Figure be in the Text it self and of some consequence for the better understanding of the rest The Greek p. 25. b. is exactly set out as it was found and yet to be seen in the original written by Dr. Dee himself But little or nothing can be made of it as it is written and it is a sign that Dr. Dee who writ it as Edw. Kelley reported it unto him and afterwards plodded upon it as doth appear by some Conjectures and Interpretations found in the original and here also exhibited as well as he could was no very perfect Grecian much less Edw. Kelley who could not so much as read it which made Dr. d ee to write some things that he would not have Kelley to read in Greek Characters though the words were English I would not alter any thing that was in the Original But the words I believe spoken by the Spirit and so the Greek is warrantable enough were these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This I think was intended of Edw. Kelley who was ever and anon upon projects to break with Dr. d ee and to be gone as here presently after and in divers other places of this relation nay did really forsake him sometimes for some time The sence verbatim is this This fellow or Friend will overthrow this work of Apparitions you must understand to which he was requisite because the Divel had not that power over Dr. Dees Body to fit it though he did promise it him for such sights His baggage or furniture is in a readiness And he doth very much endeavor To withdraw himself from this common friendship Take heed that you give him no occasion For he doth mightily plot by art and cunning How he may leave you for ever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the first line may seem unusual for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but it is an elegant Metaphore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is not usual and happily it should have been 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and so uttered but that is nothing Certainly he that could speak somuch Greek called here Syrian to jeer Ed. Kelley could not want Latine at any time to express himself which nevertheless might be thought where we finde him speaking English to them that understood it not so that Dr. Dee was fain to interpret it But we cannot give an account of all his fetches and projects He had a consideration I make no question I cannot think of any thing else that the Reader need to be told that is of this nature and it may be some what might have been spared However the Reader will consider that as in all Books so in this It is one thing to read from the beginning and so to go on with heed and observation without skipping and another thing to read here and there which would require a perpetual Comment which is the wretchedness of most Readers in these 〈◊〉 days of Learning and therefore they have Comments or Rhapsodies rather accordingly similes habent labra lactuses never more true of any thing It may be some will wonder what made the Spirits to fall upon English Genealogies and Stories it is at very beginning therefore I take notice of it for the Readers sake that is yet and cannot otherwise a stranger to the Book The business is Dr. d ee was 〈◊〉 grown into great league and confederacy with Albert Lasky or à lasco rather a great man of Polonia You had before what Cambden 〈◊〉 of him of his coming to England at this verytime and his going away which doth very well agree with our dates here It seems though nobly born and to great dignity yet his thoughts did aspire much higher and though no rich man for a man of his rank and quality yet expecting such matters from Dr. d ee and his Spirits as he did he could finde money enough to supply their wants upon occasion The Spirits were very glad of the occasion and did what they could to 〈◊〉 him according to his humor Being then at that very time upon deliberations that much depended of Alb. Laskey and his good opinion among other things his Pedegree which must needs please a vain man very well was taken into consideration That every thing there said doth exactly agree to the truth as I do not warrant it so neither am I at leisure at this time to take the pains to examine We must never look further in those things that are 〈◊〉 by such then if it were or be pertinent true or false to their end and present occasion Besides it is very possible which I desire the Reader to take good notice of that both here and elsewhere the Transcribers as they could not read sometimes and were forced to leave some blancks though seldome to any considerable prejudice of the sence so they might mistake also having to do with an Original that was and is yet to be seen so defaced and worm-eaten as this is written as we have said by Dr. d ee himself Besides the authentickness of the Original Copy written by Dr. Dee himself the Reader may know that the Originals of the Letters that are here exhibited are all ormost of them yet preserved and to be seen in Sir Tho. Cottons Library IV. I am now come to the last of the four things that I promised to shew the several good uses that may be made of this Book and which were principally looked upon in the publishing of it This order indeed I proposed to my self but great part of this occasion offering it self upon other matter is already performed in the former Discourse so that but little is now left to be done However I will sum them up and represent them together that every Reader may have them in readiness and in view for his use the better The first is against Atheists and such as do not believe that there be any Divels or Spirits We have argued it I confess pretty largely at the beginning of this Discourse or Preface and I hope some may receive competent sat sfaction by what we have said But if no Argument had been used setting aside Scripture Authority which would be impertinent against Atheists I do not know what can be more convincing then this sad Story so exactly so particularly so faithfully delivered Truly they must see further then I do that can finde what to answer rationally and to oppose This is a great point and a great ground of Religion but this is not all For if there be Spirits indeed so wicked and malicious so studious and so 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 men and to do mischief which is their end all which is so fully represented in this Relation then certainly must it follow that there is a great over-ruling Power that takes care of the Earth and of the Inhabitants of it of them especially that adore that Power and worship it with true affection and sincerity For without this over ruling Power
big as one of us  E. K. They swarm continually  Dominus ille Abraham Gab. ..... Adhuc D s laboro E. K. Now cometh a fire down by the same beam that came into his head E. K. Now cometh another streaming beam down to him   erit in latere tuo  Adjutor meus E. K. Looking up ..... Now cometh a bigger fire down on him   custodiet pedem tuum ne capiaris E. K. Now they run headlong down into a great pit in the earth and one pincheth me by the head Spera igitur in dominum Deum tuum  For thou shalt overcome  erit tibi Victoria maxima  in Deo propter Deum  qui est Dominus Deus exercituum E. K. Now the aforesaid spirits invade Gabriel again Gab. ..... What I suffer is not lawful for man to see Therefore Cease for a while and suffice nature But return and hear of my commandment E. K. He is gone but his Desk standeth still Sunday à meridie hor a 2. Octob. 13. Gab. ..... And hereby I teach you that those afflictions which you suffer in soul either for your offences towards God or for the imperfections of your mindes being void of brotherly charity toward your neighbours And so from you generally hereafter how great or how many soever ought not to be manifested or made open to the world but perfectly shadowed in Charity bearing your own infirmities and so the infirmity of others with quiet and hidden minde For the anguish of the soul is compared with prayer dwelling in one house which ought to laugh with the World and to weep towards heaven For every sin is noted and the least thing as well amongst the Celestial bodies as the Terrestiall is perfectly considered of For sin hath his end and his end is punishment And so contrarywise of Vertue Wisdom in the one and twentieth Ent ... ie or L ... His ground is upon mildnesse which mildnesse purifieth the body and exalteth the soul making it apt and ready to behold the heavens receive glorious illuminations and finally bringeth in the soul to participate with us not earthly but everlasting wisdom The Son of God was sanctified in his flesh through mildnesse and was not of this world because he was the mildnesse of his Father Therefore be you meek Be fervent in meeknesse Then shall you take up that Crosse which Christ spoke of following him which Crosse is the Compassion in mildnesse over thy brethren for sin sake Not as worldlings do looking but not lamenting The other part is in suffering mildly the afflictions of the world and flesh Hereby you become Martyrs for that you mortifie your selves which is true Martyrdom He that forsaketh the world for the love of God in his Son Christ shall have his reward But he that forsaketh himself shall be Crowned with a Diadem of Glory Thus saith the Lord I am jealous over you because you have vowed your selves unto me But great are the temptations of the flesh and mighty is his strength where the spirit is weak But thus saith God It is better to fill up the Soul with heavenly contemplation and coelestical food to reign in heaven and to be beloved of him Then to pamper the filthy flesh whose delight destroyeth both body and Soul It is written He that bridleth not his flesh is given to riotousnesse which is the sleep of death and the slumber to destruction But this is true abstinence when contemning the world you fly the delight therein refraining from pleasures of the body Temperating the flesh and making it weak and that for the Lord his sake For the flesh and spirit rejoyce not at once Neither can the full belly grone out true prayers Feed therefore the Soul with the love of our society And bridle your flesh For it is insolent One thing I say look to your servants See that in one house there dwell not delighters in vertue and holinesse mingled with such as harbour vice upon vice Whose drunkennesse is abomination and whose diet stirreth up fornication For wickednesse is amongst them and they fear not God neither do they abstain according as the holy Ghost by his Church hath taught Make them clean Then shall you feel our presence amongst you And we will all of us defend you from the rage of wickednesse We delight in the God of truth and in the worshippers of Justice Thus sayeth the holy Ghost Lo I have made me a Tabernacle where the God of Gods reigneth in Justice And I will sanctifie those places which rejoyce in charity Mingle therefore your Alms with charity And let your prayers and fasting be mingled with Alms deeds For he that prayeth and fasteth without mercy is a lyar Moreover let your friendship 〈◊〉 such as is of charity and not of this world Neither for the worlds sake but for the service of God All friendship else is vain and of no account Charity is the gift 〈◊〉 the Holy 〈◊〉 which Holy 〈◊〉 is a kindling fire knitting things together through Christ Jesus in the true wisdom of the Father Which fire is of no small account neither to be reckoned of as the Heathens have done For happy are those which are fed with charity For it is the meat of us that are anointed which is the son of God and the light of the world Δ Is charity the son of God Gab. ..... It is so He that walketh in charity walketh in God for charity is the will of the father is his own delight and illumination of the faithfull through his Holy Spirit The charity of the Church is the Holy Ghost But he that dwelleth in charity dwelleth in the bloud of the Lamb which is the will of the father which is the Holy Ghost Blessed are those that dwell in charity Persevere to the end Not negligently but with good will which good will is called fear Which 〈◊〉 is the beginning of wisdom the first step into rest He that continueth to the end receiveth his reward But he that leaveth off is a damned Soul Many men begin but few end Neither is your justification by the beginning but from the end Paul was justified Because he died the servant of God and not for his preaching sake He that 〈◊〉 to the end is the Childe of God inheriter of everlasting life and equal with joy himself Not the joy of joyes but that joy which God hath made equal with the joyes of his son Christ in the company of the faithfull Even in this place many persons had conspired against you But the strength of God hath sealed them And they shall not be unpunished For the Angel of the Town is sealed and his seal is to destruction Thrice cursed are those which dwell within his government But you are safe and shall be safely delivered from them In England They condemne thy doings and say Thou art a Renegade For they say Thou hast despised
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
