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A37412	A true & faithful relation of what passed for many yeers between Dr. John Dee ... and some spirits tending ... to a general alteration of most states and kingdomes in the world : his private conferences with Rodolphe, Emperor of Germany, Stephen, K. of Poland, and divers other princes about it ... : as also the letters of sundry great men and princes ... to the said D. Dee / out of the original copy written with Dr. Dees own hand, kept in the library of Sir Tho. Cotton, Kt. Baronet ; with a preface confirming the reality (as to the point of spirits) of this relation ... by Meric Casaubon ...	Dee, John, 1527-1608.; Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671.; Kelly, Edward, 1555-1595.	1659 (1659)	Wing D811; ESTC R11048	632,551	486

of rags hanging at the top of it The rags seemed of Woollen and Linnen Cloath like a bundle of Rags gathered out of a Taylers shop The sword stood upright in a manner but leaning from E. K. his face though it seemed to smite at E. K. A voyce So be it O Lord for thon art mighty Be it so unto them For they have embraced an Harlot and have forgotten thy jealousie E. K. The svvord shaketh mightily Many are the Harlots that svvarm upon the earth and innumerable are their Children and such as they foster Their revvard is ready E. K. The sword now shaketh again mightily ..... He that entreth into the house of the wicked is defiled but he that consenteth with an Harlot is accursed He that delighteth in her secrets shall be stabbed And Leprosie shall dwell in his house for ever Δ. O Lord I trust this respecteth none of us in common sense to be understood ..... He that delighteth in light loveth not himself but desireth the love of him that illuminateth But thus saith God I will not dally with you Neither shall you handle me as you have done For your Horedom is wilfull and your vanities worse But this I leave amongst you that you shall know that I am righteous For he that despiseth me is accursed and unto him that dissembleth my fashion are miseries without number So unto them that enterinto the house of blasphemy is vengeance ready at hand Δ. O Lord what is this Man is but earth where the heavens dwell neither are the works of man acceptable but with righteousnesse E. K. There appeareth a man with a Bible about his neck like a Doctor and he standeth miserably in fire And so likewise appeared divers other with Bibles about their necks and they in fire likewise Still come flames from the earth and encrease the flames of these men about them There appeareth and endlesse ... me most terrible with fire and other most hideous shews .... They be suddenly gone away And all these men be now no more in sight A voyce Happy are those that see and can remember Blessed are those that hear and are not forgetfull Δ. These words and shews O Jesu make evident what ..... E. K. All is gone except the sword which standeth in a Cloud and there cometh a hand and setteth a seal upon the sword A voyce I brought you from iniquity to the intent you might be purified But the more I cleanse you the more you are defiled ..... I have offered of old and it shall be told I have promised and it shall be performed You have not kept my Commandments And therefore you shall be plagued He that goeth out of the way shall receive the reward of errour For stragglers are spotted people And none can be blessed but such as dwell in the Tabernacle of righteousnesse But behold I will tell it unto you but with greater hardnesse And I will make you know me before I visit you in kindnesse For thus sayeth Sathan Lo they erre still Do Justice for thy glory sake They enter into the houses of Idols And laugh with blasphemers They are silent when thy name is blasphemed Deal with them as a God or else thou art not righteous Therefore be free from Sathan that he may praise your righteousnesse Yea that he may say as he hath said Let me touch them Vntill then I will be just I will not forget this wickednesse till you be made clean For behold I have sealed it and therefore it must be finished For what is sealed of me cometh to passe Δ. A voyce He that dissembleth the image of Christ is a liar Δ. ..... Now cometh a grave man all cloathed in white with a Mytre upon his head ..... The God of peace is a comforting Medicine to such as delight in him The peace of the world is the image of God God and man which is Jesus Christ the son of the living God Which knit with the father in the spirit of truth proceeding from them both ..... everlasting will opened his mercies to his Apostles replenishing them fully and mightily with the will of the father to the comfort of the world Which made messagers thereof have delivered to the Church full and perfect Statutes as the Will of him whereunto she is united and married to be kept inviolable and without transgression This Will Covenant or Decree sealed unto the end of the world in the number of the faithfull whosoever breaketh or dissembleth is accursed or damned Therefore saith the word of God unto you You have run astray