friend now adayes I will go and tell the knave that he provide for himself For it will be marvellous hard weather You were best to do so least you blow your Nails E. E. He speaketh to one within the house Il. ..... Thus you see me Masters how I am troubled with my servants How now what aileth thee E. K. There cometh a woman round about his house and she seemeth to passe by him She is in English Attire Il. ..... I will know what aileth her to cry What aileth thee Woman One of my Children is dead Il. ..... Alas poor Childe How can Children resist cold she might have kept it warmer Cold pierceth where shot cannot enter Δ. This woman is not of our Company I trust None of our Children shall perish in this cold Il. ..... Ha A your Children you keep them warm It will do them no hurt Those that are warned 〈◊〉 danger to come For many things are prevented by the quality of wisdom Δ. I trust we shall safe arrive at the place appointed in Cracow or elsewhere Δ. But as concerning Vincent Seve brother in Law to the Lord Albert Laskie I pray you to shew us the truth of his state E. K. I see him walking in a street and a thick man with him And Gerlish seemeth to comeafter him The thick man his beard is somewhat like my Lord his beard he cometh after Vincent Vincent hath a black satten Dubblet on cut with crosse cuts He hath a ruffe about his neck along one edged with black or blue Δ. I beseech you I. L. to shew us what Town that is Il. ..... Speaking to him that sheweth it for I shew it not Δ. O God Il. ..... I remember not the name of any such Town Quem Deus non amat non novit E. K. Now the Town appeareth again the Sea runneth by it There is an old rotten Church standing at the Town end The Town seemeth to be 60. or 80. miles off E. K. It seemeth to be Embden in my judgement E. K. But Vincent and Gerlish seem not to be in one Town or street Δ. I beseech you to say unto us whether A. L. be furnished with money at Grave John his hand so as may serve our turn or no. Il. ..... If I have not told you already I will You grudge at me E. K. He speaketh to E. K. Il. ..... Judge my words with reason and thou shalt finde them true Touch them with understanding and thou shalt finde them profound My words are true Because I am sent by Truth Neither are we to speak gravely when we take upon us the persons of Buyers and Sellers Whosoever doth the will of his Master truely in this World shall be laughed to scorn But whoso speaketh worldly and sendeth out shadows is accounted a pillar of the Earth Happy are those which are not foolish neither in works say There is no God Such request such answer Such earthly minde such heavenly motions Yet Heaven speaketh truth and the Earth lyeth This is not my office which I have taken in hand yet because I have dealt with you as a worldling I was the fitrest to answer your worldly expectation Δ. As you have dealt with us not according to your office but according to our worldly expectation So now do we desire to understand somewhat according to our higher and heavenly expectation of our doing the determined will of the Highest E. K. He is gone and all the Stone as red as blood Δ. E K. Now he is come again and standeth in the fire Il. ..... Thus saith the Lord I have taught you how to live I have set you Statutes and have wished you my Peace Follow me and I will be your God For unto them that are wise shall there be more wisdom given But unto them that are become foolish my wisdom is a ... These five years to come are the Deliverance ... Yea sorrow shall bring forth her Children My Honour shall be defaced and my holy Places pluckt No man hath ever seen such a world For Now shall they say unto the Mountains Come and cover us and unto the Waters Swallow us up for we know there is no God neither is there any care of Mankind I will plague the people and their blood shall become Rivers Fathers shall eat their own Children And the Earth shall be barren The Beasts of the field shall perish And the Waters shall be poisoned The Air shall infect her Creatures And in the Deep shall be roaring Great Babylon shall be built And the son of wickednesse shall sit in Judgement But I will reserve two Kingdoms untouched And I will root out their wickednesse Yea thus saith the Lord 〈◊〉 the North shall come a Whirlwind And the Hills shall open their mouths And there shall a Dragon flie out such as never was But I will be glorified by you and by those that are not yet dead And you shall have power such as I will be glorified by Keep therefore the Statutes which I taught you Forget not my words For unto those that look back there is great wo. Happy are they that continue to the end Amen E. K. Now he is gone Δ. ..... E. K. Now he is come again Il. ..... Thus saith Jehova I am the beginning and the end The root and life of all Righteousnesse I say By my self I am with you And will blesse you in Righteousnesse Cease therefore to move me for I am Almighty And inquire not of me what I have determined For Time groweth and I am a Just God Therefore Cease Cease I say I in my self say Cease Call not upon my name in defiled places Least the wicked ones hear what I determin I will visit you at your journyes end I will testifie my promise to you Be in haste therefore And flie from sin And flie the society of such as are accursed For I am jealous over my people Yea I will not suffer them to drink or taste of their vessels Be you unto me a people that I may behold my people And I will be unto you both A God for ever E. K. IL. saith Amen and falleth all in pieces as small as ashes E. K. Now all is Clear and the Curtain is come again Δ. Deo Omnipotenti sit omnis Honor laus gloria in secula seculorum Amen Friday 1 Novemb. 1588. Mane At Breame Δ. Albeit we were willed O Lord to Cease yet understanding the same warning to have been meant for Enquiring of thy Mysteries and secret Determinations wherein we intend now not to deal but in matters before and last moved and wherein we were not fully satisfied that now we may more expressely be certified and that is of three things First for Vincent Seve Secondly for Edmond Hilton gone with the Ship toward Dansk And Thirdly as concerning help for money for the Lord Alb. Laskie And herein we crave either the ministery
say somewhat to the same purpose not of that Author or his book which he judgeth any thing but of the ground upon which he builded which we shall find to be the same upon which others also that deny Spirits have gone upon But we will go Methodically to work and take every thing in order as we have proposed in the objections First We said The world was full of Imposture It is granted of Impostors and Impostures But what then shall the conclusion be That 〈◊〉 there is no truth in the world or at least not to be attained unto by mortal man Truly many books of old have been written to that effect Sextus 〈◊〉 is yet extant a very learned book it cannot be denied and of excellent use for the understanding of ancient Authors Phylosophers especially I could name some Christians also by profession men of great learning that have gone very far that way But this will not be granted by some I am sure that are or have been thought great oppugners of the common opinion about Witches and Spirits some Physicians I mean and Naturalists by their profession But may not we argue as plausibly against that which they professe as they have done or can do against Spirits and Apparitions We would be loath to make so long a digression we have had occasion elsewhere to say somewhat to this purpose and they that will be so curious may see what hath been written by Cornel. Agrippa who is very large upon this subject about it not to name any others It is not yet a full twelve-moneth that a friend of mine a Gentleman of quality brought his Lady to London some 60 miles and upwards from his ordinary dwelling to have the advice of Physicians about his wife a very Virtuous and Religious Lady troubled with a weak stomack and ill digestion which caused 〈◊〉 symptoms I think he had the advice