your hearts that the sap of your understanding may receive strength and that you mayflourish with acceptable Truth as the chosen servants and Ministers of the Highest Totus mundus in maligno positus est and is become the open shop of Satan to deceive the Merchants of the Earth with all abhomination But what are you the Pedlers of such wares or the Carriers abroad of lies and false doctrine Do you think it is a small matter to tie the sense of Gods Scriptures and mysteries unto the sense and snatching of your Imaginations Do you count it nothing to sit in judgment against the Spirit of God leaving him no place but at your limitation Is it lawful before the Sonne of God to spend the whole dayes yea many yeares with the Sonnes of Satan the lying imps and deceivers of the World Are you so far entred into the shop of abhomination that you point unto the Sonne of God the time of his comming the descending of his Prophets and the time wherein he shall visit the Earth Moses durst not speak but from the Lords mouth The Prophets expounded not the Law but the voice of the Lord. The Sonne of God spake not his own words in that he was flesh but the words of his Father His Disciples taught not but through the holy Ghost Dare you therefore presume to teach and open the secret Chamber of the Highest being not called Tell me have you left your Merchandize and the counting of your mony deceitfully gotten to beome Teachers of the Word of God Are you not ashamed to teach before you understand yea are you not ashamed to lead away where you cannot bring home Hypocrites you are and void of the Holy Ghost lyars you are become and the enemies of Christ and his holy Spirit Peradventure you will say in reading the Scriptures we understand But tell me by what spirit you understand them what Angel hath appeared unto you or of which of the Heavens have you been instructed It may be you will say of the Holy Ghost O thou fool and of little understanding Dost thou not understand that the Holy Ghost is the School-master of the Church of the whole Flock Congregation of Christ If he be the School-master therefore over a multitude it followeth then that one doctrine taught by the Holy Ghost is a lesson or an understanding of a multitude But what multitude are of thine understanding or of what Congregation art thou Wilt thou say thou art scattered Thou speakest fasly thou art a runnagate But behold I teach thee and thy error is beforethy face Whosoever doth understand the Scriptures must seek to understand them by Ordinance and spiritual tradition But of what spiritual tradition understandest thou or by what Ordinance are the Scriptures opened unto thee Thou wilt say thou art informed by the Holy Fathers and by the same Spirit that they taught by the same Spirit thou understandest Thou sayest so but thou dost not so Which of thy Fore-fathers hath tied reason to the Word of God or the understanding of the Scriptures to the Discipline of the Heathen I say unto thee that thy Fore-fathers were dear unto Christ were pertakers of the heavenly visions and celestial comforts which visions and celestial comforts did not teach unto them a new exposition of the Scriptures but did confirm and give light unto the mysteries of the Holy Ghost spoken by the Apostles the ground-layers and founders of the Church Whatsoever therefore thou learnest of thy Fore-fathers thou learnest of the Apostles and whatsoever thou learnest of the Apostles thou hast by the Holy Ghost But if thou expound the Fathers after thy sense not after the sense of the Apostles thou hast not the Holy Ghost but the spirit of lying Therefore humble thy self and fall down before the Lord. Lay reason aside and cleave unto him Seek to understand his word according to his holy Spirit Which holy Spirit thou must needs find and shalt find in a visible Church even unto the end I will plainly say unto thee That Truth may appear mightily in light Whosoever is contrary unto the will of God which is delivered unto his Church taught by his Apostles nourished by the Holy Ghost delivered unto the World and by Peter brought to Rome by him there taught by his Successors held and maintained is contrary to God and to his Truth Luther hath his reward Calvin his reward The rest all that have erred and wilfully runne astray separating themselves from the Church and Congregation of Christ obstinately and through the instigation of their father the Devil have their reward Against whom the Sonne of God shall pronounce judgment saying Go you deceivers into Hell fire provided for your Father and his Children from the beginning You rise up amongst your selves saying The Pope is Antichrist For by this name you call him an evil man he may be and fall from his vocation But he can never be Antichrist For Antichrist is he the sonne of the Devil a man flesh and bloud born of a wicked and deceitful Harlot that shall seduce the people swell with the strength of his father and resist God in Earth amongst men as his father did in Heaven among the Angels utterly denying his Omnipotency and setting himself against him O you fools and of little understanding When unto the Apostles the Keyes of Heaven were given that is to say the same authority and power of Christ Jesus the Sonne of the Living God to forgive sinnes and to exclude sinners from the Kingdome of Heaven An when unto the same Apostles it was said also Come behind me Satan you have not under standing to see into the mysteries of the Highest if the Sonne of God did commend and reprehend his Disciples why may not therefor a Bishop be counted good and evil if it follow therefor that good aend evil may be a Bishop it followeth also that neither good nor evil addeth unto the Authority of a Bishop but unto his own life if he be good he reapeth the benefit of his goodnesse but if he be evil he is a Lyar because his Doctrine is against himself if therefore for the sinne of man God hath suffered many in the spirit of Ananias to sit in the holy place it is for your finnes sake and for your rebellious nature to be punished And not for the obscuring or darkning of his Church Open your eyes therefore and understand and cleave to the Church for the Church sake and not for the love of man Despise not the Church because of the transgressions of man But submit your neck under that holy yoke and ordinance which shall lead you to the Congregation governed by the Spirit of God wherein you shall under stand the secrets of God his Book to be interpreted according to the sense of your fathers whose understanding was the finger of the Holy Ghost you cannot authorise your selves and without
The Order of the Inspirati MAHOMET receives his Law by Inspiration APPOLONI ê° TYANEUS in Domitians tyme Edw Kelly Prophet or Seer to Dr. Dee Roger Bacon an English man PARACELSUS Receits from the Inspiration of Spirits Dr. Dee avoucheth his Stone is brought by Angelicall Ministry A TRUE FAITHFUL RELATION OF What passed for many Yeers Between DR. JOHN d ee A Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. ELIZ. and King JAMES their Reignes and SOME SPIRITS TENDING had it Succeeded 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 The Particulars of his Cause as it was agitated in the Emperors Court By the POPES Intervention His Banishment and Restoration in part AS ALSO The LETTERS of Sundry Great Men and PRINCES some whereof were present at some of these Conferences and Apparitions of SPIRITS to the said D. d ee 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 and shewing the several good USES that a Sober Christian may make of All. BY MERIC CASAUBON D. D. LONDON Printed by D. Maxwell for T. GARTHWAIT and sold at the Little North door of S. Pauls and by other Stationers 1659. MVNIFICENTIA REGIA 1715 GEORGIVS D. G. MAG BR FR. ET HIB REX F. D. PREFACE WHAT is here presented unto thee Christian Reader being a True and Faithful Relation c. as the Title beareth and will be further cleared by this Preface though by the carriage of it in some respects and by the Nature of it too it might be deemed and termed A Work of Darknesse Yet it is no other then what with great tendernesse and circumspection was tendered to men of highest Dignity in Europe Kings and Princes and by all England excepted listned unto for a while with good respect By some gladly embraced and entertained for a long time the Fame whereof being carryed unto Rome it made the Pope to bestir himself not knowing what the event of it might be and how much it might concern him And indeed filled all men Learned and Unlearned in most places with great wonder and astonishment all which things will be shewed and made good to the utmost of what we have said in the Contents of this book by unquestionable Records and evidences And therefore I make no question but there will be men enough found in the world whose curiosity will lead them to Read what I think is not to be parallell'd in that Kind by any book that hath been set out in any Age to read I say though it be to no other end then to satisfie their curiosity But whatsoever other men according to their several inclinations may propose to themselves in the reading of it yet I may and must here professe in the first place in Truth and Sincerity that the end that I propose to my self so far as I have contributed to the Publishing of the Work is not to satisfie curiosity but to do good and promote Religion When we were first acquainted with the Book and were offered the reading of it having but lately been conversant in a Subject of much Affinity to wit of Mistaken Inspiration and Possession through ignorance of Natural causes which labour of ours as it was our aime at the first in publishing of it to do good so we have had good reason since to believe that we did not altogether misse of what we aimed at we could not but gladly accept of it And as we gladly accepted so we read unto the end with equal eagernesse and Alacrity Which when we had done truly it was our Opinion That the Publishing of it could not but be very Seasonable and Useful as against Atheists at all times so in these Times especially when the Spirit of Error and Illusion not in profest Anabaptists only even of the worst kind that former Ages have known and abhorred doth so much prevail but in many also who though they disclaim and detest openly and heartily too I hope most of them the fruits and effects that such causes have produced in others yet ground themselves neverthelesse upon the same principles of Supposed Inspiration and immaginary Revelations and upon that account deem themselves if not the Only yet much better Christians then others And I was much Confirmed in this Judgment when I was told as indeed I was at the first by them that knew very well that the Most Reverend Pious and Learned Archbishop of Armagh lately deceased upon reading of the said book before his death had declared himself to the same purpose and wished it Printed But because it is very possible that every Reader will not at the first be so well able of himself to make that good use by good and Rational Inferences and Observations of this sad Story as is aimed at my chiefest aim in this Preface is to help such And because it is not lesse probable that this Licentious Age will afford very many who with the 〈◊〉 of old that is Jewish Epicures believe no Spirit or Angel or Resurrection who therefore being prepossessed with prejudice when they hear of so many Spirits as are here mentioned and so many strange Apparitions in several Kinds will not only fling back themselves but will be ready to laugh at any other that give any credit to such things Although I will not take upon me to convert any by Reason that are engaged into such an opinion by a wicked life that is Unjust practises Luxurious lewd courses open profanenesse under the name of Wit and Galantry and the like because I think it is very just with God to leave such to the error and blindnesse of their Judgments so that without a Miracle there can be little hopes of such Yet I shall hope that such as are Rational men sober in their Lives and Conversations such as I have known my self yea men of excellent parts in other things men that are both willing to hear and able to consider that such I say may receive some satisfaction by what I shall say and propose to their Ingenuous consideration in this matter Were we to argue the case by Scripture the businesse would soon be at an end there being no one Controverted point among men that I know of that can receive a more Ample Full Clear and speedy determination then this business of Spirits and Witches and Apparitions may if the Word of God might be Judge But I will suppose that I have to do with such who though they do not altogether deny the Word of God yet will not easily however admit of any thing that they think contrary to Reason or at least not to be maintained by Reason I shall therefore forbear all Scripture Proofs and Testimonies in this particular and desire the Christian Reader
and preserved But by Truth and Sincerity intending not only Dr. Dee's fidelity in relating what himself believed but also the reality of those things that he speaks of according to his relation his only but great and dreadful error being that he mistook false lying Spirits for Angels of Light the Divel of Hell as we commonly term him for the God of Heaven For the Truth then and Sincerity or Reality of the Relation in this sense I shall first appeal to the Book it self I know it is the fashion of many I will not say that I never did it my self that are buyers of books they will turn five or six leaves if they happen upon somewhat that pleaseth their fancy the book is a good book and when they have bought it it concerneth them to think so because they have paid for it but on the other side if they light upon somewhat that doth not please which may happen in the best they are as ready to condemn and cast away It is very possible that some such buyer lighting upon this and in it upon some places here and there where some odd uncouth things may offer themselves things ridiculous incredible to ordinary sense and construction he may be ready to judge of the whole accordingly But for all this I will in the first place appeal to the book it self but with this respect to the Reader that he will have patience to read in order one fourth part of the book at least before he judge and if by that time he be not convicted he shall have my good will to give it over Not but that all the rest even to the end doth help very well to confirm the truth and reality of the whole Story but because I think there is so much in any fourth part if diligently read and with due consideration that I despair of his assent that is not convicted by it For my part when the book was first communicated unto me by that Right worthy Gentleman who is very studious to purchase and procure such Records and Monuments as may advantage the truth of God all truth is of God and the honour of this Land following therein the example of his noble Progenitor by his very name Sir Robert Cotton known to all the Learned as far as Europe extendeth I read it cursorily because I was quickly convinced in my self that it could be no counterfeit immaginarie businesse and was very desirous to see the end so far as the book did go Afterwards when I understood that the said worthy Gentleman especially as I suppose relying upon my Lord of Armagh's judgment and testimonie which we have before spoken of was willing it should be published and that he had committed the whole business unto me I read it over very exactly and took notes of the most remarkable passages as they appeared unto me truly I was so much confirmed in this first opinion by my second reading that I shall not be afraid to profess that I never gave more credit to any Humane History of former times All things seemed unto me so simply and yet so accurately and with so much confirmation of all manner of circumstances written and delivered that I cannot yet satisfie my self but all judicious Readers will be of my opinion But nevertheless to help them that trust not much to their own judgments let us see what can be said First I would have them that would be further satisfied to read Dr. d ee in that forecited Preface where he doth plead his own cause to acquit himself of that grievous crime and imputation of a Conjurer But that was written I must confess long before his Communication with Spirits yet it is somewhat to