you have entred into the houses of Idols I have brought you from fire but you are entred into flames And why Because you defile your selves with the wickednesse of deceivers Whose images you saw affirmatively though not verily Continually overwhelmed with daily and inextinguible flames Continuing even so long as their errour is exalted Yea even in the professors thereof to their eternal damnation For as Christ and his Doctrine is light and truth So seem the impositions of Sathan to agree or take unto themselves shapes or likenesses of the true image of him that saveth Whereby he trusteth in himself under the colour of meeknesse into the companie of the faithfull Devouring their Souls with ravening dissembling and false likelyhoods of truth unable to be decided by man Happie are those that believe them not For he even he it is that is a liar and is oldest in deceit But as the father is eternal So is the son eternal which eternity of the father and the son is the holy Ghost eternal proceeding equally as the finger of God and spirit of truth to the general workmanship of Gods determination knit together three Persons E. K. He maketh a great reverent cursie in this omnipotency by spiritual illumination and through the holy Ghost delivered unto the Apostles as the pledge of God his mercie and promise is alwayes certainly linked joyned and engraffed into the society of those that fulfill the will of the highest perfectly and without errour whose strength shall continue and glorie branch out even unto the end of this world and beginning of comfort Therefore believe For the spirit of truth worketh wonders raiseth the dead and hath power to forgive sins Through the power of him unto whom it is ma ..... For as Christ hath all power in heaven and in earth delivered ..... So hath he delivered all power in heaven and earth to his true Church Therefore she cannot erre For where power is without measure errour hath no number Believe not therefore those that lie saying The Church of God is infected with errours For the offences of few are not counted errour but unrighteousnesse Neither can the stragling feet of a few drunken bring infamy to the whole house Δ. ..... It lieth not in my power to deliver you or reconcile you from death and Hell The tormentry and filthinesse of the world and the wrath of God But

yet That Cloud set aside which is between me and you I speak afar of to you saying The Justice of God is vengeance it self Neither hath it any contrary but even in the midst and Centre of it self Which is the drop and liquor of his eternal great and incomprehensible Majestie of himself his mercie Which even in the midst of Justice is found out by sorrowfull repentance and reconciliation Not in that it is necessarie with God But that it is a Medicine applicable and most healthfull to the infirmities of that man that coveteth to be healed released or recovered from his soares This is it that must comfort you For as Justice is the reward of sin so is mercie the reward of repentance But mercie is the Center of light and Justice to be cast off and shut within darknesse Therefore be not negligent Δ. This whoredom how is it committed or of whom ..... I teach the ..... Where thy habitation was errour rained God called thee from it and delivered thee by many but unknown wayes means not to be uttered by man These places also are shut up from the favour of God For their obedience is counterfeited and their prayers out-cries Therefore hath the Lord opened him unto you that invented the vanitie that you might be partakers of his knowledge and secret judgements of the wicked Here also you entred and are newly defiled For the Devil entred in and found him waking And lo he entred yet and he was not asleep But he was happie being kindled with desire of God else had the judgement of his bodie for this world been fulfilled Wickednesse followeth him and the spirits of evil counsel are at hand You shall feel the sorrow thereof and your family shall be discomforted But pray unto God that it fall not out that Sathan goeth about Neither that it come to passe which he hath power to execute For this token signifieth your miseries and it is a sign of that which is given to execution I have said The peace of God be restored unto you Δ. E. K. Here is the man again ..... Two words and I have done Nothing is plainer than that which is spoken Nothing certainer than that which is appointed Be you penitent that God may be merciful This is all I have to say Wash your selves and I also will make you clean Resist you Satan diligently and I will help you mightily Δ. O Lord that seal to the Sword and rags break off E. K. Now he is gone Δ. E. K. Now he is here again ..... This cloud is a separation betwixt this yea this glorified company and you Look not for any light whilest this darkness is present Behold my mouth faltreth and my lips are stayed But pray you and you shall not be rejected For the stronger you be the mercifuller is God and the weaker is and shall be your adversary Love together Serve God together Be of one heart together Alwayes preach God I am tied E. K. He is gone Δ. Misericordia pax Dei sit super nos nunc semper Amen Friday Novemb. 