of no lesse then a dozen first and last I am sure he named unto me five or six of the chiefest in Credit and practice that the Town affordeth Not one of them did agree in their opinions either concerning the Cause or the means to be used for a Cure So that the Gentleman went away more unsatisfied then he came What he did I knovv not I knovv vvhat some men vvould have inferred upon this Yet I for my part for the benefit that I have received by it and the effects that I have seen of it both upon my self and others in my life-time upon several occasions where learned Artists not Empiricks have been employed though all the world should be of another opinion I think my self bound to honour as the profession so all Learned Ingenious Professors of it and I make no question but the worst of Agrippa's objections by any man of competent judgment and experience may easily be answered I say therefore that as in other things of the world so in matters of Spirits and Apparitions though lyable to much error and imposture yet it doth not follow but there may be reality of truth and certainty discernable unto them that will take the pains to search things unto the bottom where truth commonly is to be found and are naturally endowed with competent judgments to discern between specious arguments and solidity of truth But this proveth nothing No but the removing of this common objection may dispose the Reader I hope to consider of what we have to say with lesse prejudice And that shall be our next task what we have to say for Spirits c. before we come to particular Objections Wherein neverthelesse I will be no longcr then I must at this time because I shall have a more proper place in two several Tractates the one whereof hath been a long time in loose notes and papers not yet digested to wit my Second Part of Enthusiasme the other in my head yet wholly but in better readinesse to be brought to light because of later conception to wit A Discourse of Credulity and Incredulity in things Natural Civil and Divine or Theological We shall meet there with many cases not so necessary here to be spoken of which will help very much to clear this business ¶ But here I say first of all It is a Maxim of Aristotle's the great Oracle of Nature which many have taken notice of and applyed to their several purposes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That which is generally believed is most likely to be true Who also in another place of the same book doth approve the saying of Hesiod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now if any opinion whereof question is made can justly pretend to a general assent and consent of all people places ages of the world I think nay I know and it will be proved that this of Witches Spirits and Apparitions may I do not know scarce any ancient book extant of Philosopher or Historian the Writings of professed Epicureans excepted of Aristotle we shall give an account by and by but doth afford some pregnant relation testimony or passage to the confirmation of this truth I dare say should a man collect the relations and testimonies out of several Authors and books that are come to our knowledge within the compasse of two thousand years of Authors well accounted of generally and vvhose testimonies Historians especially vve receive in other things a man might make a book of the biggest size and form that ordinary books vvhich vve call Folioes are It is true many Authors may vvrite one thing vvhich may prove false as the famous history of the Phenix perchance or some such but upon examination it vvill appear that those many take all from one or tvvo at the most vvho first delivered it They add nothing in confirmation of their ovvn knovvledg or experience But here it is quite othervvise those many Authors that I speak of Historians especially of several ages they tell us different things that hapned in their own times in divers places of the world and of many of them we may say they were such as knew little of former books or stories of other Nations but their own Within these 200 years the world we know by the benefit of Navigation hath been more open and known then before yea a great part of the world discovered that was not known before I have read many books the best I could meet with in several Languages of divers Voyages into all parts of the world I have conversed with many Travellers whom I judged sober and discreet I never read any book of that argument nor yet met with man that I have had the opportunity to confer with but was able of his own knowledg to say somewhat whereby my belief of these things might be confirmed Now for the Epicureans of all Philosophers the most inconsiderable in matters of knowledg as former ages have described them no man need to wonder if they denyed those things which by the solemn engagement of their Sect they were bound and resolved notwithstanding
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
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
were such as her self and she lifted up her head and leaned upon her twice writhen taile and beheld the Sun stedfastly for her envy was toward that City and she said within her self My children are yet young the time grew and they became big and she went unto the Spring and smiled and said with a laughing voice The Earth is fallen into thee thou art choked but hearken unto my voice Thou shalt receive comfort But she would not And she lifted up her voice and roared for she was full of craft and deceit And she said unto the shingles through the which the Spring runs or rather syeth Thou art full of emptinesse and void places Let my children therefore hide themselves within thee for a season and they were contented And she departed willingly and saith within her self Now I know I shall be Lady of the City And after a few years the young Serpents became great so that the one half of their bodies dwelt within the Shingles the rest troubled the passage of the Spring So that the Spring groaned for the injury that was done against her was great A great misery for the Hill is become desolate without the water and the City and the beasts perish for want of drink for the people groan and are ful of sorrow This City and Serpents are 60. now and judgement must be had betwixt the Shingles and the Spring for between lieth the life and death of the City Thus saith the Lord unto thee pointing to E. K. Gird up thy self and fit down Consider both parts and give judgement for thy mouth shall this day be the judgement of the Lord. E. K. Do you mean me Ë. K. As the Lord hath put the Authority of Judgement into my hands so I beseech him to give me wisdom and understanding to judge right And because the judgement hereof is committed to me I suspect some other mystery to lie hidden in this my judgement required But if it shall please God that my friend here Master Dee shall give me his advise I shall think my self well satisfied ....... Consider with your self saith the Lord and give judgement against the Shingles for the fault is plain Consider two points the necessity of the Spring that it must come that wayes and secondly the health of the City E. K. My judgement is that the Shingles and Serpent should be removed away by an Earthquake from the place which they encumber and let that there may be a fit new place and course for that Spring to the relief of that City as before it was ...... Be it so as thou hast said for it is a just judgement Now hearken what the Lord saith The people and City of the Hill is the world which are from time to time by the mercy and spring of Gods wisdom relieved quenched according to the extremity and necessity of their thirsting But the people and City are such as are of the Temple and Church of God which drink of his mercy to their comfort The Camels and other beasts are the people of the Earth which delight in sin and in their own imagination which also are relieved with those that are of the City but the diversities of their bodies doth cause the diversity