know what opinion he had then of them that deal with Divels and evil Spirits But after he was made acquainted and in great dealings with them and had in readiness divers of these his books or others of the same Argument containing their several conferences and communications to shew and the manner of their appearing exactly set down observe I pray with what confidence he did address himself to the greatest and wisest in Europe To Queen Elizabeth often and to her Council as by many places of this Relation doth appear but more particularly by his Letter to Sir Francis Walsingham Secretary c. That he did the like to King James and his Councel may easily be gathered by the Records in this Relation of 1607. but much defective But then to the Emperor Rodolphe to Stephen King of Poland and divers other Princes and their Deputies the wisest and learnedst their several Courts did afford for the time the particulars of all which addresses and transactions are very exactly set down in the book Nay such was his confidence that had it not been for the Nuncius Apostolicus his appearing against him at the Emperors Court by order from the Pope he was as by some places may be collected resolved for Rome also not doubting but he should approve himself and his doings to the Pope himself and his Cardinals In all these his addresses and applications being still very ready to impart all things unto them that would entertain them with that respect he thought they deserved yea readily which is very observable even to receive them into this Mystical Society whom he thought worthy and in some capacity to promote the design as de facto he did divers in several places Albertus Alasco Prince Palatine of Polonia Puccius a learned man and Prince Rosemberg in Germany who were long of the Society besides some admitted to some Actions for a while as Stephen King of Poland and some others We will easily grant as elsewhere hath been treated and handled at large that a distempered brain may see yea and hear strange things and entertain them with all possible confidence as real things and yet all but fancy without any real sound or Apparition But these sights and Apparitions that Dr. Dee gives here an account are quite of another nature yea though possibly the Divel might represent divers of these things to the fancy inwardly which appeared outwardly Yet of another nature I say and not without the intervention and operation of Spirits as will easily appear to any man by the particulars Besides the long Speeches Discourses Interlocutions upon all occasions and occurrences in the presence of more then one alwayes and externally audible to different persons for the most part or very frequently That these things could not be the operation of a distempered Fancy will be a sufficient evidence to any rational man Again let his usual preparations and Prayers against an Apparition or Action as he called them his extraordinary prayers upon some extraordinary occasions as upon Edward Kelley his temporary repentance and another for him when he was about to forsake him in Latine a long one Stephen King of Poland being then present And again when his Son Arthur was to be initiated to these Mystical
very moderately and friendly II. Now to Objections The first shall be this Although 't is very probable that Dr. d ee himself dealt simply and sincerely yet since he himself saw nothing for so himself acknowledgeth in some places but by Kelley's eyes and heard nothing but with his ears Is it not possible that Kelley being a cunning man and well practised in these things might impose upon the credulity of Dr. Dee a good innocent man and the rather because by this office under the Doctor he got 50 l. by the year as appeareth Truly this is plausible as it is proposed and like enough that it might go a great way with them that are soon taken and therefore seldom see any thing in the truth or true nature of it but in the outward appearance of it only But read and observe it diligently and you will find it far otherwise It is true indeed that ordinarily Dr. d ee saw not himself his business was to write what was seen but in his presence though and heard by Kelley Yet that himself heard often immediately appeareth by many places I shall not need any quotations for that himself feeleth as well as Kelley In the relation of the Holy Stone how taken away by one that came in at a window in the shape of a man and how restored both saw certainly In the story of the Holy Books how burned and how restored again part of them at least which Dr d ee made a great Miracle of as appeareth by some of those places there also both saw certainly And Albert Lasky the Polonian Palatine saw as well as Kelley Besides it doth clearly appear throughout all the book that Kelley though sometimes with much adoe perswaded for a while to think better of them had generally no other opinion of these Apparitions but that they were meer illusions of the Divel and evil Spirits such as himself could command by his art when he listed and was acquainted with insomuch that we find him for this very cause forsaking or desirous to forsake Dr. Dee who was much troubled about it and is forced in a place to Pawn his Soul unto him to use his own words that it was not so and that they were good Spirits sent from God in great favour unto them But for all this Kelley would not be satisfied but would have his Declaration or Protestation of his suspition to the contrary entred into the book which you shall find and it will be worth your reading I could further alledge that if a man considers the things delivered here upon several occasions being of a different nature some Moral some Physical some Metaphysical and Theological of highest points though sometimes wild enough and not warrantable yet for the most part very remote from vulgar capacities he will not easily believe that Kelley who scarce understood Latine not to speak of some things delivered in Greek in some places and betook himself to the study of Logick long after he had entred himself into this course could utter such things no nor any man living perchance that had not made it his study all his life-time But that which must needs end this quarrel if any man will be pertinacious and put all things out of doubt is that not Kelley only served in this place of Seer or Skryer but others also as his son Arthur and in his latter dayes when Kelley was either gone or sick one Bartholomew as will be found in all the Actions and Apparitions of the year 1607. which as I suspect was the last year of the Doctors life or beyond which I think he did not live long Secondly It may be objected or stuck at least How Dr. d ee so good so innocent yea so pious a man and so sincere a Christian as by these papers his delusion and the effects of it still excepted he doth seem to have been God would permit such a one to be so deluded and abused so rackt in his soul so hurried in his body for so long a time notwithstanding his frequent earnest zealous prayers and addresses unto God by evil Spirits even to his dying day for ought we know as he is here by his own relation set out unto us Truly if a man shall consider the whole carriage of this businesse from the beginning to the end according to this true and faithful for I think I may so speak with confidence account of it here presented unto us this poor man how from time to time shamefully grosly delayed deluded quarrelled without cause still toled on with some shews and appearances and yet still frustrated and put off his many pangs and agonies about it his sad condition after so many years toil travel drudgery and earnest expectation at the very last as appeareth by the Actions and apparitions of the year 1607. I can not tell whether I should make him an object of more horror or compassion but of both certainly in a great measure to any man that hath any sense of Humanity and in the examples of others of humane frailty and again any regard of parts and worth such as were in this man in a high degree True it is that he had joyes withal and comforts imaginary delusory it is true yet such as he enjoyed and kept up his heart and made him outwardly chearful often times I make no question such as the Saints as they call themselves and Schismaticks of these and former times have ever been very prone to boast of perswading themselves that they are the effects of Gods blessed Spirit But even in these his joys and comforts the fruits and fancies of his deluded soul as in many others of a distempered brain is not he an object of great compaspassion to any both sober and charitable If this then were his case indeed what shall we say if nothing else I know not but it ought to satisfie a rational sober humble man If we say That it is not in man to give an account of all Gods judgments neither is there any ground for us to murmule because we do not understand them or that they often seem contrary to the judgment of humane reason because it is against all Reason as well as Religion to believe that a creature so much inferior to God by nature as man is should see every thing as he seeth and think as he thinks and consequently judge and determine in and of all things as God judgeth and determineth The Apostle therefore not without cause would have all private judgments for of publick for the maintenance of peace and order among men it is another case deferr'd to that time when the hearts of all men shall be laid open all hidden things and secret counsels revealed But we have enough to say in this case without it For if Pride and Curiosity were enough to undoe our first Parent and in him all mankind when otherwise innocent and in possession of Paradise Should we wonder if it had the
about London which doth not seem to agree with the report in those Annotations But enough of them Neither indeed have I said any thing at all of purpose to oppose the Author but to give this further satisfaction to the Reader or rather to the truth which I thought I was bound to do The passage in Wevers Funeral Monuments pag. 45 46. concerning Kelley for their satisfaction that have not the Book is this Kelley otherwise called Talbot that famous English Alchymist of our times who flying out of his own Countrey after he had lost both his ears at Lancaster was entertained by Rodolph the second and last of that Christian name Emperor of Germany for whom Elizabeth of famous memory sent very secretly Captain Peter Gwyn with some others to perswade him to return back to his own Native home which he was willing to do and thinking to escape away in the night by stealth as he was clammering over a Wall in his own House in Pragne which bears his name to this day and sometimes was an old Sanctuary he sell down from the Battlements broke his leggs and bruised his body of which hurts within a while after he departed this World Sed quorsum haec you will say Then thus This Diabolical questioning of the dead for the knowledge of future accidents was put in practice by the said Kelley who upon a certain Night in the Park of Walton in le dale in the County of Lancaster with one Paul Waring his fellow-companion in such Deeds of darkness invocated some one of the Infernal Regiment to know certain passages in the life as also what might be known by the Divels foresight of the manner and time of the death of a Noble yong Gentleman as then in Wardship The Black Ceremonies of that Night being ended Kelley demanded of one of the Gentlemans servants what Corse was the last buryed in Law Church-yard a Church thereunto adjoyning who told him of a poor man that was buryed there but the same day He and the said Waring intreated this foresaid servant to go with them to the Grave of the man so lately interred which he did and withal did help them to dig up the Carcase of the poor Catiff whom by their Incantations they made him or rather some evil Spirit through his Organs to speak who delivered strange Predictions concerning the said Gentleman I was told thus much by the said Serving-man a Secondary Actor in that dismal abhorred business and divers Gentlemen and others are now living in Lancashire to whom he hath related this Story And the Gentlemen himself whose memory I am bound to honor told me a little before his death of this Conjuration by Kelley as he had it by relation from his said Servant and Tenant onely some circumstances excepted which he thought not fitting to come to his Masters knowledge D r. Dee's Apology Sent to the Arch-Bishop of CANTERBURY 1594 5. OR A Letter containing a most brief Discourse Apogeticall with a plain Demonstration and fervent Protestation for the lawfull sincere very faithfull and Christian course of the Philosophicall Studies and Exercises of a certain studious Gentleman An ancient Servant to Her most Excellent Majesty Royall To the most Reverend Father in God the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Primate and Metropolitane of all England one of Her Majesties most Honorable Privie Councell my singular good Lord. MOst humbly and heartily I crave your Graces pardon if I offend any thing to send or present unto your Graces hand so simple a Discourse as this is Although by some sage and discreet my friends their opinion it is thought not to be impertinent to my most needfull suits presently in hand before her most Excellent Majesty Royall your Lordships good Grace and other the Right Honourable Lords of her Majesties Privy Councell to make some part of my former studies and studious exercises within and for these 46 years last past used and continued to be first known and discovered unto your Grace and other the right Honourable my good Lords of her Majesties privy Councell And secondly afterwards the same to be permitted to come to publick view Not so much to stop the mouthes and at length to stay the impudent attempts of the rash and malicious devisers and contrivers of most untrue foolish and wicked reports and fables of and concerning my foresaid studious exercises passed over with my great yea incredible paines travells cares and costs in the search and learning of true Philosophie As therein So to certifie and satisfie the godly and unpartiall Christian hearer or reader hereof That by his own judgement upon his due consideration and examination of this no little parcell of the particulars of my foresaid studies and exercises philosophicall annexed He will or may be sufficiently informed and perswaded That I have wonderfully laboured to find follow use and haunt the true straight and most narrow path leading all true devout zealous faithfull and constant Christian students ex valle hac miseriae miseria istius vallis tenebrarum Regno tenebris istius Regni ad montem sanctum Syon ad coelestia tabernacula All thanks are most due therefore unto the Almighty Seeing it so pleased him even from my youth by his divine favour grace and help to insinuate into my heart an insatiable zeal and desire to know his truth And in him and by him incessantly to seek and listen after the same by the true Philosophical method and harmony proceeding and ascending as it were gradatim from things visible to consider of things invisible from things bodily to conceive of things spirituall from things transitory and momentary to mediate of things permanent by things mortall visible and invisible to have some perseverance of immortality And to conclude most brieflly by the most mervailous frame of the whole World philosophically viewed and circumspectly weighed numbred and measured according to the talent and gift of GOD from above alotted for his divine purposes effecting most faithfully to love honor and glorifie alwaies the Framer and Creator thereof In whose workmanship his infinite goodness unsearchable wisdome and Almighty power yea his everlasting power and divinity may by innumerable means be manifested and demonstrated The truth of which my zealous carefull and constant intent and endeavour specified may I hope easily appear by the whole full and due survey and consideration of all the Books Treatises and Discourses whose Titles onely are at this time here annexed and expressed As they are set down in the sixth Chapter of another little Rhapsodicall Treatise intituled the Compendious Rehearsall c. written above two years since for those her Majesties two honorable Comissioners which her most Excellent Majesty had most graciously sent to my poor Cottage in Mortclacke to understand the matters and causes at full through which I was so extreamly urged to procure at her Majesties hands such Honorable Surveyors and witnesses to be assigned for the due proof of the contents
