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
elected and applyeth himself to the necessity of his Election doing the works that are righteous before the Lord and receiveth comfort by the visitation of Gods mercy is sealed to the end of his Election in gladnesse and through the value and strength of Perseverance and cannot fall so far that he shall be bruised or run so far astray that he shall not be able to remember himself Happy are those that are elected But happy happier are those that persevere in their Election These are those unto whom God imputeth not their sinnes These are those that sinne and Satan are a weary of for they are not able to prevaile These are those which are numbred in the Book of God and whose 〈◊〉 as yet for their comming But the altar shall be opened and they shall rise But is there a mercy fixed and doth this mercy also fix Justice Or as I have called it the Image of Justice It is evidont So also is there a Justice that is fixed a Justice triumphing a Justice mighty ' a Justice unable to be resisted a Justice that Prayer prevaileth not against yea a Justice that Hell and the Devil are condemned in This is that Justice this is that two edged sword this is that Iron Mall wherewith those that refuse their Election or are not elected following the necessity of wickednesse are and shall be cut in pieces with beaten into small powder and be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone This is he that sealeth up the second Hell with the second death This is that you ô you starvelings you vagabonds you stiff-necked and stinking sinners ought to dread and fear Hath God elected you and do you disdain it Hath he provided a Seat for you an Honour for you a Crown for you a Wedding Garment for you his eternal glory for you And will you force him to cast it into the fire Shall the finger of God write you and shall the vengeance of God root you out Repent I say and flie from your iniquity Return into the way of the Lord least God seeing your wickednesse your un-natural and inhumane rebellion your disobedience against your father thrust himself upon your necessity with his justice and vengeance Which thing if you do Prayer prevaileth not◠much lesse is their resistance Are you not afraid to lose the sight of God and to be deprived of the glory of his Majestie Are you not afraid of the unspeakable flames and fire-brands of Hell which are prepared for the wicked What shall I say unto you Shall I take pity upon you Why care you not for your selves Shall I pray unto God for you You pray not for your selves Shall I bestow goodnesse upon you Hui you despise it Shall I bring three Sheep from the Mountains and shall I lose two of them before I come home O you mortal men be merciful unto your selves Take pity on your selves Fall into the true judgment of light and darknesse of good and evil of eternal Glory and Damnation For behold I tell you that God is ready to thrust himself yea to throw himself as a might stone upon you Against the which there is no time of prayer nor nothing that can prevaile I have here taught you and exhorted you Exhorted you to forsake your wickednesse and to cleave unto the Lord. Taught you that those that are elected may lose their election and may be established in their Election Also that those that are not elected run by the rule of necessity unto the end of their wickednesse which is rewarded with eternal fire From the which God of his mercy and in his Sonne Jesus Christ who hath redeemed you is yet ready if you will to deliver you Hal rowgh ha Δ We long discoursed of sundry things and each reproved other of haughtinesse or pride of mind how justly we did it God knoweth E. K. He is here still Δ O Lord order these matters with us and between us to thy Honour and Glory E. K. ..... Thou E. K. and we receive at one fountain we are created and made by one God to the end we should glorifie him as our Creator you as your Redeemer and Creator But lo we are of Heaven heavenly comforted and nourished with the glory of God wherein since the Δ division made amongst u we erre not you to the intent you may be proved are covered with mortality and corruption to the intent that the judgment of God may allow you for those places you are apt to inherit If therefore we be both refreshed of God have our beginning from God as from our Creator let us both acknowledg his goodnesse and glorifie him in the works of our hands we in our angelical forms you in the Skirmish wherein you fight by fighting manfully and overcomming Yet of us thou hast as those have that are rewarded in the labour of him that is sent in message from the giver If the King send his Messenger unto thee he ought for three causes First for the person from whence he commeth Secondly for the authority of his message or goodnesse of reward Thirdly that by him you receive the benefit whereby you are gratified Even so deal with us for us he may say you fare the better by him in respect of his labour and the authority that he useth so may we say you fare the better by us But let the heaven and earth bear witnesse besides the benefits of Go of our good will towards you But answer me E. K. What say you to me wherein ..... As touching your receiving as touching thy taking part with Christ Jesus very 〈◊〉 man the Son of the living God whose precious blood cryeth out continually before his Father for the sins of the people Whether is greater the authority of truth by the Church Militant or Triumphant Answer you E. K. to that E. K. By the Church Triumphant ..... Even such is our authority Therefore it is greater then the authority of him that is a fleshly Priest If the Angels that have appeared unto you had appeared also unto the Jews saying Crucifie not the Son of God they would not have done it For though they believed not man yet would they have believed an Angel Therefore did God the Father acknowledge his Son Christ by both Churches as you may read by the Angels that appeared to the Shepherds acknowledging from heaven the truth that Jesus was the Son of God E. K. What is the Church I did not think that the Angels were of any Church The Church is the number of those which are governed by the Holy Ghost and that continually sing Holy Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Zebaoth But that we sing so the Scriptures bear witnesse Therefore we are of the Church and our testimonies are true I counsel you therefore to put on humility and to make your selves subject before the truth Love one another not because you are men but because you are partakers of