of the ends of their comfort The Hill wherein the Spring is signifieth his Prophets and such as are drunken in the Lord Thrâ—ugh whom inwardly the mercies and will of God and of the Highest are open from time to time according to the secret will and determination of such as are within the City of his Elect. But the frailties and affections of their flesh and outward man are their fond imaginations and loose Shingles wherein the Serpent the old Devil hath harboured her children the spirits of darknesse and deceit which alwayes resist the Will of God and are put between the mercies of God and his people Moses Daniel Esdras all the rest of the Prophets Christ his twelve Paul the Messenger of God they did all hurt the Congregation of the Faithful in their flesh until they gave sentence against themselves as thou hast done with amendment of life for who is worthy to know the secrets of our God but he that delighteth in righteousnesse is obedient full of faith and the spirit of understanding Be it therefore unto thee as thou hast said Let the Shingles and Serpents be separated that the Fountain may feed as before All the trash that thou hast of the wicked burn it E. K. I do not know they are wicked ...... Their doings with thee are the hindrance of the Will of God and therefore they are wicked ...... Thou hast given judgement against thy self Take heed thou offend not thy own soul. Δ. Send down thy Spirit O Lord and illuminate E. K. his heart with perceiving of his wrong opinion c. E. K. If Moses and Daniel were skilful in the Arts of the Egyptian Magicians and were not thereby hindred for being the servants of God Why may not I deal with these without hindrance to the Will of God ...... Darknesse yeilded unto light the Greater excluded the lesser The more a man knoweth wickednesse the more he shall hate it being called back The more they knew the shadow so much more they delighted in the body For the doings of the Egyptians seem and are not so The doings of the Lord are and continue for as the Painter imitateth the gestures of man in his faculty so doth the Devil the substances and things created and made by God Stand up and look into the whole World into her youth and middle age for they are past Where are the monuments that Satan hath builded E. K. Hath Satan builded any monuments ...... Yes Hath he not builded him a Fort upon the whole Earth Hath he not the victory over the Saints Dwelleth he not in the Temple of the Highest Triumpheth he not in the Cities of the whole World Yes ...... But without comfort are his victories without pleasure his dwelling places For he knoweth his time is at hand He that now giveth freedom shall become bound And unto whom the whole World is as a Garden shall there be no one foot left Therefore are all his pleasures vanity all his Triumphs smoak and his Authority nothing indeed but a meer shadow For that that is not cannot be where it is said of the Lord it shall not be Neither can truth light or wisdom ascend from the Earth but descend from the Heavens Compare the Earth into the which the Devil is thrust as into his dwelling with the Heavens which are provided for the holy Consider the pain of the one and the pleasure of the other The seat of Gods Justice and Fountain of his Mercy The Cave of Darknesse and the Diadem of Light And then cry wo wo wo unto such as erre and whose lives are but shadows For their felicity is such as from whence it came and their reward is all one with the spirit and
men with broad Caps like Egyptians and many Mountains are here on one side Chaldei 5 The first ..... Itergi Here appear Woods Waters and fair Towns but the people are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and have great lumps of flesh under their Throats They are to the South of the last Ciliciens There are 14 Kingdoms of them The second ..... Macedonia The Thâ—rd ..... Garamantica People of a low stature black swarty people naked The first of the sixteenth ..... Here like men of wilde gesture cloathed like Polonians This Countrey is ..... Sauromatica The second ..... AEthiopia E. K. Here are some naked some not naked covered with red Garments The houses seem like Tents made of cloath and leather There are great Rivers The third E. K. Now he sheweth by the North-pole and the great Mountain Fi a cim ..... Here be seven Kingdoms their chief Citie is called Fiacim all that are of that Kings Counsel are Astronomers The Kings name that now governeth is Gapsacar The first Seest thou this Countrey ..... Colchica To E. K. The second ..... Cireniaca ..... E. K. Hard by a great water The third ..... Nasamonia The first ..... Carthago The second ..... Now appear many Crocodiles long necked scaled on the body with long tailes ..... Cox lant A great place appeareth covered about with fire Many great Serpents appear here of 200 foot It appeareth very Eastward No people appear here E. K. There cometh from Heaven like a Mist and covereth a great place about 300 mile long like a Park enclosed with fire It is on a high ground There come four Rivers out of it one East another West another North and another South The pales or enclosure of it seem to be Arches beset most richly with precious stones In the Gate of it stand three men like us one is in a long Gown with many pleats the other like in a Cassek The third in the rough skin of a beast In the name of Jesus Is this the Paradise that Adam was banished out of ..... The very same from hence he was turned out into the earth This is the true Vale of Josaphat Δ. Will you give me leave Say on It should seem this must be on the earth not in the aire ..... It is upon the earth You said that from hence he was turned out into the earth ..... The curse of God in Adam caused the earth whereinto he was cast to be accursed For if Adam had after his fall tarried in Paradise his wickednesse would have altred the innocency of the place Therefore is Paradise distinguished from the earth in respect of her purity because the earth is defiled and corrupted with man The earth is said to be sinfull in respect of the sin of man Δ. Till 45 degrees both Northerly and Southerly all is known in the most part of the world But of any such place there is no knowledge nor likelyhood by any History of these dayes or of old time Nal. ..... Therefore this is cunning and the wisdom of God There dwelleth flesh in it that shall never die which were taken up for a testimony of Truth Δ. Elie and Enoch by the Apocalyps do seem that they should suffer death under Antichrist if we understand right There is Elie Enoch and John They shall seem to be dead by his power but not dead The third Idumea Ninteen The first Parstavia I know it not The second Celtica ..... That we understand commonly now for Gallia It is that which you call Flandria the Low Country The third E. K. Here appear men with tallons like Lions They be very devils There are five Isles of them These be they that can dwell in any part of the Earth and are called Pilosi Nothing differeth them but in that they have bodies Vinsan 20 The first E. K. Under the South Pole Here appear little men with long beards their bodies as childrens bodies Nal. ..... There dwelleth the wonderful Emperour of the World and the wonderful City of the World Here are an hundred and twelve Kingdoms This City is a hundred forty six leagues about Δ. You understand two English miles for a league as in France Nal. ..... I. There dwelleth the true generation of Cham. Tolpam The second Carcedonia The third Italia Δ. Italia and Britania were before applied the third of the 13. and first of the 14. ..... Therefore these two places to be reconciled He pointeth to a great City with a River by it ..... This is that City which shall not have one stone standing in it This City is in Italia Δ. Is it Rome I pray you Nal. ..... It is Rome E. K. Now there is come a white mist in the Stone Cease said a voice A voice ..... Stay for a while E. K. Nal. ..... Read them in my hand as thou seest them Δ. He spake to E. K. 21 The