43. Navigationis ad Carthayum per Septentrionalia Scythiae Tartariae litora Delineatio Hydrographica Arthuro Pit Carolo Jackmano Anglis versus illas partes Navigaturis in manus tradita cum admirandarum quarundam Insularum annotatione in illis subpolaribus partibus jacentium An. 1580. 44. Hemisphaerij Borealis Geographica atque Hydrographica descriptio longè a vulgatis chartis diversa Anglis quibusdam versùs Atlantidis Septentrionalia litora navigationem instituentibus dono data An. 1583. 45. The Originals and chief points of our ancient Brytish Histories discoursed upon and examined An. 1583. 46. An advise discourse about the Reformation of the vulgar Julian yeare written by her Majesties commandement and the Lords of the privy Councell Anno 1582. 47. Certain Considerations and conferrings together of these three sentences aunciently accounted as Oracles Nosce teipsum Homo Homini Deus Homo Homini Lupus An. 1592 48. De hominis Corpore Spiritu Annima sive Microcosmicum totius Philosophiae Naturalis Compendium lib 1. Anno 1591. With many other Books Pamphlets Discourses Inventions and Conclusions in divers Arts and matters whose names need not in this Abstract to be notified The most part of all which here specified lie here before your Honours upon the Table on your left hand But by other books and Writings of another sort if it so please God and that he will grant me life health and due maintenance thereto for some ten or twelve years next ensuing I may hereafter make plaine and without doubt this sentence to be true Plura latent quà m patent Thus far my good Lord have I set down this Catalogus out of the foresaid sixt Chapter of the booke whose title is this 49. The Compendious rehearsall of John Dee his dutifull declaration and proofe of the course and race of his studious life for the space of halfe an hundred years now by Gods favour and help fully spent c. To which compendious rehearsall doth now belong an Appendix of these two last years In which I have had many just occasions to confesse that Homo Homini Deus and Homo Homini Lupus was and is an Argument worthy of the decyphering and large discussing as may one day hereafter by Gods help be published in some manner very strange And besides all the rehearsed Books Treatises of my writing or handling hitherto I have just cause lately given me to write publish a Treatise with Title 50. De Horizonte AEternitatis to make evident that one Andreas Libavius in a book of his printed the last year hath unduly considered a phrase of my Monas Hyeroglyphica to his misliking by his own unskilfulnesse in such matter and not understanding my apt application thereof in one of the very principal places of the whole Book And this book of mine by Gods help and favour shall be dedicated unto her most Excellent Majesty Royall And this Treatise doth contain three books 1. The first Intituled De Horizonte liber Mathematicus Physicus 2. The second De AEternitate liber Theologicus Metaphysicus Mathematicus 3. The third De Horizonte AEternitatis liber Theologicus Mathematicus Hierotechnicus ¶ Truly I have great cause to praise and thanke God for your Graces very charitable using of me both in sundry points else and also in your favourable yeelding to yea notifying the due means for the performance of her Sacred Majesties most gracious and bountifull disposition resolution and very royall beginning to restore and give unto me her Ancient faithfull servant some due maintenance to lead the rest of my old daies in some quiet and comfort with habilitie to retaine some speedy faire and Orthographicall writers about me and the same skilfull in Latine and Greek at the least aswell for my own books and Works fair andcorrect ly to be written such I mean as either her most Excellent Majestie out of the premisses will make choice of or command to be finished or published or such of them as your grace shall think meet or worthy for my farther labor to be bestowed on as else for the speedy faire and true writing out of other ancient Authors their good and rare workes in greek or Latine which by GODS Providence have been preserved from the spoile made of my Librarie and of all my movable goods here c. Anno 1583. In which Librarie were about 4000. books whereof 700. were anciently written by hand Some in Greeke some in Latine some in Hebrew And some in other languages as may by the whole Catalogus thereof appeare But the great losses and dammages which in sundry sorts I have sustained do not so much grieve my heart as the rash lewde fond and most untrue fables and reports of me and my Studies Philosophicall have done and yet do which commonly after their first hatching and devilish devising immediately with great speed are generally all the Realme overspread and to some seem true to other they are doubtfull and to onely the wise modest discreet godly and charitable and chiefly to such as have some acquaintance with me they appear and are known to be fables untruths and utterly false reports and slanders Well this shall be my last charitable giving of warning and fervent protestation to my Countreymen and all other in this case A fervent PROTESTATION BEfore the Almighty our GOD and your Lordships good Grace this day on the perill of my souls damnation if I lie or take his name in vaine herein I take the same GOD to be my witnesse That with all my heart with all my soul with all my strength power and understanding according to the measure thereof which the Almighty hath given me for the most part of the time from my youth hitherto I have used and still use good lawfull honest christian and divinely prescribed means to attain to the knowledge of those truthes which are meet and necessary for me to know and wherewithto do his divine Majesty such service as he hath doth and will call me unto during this my life for his honour and glory advancing and for the benefit and commoditie publique of this Kingdome so much as by the will and purpose of God shall lie in my skill and hability to perform as a true faithfull and most sincerely dutifull servant to our most gracious and incomparable Queen Elizabeth and as a very comfortable fellow-member of the body politique governed under the scepter Royal of our earthly Supreame head Queen Elizabeth and as a lively sympathicall and true symetricall fellow-member of that holy and mysticall body Catholiquely extended and placed wheresoever on the earth in the view Knowledge direction protection illumination and consolation of the Almighty most Blessed most holy most glorious comajesticall coeternall and coessentiall Trinity The Head of that Body being only our Redeemer Christ Jesus perfect God and perfect man whose return in glory we faithfully awaite and daily doe very earnestly cry
Quia mare illis abundabat contra vos multi perierunt Ejus potentia praevalebat commutavit vestrum cursum in locum illis incognitum quia ab illis non erat expectatus Sed fugite ab hac terra quia Maledictio Dei est super illam Cum illo est una veritas Ille qui in duabus viis erat non placet Deo Qui ad finem usque perdurat quiescit cum 〈◊〉 Sed ille qui pedem non ponit inter Scorpiones non potest intrare super Gozlach Δ. Quid hoc Jub ..... Gaudium in vera sapientia Jub ..... Hoc nostrum est Manna quo alimur Sed ego sum sanctifica tus per Creationem 〈◊〉 ex Divina voluntate 〈◊〉 vos sanctifico non cum mea propria sanctificatione sed illius Justitia qui meam originem sanctificat Estote Montes in Fide sed quasi infantes patientia Facite quod Justum est ne 〈◊〉 tradatis vestram Justitiam E. K. Infinitae quasi locustae vel Araneae cum faciebus humanis illum circum volitant quasi ignem in illum evomunt Jub ..... Et levavit se contra vos Tollendo Crucem suam Jub ..... Fiat Justitia ejus E. K. Jam avolant praecipites quasi deorsum ruentes Jub ..... Cavete a stramine quia incensum tota domum incendit Δ. Quem sensum hic perpendemus nos Mysticum ne an materialem Jub ..... 〈◊〉 fragilissimarum Diabolus cum illis fraudulenter operatur magna est merces quietis Sed qui apperit fores contentioni intromittit Serpentem Maledicti sunt invidi Quia illi sunt 〈◊〉 qui se mutuo diligunt Pax inter vos sit quia est necessaria Quia pacis inimici sunt potentes contra vos E. K. Jam loquendo videtur minor minor paulatim fieri Δ. De nostro decessu ex Anglia quid tandem jam Regina sui 〈◊〉 statuerunt Jub ..... Aperit os suum sed liquor non est satis frigidus Jam est intus calida neque restingui potest Corda sui populi do fall away Her 〈◊〉 are weakened her legs weaker her shooes are full of sorrow E. K. The furious Monsters assaile him again Jub ..... Quis est qui potest vivere si transgrediatur preceptum Dei Vel quid de illis judicare 〈◊〉 whom God imputeth sin unto E. K. They 〈◊〉 him again and he putteth his Crosse toward them Jub ..... Their misery beginneth and shall have no end till he that sitteth here do end it E. K. The Monsters assaile him still Jub ..... The wall must be broken down and then shall It be said Happy art thou which hast dwelt amongst us But if thou live righteously and ascend the slippery mountain Then shall God be merciful to them for thy sake Because thou mayest be beloved where thou art now despised and hast vanquished thy enemies with the truth of vertue He that entred into the lowest hell and shed his blood for your sins be merciful unto you and give you peace which is the spirit of Patience that you may live not like men but as those that do separate themselves from the world to the true contemplation of God his mercies E. K. Jam intrat in Caput A. L. cum flamma ignis Δ. Omnis laus honor gloria sit Deo nostro Omnipotenti vivo vero Amen Thursday Octobris 3. We came from Briel to Roterodam in a Hoy of Amsterdam to go within land here we lay all night Friday Octobris 4. We came to Tergowd hora 3 à meridie where we lay within the Town in the Ship Saturday Octobris 5. We came by Harlem to Amsterdam and lay before the Town all night in the Ship Tuesday Octob. 8. We sailed from Amsterdam to Encusen and Edmond Hilton went with my goods by Sea toward Dansk Wensday Octob. 9. We set off from Encusen early but by reason of a contrary wind we came very late to Herlinghem Friday 〈◊〉 11. We went within land in little Scutes from Herlinghem by Frainker to Lewarden Saturday Octob. 12. From Lewarden we came to Dockum in small Boates about 3 of the clock after noon 〈◊〉 Octob. 〈◊〉 Apud Dockum in Frisia Occidentali Δ. Diu Chrystallus tanquam lapis nigerrimus apparuit Tandem in ipsa lapidis nigredine apparuit homo nudus Crucifixus super crucem sed tamen non mortuus Crucis partes infra manus omnes sanguinolentae videbantur Fascia linea circumdabatur Corpus 〈◊〉 a pectore deorsum fines ejusdem fasciae pendere videbantur circa genua sanguinolenta apparebat ex quinque vulneribus 〈◊〉 erat videbatur sanguis guttatim cadere Tandem disparuerunt haec omnia quasi deorsum subsidere videbantur lapis clarus factus est apparebat Cortina aurea 〈◊〉 erat haec mutatio E. K. Jam videtur lapis esse valde magnus ante lapidem stare quidam magnus quasi Michael cum gladio ancipite evomente ignem ex utraque acie 〈◊〉 Mic. ..... Justus mirabilis per maximus es tu O Altissime Deus 〈◊〉 flexis hac dicit qui tua judicia manifestas ut possis super terram cognosci ut tua gloria amplificetur ad 〈◊〉 eorum qui electi sunt ad dolorem dedecus talium qui crucifigunt lumen mundi unigenitum Domini nostri Salvatorem humani generis quotidie Ecce portae 〈◊〉 sunt iniquitati Attollite oculos videte quo modo filii hominum stulti devenerunt esse quia eorum habitatio est facta nigra Terra sigillata est ad eorum destructionem quia Deum dereliquerunt sibimet ipsis adhaeserunt adhuc in partes dissecant Servatorem mundi Jesum Christum 〈◊〉 ensis sui crucem continuò cum blasphemis eorum sacrificiis Ve illis quia illos 〈◊〉 prosequimur ve illis qui inter illos habitant quia iniquitate sunt polluti Orate dum inter illos estis quia vestri inimici sunt multiplicati quia vobis dico nuncium Domini exercituum Regis fidelium Relinquite infantiam vivite ambulate per vias prudentiae vivite cum Deo in domo sua Quia 〈◊〉 Iniquorum non est habitatio vel sedes prophanis neque potest Nomen Domini efferri legitimè in illegitima Natione illegitima facta quia dereliquerunt statuta Altissimi Hoc dicit Dominus Ego sum Deus Justitiae juravi non est unus inter illos qui vivet 〈◊〉 ne una anima Quomodo 〈◊〉 esse devenerunt de quibus scriptum est Absque notitia Dei Homo ille factus est peeus Vita illorum qui devorantur talium quos ignis consumpsit sedebit in judico contra istam Nationem Blessed and Sanctified and for evermore praised art thou ..... Judge which hast said and Raignest for ever Δ Si
