adders dealing with her young Infidelity how great a sin Yet Ed. Kelley still incredulous for all this and very resolute ¶ LXXVI 186. Christ his coming in Triumph c. The Book of Invocation Satans Pretended opposition Some Prophesies Promises and Instructions LXXVII p. 187. Some questions belonging to the Cabale partly eluded partly answered Invocations of good Angels Set Prayers not allowed and why Evil spirits how to be dealt with The Book of Invocations and now Set Prayers allowed of LXXVIII p. 189. Sermon-like stuff of the use of 〈◊〉 c. Some promises to Doctor Dee and Ed. Kelley A Progresse in the Cabale of Calls LXXIX p. 195. Doctor Dee and his fellow reproved Doctor Dee with great humility doth answer for himself Enoch the Book delivered unto him the same in substance as this they say by God His Prayer Humility c. LXXX LXXXI p. 197. The spirits appoint their time and appear The precise time of Christs coming and other Prophesies not revealed unto men for three reasons LXXXII LXXXIII p. 198. 199. The spirits c. as before The nineteen Calls and their beginnings LXXXIV p. 200. More Calls and mysteries but not without pretended opposition of wicked spirits Adam's fall The Curse upon it and the effect of it LXXXV p. 206. More Calls and Aires An apparent contradiction observed by Doctor Dee but cunningly evaded by the spirits Doctor Dee his Hymne and spiritual but not from God because not well grounded rejoycing and thank giving His son Roland in great danger LXXXVI p. 210. Doctor Dee's contest with his spirits he asserts his own innocency and to the utmost of his power obedience but is baffled by the spirits Al. L. rejected LXXXVII p. 211. The same contest prosecuted here also with some threatnings ¶ Their coming to Prague ¶ Some Chimical gibbrish fit stuff to amuse unsettled braines found in the house concerning the Philosophers Stone Read there and. si rubeo m. sit nupta m c. ¶ p. 213. Some conjectures and meditations of Doctor Dee's upon some places of Scripture LXXXVIII The VI Viol in the Apocalypse as understood by Doctor Dee A very good blessing pronounced by an evill spirit Divers Woes denounced Somewhat of Doctor Dee's Wife Al. Lasky Doctor Dee sent to Rodolphus Emperour with a message as from God LXXXIX p. 217. The Angelical Book New orders about it Al. Lasky though rejected yet to be great for a while Inspiration promised to Dr. d ee about a Letter to the Emperour ¶ A Copy of the said Letter by inspiration probably enough of spirits as a man may ghuesse by the stuff to the Emperour Secrecy desired XC p. 219. Sermon-like stuff The power of God Several Woes The Trinity c. Dr. d ee not being willing to be put off longer the spirits against their wills make some progresse in the Cabale Doctor Dee in the execution of Gods will to proceed with fury c. XCI p. 222. Doctor Dee sharply reproved by examples out of the Scriptures c. for chusing when it was put to his choice rather present performance than longer delay XCII p. 223. The same matter here also The yeares of Doctor Dee's life 73. and a half which perchance might come very near to the truth if we could certainly know when he died determined Ed. Kelley to die violently and so he did for endeavouring an escape out of prison he brake a leg and died of it as generally reported Doctor Dee doth repent and revoke his choice in very good language had it been upon a good ground ¶ Doctor Dee's Letter to the King of Spain his Agent or Ambassadour with the Emperour about his Letter and means of accesse to the Emperour XCIII Several questions proposed by Doctor Dee The spirits shrewdly put to it about a lye which they had told and yet by the help of Cabalistical querks and distinctions but especially of Anabaptistical infatuations in Doctor Dee they come off with credit In what sense Doctor Dee might truly say That himself had seen whatsoever Ed. Kelley had seen ¶ Doctor Dee his Letter and Present graciously received by the Emperour XCIV p. 228. Apparitions not in the Stone The priviledge of apparition in the Stone The Mysterie of the Trinity Reason an enemy to God to Delusion indeed and wildnesse sound and sober Reason as the spirits would have it The Emperour threatned The names of the spirits now appearing and how to be found in the Cabalistical Tables ¶ Some drunken pranks of Kelley's and why here recorded ¶ A letter of the Spanish Embassadour his Secretary to Doctor Dee whereby he doth signifie the Emperours desire and appointment to have him come to him Octavius Spinola Chamberlain c. brings him to him An account of what was said on both sides Doctor Dee's Monas of which see more in the Preface his Revelations and Visions His Angelical Stone c. ¶ XCV p. 231. Kelly's former miscarriage taken notice of the cause of it It is forgiven Doctor Dee c. Their Office magnified Kingdomes of the Earth to be destroyed Hierusalem restored Christ to Reigne Other Predictions very strange but not true and the certain year Rodolph Emperour to be exalted Stephen King of Poland to be destroyed Enoch's Tables Doctor Dee his Prayer and Kelley's Vow ¶ Doctors Dee's Letter to Octavius Spinola to be communicated to the Emperour but not delivered at that time by reason of the Emperour his absence ¶ XCVI p. 235. Ga. Za. Vaa spirits invited that is called upon by Doctor Dee their answer interpreted by him ¶ The former Letter with some alterations delivered and the Emperours very gracious answer to it by the said Spinola Doctor Curtzius a Doctor of the Laws one of the Emperours Privy Council accounted very Learned appointed by the Emperour to deal with Doctor Dee in his behalf ¶ XCVII p. 237. Doctor Dee asketh counsell of God he thought but first encountereth with Pilosus an evil spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as I take it and his temptations Ed. Kelley very penitent still but desirous as unfit to be out of his Office The spirits appear Reconciliation twofold with God with the Church c. Purgatory The body of Christ The case of Rodolph Emperour in case he obey or disobey The spirit of Choice in Doctor Dee explained Doctor Curtz allowed of ¶ p. 239. Doctor Curtz and Doctor Dee after some Complements by Messengers meet Their conference of six hours Doctor Dee's Relation of himself his Studies his Suite and therein though not apprehended by himself his intollerable presumption pride high opinion of himself c. Revelations Books and wonderfull confidence as of most that are so deluded ¶ Ed. Kelley strangely tempted ¶ Doctor Dee's mistrust of Doctor Curtz upon what grounds ¶ XCVIII p. 240. Lying and froward silence not ordinarily expounded Reconciliation to the Church The sin against the Holy Ghost what it is
and by his order and for his service required wisdom and true knowledge so do I not doubt but God will according to his accustomed goodnesse provide for me that is best for my vocation here in earth c. E. K. He rose and went away and left me alone in my Study appointed for these actions Deus in adjutorium meum intende Domine ad adjuvandum me festina Gloria Patri Filio Spiritui Sancto sicut erat in principio nunc semper in secula seculorum Amen Thursday Circa 9. As I was in my upper Study and had gathered the holy words of the second and third call and had conferred them with their English delivered also unto us E. K. came up the stairs and so went into his Study and came out again and as he was going down the staires I opened my Study door and saluted him He thereupon came up again and came into my Study And there I shewed him what I had done and how I had some understanding of those holy words their significations by reason of due applying the English to the word Christus in tending thereby to have induced E. K. to likē the better of the manner of our friends due and Methodical proceeding with us and told him that unlesse of this strange language I should have these words delivered unto us Letter by Letter we might erre both in Orthography and also for want of the true pronunciation of the words and distinctions of the points we might more misse the effect expected But as on Tuesday last so now again he said our Teachers were deluders and no good or sufficient Teachers who had not in two years space made us able to understand or do somewhat and that he could in two years have learned all the seven Liberal sciences if he had first learned Logick c. wherefore he would have no more to do with them any manner of way wished himself in England and said that if these books were his that he would out of hand burn them and that he had written to my Lord by Pirmis that he took our Teachers to be decelvers and wicked and no good Creatures of God with many such speeches and reasons as he thought of force to diswade himself from any more dealing with them But willed me to use John my Boy as my Skryer for that these spiritual Creatures were not bound unto him c. I answered unto all these parcels and reasons as time served declaring my perfect trust in God that seeing I have many years desired and prayed for wisdome such as these Actions import at his hands and by such means as to his Divine Majesty seemeth best that he would not either mislike my prayer or abuse my Constant hope in his goodnesse and mercy Therefore I concluded that I referred all to the mercifull will of God and doubted nothing at the length to be satisfied of my request and prayer made unto him So he went from me this second time .... God lighten his heart with knowledge of the truth if it be his Divine will and pleasure Note Permis went on last Wednesday morning and had received our Letters after noon on Tuesday last But on Monday before the wicked Prince of darknesse did what he could to hinder our proceeding On Thursday Tabius brother to my Lord Laskie his wife brought news to Cracovia that my Lord Laskie was coming to Cracovia ward Emericus came from Kesmarks and returned back again Tabius rode from Cracovia toward Kesmark Saturday Aprilis 21. à Meridie After our prayers made appeared shortly Gabriel and Nalvage E. K. propounded six questions orderly which had bred great doubt in this fantafie and requested their answers Δ. He would have our spiritual friends to promise him the performance of the Prints Gab. ...... If we were Masters of our own doings we might well promise But we are servants and do the will of our master But let me ask thee one question Dost thou not think that all things are possible with God E. K. I do so and I know so Gab. ...... Then is there no cause why thou should distrust Let him that is a servant and is commanded to go go and let not the earth rise up and strive against the plow man What sin is it when the creature riseth up and saith in his heart Let the Lord make a Covenant with me considering he is a bond man E. K. They seem both the voices at once to come to my eare None but he that becometh disobedient and refuseth his Master Δ ....... Δ would do so Gab. Nal. ...... These things that is to say this Doctrine delivered by us is of God and of his mercies granted unto you which cannot be in vain and therefore to be performed for the secret determinations of God are unknown unto us He never heard of any man that would ask if God would perform his promises E. K. By August next What if it were a hundred Augusts you may be a weary before August next as the Children of Israel were of their Manna E. K. Why joyn you numbers with these letters and added none with those of the former Table Brother what is the cause that all the World is made by numbers The Numbers we speak of are of reason and form and not of merchants Δ. I beseech you as concerning the powder whereof he thinketh that he hath made due assay of it as if it should have been the Philosophers Stone and so affirmed to be by the minister of this action I beseech you so to answer the thing as his reason may be satisfied Δ. They gave no answer hereunto but proceeded in the former matter of Numbers Gab. ...... Every Letter signifieth the member of the substance whereof it speaketh Every word signifieth the quiddity of the substance The Letters are separated and in confusion and therefore are by numbers gathered together which also gathered signifie a number for as every greater containeth his lesser so are the secret and unknown forms of things knit up in their parents Where being known in number they are easily distinguished so that herein we teach places to be numbred letters to be elected from the numbred and proper words from the letters signifying substantially the thing that is spoken of in the center of his Creator whereby even as the minde of man moved at an ordered speech and is easily perswaded in things that are true so are the creatures of God stirred up in themselves when they hear the words wherewithal they were nursed and brought forth For nothing moveth that is not perswaded neither can any thing be perswaded that is unknown The Creatures of God understand you not you are not of their Cities you are become enemies because you are separated from him that Governeth the City by ignorance E. K. Whether is this Language known in any part of the World or no if it be where and to whom Gab. ......