first Britania The second Phenices The third Comaginen 22 The first Apulia The second Marmarica The third Concava Syria 23 The second of the seventh The first Gebal The second Elam vide 〈◊〉 The third Idunia Nal. ..... It is beyond Greenland 24 The first Media The second Arriana The third Chaldaea Δ. I beseech you what differeth this Chaldea from Caldei before Nal. ..... You shall finde the difference of it in practice 25 These people Serici The second Persia. The third Gongatha E. K. Toward the South Pole 26 The first Gorsim Beares and Lions here The second Hispania The third Pamphilia 27 The first Oacidi Gal. ..... There be 9 Kingdoms Fair made people but tawny The second Babylon The third Median E. K. It is much Northward 28 The first Idumian Nal. ..... They are two Isles environed with an arm of the Scythian Sea which goeth in at Maspi The second Felix Arabia The third Metagonitiden It standeth very Southerly 29 The first Assyria The second Africa The third Bactriani 30 The first Afran Here appear people with one eye in their head seeming to be in their breast toward the Equinoctial The second Phrygia The third Creta The fourth Mauritania Δ. I remember of people called Arimaspi Nal. ..... This dayes Lesson is as much worth as all between this and Mauritania Note ..... Here are 15 which were never known in these times ..... The rest are Δ. I hear nothing of P lonia Moschovia Dania Hibernia Islandia and so of many other which I could name what is to be thought of those in respect of the distribution of the whole face of the Farth ..... Polonia and Moschovia are of Saromatia Denmark Ireland Frizeland Iseland are of Britain And so it is of the rest Δ. I beseech you to what part is Atlantas and the annexed places under the King of Spain called the West-Indies Nal. When these 30 appear they can each tell what they own Prepare for to morrows Action Δ Most 〈◊〉 E. K. If you prove your self true you shall win me to God Nal. ..... You may be
to any place to them And that about our own affairs we are contented to use patience for a long time but to await the Lord his coming or message is a time better spent than in any humane affairs c. He very plainly and at large made manifest his conversion to God from the practices with wicked spirits Yea that he was ready to burn whatsoever he had of their trash and experiments That he would write in a book the manifold horrible Doctrine of theirs whereby they would have perswaded him ..... That Jesus was not God ..... That no prayer ought to be made to Jesus ..... That there is no 〈◊〉 ..... That mans 〈◊〉 doth go from one body to another childes quickening or 〈◊〉 ..... That as many men and women as are now have alwayes been That is so many humane bodies and humane souls neither m re nor lesse as are now have alwayes been ..... That the generati n of mankind from Adam and Eve is not an History but a writing which hath an other sense ..... No Holy Ghost they acknowledged ..... They would not suffer him to pray to Jesus Christ but would rebuke him saying that he robbed God of his honour c. And so of very many other most blasphemous Articles and Points of Doctrine whereof more shall be spoken in another place This forbearings of our Instructors presence I did expound or conjecture to be done greatly for the honour of God many wayes if the same were recorded somewhat near to the very manner of the thing as it was for so should appear to the posterity how truely it had been said before that he should be converted to God How truely God did prepare E. K. his soul to be a vessel cleansed and so made apt for his visiting of him in mercy and comfort whereby the life of E. K. now being amended and his dealing with the wicked clean left off should not be a scandal to the will of the Lord and to the greatness of his works as was noted unto us in the last Action Also I said that not onely his Conversion recorded should be a more evident argument of his so oft repeated Election But his patient attending this present day Δ two hours and a half and taking all things in such sort as became an humble and patient servant will be a more sure and evident argument that it was no light pang such as he hath made outward shew diverse times before but a very harty and sincere conversion such as without all doubt will be found very acceptable to the highest Moreover he declared that about nine or ten dayes past he did intend to have gotten away secretly by the help spiritual of those with whom he had so long dealt And therefore that till now he dealt hypocritically But whereas they to fore were ever accustomed to threaten him Beggery a thing which he most hated and feared That now he careth not if he should have want yea he took it neither to be shame or sin to beg and that he now made more account of God his favour and life eternal then he doth of all transitory wealth and riches and to be entangled within the danger of these wicked spirits their snares with all Also he now perceived his great errour wherein he was of late when he would for an assured temporal maintenance have forsaken the dealing with the wicked and so more willingly would have followed these actions without repining Saying now that he is no perfect Christian who for money must be hired to forsake the Devil and his works c. And as for the issue of these actions he would never either doubt or mislike howsoever they fell out assuring himself That God would do all things best and for his honour c. Many other his sayings very glodly I omit thinking these sufficient here Δ. O Almighty eternal and most mercifull God we thank glorifie and praise thee O blessed and most glorious Trinity we will for ever Magnifie thy unspeakable providence favour Election and Conversion unto thee O Blessed Jesu we will for ever extol thy loving kindnesse and long suffering toward us and thy Triumphant proceeding against Satan and his Ministers for thy Elect sake O holy Ghost the directer into all truth and comforter of thy Elect confirm and establish our hearts with thy gracious and continual zeal and love of truth purity of life Charitable humility and constant patience to thy well-pleasing untill the end That after this life through the mercy of the father and Merits of our Lord Jesus Christ and thy charitable embracing of us we may for ever enjoy the heavenly Kingdom among the blessed Angels and all the dignified company of mankind Amen Amen Amen Munday Junii 11. Mane hora 7¼ Cracoviae Δ. After our prayers due and thanks to the Almighty for his great mercies and power shewed in the conversion of E. K. we stayed still attending some shew as we were accustomed to receive and among divers our short discourses of our faith hope patience constancy humility and other our duties requisite in this action and in the service of God E. K. of himself said these sentences worthy to be recorded as the evident token of his sound and faithfull turning and intent to cleave unto the Lord. 1. E. K. I acknowledge my sins have deserved that this seven years I should have no shew or sight of his good Creatures 2. E. K. If I should sit thus for seven years attending the pleasure of God I would be contented 3. E. K. I repent me nothing of that I have done in forsaking those I was wont to have to do withall c. E. K. In the stone nothing appeared all this while of our sitting here Δ. Nihil visible apparuit in Chrystallo sacrato praeter ipsius Chrystalli visibilem formam ut E. K. dixit Δ. Hora 11. we left off so we attended 3. hours and 3. quarters Δ. I will affirm nothing in this case but this my conjecture may be recorded The cause of the non-appearance the last Friday and now this Mounday may be this 1. That as we lost and refused three dayes assigned by our instructours to finish all in So now we shall call and request three dayes and have nothing as these two dayes it hath fall'n out and it is possible one day more we shall have the like non-appearance Or else 2. According to the premisses Onely three dayes before our journey shall be begun we shall have that delivered us which in the three last dayes we should have received c. Or else 3. That great Caveat before noted on Saturday Junii 2. last past may have some forewarning of this our patience to be used after our Conversion unto God The words then recorded are these This Action shall never come to passe untill there be no remembrance of wickednesse or Hell left amongst you And yet after for a time you