multiplicati sunt inimici nostri c. E. K. He is gone Δ. Si multiplicati sunt inimici nostri propter peccata nostra ut 〈◊〉 nobis incumbat lucta Misericordiam Dei imploramus ut ipse nostram etiam multiplicet fortitudinem c. Gab. ..... Pluck up your hearts bow your knees audite quae dicit Dominus Thus saith the Lord If you will prevaile against the wicked and rejoyce among the sanctified you must observe and keep such commandments as are ordained by the God of Truth unto those that are partakers of his Covenant Ask Counsel of God Remember it Be milde E. K. Gabriel also noted 〈◊〉 Commandments in a pair of Tables after he had pronounced them Fast and pray Be Charitable Vse true Friendship in the service of God Persevere to the end Are not these Commandments necessary to be kept of all Christian men Δ. They are undoubtedly Gab. ..... And must of necessity be kept of those that are faithful E. K. He standeth as though he stood behind a Desk and preached or taught Gab. ..... Well thou sayest Lo our enemies are multiplied multiply thou therefore our strength O God Nature is subject unto you for the name of the Lord not as unto Kings but as unto the Ministers of his eternal will whereby your justification is settled above the works of Nature already for behold 〈◊〉 participate the mercies of God through his Son Christ Jesus in 〈◊〉 in that we open unto you those things that have been sealed even from the Just for the which we are become slaves unto Corruption shewing our selves in divers shapes to the dishonour of our Creation Yet are we quickned and revived because we are become the finger of God and you are sanctified and withal justified because you are touched with the finger of him that reviveth all things Therefore Rejoyce Rejoyce be Joyful and sing Praises unto God and faint not saying Our enemies are risen up against us yea they are multiplied for thus saith the Lord and it is already spoken by the Holy Ghost E. K. He maketh now great obedience or reverence Foelices sunt quibus 〈◊〉 spes est E. K. He looketh now up unto a thing like a Throne Et omne opus operatio Dei E. K. Now there cometh a beam down into his head and he is covered with a great thing like a white cloud E. K. Now the Stone is all on fire Now the fire ascendeth upward the streaming beam stretcheth into his head still E. K. There appeareth a little woman a far off and she is so clear and transparent that there appeareth a man child in her She hath a Coat as though it were Crimson and hath a long little face and hath a strange silk attire a bout her head .... as ... Videtur esse uxor mea Gab. ..... Go woman thy grief shall be lesse than it hath been E. K. Habet multos tanquam parvos nigros canes post se. Now goeth one and tyeth their mouths with packthred Gab. ..... So God useth to give a suaffle to the wicked E. K. A great wind bloweth on Gabriel Δ. De Angliae meo privato statu cupio aliquid audire tum ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tum propter famae meae rationem Gab. ..... 〈◊〉 paululum iterum venero My Lord saith Let my servants sit up and take their rest I will visit them forthwith in peace Δ. After a great quarter of an hour he came again E. K. He appeareth now clothed with all his garment hanging with bells of Gold and flaming fire coming from them with silverish flames He hath hanging about his Crown as if they were seven Labells the tops of which come from above from an uncertain place and distance Gab. ..... Venite Morvorgran E. K. He calleth with a loud voice E. K. Now cometh a big black man with a white face and after him hath 24. They stand in four rows and in every row six Gab. ..... Let me see thy seale Mor. ..... Behold power is given to me Neither is the liquor that thou ministrest of any taste with me Neither shall I be overcome for I have placed my seat here Gab. ..... But by whose permission Gag lah nai E. K. Now Morvorgran falleth down on his knees and the rest on their face Medicina Dei malis Justicia vera E K. They tremble that lie flat on the ground E. K. Morvorgran sheweth to Gabriel on his own left breast a Character Gab. ..... For 19 moneths Behold the will of God Because thou hast conspired and risen against the Lord in his chosen and hast said It is to weet those that are subject unto thee Let us rise up against him and persecute his soul let us secretly entrap him for without doubt he is rich And because your conspiracies are not of theft onely but also of murder Therefore I seal thee with a weaker power And be it unto thee according unto the word of God that judgeth Righteously From evil unto worse From worse unto confusion From confusion unto desperation From desperation unto damnation From damnation unto eternal death E. K. Now Gabriel did put another prick to the Character on his left breast Mor. ..... Cursed be that God and defaced be his power for he handleth us in unjustice and dealeth with us without mercy Because he is not merciful nor just E. K. Gabriel goeth from me to one of the 24. and sealeth them Now thy go all away and he breaketh off the points of their Swords They go by him Δ. Quis est iste Morvorgran quo modo haec nobis instituit inferre mala Gab. ..... Dockum thou shalt carry this malice unto thy grave But I have made weak thy strength Blessed be those that entertain those that are annointed in the Lord for they also shall taste of the oil of his mercy I had care of you saith the Lord neither will I suffer you to perish in the way Therefore be thankful and forsake the world for the world hath forsaken you and conspired against you But these things are nothing Behold lastly thus saith the Lord. E. K. Now cometh a salet or helmet on Gabriel his head or an half sphere A great noise of many voices is heard as of Pillars that fell Now that thing is taken off his head Gab. ..... Thus saith the Lord. The world on both sides shall rise up against thee and they shall envy thee E. K. Now cometh a beam from above again into Gabriel his head Gab. ..... Gna semeroh Jebusan gonsag vi cap neph Jehuslach omsomna dedoilb E. K. Looking up he said thus Hoc est Ne paveas repentino terrore eruentes tibi potentias Impiorum Laskie Dominus E. K. Now cometh about his face little things of smoke and he putteth them from his face He would open his mouth and they come upon his mouth They rise out of a pit before him inumerable Gabriel seemeth to be as
his Company vvho make cursies and say nothing Δ. I beseech you to appoint an apt place This you see is no fit place ..... I will stir thee up such friends as shall content thee As for dwelling places thou shalt bestow them Well you are contented Δ. Is it your will that in this Town we should part from the Lord Albert Laskie ..... What should you do else Are you mad men Will you run headlong into danger wilfully Δ. I beseech you shall this be nothing prejudicial to our former doings and order already taken and decreed for our going together ..... What is this contrary to reason Well you are content Δ. As the will of the Highest is so is mine and none other ..... Sirha do you see this sword I will be a surety for this I warrant thee also Δ. ..... Your brother is clapped up in prison How like you that Your house-keeper I mean Δ. And why I pray you ..... For that that thou mayest be ashamed of Δ. What is that ..... They examin him They say that thou hast hid divers secret things As for thy Books thou mayst go look them at leasure It may be that thy house may be burnt for a remembrance of thee too Well if they do so it is if not as thou wilt I have told thee my phansie and given thee my counsel offered thee my help and desired to do thee good The choice is thine Δ. O Lord the Author of all truth and director of such as put their trust in thee I most humbly beseech thee to consider these premises thus to me propounded If they be true and from thee confirm them If they be illusions and not from thee disprove them For hardly in my judgement they do or can agree with our former precepts and order taken by thee A voice ..... He that ascendeth up to the top of the hill let him believe For until he come thither let him do his labour O Lord I doubt of these things and promises of ease wealth and honour A voice ..... Judge the Truth by the last Action O Lord What is that Action A voice ..... Wensdaies Action This Cloud said the voice of the Lord is put betwixt us and you What therefore may come between Now judge you Δ. I suspect the whole apparition of the eleven to be an illusion O Lord confirm my judgement or disprove it A voice ..... The Spirit of the Lord is not amongst you Δ. What misery are we then in O Lord Mercy Mercy A voice ..... Dispute not with God where whoredom is great Δ. O Lord This whoredom we understand not A voice ..... Pray daily with repentance that this cloud may be taken away and this sword diminished For the Seal cannot be broken until Satan have done his uttermost yea the uttermost of his malice For it is granted him and he must strike But pray you unto God that the sword may be made shorter or pluckt out of the hilt that in striking he want power For your sin is abominable and a sevenfold offence in the sight of the Lord. Δ. What this whoredom is God knoweth we understand not perfectly If the Spirit of God be not with us how can our prayers be acceptable A voice ..... Thus saith the Lord Turn unto me and be sorry for your sins and let my Angels be witnesse thereof For I swear by my self that my Justice shall hang over you And when I punish you next I will raze you from the face of the earth Therefore Vow your selves unto me and make your vessels clean for your habitations in my sight are nothing neither is the substance whereof I framed you acceptable I am the Spirit of Truth and Vnderstanding and will not be dasht in pieces with worldlings Neither use I to dwell in defiled places For my Sanctuary is holy and my Gates are without spot And with me there dwelleth no unrighteousnesse Δ. Lord is it thy will we shall go with Albert Laskie to Lasco A voyce The Lord 〈◊〉 What I have said is true Who rebuketh me saying my words are untrue The correction of him that reigneth is mightie who hath numbred it But to his destruction Be you holy that my hand may be weak Δ. O Lord the fear of thy punishment astonieth my heart and uncertainty of it in time and place doth also encrease my grief c. A voyce The fool saith in his heart Oh how great is thy punishment over me Teach me the place of thy correction And where thou wilt chastise me Who is he that desireth to meet God his vengeance or the punishment of him that confoundeth the damned Make your hearts clean and wipe the sin from amongst you And desire to be forgiven for miserable are they that meet with vengeance or that know the place where she taketh up her Harbour Δ. Gloria Honor Laus gratiarum actio perennis sit Deo nostro 〈◊〉 Nobis verò a Deo Patre propter Jesum Christum in Spiritu Sancto sit Misericordia Pax Consolatio in via virtutis veritatis Amen Monday Novemb. 18. Hora 9. Mane Lubek E. K. There appeareth the Cloud wherein the sword remaineth enclosed Δ. O Lord be mercifull unto us and rigorously execute not thy Justice upon us thy weaklings Nor suffer Satan to Triumph where thy glory is expected c. Converte nos Deus salutaris noster averte iram tuam à nobis c. E. K. Now cometh one in a white Coat not perfectly to be seen but as if he were seen through a Cipresse and said as followeth ..... Who is he that leadeth out the Lion to prey or who is he that lifteth up the feet of the young ones to devour Who feedeth the smell of the roaring Bear or hath taught him to remember the place of his recreation Hath he also taught the fields to put forth their voices and the mighty Trees to flourish in pride Are not the Hills glad when they bring forth Corn When the Valleys rejoice with threefold waters The beasts of the wildernesse have they not known Caves and unto such as are made tame is there not a ..... understanding For who is he that teacheth them to make subject themselves which are ravening or to bridle such as are of their frowardnesse Even he it is that looketh down from Heaven and beholdeth the earth and measureth with his feet saying It is done Which entreth also into the houses of men and listeneth to that which they call wonders Which openeth the gates of his knowledge with his own finger And which sayeth unto you How are ye become wise Or from whence is your understanding are your hearts become Caves to send out Thunders Or why are your spirits thus vexed with holinesse Are you not a stiff-necked people and such as are despised Are you not poor and therefore hated Since therefore you are become Bastards who teacheth your lips to speak of my Church Or hath taught
you to urge me with mine own spirit Behold I am mighty Because I am the joy of the faithfull For I am called the Temple of the Holy ones and the beauty of Israel The spirit of man crieth out and pierceth into the Lord as the swiftnesse of an Arrow And he heard them Therefore thus doth the winde of Cabon open her mouth and sweareth by the Jaspar Pillar that standeth in the Temple of Reconciliation and it Thundereth and is said Be it done And behold the doors open and the Holy Altar is covered The beasts with many feet bring up burnt-offerings And there is a sacrifice that ascendeth up and it is a mighty winde such as hath not been since the beginning of dayes Open your ears therefore and prepare your selves to hear For this ..... is mighty for it is of peace My Justice saith the Lord is sealed and you have sinned mightily My arm is stretched forth and I must be magnified For vengeance is gone forth and is appeared already But who is he that resisteth the venome of the earth or instructeth man to avoid the Darts of poison He saith unto you Thus it is because I have sanctified you and have made you holy to the earth Therefore will I help you But not as you desire For your prayers and unrighteous life shall become bands of yarn And I will make a contention betwixt Sathan and you If therefore you labour hard and open fervent mindes such as are not of the world and can binde this sword and cloud of vengeance fast from amongst you Be it so unto you for it is your own righteousnesse For Sathan hath reviled and hath said Then shalt thou see But so long as they are Holy and become righteousnesse they are become safe but when they fall Satan entreth in For the power of righteousnesse is become a Conquerour if it fight mightily And Satan shall be confounded by a righteous judgement For I have decreed it and by my self I swear it I will be a righteous Judge betwixt you Therefore take heed you sinnot not nor go into death For great is the fall of vengeance Be not therefore defiled with the filthinesse of the wicked Neither delight in such as counterfeit truth For I am one fire that judgeth all things And I delight in people that are joyfull with one Banket For those that fill their bellies at the houses of strangers Become enemies to me For I have said My spirit is holy and my annointed righteous Let the earth rise up and continue in her wickednesse Yea let them say we have found the anointed But my continuance is truth and they are become liars For my spirit worketh and behold there are wonders in the sight of men And wheresoever I dwell such is my power Be therefore of One house that you may eat together Least you banket too much and so become deceivers I am one and am known by One And unto One Which One I am married unto And I am mercifull Whosoever abideth not therein is an Adulterer Avoid you darknesse for righteousnesse is present and my spirit entreth Blessed are such as believe Amen Even to the Amen E. K. He is gone There appeare some bands linked together as Chaines about the Cloud Δ. Welcome be these bands E. K. He is here again ..... and saith ..... eth ..... Why are you become dull Why are you yet ignorant Seest thou these ..... He pointeth and speaketh to E. K. E. K. I see them I thank God ..... These bonds are your own righteousnesse And as they appear before the Lord so shall they binde vengeance together But if you become weak you fall But pray that you fall not For they are the dayes of sorrow The spirit of God is twofold present Jah agian and present Nah gassapalan Therefore take heed For in the first you are blessed and it may return But he that is filled with the second shall be drunken for ever The first is power present and a comfort inmeasurable glorifying and strengthning all things that are agreeable to it But when they differ it returneth The other is the spirit of the first and the second Almighty and everlasting unmeasurable and inexplicable drowning the will of man that becometh strong in the fountain of gladnesse and understanding true wisdom her self and not returning Pray therefore that you may be perfect and that you may be seasoned For it is a salt that savoureth to the end The peace of God be amongst you E. K. He cast off his Cloudy Lawn and went away He seemed to be 〈◊〉 Δ. Yet we beseech you more expresly and particularly to deal with us c. ..... It is said ..... It is written ..... It is true Cease Δ. Gloria Laus Honour Triumphus Jubilatio sit Deo nostro omnipotenti Nunc semper Amen Wednesday Novemb. 