were such as her self and she lifted up her head and leaned upon her twice writhen taile and beheld the Sun stedfastly for her envy was toward that City and she said within her self My children are yet young the time grew and they became big and she went unto the Spring and smiled and said with a laughing voice The Earth is fallen into thee thou art choked but hearken unto my voice Thou shalt receive comfort But she would not And she lifted up her voice and roared for she was full of craft and deceit And she said unto the shingles through the which the Spring runs or rather syeth Thou art full of emptinesse and void places Let my children therefore hide themselves within thee for a season and they were contented And she departed willingly and saith within her self Now I know I shall be Lady of the City And after a few years the young Serpents became great so that the one half of their bodies dwelt within the Shingles the rest troubled the passage of the Spring So that the Spring groaned for the injury that was done against her was great A great misery for the Hill is become desolate without the water and the City and the beasts perish for want of drink for the people groan and are ful of sorrow This City and Serpents are 60. now and judgement must be had betwixt the Shingles and the Spring for between lieth the life and death of the City Thus saith the Lord unto thee pointing to E. K. Gird up thy self and fit down Consider both parts and give judgement for thy mouth shall this day be the judgement of the Lord. E. K. Do you mean me Ë. K. As the Lord hath put the Authority of Judgement into my hands so I beseech him to give me wisdom and understanding to judge right And because the judgement hereof is committed to me I suspect some other mystery to lie hidden in this my judgement required But if it shall please God that my friend here Master Dee shall give me his advise I shall think my self well satisfied ....... Consider with your self saith the Lord and give judgement against the Shingles for the fault is plain Consider two points the necessity of the Spring that it must come that wayes and secondly the health of the City E. K. My judgement is that the Shingles and Serpent should be removed away by an Earthquake from the place which they encumber and let that there may be a fit new place and course for that Spring to the relief of that City as before it was ...... Be it so as thou hast said for it is a just judgement Now hearken what the Lord saith The people and City of the Hill is the world which are from time to time by the mercy and spring of Gods wisdom relieved quenched according to the extremity and necessity of their thirsting But the people and City are such as are of the Temple and Church of God which drink of his mercy to their comfort The Camels and other beasts are the people of the Earth which delight in sin and in their own imagination which also are relieved with those that are of the City but the diversities of their bodies doth cause the diversity of the ends of their comfort The Hill wherein the Spring is signifieth his Prophets and such as are drunken in the Lord Thrâ—ugh whom inwardly the mercies and will of God and of the Highest are open from time to time according to the secret will and determination of such as are within the City of his Elect. But the frailties and affections of their flesh and outward man are their fond imaginations and loose Shingles wherein the Serpent the old Devil hath harboured her children the spirits of darknesse and deceit which alwayes resist the Will of God and are put between the mercies of God and his people Moses Daniel Esdras all the rest of the Prophets Christ his twelve Paul the Messenger of God they did all hurt the Congregation of the Faithful in their flesh until they gave sentence against themselves as thou hast done with amendment of life for who is worthy to know the secrets of our God but he that delighteth in righteousnesse is obedient full of faith and the spirit of understanding Be it therefore unto thee as thou hast said Let the Shingles and Serpents be separated that the Fountain may feed as before All the trash that thou hast of the wicked burn it E. K. I do not know they are wicked ...... Their doings with thee are the hindrance of the Will of God and therefore they are wicked ...... Thou hast given judgement against thy self Take heed thou offend not thy own soul. Δ. Send down thy Spirit O Lord and illuminate E. K. his heart with perceiving of his wrong opinion c. E. K. If Moses and Daniel were skilful in the Arts of the Egyptian Magicians and were not thereby hindred for being the servants of God Why may not I deal with these without hindrance to the Will of God ...... Darknesse yeilded unto light the Greater excluded the lesser The more a man knoweth wickednesse the more he shall hate it being called back The more they knew the shadow so much more they delighted in the body For the doings of the Egyptians seem and are not so The doings of the Lord are and continue for as the Painter imitateth the gestures of man in his faculty so doth the Devil the substances and things created and made by God Stand up and look into the whole World into her youth and middle age for they are past Where are the monuments that Satan hath builded E. K. Hath Satan builded any monuments ...... Yes Hath he not builded him a Fort upon the whole Earth Hath he not the victory over the Saints Dwelleth he not in the Temple of the Highest Triumpheth he not in the Cities of the whole World Yes ...... But without comfort are his victories without pleasure his dwelling places For he knoweth his time is at hand He that now giveth freedom shall become bound And unto whom the whole World is as a Garden shall there be no one foot left Therefore are all his pleasures vanity all his Triumphs smoak and his Authority nothing indeed but a meer shadow For that that is not cannot be where it is said of the Lord it shall not be Neither can truth light or wisdom ascend from the Earth but descend from the Heavens Compare the Earth into the which the Devil is thrust as into his dwelling with the Heavens which are provided for the holy Consider the pain of the one and the pleasure of the other The seat of Gods Justice and Fountain of his Mercy The Cave of Darknesse and the Diadem of Light And then cry wo wo wo unto such as erre and whose lives are but shadows For their felicity is such as from whence it came and their reward is all one with the spirit and
prince of Darknesse Compare fond knowledge with true wisdom Thy spirits of lying with us that are the voice of truth The vanity that they lead thee into and the reward of our message And say within thy self peccavi Wilt thou be perswaded by experience Consider thy imprisonments thy affliction and shame of body Consider the love of a few and envy of a multitude Weigh with thy self the vanity of thy life Thy rash foot-steps All that happned unto thee by the society and as thou thinkest comfort but indeed the stinging pricks of thy enemies ...... Since we came into thee sent from the Lord and calling thee to God thou hast beâ—â— delivered from them from a place full of fornication and the wrath of God exalted to the skirts of worldly honour and hast been satisfied for the necessities of this World Holy is the money that is gotten righteously but accursed are the evils that are reaped with wrong All which things thou hast by us in blessednesse and in the knowledge of the will of God above all men Besides our continual presence with thee to the comfort of thy Soul Even these things are of us and of our God Which sware unto Abraham and dwelleth in the Temple of righteousnesse Now therefore let experience be a Judge betwixt us and them But this sayeth the Lord. I deal with you as a Childe But the vessels that I must use must be pure and clean Δ. Cleanse thou us O Lord Cor mundum Crea in nobis Crea Gab. ..... They that are incredulous believe not the Lord but drive away his spirit But where a grain is it becometh as a mountain The Lord is upon the earth Take heed thou sweep thy house clean for unto him that is naked shall there be Cloathes given But be that is covered already shall be made bare Consider with thy self for the Lord speaketh not once more till thou hast fulfilled thy own judgement E. K. I will be contented to bury them in the field and not to use them or come at them and that I will swear upon the Bible to perform and if they be earthly I will commit them to the earth and so separate those shingles from the place near the spring and in this manner fulfill my own judgement For I will not be obstinate but commit all things to the end Because thou art content to bury them and withall upon faith in the promises of God to abjure them in simplicity of heart and external use .... simply as a true meaning before the face of the highest The Lord accepteth it and it shall be sufficient Further thou hast 27. Confirmations of sin and consent with the Devil which your intention calleth Characters whereby those seven and twenty like unto their mother are become familiar and pleasant with thee they must be brought before the Lord and offered into his hands For so long as they are the wicked alwayes vex thee For the Obligation burnt the condition is void These must be buried with the rest E. K. Which rest ...... But must be brought and burnt here before the presence of God That the cause diminished the effect may perish E. K. I will be contented to bury them likewise beseeching the Almighty to accept of my intent herein as of the rest before specified ...... He is contented but let one be burnt You may suffer one to testifie the discredit of the rest It is but according to the grounds of thy own Magick E. K. I do not understand your meaning herein Gab. ..... Radius partis may be sicut totius Corporis E. K. I understand not that also Gab. ...... Magick worketh effect in things absent that it doth in their parts being present The wicked kill the body absent but the garment present so are all of one confederacie disgraced by the confusion of one Thou art contented to bury them all upon the confidence and sure hope of the promises of the God of light and to bring one as a confirmation of thy promise to testifie thy obedience as concerning the whole which one burnt and abjured may be a testimony to the Angels that thou art obedient for God his sake and for his testimony and truth But this you shall burn with Brimstone onely Whose ashes shall be kept as a testimony till the rest be also consumed This you shall do the next Monday at the rising of the Sun That the number of the time may be of one bignesse For before August shall those Keyes be delivered unto you which give entrance yea even into the privy Chambers of wisdom whereof you shall have 14. the next Monday And this dayes action is not the least amongst them Glory be to God and obedience unto man E. K. The Curtain is drawn Δ. We are desirous to know whether thus this dayes action shall be finished and whether we shall fast still as was prescribed Gab. ..... Detract not from the day that which is commanded Δ. We are very desirous to understand of the present estate of the Lord Albert Laskie for as much as we were willed to go with him and he linked to us in some part of our actions To understand of his state would be to our great comfort Gab. ..... It needeth not for the world her self is at hand Δ. Verily I understand not that speach Is he coming back again What We are commanded we know And further then our Commandment is errour He is in his hand that knoweth how to use him E. K. I see a man climing over a Hedge and as he clammereth over the stakes break and he falleth down Now he is going up between two Trees into a Medow-ward Now he hath both the boughs in his hand standing still on the ground Now he goeth lower there is a gap and through that he is gone into the Medow ..... so it is of Laskie ..... said a voyce Δ. This is dark it may please you to give some light g ..... This is more then enough for the matter Cease to ask these things here where it is said no impure thing should enter Δ. Gloria laus honor Deo Nostro Omnipotenti Patri filio spiritui Sancto nunc semper Amen Δ. Note at this present was one come and in the house of whom we understood not till he was gone whom the Lord A. Laskie had sent to certifie us that first he was in some cumber and hindrance Secondly how Fabius his brother in Law and another had given him counsel very rashly to proceed But leaving that Thirdly by the gap and open way with estate of the Commons or Citizens by their great Zeal and favour that he obtained his purpose This in effect we understood at the Messager his return after noon Which marvellous exactly did answer to the former shew Remember that on Saturday after noon the Chancelour came to Cracow with 60 Coaches in his Company and train he bringing in
answered with the first words I spoke to day Δ. Deo Opt. Max. sit omnis honor laus Gloria nunc semper Amen Thursday Maii. 24. Δ. Because E. K. came not according as it was bidden yesterday to follow the Action I went to his Study door and knocked for him And I requested him to come and he refused so to do and gave me a short and resolute answer That he would never more have to do with these Actions I asked him the reason why He would give none But earnestly denied to proceed I told him that his words yesternight that he could not this day deale did very much grieve me c. whereof he made small account So I went into my Study again and committed the Cause to God After half an hour and lesse he came speedily out of his Study and brought in his hand one Volume of Cornelius Agrippa his works and in one Chapter of that Book he read the names of Countries and Provinces collected out of Ptolomeus as the Author there noteth Whereupon he inferred that our spiritual Instructors were 〈◊〉 to give us a description of the World taken out of other Books and therefore he would have no more to do with them I replied and said I am very glad that you have a Book of your own wherein these Geographical names are expressed such as for the most part our Instructors had delivered unto us and that according to the Tenor and form of my request to him so to have them expressed for 〈◊〉 more perfect information by those known names to understand those 91 unknown and unheard of names of seven letters every one whereby they our Instructors I mean are very greatly to be thanked and to be deemed in all reasonable mens judgements most friendly and far from cosenage or abusing of us And farther I said that I my self had here set down on a paper all the 91 names together orderly as we received them and that I had here brought the description Geographical of the whole earthly Globe and also Pomponius Mela set forth in English with the Chartes thereunto belonging fairly described by hand To the intent he might see the verity of their words yesterday delivered unto us for the performance of my request made to them on Tuesday last in this form of words as the Book hath it recorded thus Δ. As you gave us a taste or warning of Italia and Britania so if it be thought good to you we are desirous to understand of the rest the Application to such names as we understand Whereby you may perceive said I to E. K. how your reason is marvellously confounded by your wilful phantasie For so much as wherein you would find fault in our spiritual Instructors doings Therein they have done that which I requested them as appeareth and that to the intent of known Countries we might understand which Angels had the government for such purposes as occasion might offer or require our practices to be tryed in This quoth I is to grosse your error and to wilful your wrangling But I do in narrower points peruse and consider their words and doings In which though sometimes my writings after your declaration hath been amended by them yet the occasion of miswritting for the most part hath been either in your misreporting what you saw and heard or in my wrong hearing or writing and sometime by the spiritual present correcting of my writing and sometime longer after c. But for all this E. K. remained of his wilful intent and so departed to his Study again And I committed God his Cause into his own hands care and ordering as may be best for his honour and glory So be it Monday Maii 28. hora 10½ ante meridiem Δ. I said the Lords Prayer E. K. Here appeareth nothing but the clear Stone Now there appeareth a white circle more than usual it is as it were a white smoak very large comprehending all the heavens in manner having as it were the breadth of my finger in the circumference or border of it Δ. After this an hour and an half after divers our discourses of my Wife her speeches and usage toward E. K. c. E. K. Here appeareth one like him in the green that appeared last day the Etymologie of whose name is Dic illis and his name Mapsama Δ. In the name of Jesus and for the honour of Jesus we beseech you to deliver the verity of your message Maps ..... He liveth and he saith Arise up and say unto them How many times have I opened my armes to embrace you How oft have I wept over you as a father But you are still stiff-necked and disobedient children Lo I cease yet and will not impute this wickednesse unto you Δ. O blessed God blessed God blessed God of mercies Maps ..... Because my promises may be notwithstanding that the sons of men may not say such a day cometh in the Bridegroom nor at such a time shall the Lilly spring Let the day that I will visit you in be unknown unto you E. K. I thought you would say so Map ..... But this you shall do utter part ..... Bind up together 48 leaves whose skin shall bear Silver Whose Perimeter shall be 〈◊〉 30 inches in length 8 in breadth 7. Δ. Do you require it to be parchment or paper Map ..... I have said Δ. What shall I then do after I have caused 48 leaves to be bound Map ..... This done rise up and perform your Journey as you are commexded Δ. I have heard onely of the binding of the book Mean you after the binding of the book that this journey shall be entred into Map ..... I Δ. What shall I do with the book after I have bound it E. K. I will answer for him .... burn it Map ..... The fourteenth day of your rest even this Table-Cloath and none other shall be spread for a Banket E. K. He pointeth to this Diaper Table-Cloath Whereunto you shall invite the Angels of the Lord In the middest of the Table lay down the book and go forth make also the doors after you That the heavens may justifie your faith and you may be comforted For man is not worthy to write that shall be written neither shall there be found many worthy to open that book I have entered already into the Emperours heart But it may be he will become wilfull If he do a hundred and twelve dayes remain and he is not For I have cut down the banks the waters may rush out that there may be a sudden alteration In this now time When I warn you you shall return But you please me much if you believe If time govern not my providence repine not but let my providence govern time Look neither for the Sun nor Moon but be ready alwayes For whom I finde apt shall be made 〈◊〉 And to him that is barren shall there be little