his head and into the street he hasted with his brothers Rapier drawn and challenged Alexander to fight But Alexander went from him and said Nolo 〈◊〉 Kelleie Nolo Hereupon E. K. took up a stone and threw after him as after a dog and so came into the house again in a most furious rage for that he might not fight with Alexander The rage and fury was so great in words and gestures as might plainly prove that the wicked enemy sought either E. K. his own destroying of himself or of me or his brother c. This may suffice to notifie the mighty temptation and vehement working of the subtile spiritual enemy Satan wherewith God suffered E. K. to be tempted and almost overcome to my great grief discomfort and most great discredit if it should as the truth was have come to the Emperours understanding except he had known me well c. I was in great doubt how God would take this offence and devised with my self how I might with honesty be aleared from the shame and danger that might arise if these two should fight c. At the least it would crosse all good hope here with the Emperour c. for a time till God redressed it After I had brought E. K. to some quietnesse by yeilding much to his humour c. and saying little not long after came my messager from my wise at Cracovia and Hugh my servant with him to my great comfort through her letters and the full satisfying of me by Hugh my servant his knowledge farther than conveniently could be written About 2 of the clock after Noon came this letter to me of the Emperour his sending for me Nobilis Praeclarissiméque Domine Domine observandissime CAEsar jam jam significavit Domino Legato Hispaniarum Hero meo ut Dominationem vestram ad se evocaret ad horam secundam qua eam audire cuperet Dominatio vestra si ad dictam horam venire poterit accedet statim Dominum Octavium Spinolam qui est Majestati suae Caesareae à Stabulis Cubiculis Is enim eam ad Majestatem suam introducet Quod reliquum est me D. vestrae quam officiosissimè etiam atque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dominationis vestrae 〈◊〉 Arnoldus Vander Boxe Hereupon I went straight up to the Castle and in the Ritter-Stove or Guard-Chamber I stayed a little in the mean space I sent Emericus to see what was of the clock and the Chamberlain Octavius Spinola spied him out of the Emperours Chamber window and called him who came up to me and by that time was the Chamberlain come out to me and by Emericus he understood that I was the man the Emperour waited for He came to me very curteously told me of the Emperours desire to see me and to speak with me So he returned to the Emperour into the privy Chamber and came out again for me and led me by the skirt of the Gown through the Dining-Chamber and the Privy Chamber where the Emperour sat at a Table with a great Chest and Standish of Silver before him my Monas and Letters by him c. I came toward him with due reverence of three cursies who shewed me a gracious and chearful countenance Then I craved pardon at his Majesties hand for my boldnesse to send his Majesty a Letter and the Monas Hieroglyphica dedicated to his father But I did it of sincere and entire good will I bare to his father Maximilian and also unto his Majesty and that the rather because I had good proof of the favour which Almighty God beareth unto his Majesty He then thanked me for his fathers Book and did affirm that he believed me that I was affectionate unto his Highnesse And of my estemation with the learned of the world he had heard by the Spanish Embassadour and also of my zealous mind towards his grace And commended the Book 〈◊〉 but said that it was too hard for his Majesties capcity and added that the Spanish Embassadour told him that I had somewhat to say unto him Quod esset pro sua utilitate I answered So I have and withal looking back whether any man were in the Chamber or no I found that we were alone Hereupon I began to declare that All my life time I had spent in learning but for this sorty years continually in sundry manners and in divers Countries with great pain care and cost I had from degree to degree sought to 〈◊〉 the best knowledge that man might attain unto in the world And I found at lengh that neither any man living nor any Book I could yet meet withal was able to teach me those truths I desired and longed for And therefore I concluded with my self to make intercession and prayer to the giver of wisdom and all good things to send me such wisdom as I might know the natures of his creatures and also enjoy means to use them to his honour and glory And in this purpose made divers assayes and at length it pleased God to send me his 〈◊〉 whereby I am assured of his merciful hearing of my long fervent constant and 〈◊〉 prayer in the cause before specified And that His holy Angels for these two years and a half have used to inform me and have finished such works in my hands to be seen as no mans heart could have wished for so much yea they have brought me a Stone of that value that no earthly Kingdom is of that worthinesse as to be compared to the vertue or dignity thereof c. And that these things be true I protested and took to witnesse the God of Heaven and Earth by whose Commandment I am now before your Majesty said I and have a message from him to say unto you and that is this The Angel of the Lord hath appeared to me and rebuketh you for your 〈◊〉 If you will hear me and believe me you shall Triumph If you will not hear me The Lord the God that made Heaven and Earth under whom you breath and have your spirit putteth his foot against your breast and will throw you headlong down from your seat Moreover the Lord hath made this Covenant with me by oath that he will do and perform If you will forsake your wickednesse and turn unto him your Seat shall be the greatest that ever was and the Devil shall become your prisoner Which Devil I did conjecture to be the Great Turk said I This my Commission is from God I feigne nothing neither am I an Hypocrite an Ambitious man or doting or dreaming in this Cause If I speak otherwise then I have just cause I forsake my salvation said I. The Emperour said he did believe me and said that he thought I loved him unfaignedly and said that I should not need so earnest protestations and would not willingly have had me to kneel so often as I did Farther I said His Majesty was to see and understand nakedly
satisfie my desire which was to understand the natures of all his creatures and the best manner how to use them to his divine honor and glory and the comfort of the elect and also to the reproof and confusion of the adversaries of his name and honour And herein I had dealed sundry wayes And at length had found the mercies of God such as to send me the instruction of Michael Gabriel Raphael and Vriel and divers other his good and faithful Messagers such as I had here now brought books about 18 to shew him the manner of their proceeding And that I thought it good to begin at the last book which also concerned most this present Emperour Rodolph And so I did and so by degrees from book to book lightly I gave him a taste or sight of the most part and also let him see the Stone brought me by Angelical ministery c. All things being seen and heard that in six hours I could shew him at length he required of me what conclusion or summary report he should make to the Emperour I answered as he had occasion of the things seen and heard but if he would follow my counsel somewhat expert in these Divine and Angelical doings That his Majesty was to thank God for his great mercies and graces offered and that by me one who most sincerely