Liber Resurrectionis (Prague and Trebona), part 6 of 9

Trebonae.

Actionis Tertiae altera pars.

Preces ad Deum Omnipotentem, pro sua veritate nobis impartienda, ad nominis suo laudem, honorem & gloriam.

Δ. Note Arthur was set to the stone, but nothing appeared; E. K. had brought the powder with him as he was bidden to do. Then I desired him to apply himself to see as he was wont. And so he did.

E. K. Here appear all in the stone that appeared yesterday unto me in the air in that most disorderly and filthy manner. They are in the like apparel as yesterday.

Δ. O God confirm us in thy truth sor thine own honour and glory, and suffer us not to be overcome with any temptation, but deliver us from all evil now and ever.

E. K. There appeared Madimi, Il. and the rest: And so they are here; but now all the rest are gone, and onely Madimi remaineth.

Madimi openeth all her apparel, and her self all naked; and sheweth her shame also.

E. K. Fie on thee, Devil avoid hence with this filthiness, &c.

Mad. In the Name of God, why finde you fault with mee?

Δ. Because your yesterdayes doings, and words are provocations to fin, and unmeet for any godly creature to use.

Mad. What is sin?

Δ. To break the Commandement of God.

Mad. Set that down, so.

Mad. If the self-same God give you a new Commandement taking away the former form of sin which he limited by the Law; What remaineth then?

Δ. If by the self-same God that gave the Law to Moses, and gave his New Covenant by Christ, who sealed it by his blood; and had his witnesses very many, and his Apostles instructed by his holy Spirit, who admonished us of all cleanness in words and works, yea and in thoughts, if by the same God, hose former Laws and Doctrines be abrogated, and that sufficient proof and testimony may be had that it is the same God: Then must the same God be obeyed: For only God is the Lord of Lords, King of Kings, and Governour of all things.

E K She kneeleth, and holdeth up her hands.

Mad. The Laws of God, and of his Son Christ, stablished by the testimony of his Disciples and Congregation, and by the force and power of his holy Spirit, are not in any particular vocation abrogated, but rather confirmed.

For […] it falleth out, that God being offended at the wickedness of any man, or of some man private, sendeth down his Spirit of Death, infecting and tempting another mans minde; so that he […] void of Reason, and riseth up against him, whom God is offended with, and striketh him, so that he dyeth. This, before man, is accounted sin before God it shall be imputed unto him for righteousness. Even so whatsoever the Spirit of God teacheth us from him, though it appear sin before man, is righteousness before him.

Therefore assure your selves, that whatsoever is seen and heard amongst you, is from above, and is a sign and […] even this day before you; for I that touched thy Son, might also have taken away his breath.

But O, you are of little understanding: But behold I teach you.

That unto those that are accounted righteous (through the good will of God) sin is justly punished, but not as unto the wicked. For whatsoever you have done unto other men, even the self-same shall light upon you, but happy is he that receiveth not justice through the […] of […], but through the grace and mercy of God.

The Apostle Paul abounded in carnal lust: he was also offensive unto his brethren so that he despaired, and was ready to have left his vocation, untill the Lord did say unto him, My mercy and grace […] thee.

Beleeve me, that we are from above.

Which considered: Consider also, That as you cannot comprehend the heavens, so likewise can you not comprehend the wisdome of God, which saith, I will be merciful unto whom I list; and unto whom I will not, I have none in store: Foolish is he that asketh why?

And […] I say unto you, Stumble not against God. Who he is that made you? Who is he that hath given you power to look up towards heaven? You are fools, and of little understanding: This day saith G d unt you,

B hold you are become free: Do that which most pleaseth you: For behold, your own reason riseth up against my wisdome.

Not content you are to be heires, but you would be Lords, yea Gods, yea the Judgers of the heavens: Wherefore do even as y u list, but if you forake the way taught you from ab ve, behold evil shall enter into your senses, and abomination shal dwel before your eyes, as a recompence, unto such as you have done wrong unto: And your wives and children, shall be carried away before your face.

Δ. The Almighty God of heaven and earth be my comfort, as I desire comfort in his service; and give me wisdome as I desire it for his honour and glory, Amen.

E. K. I see a white pillar; and upon the pillar, I see four heads.

Shee tieth the pillar round about with a list.

The four heads are like on two heads, and on two Wolves heads.

Now there cometh a thing like a white Crown of Christal, and standeth upon all our four heads. The heads seem to be inclosed by the necks within the pillar.

Now she taketh the pillar and goeth up with it.

Now she bringeth an half Moon down, and written in it as followeth.

Injustum nihil quod justum est Deo.

Now she goeth round about upon a thing like a Carpet; she goeth now beyond where is an Orchard; she cutteth branches of two trees, and shee seemeth to insert them, or graff them into another.

Now she goeth into a black place behinde the wood, and bringeth a thing with her in a chain: An ugly thing like a Devil.

Mad...... Behold, seest thou this: wherewithall thou thoughtest to overthrow, and most infect, thou art utterly overthrown, and shalt never return again.

E. K. Now he leapeth, and the ground openeth, and he sinketh in: and there seemeth a stink of brimstone to come to my Nose from the pit.

Now the grafts are all grown in the tree, as if they were all of one tree.

Now she cometh out of that orchard. Now she goeth round about the orchard, and leaveth a darkness like a cloud round about the orchard.

Mad...... Visible to God, but invisible to man.