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
another And there shall be bloud shed throughout all the World fighting between the Devil his Kingdom and the Kingdome of light Contentions and quarrels on the earth between man and man father and son wife and husband Kingdom and Kingdom yea even in the very beasts of the field shall there be hatred And into them shall the spirits of Contention enter For now cometh the necessity of things E. K. He now kneeleth down Gab. ..... As for you thus sayeth the Lord. I have chosen you to enter into my barns And have commanded you to open the Corn that the scattered may appear and that which remaineth in the sheaf may stand And have entered into the first and so into the seventh And have delivered unto you the Testimony of my spirit to come For my Barn hath been long without Threshers And I have kept my flayles for a long time hid in unknown places Which flayle is the Doctrine that I deliver unto you Which is the Instrument of thrashing wherewith you shall beat the sheafs that the Corn which is scattered and the rest may be all one But a word in the mean season If I be Master of the Barn owner of the Corn and deliverer of my flayle If all be heaven And unto you there is nothing for you are hirelings whose reward is heaven Then see that you neither thresh nor unbinde untill I bid you let it be sufficient unto you that you know my house that you know the labour I will put you to That I favour you so much as to entertain you the labourers within my Barn For within it thresheth none without my consent For in you shall many people be blessed and in you shall there be no division For Esau and Jacob shall be joyned together and their Kingdom shall be all one For as the Sacrifice is so must the Priests be E. K. Now he kneeleth down again Me thinketh I hear them say What shall become of Laskie E. K. And so the people say Ask me no Questions but hear what I have to say As those that desire to make a speedy Dinner and to entertain their guests go suddenly out and gather the dryest wood in the wood-pile Not because it is more wood than the other but because it is dry and most apt for the speediness of the kitchen So it is with me saith the Lord. For I respect him not in that he is a man but in respect of the manner of his minde and inward man which I find in respect of my purpose aptest in the world because be naturally hateth the wicked Therefore naturally I love him of whom I say I swear If he follow me saith the Lord I will be with him as I was with my Warrier at Hiericho And I will be mighty with him in this world and a lover of him for ever But me thinketh he will be proud If you find me weak know you that I am not weak of my self but your own weakness may be your confusion For I am a fire and take hold of such matter as I find apt E. K. He kneeleth again 1. I have now told you my Brethren of and of the manner of the power of God 2. Of the nature of Hell and of her wickednesse 3. Of the course of the World and of the necessity of things 4. Of your election and of the end thereof 5. Of Laskie and why he is elected 6. Now I am lastly to perswade you by the power of God that you make your selves apt and meet matter and that you may stand before the Lord as acceptable which you shall perform if you intend your former Lessons The ground whereof is Humility and Perseverance which because they have been often spoken of I passe with referring you to the consideration thereof Giving you one warning That this Action shall never come to passe until there be no remembrance of wickednesse or hell left amongst you and yet after for a time you must have patience For your offices are above a Kingdom Hinder not the Lord in his expeditions Remember he hath commanded you to go to the Emperour Happy is he that cometh when he is bid Go. And foolish is he that goeth not when he is bidden There use thy self for it shall be a key of thy habitation And for that place is the Angel of thy Creation sealed Love together Be humble and continue to the end Δ. Deo nostro immortali invisibili omnipotenti Patri misericordiarum ejusque filio Redemptori nostro Deo Spiritui Sancto sit omnis laus gloria gratiarum actio Amen Monday †Cracoviae †4. Junii Mane hora 8. Orationem dominicam genibus flexis recitavi variasque juxta propositam materiam ejaculationes habui variasque inter nos collationes considerationesque ultimorum verborum ipsius Gabrielis c. After almost an hour after our sitting to the Action he appeared E. K. Gabriel is here again in his Chair and his dart upright in his hand his dart is like a flame or staff of fire Δ. Blessed be God Δ. After his appearing he stayed almost a quarter of an hour before he began Gab. ..... As God in his essential being is a Spirit without demonstration so are his profound providences works and determinations unable to be measured E. K. He maketh cursie but nothing appeareth in the Stone Gabr. ..... Hereby may you find that the love of God towards you O wretches and sinners is more than a love and more than can be measured which was the cause that with his own finger delighting in the sons of Jacob he sealed this saying yea with his own finger this shew and sign of his excellent and more than love toward his people I am a jealous God which is as much to say Lo I am your friend nay rather your father and more than that your God which delighteth in you rejoyceth in you and loveth you with that affection Jealousie which is more than love which is as much to say as my love is such toward you as I am to my self But O ye stiff-necked Jews O ye Strumpets you despised the love of God you committed adultery and ran into the Temples of Idols which was the cause that the same mouth that praised you before E. K. He maketh cursie often .... Said also of you It repenteth me that I made this people Let me raze them out and make a people of thee This Idolatry was the cause from time to time that you became Captives and of Inheritours Runnagates and without a Master Vnto you also thus saith the Lord unto you my Brethren I say that are here More than the love of a father is is the love of God toward you For unto which of the Gentiles bath the Lord shewed himself Where dwell they or where have they dwelled into whose houses have the Angels of the Lord descended saying thus and thus
Sanctus est Dominus Deus Zeboath Ave. ..... I in the favour of God considering and by force of his secret love toward you how Satan purposeth yet and daily to over come you thought good through the mercies of God to prevent his malice and the effect thereof Δ. O blessed be thou our God of mercies and all comfort Ave. ..... That although yet the Harvest be not the Vineyard might yeild some fruit whereby God might be glorified and you in despite of the world revived and comforted might rejoyce and shake off the present cares to come For if those that be unworthy can seem to be lifted up and to enjoy the fruits of the Earth by the Tempter Much more ought the true servants of God to feel his fatherly goodnesse Those that trust in me saith the Lord shall not be driven to despair neither will I suffer the beast of the field to tread such as I delight in under The Earth is mine and the glory thereof The Heavens are mine also and the Comforts that are in them Why hath Therefore the father of Darknesse risen up saying 1. I will shut up the Earth from them 2. I will seal up the mindes of men and they shall become barren towards them 3. Their miseries shall be great even unto death For this cause That he might waken the Lord when he is asleep That those that trust in him might be comforted He hath sealed the Earth from you and I will open it unto you He hath said you shall be poor But I say you shall become exceeding rich 1. I will blesse you with a twofold blessing That the Earth may be open unto you which at last you shall contemn 2. And that my blessing and laws may dwell amongst you wherein you shall rejoyce unto the end Δ. O blessed blessed blessed God of power goodnesse and wisdom Ave. ..... This was the cause that I appeared to thee E. K. this morning Now therefore 〈◊〉 unto me for I will open unto you the secret knowledge of the Earth that you may deal with her by such as govern her at your pleasure and call her to a reckoning as a Steward doth the servants of his Lord. I expound the Vision The 4 houses are the 4 Angels of the Earth which are the 4 Overseers and Watch-towers that the eternal God in his providence hath placed against the usurping blasphemy misuse and stealth of the wicked and great enemy the Devil To the intent that being put out to the Earth his envious will might be bridled the determinations of God fulfilled and his creatures kept and preserved within the compasse and measure of order What Satan doth they suffer And what they wink at he wrasteth But when he thinketh himself most assured then feeleth he the bit In each of these Houses the Chief Watchman is a mighty Prince a mighty Angel of the Lord which hath under him 5 Princes these names I must use for your instruction The seals and authorities of these Houses are confirmed in the beginning of the World Vnto every one of them be 4 characters Tokens of the presence of the son of God by whom all things were made in Creation Ensignes upon the Image whereof is death whereon the Redemption of mankind is established and with the which he shall come to judge the Earth These are the Characters and natural marks of holinesse Vnto these belong four Angels severally The 24 old men are the 24 Seniors that St. John remembreth These judge the government of the Castles and fullfil the will of God as it is written The 12 Banners are the 12 names of God that govern all the creatures upon the Earth visible and invisible comprehending 3 4 and 5. Out of these Crosses come the Angels of all the Aires which presently give obedience to the will of men when they see them Hereby may you subvert whole Countries without Armies which you must and shall do for the glory of God By these you shall get the favour of all the Princes whom you take pity of or wish well unto Hereby shall you know the secret Treasures of the waters and unknown Caves of the Earth And it shall be a Doctrine for you onely the instrument of the World For the rest of your Instructions are touching the Heavens and the time to come of the which this is the last and extream knowledge This will I deliver unto you because I have yeilded you before the Lord. Vpon Monday next I will appear unto you and shall be a Lesson of a few dayes E. K. The will of God be done Δ. Amen Ave. ..... In the mean season desire you of God such things as are necessary for you He that filleth all things and from whom all things live and in and through whom they are sanctified blesse you and confirm you in peace Δ. Amen Δ. I beseech you to Notifie this mornings Vision by words as all other holy Prophets have recorded theirs Ave. ..... A Vision The sign of the love of God toward his faithful Four sumptuous and belligerant Castles out of the which sounded Trumpets thrice The sign of Majesty the Cloth of passage was cast forth In the East the cloth red after the new smitten blood In the South the cloth white Lilly-colour In the West a cloth the skins of many Dragons green garlick-bladed In the North the cloth Hair-coloured Bilbery 〈◊〉 The Trumpets 〈◊〉 once The Gates open The four Castles are moved There issueth 4 Trumpeters whose Trumpets are a Pyramis six cones wreathed There followeth out of every Castle 3 holding up their Banners displayed with 〈◊〉 the names of God There follow Seniors six alike from the 4 Gates After them cometh from every part a King whose Princes are five gardant and holding up his train Next 〈◊〉 the Crosse of 4 Angles of the Majesty of Creation in God attended upon every one with 4 a white Cloud 4 Crosses bearing the 〈◊〉 of the Covenant of God with the Prince gone out before which were confirmed every one with ten Angels visible in countenance After every Crosse attendeth 16 Angels dispositors of the will of those that govern the Castles They proceed And in and about the middle of the Court the Ensigns keep their standings opposite to the middle of the Gate The rest pause The 24 Senators meet They seem to consult I AVE STOOD BY THE SEER It vanisheth So I leave you Δ. Omnium bonorum largitori Omnipotenti Deo sit aeterna laus gratiarum actio honor omnis Jubilatio Amen Junii 22 23. Note On Friday and especially Saturday E. K. had great Temptations not to credit this Action and was said unto by a voice how our Instructors would use cavillation of our disordered life to forsake us and not to perform according to our expectation of the former promises to be performed by them A voice said likewise to