and faithfully gave his Majesty to understand the will of God herein and that his Majesty was to do as Mary the blessed Virgin did to lay up all these my informations in his heart and to say Ecce servus Domini fiat voluntas tua and so to attend the manner of the Lord his proceeding while he framed his life as it became every Christian to do He said that he would write for his own memories help some short note of his observations of my speeches and things seen and marked and that he would to morrow being Sonday or on Monday if he conveniently could make a report to the Emperour and so with all speed give me to understand further of the Emperour his Majesties will and pleasure Hereupon courteously he brought me down to the street door of his house and I came home after seven of the Clock and an half in the evening The mercies of God be on me and his name be magnified and extolled in this world and for ever Amen Note In the mean space while I was thus occupied with the foresaid Mr. Curtz E. K. was visited at our Lodging with a wicked Tempter who denied any Christ to be and that as the heart received comfort of all the Members of the body So that he who is God of all things received comfort by Angels and other the Members of the world and that I was now with one who would use me like a Serpent with head and tayl compassing my confusion c. he earnestly reviled E. K. in divers manners he said that E. K. should be damned and said moreover that of our practises should never come any fruitfull end c. Δ. The eternal and Almighty God confound the Adversaries of his truth and glory and of his Son Jesus Christ our Redeemer and the Triumphant Conquerour against Hell fin and the Devil Amen PRAGAE On Monday and Tuesday the 17 th and 18 th of September I sent Emericus up to the Castle to listen after answer of that Doctor Curtz his report to the Emperour of that he had perceived by me But on Monday Octavius Spinola had sent into the Town for Emericus and told him that the Emperour had care and desire to understand my doing with the Doctor And therefore asked Emericus if I had been with the Doctor and he affirmed that I had Hereof said he the Emperour will be glad And yet as I began to note Emericus coming on Tuesday in the face of the Doctor in the Ritters stove had not one word spoken to him that either he had spoken to the Emperour or he had not And therefore I suspect that the Doctor dealeth not honestly faithfully or wisely in this so weighty a case And forasmuch as he told me that the Emperour his Majesty was perswaded that he was pious c. perhaps he would be loath now to prefer me to the speech of the Emperour seeing both he himself and the rest of his counsel stood perswaded to the contrary of this King Hereupon this great delay upon sinister report made to the Emperour might follow c. Note Fryday Septemb. 21. Circa horam 10. Ferè Mane †Pragae Δ. As I and E. K. were together in my Study earnestly discoursing of Auricular confession publick confession and confessing to God alone and of the Authority of the Church and the manner of the same Authority using to release or retain fins E. K. saw one walk on the Table between him and me Thereupon I framed me to write and note what should be shewed or said E. K. willed me to set down the shew-stone So I did and he looked E. K. I see him here with the Scarf over his head and face untill his waste but I see his hair yellow behinde on his head c. Mitte lucem tuam O Deus varitatem tuam ut ipsae nos ducant ex hac valle miseriae ad montem Sanctum Sion ad coelestia tua Tabernacula Amen Uriel ..... I am Uriel the servant of the most wise mighty and everlasting God which visit you for two causes The first that I may open unto you true and perfect light such as darknesse comprehendeth not infallible and true meat the power and spirit of the everlasting God The second that I may counsel you against the world and teach you to triumph against her frowardnesse For who hath trusted in the Lord and hath been cast down or what is he that hath cried aloud and is not heard Therefore I say unto you Hear my voyce For I am of truth and put against darknesse and in me are published the light and mysteries of the Trinity from time to time and in all ages unto those that fear and obey God Two things there are which are the seals and marks of Satan which bring eternal death and damnation to all such as are noted or burned with them that is to say lying and froward silence Behold the words of Christ unto the subtile your father is a lyar from the beginning and the Devil Hearken unto my voyce He that 1 teacheth false Doctrine openeth 2 his mouth against truth or defiraudeth 3 his brother is a lyar and shall not be forgiven 1. For first he sinneth against his Creator which created all things in truth 2. Secondly he offendeth against the truth and his Redeemer which is the son of God very Christ. 3. Thirdly he offendeth against the spirit of God of the Father and the Son the holy Ghost which shall not be forgiven And therefore doth he incurre the rigour of Gods justice his eternall damnation
mundi creatione Creaturarumque naturis vero usu quam in mundi praesentis moxque 〈◊〉 statu Et preterea de unius Catholicae Ecclesiae charissimae Jesu Christi 〈◊〉 nostraeque piae matris sanctitate dignitate Authoritate veluti in qua etiam est Sanctorum Communio Peccatorum remissio de multis nondum per nos revelandis Dei Arcanis Magnalibus Determinationibus Quòd tantum abest ut aliquis sanae mentis Christianus Actiones Nostras Mysticas Diabolicas esse fraudes contendere immo ne suspicari quidem conetur aut possit ut potius tale Arcanum Dei propositum incredibiliter admirari rationem humanam in eisdem examinandis subjugare Dei erga Electos suos admirandam misericordiam in istis esse manifestam humillimè cum summo tremore fateri velit Ego quidem hactenus in istis aliud ferè nihil me esse invenio nisi Calamum scribae velociter per me scribentis Nam visa auditaque in mea praesentia fidelissimè de litera interdum ad literam interdum verbatim interdum pluribus simul receptis verbis ipso eodem temporis momento quo traduntur annotare sum solitus Ast jam in quam multa excrevit Noster talis labor volumina Ex quibus omnibns illum fructum successumque expectamus qualem praefixit ille cujus nutui cuncta obediunt Istas autem ad suam sacrem Caesaream Majestatem literas meas Cum vestra magnificentia opportunitatem inveniet primam si meo nomine humillimè eidem exhibere dignabitur Tum magno mihi Divinitus injuncto levatus ero onere Tum magno à vestra magnificentia affectus beneficio Interim verò Dum suae sacrae Majestatis Caesareae ad istas responsum dabitur nimirum si ad 14. vel 16. dies prius expectandum esset vel statim post acceptum responsum si tam expeditè illud recipere possum quà m quod recepi ultimo ad iter me accingere debeo propter familiam libros aliquam meam suppellectilem huc ante hyemis asperitatem transferendam Ubi cum Caesareae Majestatis gratioso favore sub ipsius Protectione Imperatoria voluntatem Omnipotentis Dei implere pro viribus suae sacrae Caesareae Majestati inservire tanquam ejusdem Philosophus Mathematicus fidelissime de tempore in tempus paratus esse potero Illustri vestrae Magnificentiae Addictissimus Joannes Dee I annexed hereunto a Post-script which followeth Post-scriptum MEarum esse partium consultum esse duxi vestrae Magnificentiae paucissimis verbis significare quod heri manè hora nona vir egregius suae Majestis Caesareae fidus Confiliarius D. Doctor Curtzius me humanissimè invisebat in meo ergastulo hypocaustato juxta Bethlehem ubi videre poterat Bibliothecam presentem meam nullam ferè aliam esse praeter Sancta Dei Evangelia Biblia sacra ipsosque nostrorum mysteriorum libros Ego autem quodam humili modo inter caeteras querelas meas de tam longa interposita mora conquerebar inter ejusdem de meis rebus factam relationem Caesareum de eisdem recipiendum responsum Ille verò se simplicissimè Caesareae Majesti visa auditaque penes me retulisse asseruit nullo suo de eisdem adhibito judicio Verum Caesari dixit quasi impossibilia vel incredibilia fuisse visa Et de responso mihi in hac parte dando secum adhuc suam deliberare velle Majestatem Caesaream Unde ego de literis meis istis suae Majesti mittendis mentionem feci summatim earundem tenorem eidem enarravi Ille easdem statim habere voluit ipsi Caesareae Majestati à Meridie mittendas Ego quidem Caesaris me velle ad pauculos dies expectare ad ventum dixi Deinde de rebus Mathematicis brevissime inter nos habito sermone illique ad pervidendum dato libello quodam Geometrico per me Federicum Commandinum Vrbinatem in lucem olim dato mutuis post utrinque promissis officiis humanitatis benevolentiae abiit 1584. Sept. 28. Saturday Septemb. 