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
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
first to the matter of fact The Divels we know even in the Gospel did acknowledg nay in some manner proclaim Christ to be the Son of God which is the main Article he did contest with Christ by Scripture Authority and by S. Pauls testimony can transform himself when he list into an Angel of light And in some relations well attested of Possessions and publick Exorcisms that have been used we find the Divel often speaking by the mouth of women rather like a Monk out of the Pulpit perswading to temperance rebuking vices expounding of mysteries and the like then as one that were an enemy to truth and godliness Insomuch that some have been ready to make a great mystery and triumph of it thereby to convict Hereticks and Atheists in time more effectually then they have been by any other means that have been used hitherto and ascribing the whole business not to the Divel himself but the great power and Providence of God as forcing him against his will to be an instrument of his Truth For my part I see cause enough to believe that such things there contained at large might come from the Divel that is might truly and really be spoken by persons possessed and inspired by the Divel But that they are imployed by God to that end I shall not easily grant I rather suspect that whatsoever comes from them in that kind though it be good in it self yet they may have a mischievous end in it and that I believe will soon appear if they can once gaine so much credit among men as to be believed to be sent by God to bear testimony to the truth A man may see somewhat already by those very Relations and that account that is given us there And therefore I do not wonder if even among the more sober Papists this project as the relater and publisher complaineth hath found opposition The Divel is very cunning a notable Polititian S. Paul knew him so and therefore he uses many words to set out his frauds He can lay the foundation of a plot if need be a hundred years before the effects shall appear But then he hath his end It is not good trusting of him or dealing with him upon any pretence Can any man speak better then he doth by the mouth of Anabaptists and Schismaticks And this he will do for many years together if need be that they that at first stood off may be won by time But let them be once absolute masters and then he will appear in his own shape There is one thing which I wonder much more at in those Relations I have mentioned and that is that the Divel himself should turn such a fierce accuser of them that have served him so long Witches and Magicians I know he doth here so too in some kind in more then one place He doth much inveigh against Divels and all that have to do with them Megicians c. But that is in general only or in Kelley's particular case upon whom he had another hold which he made more reckoning of to wit as he appeared to them as an Angel of light Any thing to maintain his interest there and their good opinion of him for he had great hopes from that plot But that he should pursue so ridgedly particular men and women whom he had used so long to death and do the part of an informer against them may seem more like unto a Kingdom divided against it self but it is not our case here neither am I very well satisfied that whatsoever the Divel saith or layes to the charge of them by whose mouth he speaketh ought to be received for good testimony Here it may be Wierius had some reason for I doubt some have been too credulous But this by the way shall suffice That the Divel should lie often or be mistaken himself in his Prophecies as by many particulars of this Relation will appear I will not look upon that as if any objection could be made of it But it may be wondred perchance Dr. Dee being often in so great want of monies that he did not know which way to turn what shift to make at which time he did alwayes with much humility address himself to his Spirits making his wants known unto them and the Divel on the other side both by his own boasting and by the testimonie of those who could not lie having the goods of this world though still under God much at his disposing and alwayes as he seemed very desirous to give Dr. Dee all possible satisfaction that in this case once or twice perchance excepted when the Dr. was well furnished for which the Spirits had his thanks at all other times he was still to his very great grief and perplexity left to himself to shift as he could and some pretence why not otherwise supplyed cunningly devised by them that were so able and to whom he was so dear But I must remember my self I said so able but in some places his Spirits tell him plainly It was not in their power because no part of their Commission or because it did not belong unto them such as dealt with him to meddle with the Treasures of the earth and sometimes that they were things beneath their cognizance or intermedling Of the different nature of Spirits we shall say somewhat by and by that may have some relation to this also perchance But granting that the Divel generally hath power enough both to find mony and to gratifie with it where he seeth cause Yet in this case of Witches and Magicians direct or indirect it is certain and observed by many as an