is as and Come away they are there were and whose Thunders they gathered them Number 5. O ..... selves together is which and 31 Ga. flew became Come away into the East the house For and of death I prepare the Eagle of whom for you Gabr. or have prepared Note Then begin at the first Call Move as before E. K. Now they appear O thou 6739. the great name  the governour which weave Righteousnesse  of the first flame the earth and I le mese Wednes under whose with drinesse the seat Δ 11 15 day Julii 11. dixit wings which of Honour hic deest are know of  Of the first flame Nal ..... Then move as before c. O you sons vexing the voyce of fury all creatures of God the daughters of the earth the promise of the just with age of him which which have which is called sit under you amongst you on 1636. Furie 24 Behold seats   ..... Move as before O you swords making and of the South men drunken his power which have which are which 42 Ux. empty is called eyes Behold amongst you to stir up the promise A bitter sting the wrath of God  of sin   ..... Move as before c. E. K. Now all is covered E. K. Now it is open again O thou mighty light openest to the Center and burning flame of comfort the glory of the earth which of God In whom the secrets of Truth is called not to be measured 6332 in thy Kingdom Be thou have JOY a window of comfort their abiding and unto me which   ..... Move as before O thou shalt comfort separate second flame the Just Creatures the house of Justice which walkest great which on the earth art but with feet thou thy beginning 8763 in the god of in glory that understand and Conquer and and  ..... Move c. E. K. They have covered all with the Curtain O thou vexation whose God third flame and hast is Wrath in Anger whose 7336 Gird up wings Lamps living thy loynes are going and thorns before thee hearken to stir up   ..... Move as before c. A voice ..... Vpon Monday you shall have the rest Δ. The God of Hosts be praised his name extolled and his verity prevail to the comfort of his Elect. Amen A voice ..... The Eternal God blesse you Δ. Amen Amen Amen Δ. Upon my considering immediately of these Englished Calls and the Angelical Language belonging to them I find that here are but 13 Englished of the 14 which are in the third Cracovien Volume contained and here wanteth the English of the third of those 14. Besides this you may consider that these English Calls keep this order as followeth and to make it a more perfect account from the beginning of the first Call of All being long since Englished and three more Then have we 18 Calls whereof 17 are Englished The total summe from the very beginning The Numbers of the Third Book Cracovien The Englished Calls of this Book 6 2 1 5 1 2 9 5 3 8 4 4 10 6 5 12 8 6 11 7 7 15 11 8 14 10 9 13 9 10 18 14 11 17 13 12 16 12 13 Ergo there lack yet 30 Calls for the 30 Aires c. besides the English of the seventh or third in the third Book contained and so shall there be 48 Calls For the first Table is no Call Although there be letters gathered but made into no words as you may see before the first Call of all Saturday Julii 7. Manè hora 6¼ †Cracoviae Oratione Dominica finita aliisque tam ad Deum quam ipsum Ave petitionibus requirebam Judicium ipsius Ave de meis tam ad Deum quam bonos ejus angelos factis orationibus Post vix quartam horae partem apparuit Ave. ..... If the words or truth of our testimony and message were or were contained within the capacity of man Then might the Devil thrust in himself and dissemble the Image of Truth But because it is of Truth and of him that beareth testimony of himself it can neither have affinity with the flesh nor be spoken of in this sense Lo thus deceitfully hath the Devil entred into man Δ. Blessed be the Lord of all truth Ave. ..... Therefore seeing the word is not corruptible Those that minister the word cannot dwell in corruption I speak not this without a cause my brethren Δ. I pray you to proceed accordingly that we may know the cause if it be your will or else leaving this Caveat unto us to proceed to the matter wherein we required your helping hand to correct or confirm or to do that which is behooful Ave. ..... For which of you have sought the Lord for the Lord his cause or sake Δ. That God can be judge Ave. ..... Or in which of you hath due obedience either to the word or unto us that are sanctified by the word been faithfully performed Δ. My points of errour and disobedience I beseech you to Notifie that I may amend them Ave. ..... It may be you will say we have laboured and we have watched yea we have called on the name of the Lord. What have you done that you ought not to do yea a thousand times more Δ. We vaunt nothing of any our doings nor challenge any thing by any perfection of our doings Ave. ..... Shall the hireling say I have laboured hard or doth the good servant think he meriteth his wages It is not so But you do so Therefore you are neither worthy of your reward nor the name of faithful servants Δ. No Lord we challenge nothing upon any merits but flie unto thy mercy and that we crave and call for Ave. ..... You do wickedly and injustly yea you credit the Lord as you do your selves your faith is the faith of men and not of the faithful Many things have I said unto you from the beginning saith the God of Justice which you have heard and not believed But you tempt me and provoke me yea you stir me up to be angry with you Δ. If thy Anger shall be on us beside the sorrow of this world tentations of the feind c. Then are we not able to endure ..... Answer not me and hear what the Lord saith unto thee Satan laugheth you to scorn for he saith unto the Lord standing before him Are these they whom thou deliveredst from the perils of the Seas and from the hands of the wicked whom the windes were a comfort to and thy Countenance a Lanthorn But the Lord seemeth not to hear him for he knoweth it is true My brethren you seek the world more than you seek to perform the will of God as though God could not rain Gold and Margarits amongst you As though the breath of God were not able to beat down
now and ever Amen Tuesday 21. Augusti Ante Meridiem horam Circiter 9. †Pragae Precibus finitis invito Vriele ut nos illuminaret dirigeret consolaretur c. E. K. Vriel is here and about his head at a little distance is a bright part of a Circle like a Rain-bow c. Δ. We propounded unto you yesterday O you faithfull messager of the highest as concerning this letter how it is liked when it is to be sent and by whom c. Uriel ..... O earth how great a Monster art thou and how great is thy wickednesse which makest dull mans capacity and carriest him away into an obscure and rash sense Not without a cause art thou hated with the highest yea not without a cause are thy Garments made short My brethren how long will you be grievous to the Lord how long I say will you be without understanding O how long will you consider your own commodities and neglect the harvest of the Lord Δ. I understand nothing of the occasion of these speeches Uriel ..... But behold for you have chosen unto your selves a visitation and have broken the visitation of the Lord. For when you were commanded you went not and unto your selves you chuse dayes for advantage Well I say Take your choice and become wise for I am ready to deliver I say prepare your selves and be ready But I fear me yea I know it that you will become foggy and misty Notwithstanding thus sayeth the Lord Since you will become wise Chastise your self for a few dayes and abstain and you shall see that I am a God that can visit and mightily I am not man that my promises may not be neither speak I of any thing that liveth not for I am light and the breath of understanding Because you have followed my Commandments yet some of you obstinately and rather as reprehenders then obedient servants I will put a snaffle unto Satan and unto his Ministers and thou shalt sit in judgement against the wicked For I will multiply thee and thy houshold And of thy seed yea even of thy seed will I finder out a Camber and will root out a people which I have long favoured And for this cause spared I him unto thee for unto him that loveth me will I be a just rewarder The branches of the wicked do I cut off and make worse then the Asses dung But unto the faithfull will I send honour and a Crown of rejoycing Hui who is he that I cannot reward him Or where dwellest thou in Heaven or in Earth that art and rejoycest not by me If thou follow my Commandments and I once begin to love thee I have told thee that I will place thee here Δ. In this Citie Uriel ..... Not as a Citizen but as an owner of many houses But take heed thou be be just to me and do what I command thee Δ. Lord thou knowest my heart help and supply my wants Uriel ..... Behold the Corn is not ripe neither are the Grapes red nor the Sun hath not yet seasoned them Therefore yet need I not Stewards but Overseers And as yet Laborers are to me as shadows Because not yet no not yet is the time of my visitation therefore he that bringeth his Syckle now must not reap for me but must rejoyce in himself Happy is he that tarrieth the Lord least afterward the doors be shut and the feast at an end All wisdom and sciences comprehended in wisdom that worketh for himself is of the world But the wisdom that I give I give openly and without reproach that I also rejoyoing in the wisdom 〈◊〉 be gl rified and exalted with a Diademe of honour When Sodom cried for vengeance had I it not ready Could not I from heaven have consumed them with the breath of my own mouth I in my self know it and am witnesse But lo in the pride of their filthinesse I had regard to time And that it might be known to all Nations licensed my Angels and gave them power And lo then made a promise unto all Nations that they should be blessed in Abraham even the same moneth that I destroyed the Sodomites These things did I as unto Noe and unto Seth whom I l ved I made them privy of time to come and opened unto them my judgements because the world should be justly condemned After the same manner made I a promise unto you Lo after the same manner have I called you to counsel But you have chosen the lowest and have refused the highest places and have regarded your own comforts and not my visitation I commanded thee not to go into the woods and to fetter Wolves neither to saw the Tygers teeth I delivered you not unto the wicked neither suffered I them to rejoyce over you But I have brought you from death and from the dayes of lamentation and have dealt with you as faithfull brethren do in their divisions Not that I forget my self but that I would be magnified and that you might see your wildnesse and naked rashnesse Many are there upon the earth which would have burst with gladnesse and have rent their Garments in pieces If I had touched them with the least of these Counsels so I call them because they are my secrets Is it not sufficient that I have brought you hither fafe Have promised you a sure help Lo you wrast me for what is he of the world to whom I shall confirm letters Δ. This is spoken in respect of God his judgement required of the letter They grieve me because they are the doings of man O man let man answer unto thee and let it suffice thee that the mark whereat thou shootest is in my hand My work is not a work of hours nor dayes But when I command do speedily When the Thunders fall from Heaven and burn up the Earth scale her face and leave her naked Then Then will you believe Behold He that is a man being new born is accounted a Monster Is it not written Lo the Lord looked from heaven in his visitation and in the midday and groaned upon her for she had vexed him Happy is he that is ready when he visiteth That which I command let it be done For when the Kings of the earth say do this They play not also the parts of their servants and subjects but lo it is done Suffer me I pray yo to have that favour Δ. Deo Nostro Misericordi Pio Justo sit omnis Honor Laus Gloria Amen Tuesday 21 Augusti †Pragae After Dinner as we E. K. and Δ. were in my Study and conferring of my choise and very sorry that we had made our choise not of the best E. K. saw Vriel in the stone which yet stood unput up and said he had seen him there ever since we began So coming to the stone he said as followeth Uriel ..... Murmur not amongst your selves
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
advise how I might most conveniently proceed in dealing with the Emperours Majesty The Copy of which Letter I thought good to record here that the effect thereof consequent might have the light of the Original cause Divine and humane annexed Illustri Magnifico Domino Domino Octavio Spinolae sacrae Caesareae Majestatis à stabulis Cubiculis Domino suo observandissimo ILlustris ac Magnifice Domine Non possum satis condignas vestrae Magnificientiae agere gratias pro singulari illa qua me Heri amplexi estis humanitate benevolentia hominem quidem vobis incognitum sed tamen virtutis veritatis studiosissimum quique omne reliquum meae vitae curriculum Deo sic volente in hoc co sumere decrevi ut sacra sua Caesarea Majestas clarè percipiat sibi incredibiliter ferè propitiam fore Dei Omnipotentis tremendam Majestatem Atquae quamvis videam multiplicibus multarum Regionum negotiis suam sacram Caesareaem Majestatem occupatissimum sepissime teneri neque aliis illisque à me suae sacrae Caesareae Majestati proponendis causis commodè vacare vel posse vel evidenti aliqua ratione debere TAMEN si aliquis excogitari possit modus pro loci temporis rerum occasione quo sua sacra Caesarea Majestas ea penes me videre vel ex me intelligere dignaretur 〈◊〉 illi forent grata Ea in re vestrae Illustrissimae Magnificentiae libentissimè audirem vel reciperem Informationem atque Judicium Nam in hoc totus ero ut tempore debito appareat Omnipotentis Dei suae sacrae Caesareae Majestatis servitio Maximè autem pro Sacrosancta 〈◊〉 Catholicae Apostolicae fidei Illustratione ac Reipublicae Christiane defenfione amplificationeque Addictissimum devotissimum fidelissimumque me esse ac fore sacrae suae Caesareae Majestatis servitorem Opportunitatis flos maturè colligi debet Cito enim fiet marcidus 4. Septembris 1584. Illustrissimae Magnificentiae vestrae Paratissimus Joannes Dee Emericus went and delivered my Letter to the Spanish Ambassadour But this he brought back again saying that the Emperour was ridden very early abroad to Brandeish or elsewhere not certainly being known and that this Noble Octavius Spinola was gone with his Majesty Hereupon I determined with changing the Date to send unto him at the Emperour his Majesties returning to Prage Deus bene vertat Mr. Doctor Hagek his son was by At noon this day I sent Letters to my wife to my Lord 〈◊〉 and to Mr. Paul Hertoll by the Messager of Reichenstein on this side Nesse Monday Septemb. Manè hora 9. †Pragae Δ. Precibus finitis I invited Ga Za Vaa as being assigned to understand of Rodolph his doings that of them I might receive instructions that my proceedings might be answerable as occasion should be given E. K. There appeareth written in great letters upon a right hand and no body appearing the hand being very big Cui est habet Cui nihil non habebit E. K. And so the hand vanished out of sight The writing was in the palm of it Δ. After that appeared the same hand again with his writing Face factum erit Vltra non habeo E. K. It vanished away by and by hand writing and all Δ. I take this O Lord in this sence That I am to proceed and to do as I intended in either writing to Rudolph himself or to the Spanish Ambassadour or to Octavius Spinola for the Emperour to give me audience time and place to hear and see the Records and Monuments which I have to shew him And that when I had done as was commanded me that Then the purpose of God shall also be done Δ. Deus in adjutorium nostrum intende tuaque nos dirigat sapientia ad illud Faciendum quod tibi maxime erit gratum Amen Tuesday Septemb. 11. Hora 9. ferè Misi per Dominom Emericum Sontagium Secretarium Domini Palatini Siradiensis literas illas ad Dominum Octavium Spinolam quas superiùs descripsi sed ubi in illis scripseram qua me heri amplexi estis Nunc scripsi qua me ante paucos dies amplexi estis pro quique omne reliquum nunc scripsi quique reliquum c. pro incredibiliter ferè propitiam c. scripsi nunc Incredibiliter ferè modo 〈◊〉 propitiam fore c. Et reliqua omnia scripsi ut supra annotavi sed datae erant hae 11. Die Septembris Illae autem priores 4. Septembris Tradidit istas literas Emericus Magnifico Domino Spinolae jam statim post prandium Caesareae Majestatis crastina die post missam pro responso venire jussit Wednesday Septembris 12. Manè Δ. This morning when Emericus Sontag went up to the Castle for answer from the Emperour By the Noble Octavius Spinola he received the effect of this answer which I required the same Emericus to write down with his own hand for sundry respects which his own hand writing I have annexed ad majorem rei 〈◊〉 And because his writing is not easie to be read I have written it plainer somewhat as followeth Responsum Imperatoris per Dominum Spinolam Sacra Caesarea Majestas benignè intellexit quae Dominus Joannes Dee per suae Majestis Cubicularium Dominum Octavium Spinolam proponi curavit Ad quae sua Majestas gratiosè sic se resolvit Quòd quandoquidem Latinum Sermonem non omni ex parte exactè calleat praeterea etiam variis multiplicibus negociis occupata non semper ad audientiam vacare possit videri suae Majestati ut idem Dominus Dee cum Magnifico Domino Doctore Kurtzio qui suae Majestati ab arcanis est consiliis satisque fidus eruditione quoque insigni pollet tractare negotia sua concredere velit 〈◊〉 quod sua Majestas praelibato Domino Consiliario suo Kurtzio renunciari curabit Sin verò secus Domino Johanni Dee videbitur suam Majestatem quomodocunque tandem per occupationes facere poterit desiderio Domini Dee satisfacturam 1584. xii Septembris Emerieus Sontagius manu propria Pragae Δ. Which answer both by word of month and thus by writing being received by me and the said Emericus being by the Noble Spinola willed at Evensong time to bring my answer herein which I gave him of my great good liking the same and most humble thanks to his Majesty for so wise and gratious his consideration had of the cause I required the same Emericus to understand when and how soon Doctor Curtzius should be made privy of his Majesties pleasure herein and so after my dispatching of Emericus I endeavoured my self to render thanks unto God for his mercies graces and truth in these his affairs beseeching him to frame my heart tongue and hand in such sort as to his Divine Majesty my dutifull service doing may be acceptable as chiefly of me intended to his honour and glory And secondly