29. Die Sancti Michaelis The foresaid Letter to the Emperours Majesty with this Letter to the Ambassadour and this Post-script And moreover according to the Ambassadour his request the Copy of the Emperours Letter all in one uttermore paper closed Letter like sealed and with superscription to the foresaid Ambassadour I sent to his honour on Michaelmas day at dinner time by Emericus Sontag Who delivered the same to the Secretary of the Ambassadour and he to the Lord Ambassadour as he sat at dinner Deus bene vertat ad laudem nominis sui Amen September 29. Remember that this day after-noon I sent Hugh on foot with my Letters to Cracovia to Edmond that my folk should not be out of quiet or afeard to see Mistresse Kelly sent for and no Letters to come from me c. I writ to the Lord 〈◊〉 of our want of money c. Monday Octobris 1. à Meridie circa 3. horam Pragae Oratione dominica finita c. Valde cito est facta apparitio E. K. Here be two one his face is covered and the other is not And he whose face is uncovered seemeth to be Gabriel Δ. Sit benedictus Deus Pater Deus filius Deus Spiritus Sanctus nunc Semper Amen Δ. Our chief cause at this instant why we resort to this shew-stone is for to understand according to the grounds of God his promise the state of my wife her grievous disease and means to cure her wherein if it please the Lord to be mercifull unto her and me it shall be the occasion whereby she will all her life time praise the name of God for his mercies and be of a quietter minde and not so testy and fretting as she is ..... Who are you or from whence come you that you'require science which seek to be more wise and expert then such as are the Children and Doctors of this World whose judgements are rash and understanding naked and in whose lips dwelleth no truth Who I say are you that you should deserve the majestral benefit of so great and sanctified grace as to understand the determination of God the power of his Angels or the brightnesse or obscurity of mans Soul and understanding You desperate sinners and partakers with the wicked how can you seek bread at your fathers hands when you seek to steal into his barnes Yea into his house and dining Tables and more then that yea even into his privy Chambers not to spoyl him of his houshold stuffe of his Gold or precious stones but of the diademe and Crown of his everlasting Majesty and honour you are thieves and robbers and through the Dignity of your spirit you shall think to exalt your selves and to live in Majesty with the world True it is you may live so But you live with an Harlot and
is thy mercies and far art thou above the sinnes of man O thou not only shuttest up the eyes of the wicked that they cannot see truth before their face but the profound the malice and sight of Satan that where he should most enter he misseth that place and when time serveth him that he letteth it passe But so so God thou givest to whom and where thou wilt and even as thou art terrible in Justice so likewise art thou wonderful in mercy Therefore of thee is no end neither can be added any end This thy great mercy is the cause that this blasphemous Rebellion is yet unpunished This is the cause that Satan misseth his mark and is become weak If any man make a 〈◊〉 an earthen vessel worketh he not tempereth he not to the end to make a pot But lo when he hath made it and applieth it to his intent if even he againe destroy it is he not vain Do not those that stand by him wonder at him More mervail is it that when Satan shouteth and hitteth the mark that he should be blind yea so blind that he knoweth not where to gather up his arrow But lo the Temple was built and the City stood although the work was left off for a while and he that 〈◊〉 truth went with glad tidings neither desiring rich apparel neither to sit next the King but that the City of the Lord might be built and that the Name of God might be magnified so shall it be of this City which the Lord hath sent down with his finger his unsearchable and wonderful truth the Revelation and Law of 〈◊〉 to come it shall be built it shall flourish it shall stand it shall endure it shall be magnified it shall be spoken of through all the World and it shall not cease Behold the King of Kings hath allowed it and the love of truth is great with him what hath he to do with Kings or wherein needeth he the beauty of the Earth Dominiest terra plenitudo ejus Whosoever therefore sticketh unto truth shall be exalted with God which is the King of Kings shall be magnified before his Counsellors not Counsellors fore-warning but Counsellors pertaking of holy Will not called Counsellors in respect of counselling him but in that they are made privie of the Counsel of God Before these also shall he be magnified E. K. For what end saith he all this O ye Infidels and of little faith which tast of the meat that was hidden from the Prophets which are over-shadowed with the light of heaven which have alwayes associated with the holy Ministers of God wherefore are you so stiff-necked pleasant is the yoke wherein you are linked and honourable is the earth that you draw the plow upon for the Lord followeth and his Angels drive and the seed that is sown shall be the beginning of glory O yee stiff-necked people why for sake you your visitation or runne astray from your faith that you are driven in do you make much of the Lords of the earth Do you delight in her drosse that harlot money Do you give reverence to the King and stand you in fear to break his Lawes have you a greater Lord then the Lord of Heaven and Earth have you any money or jewels to be compared to his Grace have you any honour on Earth that can stand up against the Crown of Heaven where 〈◊〉 God crowneth those that are Victors Have you any Law sweeter then the 〈◊〉 illuminations and sweet dew like comforts the voices and presence of the holy angels Be mindful be mindful and lift up your selves and be not blind but consider the time of your visitation and that which you do is the work of a King a King which is able in power strength and majestie to exalt you to strengthen you and to make you honourable but in the end of the Visitation and in the reward of your faithfulnesse work not to day and be sorry to morrow But lay sorrow a fide and continue your labour least peradventure God unhood-wink and make open the sight of Satan and so deliver you Wo wo be unto them that are delivered for beleeve me their tribulation is great There is horrour and gnashing of teeth there is misery and vengeance for ever there is horrour and the worm of conscience But two things are to be considered here whether the temptation be greater then the resistance or the resistance more dignified then the rigor of temptation Behold the work is great the labour is also equal unto it And to fight against the Princes of darknesse in a set battail requireth great force The temptations therefore that follow you must needs be great I see therefore the temptations surmounteth your strength and your dignity is not such as 〈◊〉 resist against it For why Satan striveth not with you simply for the sinne of Adultery for the dregs of Fornication for the covetous desire of money for the want of charity or because you are proud But he striveth riseth up against you and tempteth you against the Lord