15. hora mane Lubek E. K. The cloud appeareth and openeth so that the Sword may be seen Δ. O Lord deal mercifully with us as thy children to be corrected with rod or whip and not with thy enemies with sword to cut or wound us Let not Satan force thee to justice more mightily than thy fatherly goodnesse can incline thee to shew mercy upon us E. K. An hand cometh and nippeth off an inch of the top of the Sword and some of the rage are fallen down some hanging on the hilts of the Sword and some are thrust through with the Sword Now the Sword is shut up again in the Cloud Δ. Have mercy on us O Lord and deal with us as thy younglings and novices E. K. Now come in an eleven all like Noble men One of them hath a regal Cap and a Gown faced with Sables The Cap is like a Polonian Cap but trimmed up with rich Sables Now cometh one and bringeth a very rich Chair beset vvith precious Stones Four of the Company set dovvn this Chair for that Principal man He that brought the Chair vvent avvay They all do lovv obedience to this principal He sitteth dovvn and putteth his Govvn over He is a goodlier man than the Lord A. L. The 4 pluck a thing like a Canopy over the Chair and they put a round Cushion under his feet This Principal speaketh as follovveth ..... Pluck up thy heart and be merry pine not thy Soul away with inward groanings for I will open unto thee the secrets of Nature and the riches of the World and withal give thee such direction that shall deliver thee from many infirmities both of body and minde Ease thee of thy tedious labour and settle thee where thou shalt have comfort Δ. Thanks be given unto the Highest now and ever of all his Creatures ..... Why dost thou ... within thy thought Hast thou not need of Counsel Δ. Yes God knows for I am half confounded ..... Then first d ... with thy self to rest thee for this Winter Secondly open thy mind to desire such things as may advance thy Credit and enrich thy Family Reap unto thee many friends and lift thee up to honour For I will stir up the mindes of Learned men the profoundest in the World that they shall visit thee And I will disclose unto you such things as shall be wonderfull and of exceeding profit Moreover I will put to my hands and help your proceedings that the World may talke of your wisdom hereafter Therefore wander not farther into unknown places contagious the very seats of death for thee and thy children and such as are thy friends If thou enquire of me where and how Every where or how thou wilt thy self For thou shalt forthwith become rich and thou shalt be able to enrich Kings and to help such as are needy Wast thou not born to use the commodity of this World Were not all things made for mans use Δ. Will you give me leave to speak ..... What canst thou speak hereunto Wilt thou thank me for this Δ. All thanks be unto the King of Glory c. Δ. Is it your meaning that we shall stay here and go no farther with the Lord Albert Laskie ..... Yes in the Summer when it is more fair Δ. I beseech you Where would you that we should make our .... this Winter ..... Where you will Are you so unwise to go with him now Let him go before and provide for himself that he may the better provid for you The weather will be hard and the travel unfit for children If thou covet to live in ease heap not up thy wives sorrow Δ. I desire to live in quiet that my spirit may the better attend to the service of God ..... Well Tarry you and my promise shall be quickly performed I will not halt with you How say you Sirs E. K. He speaketh to

the North. And of all other matters omitting the rehearsal in these Records those matters I mean which at Leipsich and in this Journey happened notably unto me or I did my self one Letter which I wrote to the Queen of England her Secretary the Right Honourable Sir Francis 〈◊〉 as followeth Right Honorable SIR ALbeit I have almost in vain come a hundred miles from Prage to this Leipsich Mart hoping either to meet my Servant there with answer to my former Letters sent in November last to her Majesty when also I wrote unto your Honor and divers other And so with speed from this Leipsich to have sent again most speedily as occasion should have served And now I find neither servant neither Letter from him neither word of mouth yet all this notwithstanding and whatsoever the hindrance or delay hereof be whether the keeping back of my Letters from her Majesty or the manifold and importune most weighty affairs publick hindring or delaying her Majesties most gracious discreet and wise resolution herein or what other occasion else hath and doth cause this long and wonderful delay of answer receiving All this notwithstanding I thought good before I set up to my Coach to visit and most humbly to salute your Honour very faithfully dutifully and sincerely with great and the same good will that my Letter some yeers since written to your Honour butt hen a sinmbling block unto your Honour and other for the strangnesse of the Phrases