to the comfort of the godly and elect And thirdly to the confusion of the proud arrogant scornfull enemies of truth and vertue Amen Thursday Septembris 13. Manè hora 7. †Pragae I received the Noble Octavius Spinola his answer by Emericus as concerning my accepting of the Emperour his gratious former answer of condescending to my request so much as he conveniently could which my answer yesterday night late was delivered to the Noble Spinola Whereunto he said that my Answer would be most acceptable unto the Emperour and that to morrow meaning this Thursday the honourable Doctor Curtz should understand the Emperours pleasure herein Hereupon I willed Emericus to go up to the Castle and to bring himself in sight of the Noble Spinola if he could Thereby to help his memory for warning and information to be given to the said Doctor Curtz That so we might come together so soon as conveniently might be Deo omnis laus honor gloria Amen Thursday Septembris 13. Manè horam circiter 9. †Pragae Δ. Precibus finitis and the case propounded of the Emperour his Answer for dealing with Doctor Curtz a man of his Privy Council faithful learned and wise upon the considerations alledged I requested of God his pleasure to be signified unto me by some of his faithful and true Messagers whether I shall openly and frankly deal with this Doctor so as the Emperour by him may understand that which he should have done at my mouth and hands originally And whether I may both alone with the Emperour and before and with the said Doctor deal in this Action as occasion shall serve from time to time at my discretion informed by his secret grace divine Δ. Nothing appearing or being heard in a quarter of an hour space I suspected some of our misdoings to be the cause of the Lord his refraining to answer and thereupon I did fall to prayer for mercy and grace and deliverance from the assaults and malitious purposes of the Devil against us And that I did the rather because as I felt my good Angel 〈◊〉 other good friend in vertue so I felt Pilosum sensibly busie and as it were to errisie me with my offences past or to put me out of hope at this present from being heard But I held on to pray divers Psalms and at length against the wicked tempters purposely After my prayers and assuring E. K. that the spiritual enemy was here busie and attended to frustrate this dayes Action He answered that against him E. K. he could not prevail or accuse him for his late notable fault for he had made a reckoning and sorrowful bewailing for that his trespass to the Lord and that he doubted not of forgiveness and that he was so reconciled to God that Satan nor any other wicked accuser could put him in any doubt of God his mercy c. And he spake very well both of repentance Gods mercies his justice and of these Actions Mary he confessed that by reason he himself was an unmeet person to come before the Emperour or Princes c. and therefore if it would please God to discharge him of further medling so by reason he might seem well at ease c. At length after an hour appeared Vriel but with a Scarf before his face as he had last Δ. God send us the brightnesse of his countenance when it shall please him Uriel ..... True it is that in respect of the terrour and force of God his wrath and indignation in 1 Judgement Reconciliation is made through that power which is given unto the Lamb to whom all power is given in Heaven and Earth But with the 2 congregation and the members of Christ his body the number of the faithful the Church of God you have not made reconciliation And therefore are not sinners worthy to behold the face of true light and understanding for there is a double Reconciliation One and the firs between the Conscience and the Judge through the force of faith and repentance that is to say Reconciliation against Judgement Another the secon Reconciliation between the Spirit of Truth the Church of Go and mans Conscience Behold I teach you a mystery 1. Those that are at one with God shall not be judged with the wicked in the last Judgement Notwithstanding the Justice of God is pure and undefiled and suffereth not mans fault unpunished 2. But he that is at one with the Spirit of God is made one with him and without punishment For there are many things that God beareth witnesse of in the soul and secret Chambers of man that neither the blessed already dignified nor to be dignified do or can know which is the cause that the soul of man after his body sleepet being found polluted is received and snatched up of such as are the Messagers of punishment and so according to the multitude of their sins are in horrour and punishment Therefore not all that are punished shall be damned Neither is it evident unto the Angels who shall be saved I speak generally Therefore when you offend be also reconciled unto the Mother of the house that you may have place before such as are reproved Herein you may understand the retaining of sin For the retaining of sin is a judgement And therefore it is necessary that God should hold a general day that those that have trusted in him and inwardly have been sorry for their offences may also taste of his mercy Else how could it be verified that the Prophet saith If in Hell thou art also there But here there is a Caution All sins that are forgiven by the Church passe not the fire but he that is forgiven in his heart by God in his Son Christ and 2 reconciled through the holy Spirit to the body from whence he is fallen is safe as well from the wrath of God to come as the punishment due unto his offences And therefore is the reconciling of brethren of great force Wherefore hath Christ left his body with the Church Wherefore is he called the bread of Life I say unto you my brethren that the body of Christ dignified and glorified is true bread is true comfort which cleanseth sinners that are penitent and wipeth away the punishment of adversity Happy are those that eat of him and that account not his body as the shadow of a candle Behold I teach you Even as the Spirit of God filleth the Congregation of the faithful so doth the body of Christ now dignifie fill and cleanse all that receive with sorrow sorrow I mean for their wickednesse But lo his body is become an offence unto the world Many there are that say This is Christ But behold I teach you Even as all things were made by him spiritually So are all that are of his Elect nourished through him bodily Lo he is become one power one God in that he is neither
mundi creatione Creaturarumque naturis vero usu quam in mundi praesentis moxque 〈◊〉 statu Et preterea de unius Catholicae Ecclesiae charissimae Jesu Christi 〈◊〉 nostraeque piae matris sanctitate dignitate Authoritate veluti in qua etiam est Sanctorum Communio Peccatorum remissio de multis nondum per nos revelandis Dei Arcanis Magnalibus Determinationibus Quòd tantum abest ut aliquis sanae mentis Christianus Actiones Nostras Mysticas Diabolicas esse fraudes contendere immo ne suspicari quidem conetur aut possit ut potius tale Arcanum Dei propositum incredibiliter admirari rationem humanam in eisdem examinandis subjugare Dei erga Electos suos admirandam misericordiam in istis esse manifestam humillimè cum summo tremore fateri velit Ego quidem hactenus in istis aliud ferè nihil me esse invenio nisi Calamum scribae velociter per me scribentis Nam visa auditaque in mea praesentia fidelissimè de litera interdum ad literam interdum verbatim interdum pluribus simul receptis verbis ipso eodem temporis momento quo traduntur annotare sum solitus Ast jam in quam multa excrevit Noster talis labor volumina Ex quibus omnibns illum fructum successumque expectamus qualem praefixit ille cujus nutui cuncta obediunt Istas autem ad suam sacrem Caesaream Majestatem literas meas Cum vestra magnificentia opportunitatem inveniet primam si meo nomine humillimè eidem exhibere dignabitur Tum magno mihi Divinitus injuncto levatus ero onere Tum magno à vestra magnificentia affectus beneficio Interim verò Dum suae sacrae Majestatis Caesareae ad istas responsum dabitur nimirum si ad 14. vel 16. dies prius expectandum esset vel statim post acceptum responsum si tam expeditè illud recipere possum quà m quod recepi ultimo ad iter me accingere debeo propter familiam libros aliquam meam suppellectilem huc ante hyemis asperitatem transferendam Ubi cum Caesareae Majestatis gratioso favore sub ipsius Protectione Imperatoria voluntatem Omnipotentis Dei implere pro viribus suae sacrae Caesareae Majestati inservire tanquam ejusdem Philosophus Mathematicus fidelissime de tempore in tempus paratus esse potero Illustri vestrae Magnificentiae Addictissimus Joannes Dee I annexed hereunto a Post-script which followeth Post-scriptum MEarum esse partium consultum esse duxi vestrae Magnificentiae paucissimis verbis significare quod heri manè hora nona vir egregius suae Majestis Caesareae fidus Confiliarius D. Doctor Curtzius me humanissimè invisebat in meo ergastulo hypocaustato juxta Bethlehem ubi videre poterat Bibliothecam presentem meam nullam ferè aliam esse praeter Sancta Dei Evangelia Biblia sacra ipsosque nostrorum mysteriorum libros Ego autem quodam humili modo inter caeteras querelas meas de tam longa interposita mora conquerebar inter ejusdem de meis rebus factam relationem Caesareum de eisdem recipiendum responsum Ille verò se simplicissimè Caesareae Majesti visa auditaque penes me retulisse asseruit nullo suo de eisdem adhibito judicio Verum Caesari dixit quasi impossibilia vel incredibilia fuisse visa Et de responso mihi in hac parte dando secum adhuc suam deliberare velle Majestatem Caesaream Unde ego de literis meis istis suae Majesti mittendis mentionem feci summatim earundem tenorem eidem enarravi Ille easdem statim habere voluit ipsi Caesareae Majestati à Meridie mittendas Ego quidem Caesaris me velle ad pauculos dies expectare ad ventum dixi Deinde de rebus Mathematicis brevissime inter nos habito sermone illique ad pervidendum dato libello quodam Geometrico per me Federicum Commandinum Vrbinatem in lucem olim dato mutuis post utrinque promissis officiis humanitatis benevolentiae abiit 1584. Sept. 28. Saturday Septemb. 29. Die Sancti Michaelis The foresaid Letter to the Emperours Majesty with this Letter to the Ambassadour and this Post-script And moreover according to the Ambassadour his request the Copy of the Emperours Letter all in one uttermore paper closed Letter like sealed and with superscription to the foresaid Ambassadour I sent to his honour on Michaelmas day at dinner time by Emericus Sontag Who delivered the same to the Secretary of the Ambassadour and he to the Lord Ambassadour as he sat at dinner Deus bene vertat ad laudem nominis sui Amen September 29. Remember that this day after-noon I sent Hugh on foot with my Letters to Cracovia to Edmond that my folk should not be out of quiet or afeard to see Mistresse Kelly sent for and no Letters to come from me c. I writ to the Lord 〈◊〉 of our want of money c. Monday Octobris 1. à Meridie circa 3. horam Pragae Oratione dominica finita c. Valde cito est facta apparitio E. K. Here be two one his face is covered and the other is not And he whose face is uncovered seemeth to be Gabriel Δ. Sit benedictus Deus Pater Deus filius Deus Spiritus Sanctus nunc Semper Amen Δ. Our chief cause at this instant why we resort to this shew-stone is for to understand according to the grounds of God his promise the state of my wife her grievous disease and means to cure her wherein if it please the Lord to be mercifull unto her and me it shall be the occasion whereby she will all her life time praise the name of God for his mercies and be of a quietter minde and not so testy and fretting as she is ..... Who are you or from whence come you that you'require science which seek to be more wise and expert then such as are the Children and Doctors of this World whose judgements are rash and understanding naked and in whose lips dwelleth no truth Who I say are you that you should deserve the majestral benefit of so great and sanctified grace as to understand the determination of God the power of his Angels or the brightnesse or obscurity of mans Soul and understanding You desperate sinners and partakers with the wicked how can you seek bread at your fathers hands when you seek to steal into his barnes Yea into his house and dining Tables and more then that yea even into his privy Chambers not to spoyl him of his houshold stuffe of his Gold or precious stones but of the diademe and Crown of his everlasting Majesty and honour you are thieves and robbers and through the Dignity of your spirit you shall think to exalt your selves and to live in Majesty with the world True it is you may live so But you live with an Harlot and
my things of my male E K. heard a voice like mine say D. Whereat he asked me what say you I answered that I spake nothing Then he doubted what creature did use that voice Afterward he rose and when he had been ready a while and sate in the Chamber where my male lay he said that he felt somewhat crawling or as one writing on his back and at length to ascend into his head And so I left him and went out into another place and kneeled to pray and prayed and upon the comming in of Thomas Kelly into that room where I kneeled in the Door of a little open Gallery over the street I rose up and went in again to E. K. and he told me that he slumbred by reason of the heavinesse of his head and that he seemed to see me praying and Michael to stand by me I answered that truth it was I had been somewhat bent to prayer but that I could not pray as I would c. Hereupon Immediately he saw Michael over my Head with a pen in his hand Thereupon I was resolved that I was to write somewhat of importance And I made speed to take pen ink and paper and to settle my self to writing because we made hast to 〈◊〉 as intending to ride 8 or 9 miles that day and company tarrying for us one of them being a Jew whose sister is wife to Doctor Salomon of Prague the Jew c. And going about to attend for something to write a voice said as followeth Cur non includis te ad audiendum vocem meam Δ Hereupon I did shut all the Doors and uttermost Doors A voice ..... In receptaculo ut magis approbetur veritas Δ Hereupon speedily I took out the Shew-stone and 〈◊〉 it on the Table before E. K. E. K. Here appeareth a white Circle round about the border of the Stone and a ball or Globe of flaming fire in the midst The white Circle hath great brightnesse of light in it E. K. Now here is Madimi she standeth in the white Circle and looketh into the fire she kneeleth On the outside of her standeth Michael with a sword E. K. Madimi is gone away and Michael is come to the lower part of the Circle A voice ..... Speak for who controlleth me E. K. Michael boweth himself toward his feet as though he kissed the place where he stood as if it were the Circle that he kissed Michael ..... These are the words of the Lord and of me his Angel and Minister of truth and they follow Behold I have led you forth diverse times and you have obeyed me Therefore I say unto you Be now Stewards of more Δ O merciful God E. K. He spreadeth his Arms abroad and stoopeth down Michael ..... He that committeth his Treasure unto man findeth favour and at his return hath his own But he that committeth himself unto me and he areth my voice I will write his Name in the Book of Life Behold Behold Behold I swear and it is That in thee d ee I delight And lo because thou hast obeyed me and not of force of 〈◊〉 perswasions I shew unto thee what is to come and what I would have thee to do and wherefore thou commest hither Δ Fiat voluntas Dei E. K. Michael ..... Cover me for a while lest peradventure thou see I am beyond the ability of thy capacity and so return not easily E. K. He becommeth very bright Δ I understood not well this saying neither E. K. Michael I say unto thee cover the receptacle Δ We covered the stone a while and read the premisses E. K. He is brighter then he was the Circle of light shineth still Δ We uncovered the Stone and then he spake again Michael ..... Before twelve moneths of your account be finished with the Sunne I will keep my promise with thee as concerning the destruction of Rodulph lest peradventure he triumph as he often doth For thy lines are many times perused by him Saying This man doted where is become his God or his good Angels And behold I will sweep him off the face of the earth And he shall perish miserably that he may understand that thou dealt not for thy self but didst fulfil the work of thy master Moreover I will bring in even in the second moneth the twelve ended Steven And for a truth as I am will place him in the seat Imperial He shall possesse an Empire most great and shall shew what it is to govern when God placeth In his time will I fullfil many things that I have promised thee and I will be mercifull unto thee because thou hast not broken my Covenant My minde abhorreth from Lasky for he is neither faithful to me nor to thee neither he careth for his own soul. Δ Chamo fraeno maxillas illius constringe ò Deus ut approximet ad te Michael ..... The speedy return of Curtius was to deliberate with Rodolph how they might under the colour of Justic entangle thee And lo whom thou fostredst and fedst at thy Table is he that hath wet his hand in the dish with thee and hath delivered thee Moreover he hath betrayed his Master And the cause of his adversity hath had chief root in him From the third year he hath done unjustly and hath made naked his Lords secrets But he shall have his reward and shall perish with his own hand Before thou 〈◊〉 out of thy own Doores to take thy Journey Rodolph knew of thy going And for a truth his letters are before thee Therefore it behoveth me to give thee warning and to teach and instruct thee as one exercised in my businesse Cover me I am become cleerer Δ We covered the Receptacle After a while we uncovered it Michael ..... This therefore shalt thou do The same way thou camest the same way thou shalt also return Not to flie from their malice or tyranny But to stand in the face of them as my servant Hereby indirectly shall the Traitour understand you know him And Rodolphus hard heart I will stir up with indignation against him For he shall 〈◊〉 construed a Lyar. And they shall begin to fear thee and also to love thee and thou shalt be in favour amongst them Annuate their doings and hear their sayings And those things they shall offer thee refuse not I will sendone out to pay them their wages Moreover I command thee Kelly But in my own person I counsel and advertise the that thou take part with the Lord Jesus And go forward with the businesse thou hast in hand For why They shall be shortly made open and plain lest thy Δ word to the Emperour he meanet receive foil in the hearts of men But I bind it not to that place For the fruit that springeth of it shall do my service with Steven And yet if he will with that unjust Lasky And it shall be a Garden for you