and against the strength of his truth whereunto you are elected Therefore I give sentence Lo because that temptations hath entred into you above your power and not so much for the subverting as of the work of the Lord intended and of necessity to be done Therefore I proceed not against you but against Satan and God shall deliver you from your temptations And this shall be a sign and token that I will hamper and bridle the jawes of theenemy that is to say so long as thou Kelly art in this flesh never shall there appear or visibly shew himself unto thee any wicked or evil spirit neither shalt thou be haled in peeces as thou hast been whosoever therefore appeareth hereafter is of God For thy eyes shall be shut up from the wicked object Et intellectu tuo Non introibit umbra mortis But now take heed thou either perverse or froward stiff-necked or disobedient The sinne is of thy self and shall fall upon thee and thou shalt not be spared as thou hast been Now watch and gird up your selves and do the will of the Highest preferre and worship truth that you may be also worshipped Lift up your selves as the servants of God and help to bring stones unto the building of this great City that you may be openers of the Gates and that the white horse may enter and that he that entreth may reward you with honour Greater then you are in the dignity of truth are not amongst mortal men neither shall there be any amongst mortal men that shall more despise the World then you therefore hath God framed one of you as a stiffe made asse to bind up the countenance of his work and to be free from yielding unto Satan which well understandeth that Satan endevoureth and that his Ministers cry out against this glorious habitation which being built the
rest care not Δ Thy mercies be sealed upon us for ever and ever ô Lord of Hosts E. K. Now is a red thing like a Cloud come all over the stone Ignem tui amoris praepotentis fidei in cordibus nostris accende ô Deus Omnipotens nunc semper Amen Anno 1585. Augusti 6. Unica Actio quae Pucciana vocetur Que durabat ab hora 5. manè ad horam 11. PRAGAE Actio Pucciana ✚ Pragae Actionis Puccianae prior pars Augusti 6. Tuesday Manè circa ortum Solis nobis heri injungebatur Fusis de moere praecibus c. praesentibus nobis Δ E. K. Fr. Pucci ut praescriptum erat Disposita erat Mensa foederis Candelaque cerea accensa E. K. Here is one covered in white to the brest all white apparalled he hath a long glasse in his left hand full of filthy loathsome stuffe like matter or like bloud and milk or curds mingled together and a staffe about an ell long in his right hand he setteth the end on the ground he pointeth with his staffe toward the Table of Covenant Accede Dominum Δ He E. K. came to the Table of Covenant and looked into the Holy-stone and saw the same vision but his face is here bare and he seemeth to be Vriel Δ Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini ô beata Dei Lux URIEL ..... Gloriatibi Domine Rex coeli terrae quies venturus es E. K. Now I see the foundation of an old thing as though it were of a Church A voice ..... Measure Measure from the East to the North and from the North to the West part for behold the rest is judged already URIEL ..... I have measured Lord 25 and the half of twenty five 37½ The voice ..... Divide into three parts Δ The third part of 37½ is 12½ URIEL ..... It is done The voice ..... Vnto the Kings of the East give the first Unto the Kings of West give the second The remnant measure unto the dayes of the North that the fire of my indignation may be a bridle amongst them and that the whole World except the excepte may drink of the sorrow of the Prophetia seventh part of the half time yet to come URIEL ..... Thy mouth O Lor is a two-edged sword thy judgments are perpetual and everlasting thy words are the spirit of truth and understanding thy Garments most pure and smelling incense Thy Seat without end and triumphing who is like unto thee amongst the Heavens or who hath known thy beauty Great art thou in thy holy ones and mighty in thy word amongst the Sonnes of men Thy Testament is holy and undefiled The glory of thy Seat and the health of thy Sonnes Thy anointed is sacrificed and hath brought health unto the faithful and unto the Sonnes of Abraham Thy spirit is everlasting and the oil of comfort The Heavens therefor gather themselves together with Hallelujah to bear witnesse of thy great indignation and fury prepared for the Earth which hath risen up with the Kings of the Earth and hath put on the Wedding Garments saying with her self I am a Queen I am the daughter of felicity Remember all ye that are drunken with my pleasure the Character I have given you and prepare your selves to contend with the Highest set your selves against him as against the anointed for you are become the Children of a strong Champion whose Sonne shall garnish you with the Name of a Kingdome and shall poure wonders amongst you from the starres which shall put the Sunne the steward of his Waggon and the Moon the handmaid of his servants But O God she is a Lyar and the fire brandof destruction For behold thou art mighty and shalt triumph and shalt be a Conquerer for ever E. K. Now the Stone is full of white smoak Δ A Pause E. K. The smoak is gone and here standeth one over him in the aire with a Book whose nether parts are in a cloud of fire with his hair sparsed his arms naked the Book is in his right hand a four square Book with a red fiery cover and the leaves be white on the edge it hath 7 seales upon it as if the claspes were sealed with 7 golden Seales And there are letters upon the Seales the first E. M. E. T. T. A. V. ..... Take this Book ut veritas Luce magis clarescat Et Lux veritate fiat valida Data est enim tibi potestas dandi aperiendi hunc librum mundo mundis URIEL .... Gloria tibi Rex coeli terrae qui fuisti es venturus es hinc enim judiciū meretricis E. K. Now Vriel taketh the Book kneeling upon both his knees URIEL ..... Rejoyce O you sonnes of men lift up your hearts unto heaven for the secrets of God are opened and his word let out of Prison Rejoyce O you sonnes of God for the spirit of truth and understanding is amongst you Rejoyce O you that are of the Sanctuary for you shall be full of wisdom and understanding Rejoyce O thou the House of Jacob for thy visitation is at an end and thy visitation is beginning The four winds shall gather thee together and thou shalt build up the trodden wall The bridegroom shall dwell with thee And lo behold the Lord hath sworn and wickednesse shall not enter into thee neither shall the Spirit of the Highest go from thee but thy fathers bones shall have rest And thou shalt live eternally The bloud of the Innocents shall be washed away from thee and thou shalt do penance for many dayes Then shall the Lamb stand in the middest of thy streets O Hierusalem and shall give Statutes unto thy people and inhabitants All Nations shall come unto the House of David The Mothers shall teach their infants saying Truth hath prevailed and the Name of the Lord shall be the Watch-man of thee O City E. K. Now all is full of a white clond URIEL ..... Silence unto me and rest unto you for a season E. K. All is disappeared and the stone seemeth cleer Actionis Puccianae posterior pars Δ Legi praemissa Latine ipsi Fr. Pucci pauca locutus sum de regibus aliis qui haec putant esse nostras imposturas à nobis aec mala ratione tractari c. E. K. He is here again E. K. He sitteth in a chair of Christal with his Book in his lap and the measuring rod in his right hand and the glasse vial in his left hand URIEL ..... Seeing that power is given unto me and that truth is added unto my Ministery and I am become full of light and truth I will open your eyes and I will speak unto you the truth that you may shake off the lumpishnesse of your darknesse and profound ignorance and walk in truth with your fathers Give ear therefor diligently unto my voice and imbibe my sayings within the liquor 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