20. Mane hor. 11½ Lubek Δ. As thou hast of thy mercies O Lord given us some shew of thy favour bent toward us so are we desirous to understand how our Letters have wrought upon our friend his heart to joyn with us to call for thy mercies pardon and help for if they have Then do we hope our bands of acceptable life whereby to binde vengeance prepared and intended against us shall wax more and stronger by thy great mercy and help to thy well-pleasing in thy service hence forward E. K. The Cloud and bonds appear But the bands appear fewer Δ. O Lord is our state since yesterday become weaker with thee And shall it so narrowly be exacted Thy will be done who art holy just and most wise O God E. K. The bonds about the Cloud now are onely two which before were six or seven The bonds seem of a smoky ashy collour spirally going about the Cloud ..... Judgement is the end of Justice distributing and delivering also to every thing seen heard or determined to his proper end uprightly Are you able to deny this Δ. The end of our actions words and thoughts may seem twofold One of us intended and ment to be good The other not depending upon our weening but according to exact wisdom what is the end of the same here deemed the proper end if I understand right A voyce Lo judgement is the end of Justice in things that are handled uprightly whereof you finde the Omnipotencie and Truth of him that judgeth Omnipotently Which beholding your Combat hath girded himself together and beholdeth the Lists and be judgeth uprightly For be hath sworn it Arm not your selves therefore as weaklings But provide as mightie and couragious Souldiers for your own defence I am without corruption saith the Lord and lean not with the windes of Basannah Δ. O Lord give me leave to request thee c. A voyce But I am just and judgement her self Enter not therefore into my holy places Neither kneel down before my sanctuaries saying the Lord hath Chosen us He liveth and it is true for ever For I have said
fruit out of that Doctrine How poor is the power that hath been long told of in you You have forgotten your own knowledge and are become of seers blinde such as grope their way Such end such beginning For the end 〈◊〉 from the beginning and is become a means in it self to bring all things to passe But neither the end nor beginning of such things as you have handled hath been perfect or probable But a deceit comprehending the image of falshood Yea much more the traps and snares into wickednesse which deserveth destruction eternally If this may advise you Be it so If these examples and probable arguments be sound Then necessarily you ought of dutie to be counselled by me But I have opened my mouth and told you Be it unto you according to your disposition Δ. Be it unto us according to the mercies and loving kindnesse of the Highest into whose hands we commit our selves all our doings and intents ..... That is well said ... God be with you E. K. He is gone and in the place vvhere he stood the likenesse of a little Circle as if a print vvere made vvith a Thimble-brim Δ. Soli Deo Honor omnis Gloria Amen Monday 25. Novemb. Mane 8½ Lubek E. K. Here appeareth straight way at the first looking the same fellow that last spake and left the print of the little Circle behind him Δ. Orabam diu ad Deum ut Arbiter esset inter istos A .... num .... lum confugimus in tempore necessitatis c. A te O Deus solo pendemus c. Δ. Sedebamus quasi in triangulo se convertebat versus A. L. ..... Thou O man awake shake off forgetflnesse Lift not up thy self so much But close up thine eares against these deluded deluders which carry thee 〈◊〉 into folly and transform thee to a shadow By whose counsel thou art become dishonoured and by whom thou shalt become a spot in the Book of 〈◊〉 Call to remembrance the Histories of the whole World Political and Ecclesiastical Inquire of the Learned that have settled their judgements in the Book of God Open thine eyes and behold if any of the Prophets or forefathers men grounded in wisdom and deep understanding have yielded themselves to this unrighteousnesse believing lyars consenting to untruths and lastly dishonouring the Name of God Then call to minde thine own estate thy flourishing of thy youth and possibilities wherein thou mayst be made perfect Which if thou truely do Then banish this dishonour to God and his Angles listen not to these S ..... ersity For the Syrenes are awake and their song is to destruction I am sent from God as a Messenger to call thee home for thou dishonourest God mightily Behold thou shalt be made contemptible and become a laughing-stock Thy honour shall be defaced and thy posterity spotted with ignominie Moreover such as are thy friends shall shake their heads saying What wise man hath thus been overcome What is he that is become foolish Thou mayst desire it and consent as before But I am a stumbling block betwixt you and will dwell in all Elements for your purposes E. K. He holdeth up his hands towards Δ and saith Nay I have told him truth E K. He hath now gotten him a Chair and sitteth down Δ. If it be truth then it is a token that God is very merciful unto us and that we are in his favour highly to give us this warning to avoid evil Now resteth the other part How we shall attain to good and wisdom from God such as by the true and perfect use of his creatures we might do him some acceptable service with true obedience and humility c. E. K. One cometh to him and saith ..... He goeth about to take you a lyar E. K. He goeth away and cometh again E. K. This man which thus came and went away and cometh again is all in white he hath a silver Crown on his head he speaketh as followeth .... ..... Deny that you have done Confesse it to be false Cry you have offended And let the Angels of God see you do so that they may carry up your prayers so shall you become righteous But why dost thou write words of contempt against us For One in our number is All And we are all One Believe us for of our selves we have no power to instruct you but to deliver you the Commandment of God Rent your cloaths pluck those blasphemous books in pieces And fall down before the Lord for he it is that is Wisdom I have done for this time E. K. He is gone Δ. Quis est discretor Spirituum E. K. Now he cometh in again and speaketh ..... Oh you are a Learned man ..... Truth in the second He it is that discrectly judgeth all things If his discretion be given to you thank God Δ. Illi ergo Committemus hanc causam ab illo hoc donum petentes expectantes Nos interim pie in Christo vivere intendimus E. K. He is become a great pillar of Chrystal higher than a Steeple He ascendeth upward in clouds and the little circle remaineth Δ. Gloria laus honor gratiarum actio sit Deo nostro omnipotenti Trino uni nunc in secula seculorum Amen Tuesday Decembris 10. After Diner we removed from Lubek and the Lord Alb. Laskie went by Coach to Lord Christopher Duke of Meckelburgh Thursday night we lay at Wismar 11. Decemb. vel 12. Saturday morning we came to Rostoch 14. Decembris Monday Decemb. 16. Mane hora 10¼ Rostoch E. K. He is here that said he would dwell in omnibus Elementis c. Δ. ..... I came from the fountain of light where is no errour nor darknesse and have Power because it is given me from the Highest Which Lo is grown and become a mighty Rock For it is said of me Behold I will visit them that put their trust in me with a comfortable strength in the time of need For my Rock is an everlasting strength and the Hills of my countenance endure for ever If then I be the Countenance of God and a piercing fire sent out as a flame not onely with his great mercy but with his good will and that towards you overwhelmed not cast down but almost for ever buried in a lake of ignorance and inquenchable flame such as consumeth with ignorance deceit it self and a provocation too manifest and apparent destruction If I then with this message being the message of truth my self a mean .... sufficent Order for the publishment thereof can nor may ..... as of ... n I am vehemently despised the fruits of a good Conscience notwithstanding stedfast Then is he of no power of whom I am .... because it is written Such as rise up against my Spirit I will destroy them in the midst of the same fire and will deliver their ashes to the windes for a memory of their wickednesse But he is just and is
without measure knoweth what is and what is to come which hath thus said of you Behold their ignorance is greater and they esteem not truth Lo I have heard them in the midst of their corruption yet they are become faithlesse I minister unto them but in vain But behold their mouths are closed up with idlenesse O ye of little understanding are you become so blinde that you will not see Are the windows of your eares made fast against truth Are your consciences sealed up with a thrice burnt iron Desire you light and yet refuse it Have you craved ... and now deny it yea utterly disdain it Δ. That is not true E. K Now cometh a head behind him ..... Lo the end shall become your comfort if you listen to the songs of my mouth if not everlasting folly and a reward of such as are weary to hear of Truth Now I pinched him ..... E. K. This he said looking behind him Δ. ..... Burn those blasphemous books of thine and I will teach thee wisdom Δ. Will you have me note down that sentence so ..... I will Δ. What blasphemous books can I acknowledge seeing I understand none If they contain Sentence make me to perceive it that so I may compare it with the Touchstone of God his word using the Talent of such reason as God hath given me ..... I go I go I go E. K. Now cometh a great fire down and there appeareth a great huge man with a great sword in his hand sire cometh out at his eyes and at his mouth This terrible man said ..... Maledicti sunt qui jurati sunt contra Nomen meum E. K. Now that wicked creature shaketh himself Δ. In nomine Jesu Christi Redemptoris humani generis Quis tu es This was spoken to the man with the sword ..... Sume vires Δ. Deus in adjutorium meum intende c. Miserere mei Deus c. E. K Now the great huge one kneeleth down and his face is now from meward he looketh up toward heaven he hath very long hair to beneath his girdle his Robe is long and tucked up Now he standeth up ..... Cursed are they Cursed are they Cursed is he for ever I am I gave thee power and sealed thee for a time Power to use the vehemency of thine own poison but not to touch my coat Thus he saith And I am thou art a lyar from the beginning and the fountain of cursednesse Damnation is thy dwelling place Death is thy seat Vengeance is the Crown of thy disglory Because thou hast entred into my seat Hast exalted thy brightnesse blasphemed my name wherein in this Action thou continuest No point of thy charge nor of my permission Be thou accursed weakened overthrown and defaced Thou art vanqished Thy time is shortened And why I am And I say thou fightest against me and not against men I am Justice and the strength of him that liveth whom thou hast felt and shalt feel world without end Therefore Depart Depart I say E. K. Now the sword standeth by him with the rags that appeared before ..... Vengeauce prepared for others be thy reward As it was delivered unto thee so take it with thee That the malice which thou shewest to others may heap up thine own destruction Jeovah Jeovah Jeovascah E. K. The wicked Tempter falleth down into a hole and this high creature putteth the sword and rags down after him Now this great creature appeareth as small as he used to do And it is Michael Mic. ..... Veniat Lux Domini fidelium Consolatio E. K. Now is all come in as was before The Vail the feet of men appearing under c. Mic. ..... Thus hath God dealt mercifully with you Δ. His Name be praised for ever Mic. ..... Thus hath Truth vanquished darknesse Even so shall you vanquish the World in him which is the Spirit of Power and Truth For I have Sworn saith the Lord and will be merciful unto you But cease for these daies to come for they were daies delivered Let them be therefore unto you daies of Repentance For the end of 40 daies must come And this Doctrine shall be written unto all Nations even unto the end of the World The Grain is yet in the earth and hath newly consented with the earth But when it springeth and beareth seed The number shall be the last Δ. A dark Parable to my understanding is this Mic. ..... The transparent fire of Meeknesse comfort and warm your souls rectifie and make strong your bodies to the eternal comfort of the World to come in the pilgrimage which you shall endure with a heavy crosse for the Testimonie of Truth E. K. A great many voices say Amen E. K. Now he is gone and the golden Vail is drawn again Δ. Omnis laus honor Gloria Victoria Triumphus sit Deo nostro omnipotenti Vivo vero nunc in sempiterna seculorum secula Amen Sonday 22. Decembris Mane we went from Rostoch toward Stetin Wensday 25. Decembris on Christmas Day morning we came to Stetin by 10 of the clock Anno 1584. Stilo veteri Stetini in Pomerania January 2. Mane hora 9. Δ. Veniat lux Domini fidelium Consolatio c. 40. dies jam completi sunt c. Expectamus praepotens auxilium Altissimi c. E. K. I cannot see but an inch into the Stone The Curtain appeareth but more deep into the Stone At length cometh one very tall in along white Gown all open and his hair of his head hanging down to his legs He hath wings upon his head armes back and legs He seemeth to descend from the Clouds and upon Clouds which lie sloapes vvise for his defcending He speaketh as follovveth ..... The purenesse of humility dispersed through the inward bowels of man is that which is called with you Perseverance Which Perseverance beautifieth and establisheth in a true and stedfast Basis those things that are acceptable in the sight of God the workes of man Hence springeth justification which .... with the love of God Herein are you become like unto us for that we are the image of Perseverance and the Glory of God But in us it is dignified In you it is and must be imperfect For nothing is of flesh or blood that receiveth perfection The Emanations from God to and into his creatures which agree in the Center of the Earth as the knitting up of things are established So that one jot of his Will neither can nor may perish wax weak or dwell in error Which foreseen from the beginning carrieth in it self the remembrance of all things to the end Through which mercy and remembrance you are become the servants of God Not for your own sakes but in that it is the Glory of him which hath called you to this exercise Troublesome to the World but rewarded with Glory If therefore your imperfections rise up and resist the Will of God saying blasphemously as you do