wicked come not to Coelosyria neither shall they see the beauty of the Phoenices When you have read these things I come again and ponder them well Δ We read them and the places of Esdras one in the second Chapter of the third Book of Esdras and the other in the third and fourth Chapter of the same Book E. K. Now he is here himself alone Michael ..... A Wood grew up and the Trees were young and lo there arose a great Tempest from the North and the Seas threw out the air that had subtilly stoln himself into them and the winds were great and behold there was one Tree which was older then the rest and had grown longer then that which shot up by him This Tree could not be moved with the wind but the Tree that was young was moved to and fro with the Wind and strock himself oftentimes upon the stiff set Tree The Forester came and beheld and said within himself the force of this wind is great see this young Tree beateth himself in peeces against the greater I will go home and will bring my ground instruments and will er adicate him and I will place him further off Then if the winds come be shall have room to move But when he came home the Lord of the Wood seeing him in a readinesse with his Mattock and his spade asked him of his going which told the thing in order to his Master But lo his Master rebuked him and he said thus when the winds are not they increase they are not hurtful one to the other suffer them therefore when the young Tree taketh roots and shall look up unto some years his roots shall link themselves with and uuder the roots of the greater Then though the winds come they shall not be hurtful one to another but shall stand so much the more fast by how much the more they are wrapped together yea when the old tree withereth he shall be a strength unto him and shall adde unto his age as much as he hath added unto his youth And he ceased to dig Be not therefore haled in sunder neither be you offended one at another peradventure Reason would set you aside But God will not Behold if you break the yoke that you are in and runne astray he that erreth shall perish even so shall he that standeth also be desolate For why the driver angry continueth not with one But he shall return home and shall not see the end of the Harvest Love therefore one another and comfort one another for he that comforteth his brother comforteth himself and when one is a weary let the other draw For why you are men and not yet crowned the first is paid so is also the tenth Even so the tree that is grafted beareth fruit sooner then that which groweth of the seed Notwithstanding both have their place in the Orchard the night let that yield unto day and Winter bear rule over Summer Let youth yield unto ripe for years Solomon saith it is good for that young man that obeyeth the counsel of his elder In the Council House the things that they handle are for their Common-wealth Notwithstanding hath his order and degree Cast your eye upon all things and you shall have examples Peter in his vocation preached the same Gospel that the rest of the Apostles did but he was greater then the rest not in respect of his Apostleship nor in respect of feeding but that God might keep his order as the chief amongst them which preferred Peter first Therefore be not stubborn But I command you in the Name of him that sent me and because you have vowed that the one of you did nothing without the others coursel notwithstanding shall you not be two counsellors Therefore in things that are to be done let the Door occupie the superiority The Seer let him see and look after the doings of him that he seeth For you are but one body in this work E. K. He is gone out of sight Δ As concerning my Letters and businesse into England I thought good to ask counsel what I were best to do with the Letters to the Queen and others Michael ..... Gather out of the book of Enoch the Seal and the Angel of thy Countrey deal with him Δ I found a Door in the name due to Britannia Anno 15. Michael ..... Thou shalt easily find the truth by their appearing for the one answereth not unto the others function Hereby must thou do in all Kingdomes and Estates both how and what thou wilt that thou hast not is thy own errour Note ..... Understand me well here When thou wilt have any thing to do in the World in humane affaires seek nothing in Sigillo AEmeth Enoch his Book is a worldly Book Veritas in Coelo Imago veritatis in terra homini Imago imagini respondet Coelestia autem petnntur a Coelo Δ I beseech you Michael ..... Darknesse yeeldeth unto light Falsum quod est veritati malum bono But note in the Book of Enoch there are those that are good there are there also those that are evil the Prince of darknesse is evil And those that are evil there do stand on his side but as his Ministers give place to those that are good so do they also Note ..... But as concerning the manner how to practise that Book I would gladly hear somewhat Michael ..... Sua sunt sua dicunt Δ I understand this to be required at his hands that gave us that Book Michael ..... Polonia te expectat qui EST praecessit Δ As concerning my health helping may I stay here yet 8 dayes and then make speed to be going towards Poland as was prescribed to me Michael ..... Possum tibi concidere dies Septem If thou didst know that which I see thou wouldst not go but thou wouldst runne He that is before is a Gardener and he knoweth the vertue of Herbs But the eighth day I will be there also ..... Where and which eighth day Michael ..... The eighth day hence I will be in Cracovia I have told thee plainly Δ May I then stay well 7 dayes before I set forth on my journey Michael ..... Potes non potes Thou hast thy own judgment granted thee thereby thou maist do it But in respect of the necessity that requireth thee there thou canst not Δ I beseech you not to be offended if I ask the cause of the Lord Lasky silence Δ He stayed long E. K. Why did you not speak now Michael ..... Behold he hath said with him selfe and those that are wicked have whispered unto him surely it seemeth that they despise me and obstinately because he 〈◊〉 not received letters from you he useth this silence Moreover he hath not done as God commanded him But I will give him thee use thou him as thou wilt Δ I render unto thee O most merciful mighty and loving God thanks
yet hanging or joyning together like Curds of a posset Misericordias Dominum in aeternum cantabo quis sicut Deus meus qui cum iratus fuerit misericordiam praestavit contrito corde invocantibus Soli igitur Deo meo sit omnis 〈◊〉 honor gloria jubilatio nunc semper Amen A Pragae Aprilis 5. Friday I took my Journey from Pragae toward Cracovia God be our good speed E. K. I Thomas Kelly Hugh Brycket my servants ✚ Cracoviae 1585. Friday Aprilis 12. A meridie we came to Cracovia and as we were within an English mile of the City being a fair and calm day there passed about half a mile before us crossing from the right hand to the left Whirlwinds divers one after another wreathing up the dust with great vehemency on high and shooting forward still and then mounting into the air and so went Southerly from us and likewise some began on the right hand and came furiously raising up and wreathing the dust up into the air Southerly also and did not crosse the way When we came to our house we found that a stranger was set into it by the Landlords Mr. John Long the Judge and Martin Plutner and having by me the keys of the Store-house and of the Street-door I caused my stuff brought with me to be set in and that night we made hard shift for lodging But the new and forced in tenants gave me leave to have one of my Bedsteads which was in one stove and emptied the same to us with much ado Saturday and Sunday we were sore out-faced or rather threatned that we should have no house there and also one Bonar his arms were set upon the door as if the house had been allowed to him ex officio Monday I made the Rector privy of the Injuries I indured and he courteously sent two Masters of Art with me to the Proconsul to have Citation for the Landlords to appear on Tuesday by 7 of the clock to answer to our complaint This Monday-night came the Lord Lasky from Lasko upon a Letter he had received from me from Niso of my coming Tuesday Aprilis 16 the Lord Lasky came to the house and in the morning would have presently cast all their stuff out of doors but by entreaty he permitted them to empty all into the lower stove In the mean space I appeared with my Lawyer or Attourney Mr. Tetaldo an Italian an ancient Practitioner in the Polish and Cracovian Causes And to conclude I had a Decree against my Landlords that I was to have at least an half years warning whereupon John Laugh gave me warning to avoid at Michaelmas and so we came from the Court or Town-house called Praetorium in Latine This same Tuesday afternoon my Lord Lasky went to the King of Poland up into the Castle and told him of my comming and how evilly I was used and he said why did he not cast them out of doors so have I now quoth the Lord Lasky and the King granted the House to be holden ex officio And the next day the King was desirous to speak with me Aprilis 17. Wednesday I went with the Lord Lasky to the King to whom I said to this intent Consolatio pax misericordia Dei sit tibi ô serenissime Rex Coram quo Divinitus recipi admonitionem ut me sustinem quod nunc humillime facio paratissimus cum omni fidelitate sinceritate ea cum Regia vestra Majestate tractare quae mihi divinitus injungantur Quorum mysteriorum historias de ordine in ordinem referre prout occasio dabitur non recusabo aliaque omnia peragere quae Deo vestrae Majestati 〈◊〉 gratia fore intelligero c. The King answered Vt de vestra persona 〈◊〉 bona audivi absente ita jam mihi gratus valde est adventus vester si quod sit in quo vobis meagratia favor possit esse commodo non deero me vestrum favorem protectorem existere Atque de 〈◊〉 aliis majoribus rebus aliquid magis opportuni loquendi tempus post festos istos dies quo tempore vos ad me accersori curabo c. Hereupon I made Coursy as was appertaining and stepped back somewhat from the King and so the Vice-Chancelor and other Officers the chief Secretary brought Bills to be read and subscribed or assigned with the Kings own hand which he did and after the Lord Lasky had watched a fit time to tell the King of his desire to speak a few words to his Majesty of some of his own astairs and was bidden to resort straightway after dinner to his Majesty we took our leave with reverence doing and so went out of the privy Chamber or rather with-drawing Chamber through his privy Chamber where he had said Masse when wecame and so into the Guard-chamber and down c. Friday I took Ghostly counsel of Doctor Hannibal the great Divine that had now set out some of his Commentaries upon Pymander Hermitis Trismigisti Saturday Aprilis 20 I received the Communion at the Pernardines where that Doctor is a Professor This day E. K. the Ghostly counsel and comfort as his case required On Easter Monday very devoutly in Saint Stephens Church E. K. received the Communion to my unspeakable 〈◊〉 and content being a thing so long and earnestly required and urged of him by ourspiritual good friends as may appear by sundry former actions ✚ Cracoviae Tuesday in Easter week Aprilis 23. Manè 〈◊〉 horam 8. Praecibus fusis mediocritèr longis E. K. Here appears many thousands of spiritual Creatures all in white Now there seemeth one like Michael all in red to stand 〈◊〉 them they all standing in an half Moon compasse behind him Michael ..... Adhuc semel sed Stephano assidente Loquor Sed si aurem animam suam loquetae meae praebuerit stabilietur sedes illi E. K. Now they seem all to mourn or hum all in one tune He speaketh still but I understand not his speech Sin minus loquitor pro me pestis ulcere enim percutiam terram Zeli plenus sum Justitiae E. K. All are vanished away Δ Ne observes iniquitates meas Domine 〈◊〉 Christi qui speramns in misericordia tua qui redempti sumus 〈◊〉 sanguine tuo Amen Emitte Domine verbum tuum Evangelicum ut liquefacias emolias obdurata corda mea frigore 〈◊〉 ut mea peccata purgentur efficiantur quasi in Christo ut nebula ignorantiae expellatur è cordibus meis spiritus Sancto gratia affluant aquae 〈◊〉 in poenitentia Salutari Amen 1585. ✚ Cracoviae Aprilis 24. in Easter-week Wednesday morning 〈◊〉 horam 8. Orationibus factis ad Deum tam oratione Dominica quamaliis particularitur respectu Ministerii 〈◊〉 qui regnis president obtinendi ut nobis praescriptum 〈◊〉 dum conarer particulariter nominare aliquem statim incipit E.K. 〈◊〉 E. K. There appeareth afar off
shall be cut off for some of our unworthinesse c. All which things were so grievous unto me as I was in manner ready to sound and my distresse was the greater because after a sort I was barred from requiring the presence of any of our spiritual friends till Stephen had been rebuked by the Lord and I had vowed to obey their commandments and instructions whereby I was driven to beseech God to consider my cause and grief who unfainedly desired to be his true Servant And being desirous to obey them staying of my voice for the presence of his good Ministers I was contented to offer up my obedience herein for a sacrifice and ready to receive this distresse and affliction as a punishment for my 〈◊〉 awaiting his will and pleasure E. K. said It shall not be amisse to bring forth the Shew-stone and assay what the good will of God would be herein Δ I fetcht the Shew-stone and after it had been set about a quarter of an hour E. K. Espied in it a little naked boy with a white cloth scarf from under his Navel hanging down unto his knees The hair of his head is short as of an young child and about that time came the Lord A. L. unto us who sat down by us He had a little Circle of aire in his hand There is a light in the stone as if there were the shining of the Sunne in it Puer ..... Creavit Deus omnia Spirituoris sui qui etiam Spiritus defendit defendet suos in nomine 〈◊〉 sperantes E. K. He throweth up his Circlet and catcheth it againe three times He standeth still and saith nothing more yet Puer ..... Perforatus à Domino loquor E. K. Now he is turned into a water which goeth round about and in the midst of it is bloud Now he is returned to his former shape again Puer ..... The end of all flesh is at hand And the sickle of the Highest shall reap down the Mountaines The Valleys shall be without fruit And the seed of man shall be accursed E. K. Now he turneth his face to you Δ. Puer ..... Who is he that the Lord rejoyceth in or on whom the Heavens look with merry countenance whose feet are not a burden to the earth and in whom is the force of the soul comforted Who is he that shall rejoice in the Lord Even he it is that goeth out of himself and beholdeth himself saying O thou Carcase thou art a Sepulchre for me Neither am I placed in thee for thine own beauty but that the Lord may be magnified and his Creatures dignified He it is that shaketh off himself and putteth on the Armour of Affliction praising and extolling the Garland of the God of Hosts before that great Whore and in despite of her Congregation He it is that forsaketh his own will to do the will of him that created him Whosoever therefor doth his own will is the servant of Perdition But he that expecteth the will of God is 〈◊〉 Behold therefore because you do so and have beheld your selves not in your selves have acknowledged the power of God and the truth of his Message your Honour shall be great Therefore fear not For lo This Garland is prepared for you and rest is sealed unto you of the Highest unto you your wives children and servants Δ Blessed be thy Name for ever O eternal almighty and most merciful our God and King of Glory Puer ..... If the Sunne shine not in vain if the Stars move not but by variation and discourse moving things alternatim to an end if the Earth stand still because she is so created Much lesse ought man to despaire in the mercies and promises of God which are not without a cause neither any time spoken without effect I remember thee Lasky saith the Lord And I will chasten thee for thy sinnes and behold I swear unto thee as I have