therein doth pretend so it is right Honourable that the merciful providence of the Highest declared in his great and abundant graces upon me and mine is so wonderful and mighty that very few unlesse they be present witnesses can believe the same Therefore how hard they are to be believed there where all my life and doings were construed to a contrary sense and 〈◊〉 of death contrived and decreed against the Innocent who can not easily judg I am forced to be brief That which England suspected was also here for these two yeers almost secretly in doubt in question in consultation Imperial and Royal by Honourable Espies fawning about me and by other discoursed upon pryed and peered into And at length both the chief Romish power and Imperial dignity are brought to that point resolutely that partly they are sorry of their so late reclaiming their erroneous judgment against us and of us and seek means to deal with us so as wee might favour both the one and the other And partly to Rome is sent for as great Authority and Power as can be devised and likewise here all other means and wayes contrived How by force or for feare they may make us glad to follow their humours But all in vain for force humane we fear not as plainly and often I have to the Princes declared And otherwise then in pure verity and godlinesse we will not favour any my words may seem very marvellous in your Honours ears But mark the end wee have had and shall have to deal with no babes I have full oft and upon many of their requests and questions referred my self to her Majesties answer thus in vain expected Nuncius Apostolicus Germanicus Mala Spina after his yeers suit unto me to be acquainted with me at length had such his answer that he is gone to Rome with a flea in his eare that 〈◊〉 him terrifieth the whole State Romish and Jesuitical secretly they threaten us violent death and openly they fawn upon us We know the sting of Envy and the fury of the Fear in Tyrannical minds what desperate attempts they have and do often undertake But the God of Heaven and Earth is our Light Leader and Defender To the Worlds end his mercies upon us will bread his Praises Honour and Glory Thus much very rhapsodically yet faithfully tanquam dictum sapienti I thought good to commit to the safe and speedy conveyance of a young Merchant here called Lawrence Overton which if it come to your Honours hands before my Servant have his dispatch I shall or may by your Honour be advertized Your Honour is sufficient from her Majesty to deal and proceed with me if it be thought good But if you make a Council-Table Case of it Quot homines tot sententiae And my Comission from above is not so large Qui potest capere capiat Sir I trust I shall have Justice for my House Library Goods and Revenues c. Do not you disdain neither fear to bear favour unto your poor Innocent Neighbour If you send unto me Master Thomas Diggs in her Majesties behalf his faithfulnesse to her Majesty and my well liking of the man shall bring forth some piece of good service But her Majesty had been better to have spent or given away in Alms a Million of Gold then to have lost some opportunities past No humane reason can limit or determine God his marvellous means of proceeding with us Hee hath made of Saul E K. a Paul but yet now and then visited with a pang of humane frailty The Almighty blesse her Majesty both in this World and eternally and inspire your heart with some conceiving of his merciful purposes yet yet not utterly cut off from her Majesty to enjoy To the right Honourable Sir Francis Walsingham Knight her most Excellent Majesties Principal Secretary my singular good Friend and Patron with speed From Leipsich this 14 of May 1586 at Peter Hans Swarts House Your Honours faithful wel-willer to use and command for the honour of God and her Majesties best service JOHN d ee Illustriss Magnif D. mei Colendissimi BEnedictio Dei Patris mera gratia misericordia per unicum meritum Jesu Christi illuminatio Spiritus Sancti 〈◊〉 nos cum omnibus Christianis qui magno cum zelo propter gloriam ejus crucem tribulationem praesentionem a rancido atque putido scorto Babylonico in turbulentissimo hujus mundi Oceano patimur ut exemplo Jesu Christi qui est in Patre virtute auxilio Spiritu S. haec omnia perferre patienter valeamus ad nominis sui gloriam animarum nostrarum salutem Amen 〈◊〉 fortastis videbitur Dominat V. quod ignotus ad ignotos scribo 〈◊〉 bonam hujus culpae partem justissimo dolori quem ex rumore sparso ad me delato propter D. V. concepi mirari enim non satis possum pertinax studium bestiae istius Babilonice quae nihil intentatum relinquit nullum non movendo lapidem quo hominibus vestrae nationis praecipue piis amantibus Dei non solummodo nocere sed funditus perdere studet Elapso enim undecima die hujus mensis Legatus Pontificius Libellum supplicationum ut vocant Caes. Majestati obtulit quo D. V. Nicromanciae aliis artibus prohibitis insimulat aliisque calumniis graviter accusat copias hujus libelli habere potuissem sed nimis sero hac de resum certior factus nec tutum absque suspitione est