Triumphus tibi in inferno ubi non est Laus nec Gloria Quae jam infusa sentio doceo Sed modo lingua ideomate praedicto E. K. He turneth round when he speaketh Nal. ..... Omnis Caro maximè est sibi applicabilis in natur a perfectione sua Igitur revelanda sunt Mysteria Dei non ut audiantur sed ut intelligantur E. K. Now cometh a great smoak now I see nothing now he is gone A voice ..... Hear E. K. I see no body E. K. Methinketh that two speak or else this voice giveth an eccho ..... The unpatient and troublesome spirits of indignation wrath blasphemy and disobedience continually contend bear arms and ravenously run wilfully against those that are the .... Messagers and Angles of the Dignified and Triumphant Glory which is now the Ministery of him that is Dignified in his Father To the honour and glory of those that are humble and faithful in obedience Yea those wicked ones keep open wars against God and his Annointed in Heaven and Earth onely for the safeguard and true keeping of such as love God and follow his Commandments rejoyce in Truth and are visited in Righteousnesse Dark speeches to the flesh but words mixed with humane understanding wher ein briefly I will manifest the envy between the wicked in respect of their enviousnesse and those that are justified in Heaven which fight in the government of mans soul in the Creatures of God Not in that they know they shall overcome But in that they are envious and proud from the beginning Their contention is evidently amongst you which are joyned in the service of God Not as Deservers but as Chosen whose vessels and power are best known unto God E. K. One standeth on my left shoulder and saith Sinister ..... Dost thou not hear how like a fool he speaketh without all reason Thou art a spirit of lying Thou art one farthest from the glory of God Thou art a sower of lyes and a teacher of false doctrine E. K. Thus faith he on my left hand Sinister ..... Speak for I have power over thee Canst thou deny it Dexter ..... Thou thinkest so because thou hadst power But the brightnesse thou badst is turned into iniquity True it is thou hadst power to banish the wicked out of Paradise But me thou knowest not because thou hast not banished me In respect of thy dignification which sprang with power I say with the Hallelujab But in respect of thy 〈◊〉 Thus saith the Lord Posui tenebras à tergo meo Sinister ..... Fy upon God that ever he created me Dexter ..... Even thus do they seek continually to enter into the weakest vessel of envy not to triumph for they know they shall not but they hinder the time with man wherein they may offend his conscience E. K. I hear howling and lamenting Dexter ..... Such are those of whom thou seekest aid and comfort Those that appear unto thee have sought thy soul And the fruit of them is according to their destruction Believe them not It is said before Thou dealest with devils What reward shall he reap that fighteth against the Highest Or taketh part with such as are banished from Righteousnesse Much more shall his punishment be which seeketh help of those that are dishonoured For dishonour ..... to imperfection and is become a monster for destruction It is written .... Nothing can stand before the Lord that is imperfect Much more that imperfection weakened which obeyeth the imperfect Leave for the kingdom of Righteousnesse is at hand And thou must vow Hear the Lord That thy sins may be forgiven thee For the Prophesies of the Lord are not uttered to the world with the seales of the wicked Therefore become holy that thou mayest augment the benefit of God bestowed amongst you and render it to the world as the message of truth with thanksgiving Meum est pauca dicere Δ. Sed quis sis Nescimus an non idem Naluage qui nobiscum prius egisti hodie Nal. ..... I am E. K. Why call you those Devils with whom I deal not offending my conscience but intending to do good to my self and my neighbours If you be of God where is the fruit of your doctrine c. Nal. ..... If they were not Devils and enemies of truth they would praise and honour God in his Messengers of truth But because these Actions are true and the truth of them shall be the destruction of their kingdom Therefore devilishly and enviously they resist the will of God Denying the power Blaspheming his truth and infecting his vessels In our Doctrine there is nothing taught but the state of the world here and to come The prophesies of time and the knitting up of God his mysteries opened from time to time to those that are his sanctified as testimonies in the Creation and Operation of his Creatures whereof this doctrine is a part The Prophets in their times were not ignorant by revelation of the good will of their Creator The Apostles in Christ his Kingdom were made partakers of the mysteries to come of the state of mans salvation and ending of this combat which is in that day when all Creatures shall receive their reward The Church of God is alwayes garnished and furnished with spiritual Revelations as a Mansion or Dwelling-place of the Holy Ghost These latter dayes and end of harvest must have also Labourers For no Age passeth away but through the hands of God who maketh the end of his doings known to the World To the end the World may consent unto him in Glory So that this Doctrine is the mysteries of the word of God sealed from the beginning now delivered unto man for that Reformation which must be in One unity established unto the end The very part of that Circle which comprehendeth the Mysteries of the Highest in his Prophets Apostles and Ministers yet to come which are alive and shall bear witnesse of eternal Comfort The fruit of our Doctrine is that God should be praised For of our selves we seek no glory But we serve you to your comfort teaching you the will of God in the self same Christ that was crucified sold and died in the Patriarchs and published to the World by his Disciples and is now taught unto you in the remission of sins .... greatest in the World for the end of all things The very key and entrance into the secret mysteries of God in respect of his determination on earth bringing with it reward in the end of eternal glory which is the greatest Treasure Those that tempt thee do it in respect of the fear they have of the power of God springing in thee Let this suffice The World is vain in respect of eternal joyes Heaven and Earth passeth away The reward of the Righteous endureth E. K. Nal. ..... What do you see imperfect in all that hath been delivered Δ. Nal. ..... You have 49 Tables In those Tables are contained
hast Many Princes shall be acquainted with you and Learned men The good are oftentimes stirred up to offend God whose offendes are both wilful and rash For temptation is a Touchstone and is one of the black fellows chiefest weapons Δ. I beseech you to say somewhat of the time of our going hence Mad. ..... Tush I pray you Go hence as soon as you may Δ. To Cracovia you mean Mad. ..... I. ... I will now and then visit you there And will become friend with you E.K. now for you are become a good man Δ. As concerning that terrible shew what can you say of it Mad. ..... As a warning to beware that that should be This is the last Spear Δ. But if I go to Cracovia no such thing shall happen I trust Mad. ..... So Sir Therefore This is your warning Δ. Is it not then the will of God that I shall set up the Table here as you see we have prepared Mad. ..... Be contented This Wildernesse is not 40 years My Mother saith It must not be here yet at your request it may be E. K. How can that be Δ. At mans commandment the Sun can stand Mad. ..... He saith true Believe him .... Therefore I will not urge any thing herein but defer till we come to Cracovia Δ. At Cracovia shall I set it up And shall I require Pernns house there Or what house else is in God his determination for me and mine ..... As wise as I am I cannot tell what yet to say It is the Town where the Sabbath day shall be celebrated Δ. But now as concerning the house What is your word Mad. ..... You will not be destitute of an house Will you believe me For I am your true friend MADIMI Here shall be the end of your turmoil Be of good cheare Δ. Did you not will us to have my chest from Torn before we go Mad. ..... I when the black m ... hath called home his waters Δ. Assoon as .... n have it from Torn hither then we are to be going E. K. How will my Lord agree to this Mad ..... Now you are become a new man both we may dwell in one house Sir I promise you of my credit you shall be to learn nothing of these things by August Δ. By August next Mad. ..... Yea ... Next Δ. Perhaps my Lord his furniture of money will not be such as to serve for our carriage anew c. Besides that I would wish Kesmark to be redeemed before he should come to Cracovia Perhaps then with the people his credit would be greater Mad. ..... Those that become Kings care nothing for Farm-houses Δ I would that needlesse cost here bestowed had been saved or that you had told us this sooner Mad. ..... Silence now is my best answer Δ. Do you know O Lord what say I Have we had any name of NALVAGE heretofore in our Tables or Books expressed Mad. ..... What have you written that have you written He is a near kinsman to my Mother We call him with us Fuga terrestrium Δ. We beseech God that all intermedling and saucinesse of the wicked in these Actions may cease You know how one clawed him here on the head as with Eagles claws Mad. ..... He may rejoyce they clawed not his soul. You are content to let me go E. K. She goeth away somewhat bigger and in a long Gown Δ. Soli Deo Gloria Amen Friday Februar 21. à Meridie Lasko Martii 2. Stylo novo Δ. As I had talked of Madimi and IL. to E. K. about Treasure hid in England and I was desirous to have some advertisement by Madimi she appeared Mad. ..... I answer your inward man I am come again E. K. She is bigger than she was Mad. ..... I am a little grown Δ. As concerning a medicine for my Ague I would gladly ... And as concerning the wife of our dear friend the Lor ... Mad. ..... I pray you bear with me at this time I am as willing to answer you when light cometh again as you to ask me You may consider of many things I can answer them briefly Such blessing as my Mother bestoweth on me such I give you E. K She smileth Δ. God grant that his good Creatures may smile on me Mad. ..... When you know me well you will find I have been very charitable E. K She goeth away naked her body being besprent with blood at the least that side of her toward E. K. Δ. Laudetur Deus Trinus unus nunc in sempiterna seculorum secula Amen Saturday Februarii 22. 1584. ante meridiem Lasko Martii 3. Stylo novo Δ. The questions needful to be required of Madimi 1. Good counsel for my health recovering and confirming 2. If the Pedestal for the holy Table being here made shall be carryed with us to Cracow rather than to make a new there both to save time and to have our doings the more secret 3. What is your knowledge and judgement of A. L. his wife in respect of her life past present and to come for we doubt she is not our sound friend 4. It is our very earnest desire that the Danish Treasurer in England in the ten places seised on by E. K. might be brought hither very speedily whereby A. L. might redeem Keysmark and Lasko lands morgaged and also pay his debts in Cracow and about Cracow For else neither can he come with any credit to Cracow as he is willed neither can he come to us there so commodiously and oft as our conferences may be requisit And thirdly the day of Keysmark forfeiting without the Emperour his favourable help draweth nigh as in April at St. George his Day next Δ. And by your speech of England you give me occasion to enquire whether her Majesty doth cause my rents to be received by my Deputy assigned or no Whether her Majesty or the Council do intend to send for me again into England or no And as concerning the red p .... which E. K. found with the book in England what it is And what is the best use of it and how that use is to be practised or performed Δ. after these Questions written and a little our praying to God for his light verity and help and to send Madami according as she willed me to note many things for that she could answer them briefly we used silence a while ... at h she appeared on my right hand between me and E. K. ..... Blessed be his name that in truth and for the truth sendeth his Ministers to instruct them that love Truth .... Even so ..... Be not pierced too much with sight of me to E. K. for he looked mervallously earnestly on her E. K. She seemeth more bright than she was And to ... and to stand in a more bright place Mad. ..... All honour be to him that liveth in Heaven and in Earth and is mighty in all places Amen 1. ..... Your health E.