done But humble thy self This body of thine shall turn into dust Take beed therefore that it defile not the greater part For unto him that dieth a sinner vengeance is judgment But if thou live according unto my Lawes and graft thy self within my will if thou forsake the World for my sake and do the works of righteousnesse Because I have called thee before me I will adde unto thy yeares and will not blot out thy Name out of my remembrance Be not therefore a Man but the sealed servant of the Highest Rejoyce in him that created thee and when I command thee to strike follow me for I will make the way very broad for thee Behold I am mindful of my Covenant made unto thee the seventh day of September in the year four score and three I will establish unto thee that fortitude both in true Wisdome and Victory And I will make thee mighty as a Corner Stone 〈◊〉 Angle of my Temple if thou turn if thou do the will of him that speaketh unto thee if thou become a marble stone speaking Justice and Verity The mysteries of thy Crosse light upon thee and let thy sonnes be blessed in thee I greatly thirst after Steven for the course of things are at hand Behold I will blesse him that he may leave blessing unto thee Behold I will place thee unto him as his right leg and he shall stand But his wicked Garments I will cut in sunder yea I will send in the fire of wrath and dissention And I will take away the buttons from his brest I have given unto him three wicked Nations that they may grinde under him as slavish Captives When I come in one Week Behold I strike and those that are proud become poor and desolace The outward face of things shall be changed And the whole World shall say Lo here is the finger of the highest Rise Therefore and with speed go before Steven But the League Table thou shalt leave behind thee I will reveal my self in thy proper Shew 〈◊〉 Dixi quaerite victoriam Δ Deo nostro Omnipotenti Patri totus consolationis misericordiarum plenissimo sit omnis Honor. Laus Benedictio Gloria Imperium nunc semper Amen Amen Amen Δ I did communicate and this was the third time within Easter receiving Primo cum Humbate bis cum Raphaeli confessus c. That all manner of wayes I might have a clean and a quiet Conscience ✚ Maii 22. Wednesday Nyepolonicze in Aula Regia circa horam 1½ à meridie Note after dinner as we sat together A. L. E. K. and I discoursing of some of our matters There appeared over A. L. his head to the sight of E. K. a little Child half the upper part holding over the head of A.L. a white Crown and a finger out of it pointing toward Δ and withal he said Puer ..... Audivi te victores estis Δ Hereupon we sat out the Shew-stone as being ready and desirous to be instructed
in manu ante pedes tuos cadent ferrorique erit gladius tuus nationibus tutela te Coeli circumducent dum in robore dexterae tuae peribunt inimici Cor populi tui a te alienatum post modicum repurgabitur qui autem in sanctum conspiramere turpissimo cadent ulcere Adhuc si latere meo cum firmiter tam fideliter adhaescas abumbrabit te spiritus meus evades sapiens teque res Foecundabit de Coelo Haec est veritas Lex Domini quam proposit tibi Lux Dei hodie Stephano Igitur sume tibi gladium femori estringe eleva pro Domino veritate pugna vince Regna Noli sicut homo timori cedere neque de mundo queritate quia Deus tuus tecum est Ignis terribilis magnus Dominus exercituum Igitur si os tuum iuste a solio operies si impium condemnaveris impietatis impleto te spiritu meo anima tua repleatur igni potenti dum manus tuae vindicant coelos inclinat caput Impiam illam generationem de qua Domino loquuntur est in servitutem tibi tradidit cum videris tempus cum filiis suis a populo suo a parvo usque ad majore percute gladio ut pro impietate peccati sit plagarum numerus quia erit inflictus Bohemia non minus odiosa Coelis quam terrae gravis tediosa signata tibi est maledicta in jubare solis Collige Orna Fuge pedem in Aquilone digitis tange mare noti spernere coronam altissimi ostendam tibi nomen meum ponam laudes tuas inter aquas Cinge te etiam sicut forti amplectere montes meridionales aedifica mihi altare Eripiam enim vincula ab illis Ab Occidente manus violentas in viscera tua extendunt Sed ferro praescindam illas ungues Denique si a peccatis cessaveris si studio flagrabis coelestium ambulandâ—s coram me Domino Deo tuo in justitia veritate nuncquid in nomine meo seperit benedicatur in me splendorem suscipit Sin autem verba quae locutus est Dominus audire notueris Egomet ulter existam hodie exaltavi te in Domino posui caput tuum inter stellas Esto igitur obediens Paratus est terror impiis maledictus est mundus Beatus autem qui fideliter observant Verba illa custodiet quae Dominus hodie fecit Gratia Dei patris Jesu Christi filii ejus inclinat caput Spiritus Sancti visitet vos semper extendit manus suâ—â— valde Δ Amen Adduc familiam tuam cum celeritate Δ Sit benedictus nomen altissimi qui in servandis promissis est constantissimus in misericoardiis abundantissimus Illi Gloria Laus Honor decus jubilatio gratiarum actio nunc semper Amen ✚ Maii 28. Tuesday mane circa 6. in Nyepolonize Δ Oratione finita aliquibus verbis factis de nostra cum Stephano Actione praeterita haeri E. K. Here is he that was yesterday in our Action with the King Hei mihi saith the Lord He stoopeth by little downward why do I hold my hand from the Earth What have all the Princes of the World built a Tower against me These in denying me and my Majestie The other wallowing in extream drunkennesse amongst the pleasures and blindnesse of the flesh neglecting without fear my Commandements have I thrown out the Children from the Vineyard and called in the Dung-carriers have I visited my servants whom I chose in wrath and indignation with the Sword of Justice have I thus scattered them upon the face of the World without a Shepherd to entertain blasphemous Murderers Lyars and the Runnagates of the Earth the seed of Cain and of the cursed O you Caterpillers O you that fill the Earth with poison O you abusers of my Name and Dishonorors of my Temple What is the cause that you are so barren or that the Lord hath not mightily shewed himself amongst you as unto his Children Why are not the Miracles and Wonders a Testimony of the God of Truth amongst you as they were unto the Israelites Why hath not the Sea divided her self Why hath not the Lord delivered you from bondage Vnto the Israelites he gave a fruitful land the possession of the wicke abounding with Milk and Honey unto you he hath delivered your possession unto the Dogs and your children to become Captives why doth not the God of Hosts stretch forth his hand saying Deliver my people from bondage are not the times of those latter dayes and of the Harvest of the Disciples shadowed amongt the doings and graces of the Israelites you are become blind you have eyes but you see not for you * know not the time of your visitation O thou stif-necked Generation this is the cause that the finger of God commeth not amongst you This this is the cause because you have not Faith Neither is the Spirit of godlines and obedience amongst you can he that is all Truth defile himselfe with lying or can the flesh of man diminish the authority of the Godhead is Christ Jesus very God of very Go of less power or strength unto you then he was before unto the seed of Abraham because he hath taken your flesh upon him O you ignorant ô you blind strangers ô you that were faithful in the sight of the Lord is not the God of Heaven and Earth heire unto you by reason of his Man-hood have you not now access your selves unto the Throne of the Highest which your Fathers had not the Israelites ran unto the Prophets and high Priests yea they durst not run before the Lord For it was said of them * Let them stand before the hill They brought their offerings to the Priest which offered up their prayers and humility But unto you ô you of little fait the Gates are set open yea even unto the Throne of God why therefore doe you not ascend unto your Christ Which is anointed before the Father Hath he anointed him for himselfe or for you for both If you have no miracle you have no faith if you have saith the Son of Go faith to be compared with a Mustard-seed c. But you do none of these things neither is the name of God magnified amongst you Is it not a shame that the faith of man groweth not to be equal with a Mustard-seed is it not a signe of your slavish nature from the which you were called that there is no faith amongst you True it is For why the blood of Christ is shed upon you and you are washed without deserts Behold now saith the Lord when I have stirred up a Moses there are no Israelites that will follow him the seed of Abraham is destroyed with the Winter of self-love and dis-obedience The Lord groaneth saying Whether shall I turn me unto whom shall I shew my face
authority you can do nothing Therefore if your authority be not why take you upon you the doings of the Church which it is one thing to seek to understand the Scriptures and an other thing to teach the Scriptures according to his understanding for he that teacheth teacheth by Authority but if he have no Authority he is an Usurper My brethren remember your selves and consider you are Children you are not vestri juris but alieni Therefore do nothing that is of your selves But follow as good childre the steps of your Mother which Mother is a pure Virgin and is alwayes instructed with the wisdom of the Comforter What meat she shall give unto you her Children and how she shall bring you up and instruct you Simplicity is much worth and obedience is a Garland before the Lord. But Curiosity is the Devil Have you not read That the bread of the holy ones is not to be cast unto ` Dogs Look unto your selves whether you be Dogs or no. See if your life be holy your doings straight and just your patience manisold your affliction great for the Lord if you find not your selves so you are not Children If you be not Children you are not Sonnes if you be not Sonnes you have no Mother if you have no Mother you are Dogs you are devourers of the bread of Children currish senselesse and against God Enter therefore into judgment with your selves Consider you are created by God Consider you are redecmed by God Consider also you are also left to the spiritual tuition and comfort of God which God hath made of you a Congregation a holy and sanctified fellowship feeding alwayes as brethren together under his wings and at his Lable which feedeth you with the bread of life and understanding with the body and bloud of Jesus Christ the Sonne of the Living God With understanding that you may know the will of your Father which is in Heaven and knowing him be obedient which is the conclusion of your vocation Shake not off therefore the yoke of Obedience least you put away also the Cup of understanding and so know not the will of your Father But my thinketh you are starved your guts are shrunk up your bones and sinewes are withered What is the cause thereof When received you the bread of the Lord When received you nourishment O you of little faith and lesse understanding you erre and runne astray you are blind you follow not the will of your Father Return Return and say within your selves O eternal God and loving Father great is thy care and mercy over us which being led astray with Satan and the spirit of darknesse hast brought us home which being blind hast set open before our eyes our eyes also opened the true path and line of understanding Happy are we whom thou lovest so deerly and unto whom the care of our health is so dear We will therefore praise thy Name and return from our errors we will acknowledg our sinnes and follow thy Commandements for thou O Lord art onely just and true and thy mercy is everlasting Thy Lawes are sweet and thy love and kindnesse mighty amongst us Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Zebaoth all honour praise and glory be nnto thee for ever Δ Amen ..... After a while I return again E. K. He is gone Δ Note I read the premisses to Fr. Pucci in Latin which seemed to us to be wonderfully pithy and to the purpose c. E. K. He is here againe URIEL ..... Francis Pucci give ear vnto my word Stay a while Δ Hereupon Fr. Pucci did kneel on both his knees URIEL ..... True it is that as thy spirit moved thee so God hath called thee to the partaking and understanding of his will to be fulfilled in punishment and wrath against the falshood and deceit of the earth And therefore hath God in his great love and exceeding mercy called thee away from the Sonnes of the accursed and from the way of unrighteousnesse wherein if thou follow him in simplicity of Conscience and righteousnesse the works of faith thou shalt be confirmed for I say unto thee I will power my vengeance upon the whole Earth and I will chasten her in her iniquity and in the middest of her pride I will throw her down head-long and she shall triumph no more And because thou hast humbled thy self my spirit shall be with thee and thou shalt understand And this wicked Monster that sitteth in the Holy Temple and sinneth against the Highest shall be thrown down head-long with his pride And he shall be chastised and corrected with the mouth of you two For at the house of the Lord Judgment must begin And the rebelling sonne must be scourged before the wicked servant be punished Fear not I will put 〈◊〉 your words strength and power And if he hear you not but stretch forth his hands against you I will rain fire and brimstone from Heaven and his dwelling places shall sink And the Lake that shall remain shall bear witnesse against him for evermore Lift up thy heart therefore and despise the World Fight with her manfully and be not overcome Moreover acknowledg thy sinnes and fly unto the Lord. Seek out his House and eat of his bread for thou hast much need of it The seeds that thou hath sown abroad gather up again least thou be punished for the sins of thy Brethren Thy Soule standeth deare before the Lord which is the cause that he hath mercy upon thee which saith unto thee If thou be obedient before the Lord follow the instructions and discipline of the holy Ghost and do the works of righteousness and Charity my Spirit shall rest upon thee I have said K. E. He is gone Δ I read over the last parcel in Latine to Francis Pucci after he had in very penitent sort thanked God confessed himself an offender as he was here noted c. E. K. He is here again URIEL ..... Your Penance and Devotion premised The blessing of God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost in his everlasting truth and light comfort you blesse you and be merciful unto you Δ Amen URIEL ..... Extingue lumen Nam decedo Δ Deo nostro Omnipotenti aeterno Lucis Veritatis Authori sit omnis laus gratia actio honor gloria nunc sine fine Amen Anno 1585 Augusti 6 PRAGAE Actionis Puccianae posterior pars Videns E. K. nubem jam recessisse conspexit ut supra URIELIS caput quasi in 〈◊〉 alium vidit Angelum cujus pars inferior nube ignea continebatur Capitis veri capilli circa hameros sparsi orachia nuda apparebant Dextra autem Librum tenebat quadrata figura tegmine quasi ignito 〈◊〉 colore velatim Foliorum verò exterior margo albicans erat Septem retinaculis quasi totidem seris clausus esse liber videbatur Atque super retinaculorum ora sigilla quasi aurea impressa