argument of Gods great Providence over men that generally he hath not It is in very deed a great Argument of a superiour over-ruling power and Providence For if men of all professions will hazard their Souls so far as we see daily to get money and estates by indirect unconscionable wayes though they are not alwayes sure and that it be long oftentimes before it comes and oftentimes prove their ruine even in this world through many casualties as alterations of times and the like what would it be if it were in the power of the D. to help every one that came unto him yielding but to such and such conditions according as they could agree Hitherto I have considered what I thought might be objected by others I have one objection more which to me was more considerable as an objection I mean not so readily answered then all the rest Devils we think generally both by their nature as Spirits and by the advantage of long experience a very great advantage indeed in point of knowledg cannot but have perfect knowledg of all natural things and all secrets of Nature which do not require an infinite understanding which by that measure of knowledge that even men have attained unto in a little time is not likely to be so necessary in most things But lest any man should quarrel at
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
may fail him and because he was subject to ill tempters I believe so much hereof as shall by better trial be found true or conformable to truth Δ. Note ..... E.K. had this day divers apparitions unto him in his own Chamber and instructions in divers matters which he regarded not but remained still in his purpose of utterly discrediting those Creatures and not to have any more to do with them But among divers apparitions he noted this of one that said unto him ..... Joyn Enoch his Tables ..... Give every place his running number E.K. What mean you by places ..... The squares Which done refer every letter in the Table to his number and so read what I will for this is the last time I will admonish you E.K. A man standeth in the Air in a fiery Globe of my heighth accompanied with some hundred of Puppets on the one side of him standeth a woman and about her are four Clouds all white The man upon a white Triangle Δ shewed these Numbers with spaces as you see following Δ 49 466 495 46 395 152 228 218 597 63 607 254 418 409 410 502 566 82  505 550 306 228 423  119 473 179 320  603 264 517 141 214 491  149 312 363 22 261 390  173 24 247 403 59 414  197 338 271 370 494 366   367 174 175 411      177 89 97 517 239 272 273 603 65 243 116  416 604 80 103 182  150 11 552 460 225 226 414 46 405  441 267 295 170 163 250 251 395 228 46 175     25 171  586 467 331 163 606 73  83 519 97 418 466      131 132 53 269 311 490 418    620 214   59 244 222  251 253 68 400 150 53 4  277 23 253 32 98  39 418    303 304 444 75 395 196 96  355 178 538 224 188  401       496 497 586 156 512 331  592 20 545 46 20 136  90 116 18 55 338   287 43 7 290   355 335  618 604 25 123 244 408  20 610 17 433 72 452  501 480 151 340 424  597 182 165 197 195 97  98 93 314    401 52 285 495    511 335 284     175 621      170 544      352       295         Δ. Note When E. K. had shewed me this Note I by and by brought forth my book of Enoch his Tables and found the four letters r T b d to be the four first letters of the four principal squares standing about the black Cross and that here they were to be placed otherwise than as I had set them And in the first placing of them together I remember that I had doubt how to joyn them for they were given apart each by themselves Secondly I found out the 4 Characters saving they were inversed somewhat and one of them closed wherof I found none like but very near These Characters were of every square one Thirdly I did take these numbers contained between the lines some more and some fewer to be words to be gathered out of the Table of letters so many words as were distinct companies of numbers it is to wit 41. Hereupon we began to number the squares wherein the letters stood in Enochs Tables as I had them but we could not exactly finde the words but somewhat near Hereupon being tired and desirous to know the sense of that Cypher we left off till after supper and then we assayed again but we could not bolt it out though we knew very near what was to be done by the instruction of a spiritual Voice now and then helping us toward the practise At length E. K. was willed to go down into his Chamber and I did remain still at our Dineing Table till his return which was within an hour or somewhat more And at his return this he brought in writing My applying of Numbers for more easie reckoning   r  Δ. r z I l a f a y t l p a t a o a d v p t d n I m 24 a r d z a I d p a l a m a a b c o o r o m e b b 48 c o o n s a r e y a v b t o g c o n x m a l g m 72 t o I t t z o p a c o c n h o d d I a l c a o o 96 s I g a s o m r b z n b p a t a x I o v s p s n 120 f m o n d a t d I a r I s a a I x a a r v r o I 144 o r o I b a h a o z p I m p h a r s l g a I o l 168 t n a b r v I x g a s d m a m g l o I n l I r x 192 o I I I t T p a l o a I o l a a d n g a t a p a 216 a b a m o o o a c v c a p a l c o I d x p a c n 240 n a o c o t T n p r n t n d a z n z I v a a s a 264 o c a n m a g o t r r I I I d p o n s d a s p I 288 s h I a l r a p m z o x x r I n h t a r n d I 〈◊〉  b o a z a r o p h a r a d o n p a t d a n o a a 336 v n n a x o p s o n d n o l o a g e o o b a v a 360 a I g r u n o o m a g g o p a m n o v g m d n m 384 o r p m n I n g b e a l a p l s t e d e c a o p 408 r s o n I z I r l e m v s c m I o o n a m l o x 432 I z I n r c z I a m h l v a v s g d l v r I a p 456 m o r d I a l h c t g a o I p t e a a p d o c e 480 o c a n c h I a s o m t x s v a c N r z I r z a 504 a r b I Z m I I l p I z s I o d a o I n r z f m 528 o p a n a l a m s m a p d a l t t d n a d I r e 552 d o l o p I n I a n b a d I x o m o n s I o s p 576 r x p a o c S I z I x p o