say that hath lifted thee from the Doores of Death taken thee out of the hands of Butchers and continued thee for a member of his Glory Behold I say unto thee The brightnesse of Truth over-shadoweth thee If therefore thou dwell in truth why shouldest thou be afraid Considering that she conquereth and resisteth all her Enemies Behold the World despiseth you you also shall despise the World When the Angel of the Lord poureth his wrath and vial upon the Earth and the enemies of the Sonne of God ◠in among the sheep When the self-same Plague that was in the land of Pharaoh raineth in the Houses of all that dwelleth upon the Earth such as the Lord abhorreth When the Lord with his hand shall gather up the fruits of the Earth from them Where then shall be their honors What then shall be done with money with that harlot and strumpet of the Earth Of what value shall their love be then or who shall regard their friendship In these a yeares that are to come shall all these things come to passe And this great joy shall be turned into teares of Brimstone Why you of little faith you know not how often I have been amongst you neither the Harbor that I have thrust you into Notwithstanding you murmur amongst your selves But stick fast unto him that leadeth you For he is a sure Guide And be not afraid though the Earth open her jaws against you for why I will blesse all things you take in hand saith the Lord and my spirit shall dwell amongst you Δ May I speak E. K. He turn◠him to you Δ How shall our new proceedings joyne to our old beginnings O God our guide light staffe shield and comfort c. URIEL Behold I teach you before I correct But the Doctrine I teach is Humility Patience he seemeth to speak to one above and the fear of wrath to come After which manner I have taught them by thee Δ. Therefore if thou teach Obedience through the spirit of God appearing unto thee Be thou also Patient and Obedient And Humble thy self unto them for my sake Not with the opening of any seal neather with the Counsailes that I shall deliver thee But with a ready mind Obediently desiring to performe that which thou hast promised in me I am sufficient strength and will be thy buckler and if they intend evil it shall rest upon them yea when they imagin it it shall frize within them And thy goings in and out shall be sate amongst them But behold I teach unto thee a way which thou followest not When thou mindest to do any thing in the name of God to his honour to the help of thy neighbour or thine owncomfort Go about it whatsoever it be and begin a Labour Do that thing thou intendest And see that you joyn with one consent towards God and the 〈◊〉 you are occupied in Then cry out to God for comfort for light and true understanding And it it shall be given unto thee abundantly For Lo I say unto thee E. K. I understand him not now I will open my hand unto thee and be merciful unto thee And whensoever you heap up the Wood together I will descend and give fire Behold I keep back the rest of my message for an other time Which shall be ready for you when I find you ready to receive it Δ I requested to know 〈◊〉 I should deal with the Ambassador of Spain or the Emperor or Curtius Secondly your RULE here given I understand it not For I dare not begin any labour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 divine Mans imagination is so weak c. URIEL Thon hast those that are sent unto thee here for thy instruction which shall by degrees lead thee into the 〈◊〉 of that thou art to do But it is one thing to receive Corn and abundance of grain by the blessing of God in the return of an year and an other thing to do the works of the Apostles For the spirit of God is twofold working by information and influence Coelestial through the grant of God his good will in the ministery of his Angels to the information of such as are his faithful and chosen An other thing to be inspired from God himself in his holy spirit imediately comforting and knitting Wisdom together with you beyond the power that is given unto his Angels I have spoken unto you a sound and true doctrine and have given you not fleshly but Celestial counsel Apply your self unto it as the Spirit of God leadeth you As for those wicked men that Ambassador excepte our understanding hath no name of them We remember them not neither limit any thing for them But if thou in thy simplicity and innocency canst not deal with them the fault resteth in thy own faith I am gone Δ Deo nostro Omnipotenti Immortali Regi Gloriae sit omnis laus honor gratiarum actio Jubilatio Amen ✚ Pragae January 16. Wednesday Mane hora 9½ ferè Δ Precibus ad Deum fusis ut nobiscum procederet in sua misericordia lumine veritatis non in parabolis solùm manifesta sed clara manifesta veritate modo qui illi maximè placet c. E. K. I see the man again and the house the man seemeth to be covered on his face and so over with a vail of hair-cloth to his middle Δ When it shall please God all vailes and AEnigmata shall cease ..... Whatsoever I teach you hath a Mystery And I am a Mystery in my self Even so all things that you learn of me you must be content to receive as mystical instructions comprehending perfect truth and to be known to such as are true Some there be that have and have nothing yea though they have all for All is conteined But the mysteries of God are infinite and his grace is not to be determined Δ That saying is dark That which is All is conteined Beleeve you that we give holy things unto Swine Or open the finger and workmanship of God unto Sinners God forbid Moses saw God but his hinder parts The Prophets were acquainted with God but mystically The Apostles with the Sonne of God in shadows and their own impotency Yea I say unto you that she that lyeth in the lap of her Mother knoweth not but by degrees for it is the manner of Gods Wisdom both immediately and by us to keep back his Wisdom from Hell and corruption Therefore murmur not at that which you receive for it is not your own Behold if you have better you need it not for it is vanitie to seek for that you have Well since it is given you Consider what it is that is given you Consider also how it is given you and by whom Δ We know by whom as our consciences and faith teach us ..... O you of little understanding Who is he that can and hath to give but God Jesus Christ the Sonne of
omnipotenti Trinitati consecrandum fore cupiebamus media ex parte absolutum intactum relinquimus Ego vero cum consorte meo uxoribus nostris liberis meis reliquis exulibus sive exterminatis nostris Rhedis tribus avecti transmigrationem hanc nobis injunctam die praefinita ingressi sumus Atque nondum ex Imperii Romani finibus egressi ita gressus nostros disponimus de caetero Deo favente gubernante disponemus ut toti orbi Christiano claro apparere poterit patienter nos haec qualiacunque tolerare posse aut saltem velle paratissimos esse nos Reddere Deo quae Dei sunt Caesari quae sunt Caesaris Obedientissimos etiam nos esse humillimos sacro sanctae Catholicae Ecclesiae filios summi Pontificis Romani aliorum Ecclesiasticorum Praesulum Catholicorum in Christo propter Christum tam esse observantes fore quam ipse qui Judex futurus est vivorum mortuorum varriis nos esse modis haud raro admonuit Vestrae vero Illustrissime Reverendissimeque Dominationi hoc à Deo optamus bonum ut per secundas vestras de tota causa nostra meditationes nostrae Innocentiae sinceritatis fidelis coram Deo hominibus in illa Republica Bohemica conversationis nostrae justa habeatur ratio Meaeque honestae famae existimationisque sine qua ne vivere quidem cupio ea fiat in integrum restitutio ut talis posthac esse indicetur indubitatè qualis ante vestrum Caesareae Majestati exhibitum contra nos libellum per 30 annos plures in omnibus poene Christiani orbis tam Academiis quam Regnis Provinciis ex Dei immensa Bonitate gratia abundantissima singulari providentia extitisse haud obscuris confirmari possit testimoniis Ex hiis igitur paucis Historiae ipsius veritatis seintillis Vestrae Illustrissimae Reverendissimeque Dominationis prudentia magnum sibi lumen alicere sive accendere potuit ad nos nostrorum animorum affectiones nostrorum ita mirabilium adhuc incredibilium negotiorum progressum statum dijudicandum denique de ipso futuro horum omnium exitu haud leves sibi contexendas conjecturas Cum nos ex solo Deo Omnipotente vero vivo in omnibus nostris pendeamus ab ipso dirigamur protegamur Cui soli nosipsos nostraque omnia Animae corporis Fortunae nuncupata Bona tanquam Holocaustum quotidianis nostris humillimis spontaneis offerimus precibus Cui denique soli sit omnis laus honor gloria gratiarum Actio nunc semper Amen Datae Erphurdiae Anno 1586 die 16 Julii Fidelis in Christo propter Christum servulus Joannes Dee This Letter being written and read unto E. K. and of him well liked for the quiet and modest course therein kept otherwise as he said to Fr. Pucci then he could have used or had used in a Letter which now he had also written but now would not send thinking that my foresaid Letter might suffice for our case he talked with Fr. Pucci of this Letter which Fr Pucci said he would gladly see and read which E. K. told him that I was minded not to let him read it Then said he that he would not carry it Hereupon in talk with Fr. Pucci speaking of this Letter I told him that I had written a Letter with sufficient answer in general to the Nuncius request and offer by him in writing brought to us and in summe told him the chief contents of the Letter Then said he whereas you write of the Books burnt why write you not unto him of the recovery of them as I now perceive by you both that they are restored And it shall be a disgrace to you if the Nuncius shall understand more by other then by your self Thereof have I no care Quod scripsi scripsi and I know the truth of my writing And they are not all restored that I know of And whatsoever he hath at my hands he may be assured is true whatsoever he shall otherwise hear the Record thereof cannot be so good unlesse our Record consent thereto Then said he why write you of those Books burning being done before your comming away It is as if you wrote backward Have you no care Mr. Pucci for the method of my Letters said I and I said farther it is told me that unlesse you see my Letters you will not carry them you shall pardon me for seeing of them the content I have sufficiently told you and if you will not deliver them I can get them delivered divers wayes or I may omit the sending of them and write such a Letter to the Nuncius that I had written answer to his requests and offer sent by Fr. Pucci But he would not bring the said my Letter 〈◊〉 he might have a sight of it himself At the length by farther discourse with E. K. he became resolved to goe with the letter and by E. K. his order he was to receive 50 Dollors of John Carpio that he should not be destitute of money at Prage NOTE This day Francis Pucci said to us both how can you doubt of my fidelity toward you whom I love as my own life and against this Monster of Rome whom my chief desire is and long hath been that he may be overthrown c. Again consider what fidelity obedience and reverence he hath promised to the Pope and this Nuncius as the writing brought by him and so sore and many wayes urged by him for us to accept of can specifie Therefore Fr. is false to the Pope or us or both or rash foolish blind c. And as our spiritual Schoolmaster divers times termeth him leprous Therefore I commit this his doings to the judgment of God But also it is greatly to be remembred and noted that he now also discoursed again with E. K. as concerning the Birth of Christ that it could not be proved by the Scriptures that Christ came of the line of David unlesse he were begotten of the actual copulation of Joseph with Mary and said that because it was the gift of the Holy Ghost that at Joseph his first and onely carnal copulation with Mary Christ was conecived Therefore she was accounted in manner a Virgin according to the Jews doctrine which his heresie when I heard I trembled for the horrour of so manifest an heresie against evident Scripture virgo concipiet virgo pariet c. against many other most plain and sufficient Authorities both of Scriptures and also Histories of our Lady her examination made by Women and that she was found a Virgin c. And at her conception her answer to the Angel Quia virum non cognovi c. antequam convenirent juventa est in utero habens de spiritu sancto c. NOTE It is evident hereby that this Pucci is very leprous both in this Heresie what