that we were so uucourteously used that he meant nothing else in his sute to the Emperour against us but that we might be examined and thou being found faulty we should be sent to Rome but after that he had begun to move against us that he found the Emperour more eagerly bent against us than he himself was NOTE The Lord Rosenberg told us that when he did in our behalf advise the Emperour of his error committed in our extermination that the Emperour answered that this Nuncius from his first Audience did urge so vchemently against us and also the Pope had 〈◊〉 commandment by Letter to him to deliver us and send us to Rome that he was forced in manner to do as he did But if the commandement or his Decree were to be made again that it should not passe or if this Nuncius 〈◊〉 had not sent this Decree away to Rome that he should not send it c. This I note in respect of the contrariety in the Nuncius assertion and the Emperours of our so hard usage The foresaid eleventh day of July the foresaid Fr. Pucci to prove this his intended perswasion of the Nuncius good meaning toward us and to make us beleeve that great benefit would ensue our going to Rome did bring forth unto us a writing of his own hand which he read unto us and at the hearing of it we mused much for many causes I asked him then why the Nuncius had not subscribed this writing It is all one said he for that Hath he heard this read quoth I yea that he hath heard me read this three several times arise unto him said he And if you like of it saith he wherein his power serveth him not to performe as much as is specified in the writing he will make and use meanes to have it from his Holinesse well said I take a copy hereof Mr. Kelly for I was riding toward Salfeild about a house getting Thereupon said he contented but I think it meeter to save and keep the original it self said E. K. Well said Pucci and so the original was delivered to E. K. NOTE After 10 of the clock the same Friday being the eleventh day of this moneth after break-fast I rid toward Salfeild about the house of the Earl Albert of Swartzenberg c. But after I was out of Erffurd until my return again I was so sore vexed in mind to think of Pucci his return to our company as well for his unquiet nature in disputations as for his blabbing of our secrets without our leave or well liking or any good doing thereby either in God his service or our credit but rather the contrary ensuing albeit not of his intent but by either his undiscreet handling of it or of his undue hearers of him c. And also for his Houshold behaviour not acceptable to our wives and family and also because we were warned that he should be cut off from our company c. And chiefly now to consider that he had laid such a bait for us with our mortal enemy to entrap us by fair fawning words which by no meanes the Emperour would consent to do before by his authority but rather to put us out of his Kingdomes c. And imagining that he was a mighty Explorator upon us for this Nuncius Apostolicus and his adherents that now he might perceive what we had done hitherto what we were doing and what we intended to do and considering that he urged at our hands in answer to the former writing wherein also lay a trap for either in not answering it or refusing to grant some points of it or in our consenting to the whole this Nuneius would put matter against us to our great disadvantage Thus being tormented in mind in my absence how we might be rid of this Fr. Pucci by quiet and honest meanes I devised to write to this Nuncius to know if this writing were of his contriving onely or of Pucci his contriving onely or joyntly or if at the least the writing were according to his will and offer unto us and so to send him away wherein he could make no refusal I intending not to make him privy of the content of my Letter And in the mean space of his absence I hoped that some good way and better meanes would appear or fall out whereunto we might trust c. Thus I note my imaginations and discourses in the time of mv absence I returned to Erphurd July 13. hora 5. à meridie I found Fr. Pucci desirous to have answer to the foresaid writing and very much perswading this Roman voyage using arguments out of our actions as that God said we should go to Rome in a certain moneths space That we ought to obey the Roman Bishop and to love him c. I replyed and said that he was not to urge God upon any his sayings to us but to referre all to his most free disposition his will was to be done and not ours God was not bound to us c. He answered very vehemently and often that Deus est nobis obligatissimus Deus dixit nos itur os Romam 〈◊〉 credi credam aliter non credam nisi mihi Deus dixerit non nobis c. Well quod we God hath del vered unto us his meaning in that phrase which we also devise you of that it is not meant 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 that we shall corporally goe to Rome and so I brake off that his reasoning And told him that we 〈◊〉 that he should 〈◊〉 this Roman Voiage so violently and eagerly more then we It appertained unto us as much as to him c. The same day I told him that he had 〈◊〉 offended God with his 〈◊〉 in our affaires otherwise then appertained unto his calling and he may well remember his repentance therein and his forgivenesse obteined But that now he had offended much more in curiosity and half in conspiracy against us with our mortal enemy this Nuncius Apostolicus upon whom he did fawn in whose favour he is who joyneth counsaileth with him in our affaires who dare prescribe us what we have to do in so weighty affaires as our Journey to Rome who hath framed a bill accusing us coufusedly of Heresie and wicked Magick both falsely in one part and dangerous to life and infamous at the least in the other and hereto requireth urgeth and in manner in God his name argueth by our actions past obedience And therefore he hath separated himself from us and hath set himself against us c. With great vehemency he said He intended nothing but well to us and was Explorator with this Nuncius for our behalf We require none said I neither we need any for God seeth all and doth all for our benefit if we will constantly love and serve him so be brief he would seem to be worthy to be thought well of for his zealous good will and fidelity to us ward in all
suffer those wicked ones by any of their malicious practices to prevail in any wise to hurt thy body as Jobs was For if they 〈◊〉 their wicked purposes could have wrought such cruelty against thee thou hadst not been a man living here upon earth until this time So John Dee thou dost know who is thy mortal enemy who rules next unto your earthly King Δ. Why thou maist well know for I have made it known before time unto thee that he is not thy friend though thou hast not offended him in any wise Therefore because that this thy Native Countrey is not a place fit for Gods purposes in his wisdome to be bestowed upon thee here Therefore at my last Message God did send me to make known unto thee whether he would have thee to go that there thou mightst be a man and that man whom God hath appointed to make his Wisdome known for thou art that man whom God hath chosen that accordingly as it was said yesterday that no mortal man in flesh but onely Enoch had or shall have the like wisdome made known plainly to be understood by any man or thou thy self shalt understand and receive at the hands of the Almighty Therefore it is his will and purpose of God that he would have thee in that Countrey for this thy Native Countrey is not worthy of gifts that thou shalt receive at the hands of God to come and to be made known unto those which be not worthy of such great gifts of Gods wisdome to come amongst those that be unworthy Therefore John Dee in all these matters the which in favour at this time made known unto thee the chief and greatest cause of this my coming unto thee is to make the matter plainly known that God in his mercies would have thee with all diligence that thou canst possibly to haste thee to that Countrey where God doth command thee and at my last being here thou knowest what was my Message therefore do thy diligence to fulfil it as thou canst and God will put his great helps unto thee in strengthning of thy body and otherwise which shall be to thy good And thou being once in that place where God would have thee to be thou shouldst well perceive and plainly understand that God will most mercifully work with thee for thy good in performing all such promises the which hath 〈◊〉 loth at the last time and at this time made known unto thee John Dee I do put thee in remembrance that whereas thou 〈◊〉 say that thou hadst a portion of money 〈◊〉 thee from the Emperour unto thee I tell thee that the Devil in working in the heart of one of thy enemies Cook I mean did seek some wayes by his false important ill speeches in most false manner unto one that did in somewhat let the Emperour to understand what he had most falsely to thy discredit as he thought to hinder thee that thou shouldst not come to any help or credit at the Emperours hand But John Dee be of good comfort The Emperour of all Emperours will be thy comfort and aid thee and evermore put down thy enemies that the Emperour that thou shouldst have received that portion o it shall be so with thee that he shall have more need of thee in such wisdome as God shall deliver unto thee for thou shalt have no need of him but onely to keep good will and friendship betwixt him and thee in shewing thy self friendly unto him as God shall hereafter give thee plainly to understand Now John Dee I have made known unto thee what Gods will is in this my message This is the greatest and the most principal cause why God hath sent me unto thee at this present time And now I have through Gods mercies delivered this his Commandment unto thee and for this I have now said and finished Δ. Blessed be the Almighty God now and for ever Gladly I would have understood how much the portion was which the Emperour would have sent me John Dee let it go and speak no farther of it for thou maist be joyful whereas it is said unto thee that he should have need of thee and not thou of him Therefore reason no more in that matter Δ. As concerning Mr. Eccleston John Dee in few words I answer thee He hath dealt with the parties in those affairs but the chief party will not as yet yield any thing to be made known but doth stubbornly and stoutly stand in his own defence And Gods Creatures have wrought with him and nothing he will as ye yield unto except that those Creatures should deal so cruelly with him as it were to pull him apieces this is his wicked stubbornness But God will bring the matter to light but Eccleston hath not dealt so in the matter as he might have done he is too too slack in his own cause Therefore if the fault be in him then do not blame the Creatures of God For God could as you very well do know it command that said Treasure to be brought but he will not have it so to be because it shall come by other means among men So God hath a great care and purpose to do all for your good to keep matters out of blame and slander of the world as it might come to passe if it should come by any other wayes but by this plot which is laid down to decline And when it is the will of God that it shall be delivered God will so perform it if man will do as he should do in all reverend manner towards God-ward And so now I let you to perceive and to know that it is not as yet obtained Δ. Whether hath the other party confessed any thing Raph. He hath 〈◊〉 as yet yielded openly but he hath in secret manner perswaded his fellow that the matter might be made known unto Eccleston in confessing of all the whole matter but the other will not yet yield but it were better for him to yield at the first then to tarry any longer the lesse would be his punishment from God therein And so I let you to understand that you shall give God his time to work in that matter at his pleasure and then shall it be to the good of the owner and of you likewise And now I have said Δ. As concerning the bereaving me of my own goods I would gladly understand who hath my silver double gilt bell-Salt and other things here of late conveyed from mee Raph. John Dee This is the will and purpose of God to command thee although thou dost suffer wrong because thy goods be so taken away from thee yet Gods will is such that he will have thee to be a peace-maker in this cause for it is past help to have it again But as thou art a mortal father so use that matter as a father for thy son had it although he would not neither will confess it And likewise for such things of late missing about
quam virum Mariae pregnantem censeri c. Vide Sept. 21. Misericordiam Dei praemissam Δ. I must be placed here in Prage NOT YET Stewards Overseers Labourers The Lord his visitation is not yet Time Δ. Promise to Abraham Seth the third sen of Adam A promise made unto us The choice misliked The mercies of God upon us Δ To Prage A sure help promised Do the Lords Commandment speedily Note signes Δ. I understand not this Note our unaptnesse yet to be visited Ecclesiastes cap. 1. The workman and the work must be correspondent To Δ. Was said In fac supra To E. K. in vide To A. L. Tu vive A new choice by God his great 〈◊〉 granted 73 and a half Dee his age Angelus 〈◊〉 E. K. Aflafben my good argel Sudsamna E. K. his good Angel Vita Naturae Gratiae Δ. 〈◊〉 King 〈◊〉 did Regnum 4. cap. 20 Note * Augusti 23. Our new 〈◊〉 reformed choice A great mercy and mystery The former choice renounced This Day * 122 87. Amen Rodolphus Causa sine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Note this phrase of sound Three movers in man con curring Note the manner of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in or by man Mundus Humaenum 〈◊〉 c. tanquam Cera Impressio Superior Humana Inferior Pray against Temptation Impressio praedominans est consideranda Δ. Per quae homo 〈◊〉 per cadem punitur qui dixit Ascendam c. Jam ex Infernali statu semper ascendendo tentat The Answer to the first 〈◊〉 Δ Satan about this time was very busie with E. K. and declared his name to be Satan at 〈◊〉 An intended lye by Satan Reformation of the Records Answer to the second in a Parable A 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 8 9. 10. 11. capita Apocalypseos Δ. My prayer unto God for wisdom Wisdom DEVS Mater rerum 〈◊〉 idem Pater 〈◊〉 sit Deus noster qui respicit gemitus Pauperum E. K Not taster of that he seeth or heareth Note Δ How the Angels of the Lord have appeared to Δ which may seem more certain almost then as the phrase is 〈◊〉 of the Angels appearing to Joseph in somnis vide Matthaei cap. 2. Answer to the third and fourth demands Amen Monday Augusti 27. One of the 3. spiritual creatures said He in the middle of the Thre ..... Δ. Rod. his heart is to be turned by God but I know not the meaning Δ. Sunt duae literae ultimae in linea Spiritus Sancti in Tertia Tabula Flagellum Dei Trinitas unitas Divina Filii fidei non rationis bumanae Δ. His name is the last 3. letters of the 1. line of the fourth Table Rod if Vide lib. 15. Maii 28. 1584. Ga Za Vaa Angeli observantes 〈◊〉 opera 〈◊〉 Strike Note One of them sayeth Δ. Of the Physick part Δ. Note the third Table here meant is that of the South as East West South and North their placing is others Δ. The three last Letters in the uppermost line of the fourth Table †Pragae Satan his exceeding vehement Temptation Note the cause of this recording 1 Comfort in time of need 2 More Comfort in time of need Rod. Note the Original letter it self is in this Book Octavius Spinola Chamberlain and Stall-Master in the absence of the Officer who is sent into Spain * Hora tertia 〈◊〉 à 〈◊〉 Δ Uriel Books finished A Stone brought by a good Angel My message to the Emperour Rodolph done All the course of our Actions and Visions nakedly to be shewed to the Emperour Octavius Spinola Δ. Note Vriel his face now not seen of the eye which had highly offended God E. K. Had on Sunday last been mervallously drunk c. Satan Jesus †Zach. cap. 3. a. The overthrow almost given The eye E. K. the body Δ. Δ. By the eye is understood E.K. the 〈◊〉 this action and by the body is understood John Dee Δ. A V A great white Eagle I S I O N Δ. and E. K we are Prophers through God his mercy and sufferance * Which have not such presence 〈◊〉 Deus est qui haec 〈◊〉 A Seal opened 〈◊〉 13. cap. B. Zach. cap. 13. B. Dies vindicts Regnum Christi jam stabilietur A Prophesie against the Clergy Rod. If Divina 〈◊〉 ipsi Rodolpho 〈◊〉 An other Seal opened An. 1588. or which 88 else Δ. Fortè leese * Math. 24. C. This Prophesie then to be known An. 1588. Δ. Which 88 For I have not yet had that I remember the year notified to be 1588. nor yet 1688. c. Fortè An. 1688. This Prophesie is to be known An. 1588. * Malach. cap. 4. B. Elias shall come Δ. Note two dayes Rod. The beautifying of Rodolph his seat Imperial If Vide infra Septemb 22. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 CAVE Uriel onely in great causes is to be looked for The end of teaching or instructing thus Enoch his Tables The spirit of choice Vide 13. September Garden of the Lord. Note This Testimony 〈◊〉 Domini Δ. He putteth us in remembrance of our frailty and offence committed before noted E K. His vow of fasting during life * Factum erat die 11. Septemb. sequente Vltra non habeo Δ Further I have not to say or do * On Wednesday Reconciliation Reconciliation of two sorts Wherefore Uriel his face is yet covered 1. 2. Vide supra Septemb. 5. The eye was commanded to be reconciled to the Spirit of Truth Justitia Dei Δ. Ab occultis meis munda me c. A temporal punishment Ecclesiae catholicae reconciliari debemus Δ Accipite Spiritum Sanctum quorum remiseritis peccata remit 〈◊〉 eis quorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sunt Joannes 20. 〈◊〉 Math. 16. C. 18. C. Si descendero in Infernum tu illic es Ignis purgationis The perfect assurance by Christ and his Church or Spirit * Math. c. 5. D. Δ. Δ. Now he answereth to 〈◊〉 request first propounded Rudolp If. Spiritus Electionis quid sit vide pagina sequente Rodulp Spiritus 〈◊〉 If. Δ. From the East Comfort and Triumph Rodolphi soboles in 〈◊〉 generationem If. Secresie required Addere Deo quo modo bonum est 〈◊〉 infra Spiritus Electionis supra Sept. 5. Δ. I spake this to E. K. D. Curtz Δ. Frankly as my term was in my first request or question this day made Δ. Studiorum meorum scopus Rodolph My counsel to Doctor Curtz He also said that in the former my Records that I had noted many a ly and untruth Note the Emperour enclined to 〈◊〉 c. I suspect the Doctour doth not deal sincerely Trinitatis Lux mysteria per Vrielem revelantur Mendacium Obstinatum 〈◊〉 Objectio Solutio Mendacium Ecclesiae Dignitas Authoritas Reconciliation to the Church Wilfull silence Δ. Finalis inpoenitentia Testes Angelici Froward silence * Psal. Ito ad Ecclesiam Δ. Voluntary 〈◊〉 is contrary to froward lence Aures Dei Manus 〈◊〉 Vide de Lazaro Joh. c. 1 * Act. 3. Supra †More