E. K. Now she cometh again upon her Carpet.

Behold, if you resist not God, but shut out Satan (through unity amongst you) thus it is said unto you, Assemble your selves together every seventh day, that your eyes may be opened, and that you may understand by him that shall teach you, what the secrets of the holy books (delivered you) are: That you may become full of understanding, and in knowledge above common men.

Unity. An offer of every 7th day to be taught the secrets of the books received. The holy books delivered. Our works to go on. The Lord Rosenberg. The powder here. If Omniareponenda. Caesar & Papa brevi nos infestabunt denno. If

And in your works go forward, and detract no time, that you may also have fruit.

Unto William I will be merciful for ever, according to my promise. But I will buy him no Kingdom, after the manner of man, with money. But what I have determined unto him, shall happen unto him: And he shall become mighty in me.

¶ And this Powder which thou hast brought here, is appointed for a time by God, and cannot be used until then, without offence. Happy is he that heareth my words this day: and happy is he that understandeth them.

But if you deny the Wisdome of the Highest, and account us his Messengers, Creatures of darkness. This day you are made free.

And look that you lay up all things that is spoken of from above; and whatsoever hath been taught you, (as well the books as instruments.)

You shall shortly have to do again with the cruelty of the Emperour, and the accursed Bishop.

Whereunto, if you go forward with God, you shall be taught to answer. If you leave off, as soon as you hear of it be going into Germany, lest you perish before then.

I have no more to say unto you, but my swiftness is from above.

E. K. Now she maketh her self ready, &c.

Mad...... If my friendship like you not, I beseech God send you as good will, as I (in powe) bear towards you.

I have not one word more given me to speak.

E. K. Now she is gone.

Δ. I was glad that an offer was made of being every seventh day to be taught the secrets of the books already delivered unto us: Thinking that it was easie for us to perform that unity which was required to be amongst us four; understanding all after the Christian and godly sense. But E. K. who had yesterday seen and heard another meaning of this unity required, utterly abhorred to have any dealing with them farther, and did intend to accept at their hands the liberty of leaving off to deal with them any more: which his understanding, as it was strange and unpleasant unto me, so I earnestly requested to be resolved therein in manner as followeth.

At the same time and in the same place this ensued.

NOTE.

Δ. Upon Mr. Kelly his great doubt bred unto me of Madimi her words yesterday, spoken to him, that we two had our two wives in such sort, as we might use them in common, it was agreed by us, to move the question, whether the sense were of Carnal use (contrary to the law of the Commandment) or of Spiritual love, and charitable care and unity of mindes, for advancing the service of God.

E. K. Upon a Scroll, like the edge of a Carpet, is written, De utro q; loquor.

Δ. The one is expresly against the Commandement of God: neither can I by any means consent to like of that Doctrine. And for my help in that verity, I do call down the power of Almighty God, the Creator of heaven and earth, and all the good Angels, (his faithful Ministers) to assist me in the defence of my faithful obedience to the law of the Gospel, and of his Church.

Assist me, O Christ.

Assist me, O Jesu.

Assist me, O holy Spirit.

E. K. It appeareth written upon a white Crucifix, as followeth, Mea gratia, major est […]. Gratia enim […] mea est, ut hominibus insanis […] beatitudo: Et que ita dicta sunt, Vel sint, vel hodie libertas vobis restituitur. Amen dico vobis, quia si dicerem […] Eas, & fatrem Jugula, & non faceret, filius est peccati & mortis. Omnia, enim, possibilia & licita sunt superis. Neque magis […] sunt pudenda illis, quam mortalium quorumcumque vultus.

Ita enim fiet, spurius cum […] (quod magis absurdum est) copulabitur. Et oriens cum occidente, Meridies quoque cum septentrione coadunabuntur.

E. K. Now it is vanished.

Δ. Hereupon we were in great amazement and grief of minde, that so hard, and (as it, yet seemed unto me) so unpure a Doctrine, was popounded and enjoyned unto us of them, whom I alwayes (from the beginning hitherto) did judge and esteem, undoubtedly, to be good Angels: And had unto E K. offered my soul as a pawn, to discharge E. K. his crediting of them, as the good and faithful Ministers of Almighty God. But now, my heart was sore afflicted upon many causes: And E. K. had (as he thought) now, a just and sufficient cause, to forsake dealing with them any more. As his prayer to God of a long time hath been (as in the former part of this Action may appear.)

After our going out of the Chappel, and at our being at dinner, when we four (whose heads so were united, in a pillar shewed, as is before set down, I found means to make some little declaration of our great grief (mine chiefly) now occasioned, either to try us, or really to be executed, in the common and indifferent using of Matrimonial Acts amongst any couple of us four: Which thing was strange to the women: And they hoped of some more comfortable issue of the cause. And so we left off.

After Dinner, as E. K. was alone, there appeared unto him little creatures of a cubit high: and they came to the Still where he had the spirit of Wine distilling over out of a Retorto: And one of them (whose name they expressed Ben) said that it was in vain so to hope for the best spirit of the Wine: And shewed him how to distill it, and separate it better. And moreover how to get oyl of the spirit of Wine, as it burned in the lamps: And began to ask E. K. what Country-man he was? And when he had answered an English-man, he asked then, how he came hither? he answered by Sea: Then said he, And who helped you to pass the marvellous great dangers of the Sea. And so took occasion to speak of the benefits which God had hitherto done for us, very many. And this Ben, said than among very many other things (as Mr. E. K. told me on Saturday night after Supper holding on his talk almost till two of the clock after midnight) That he it was that delivered him, or gave unto his hands the powder. And also he said either than or the next day at the furthest, that unleast he would be conformable to the will of God in this last Action declared, That he would take the vertue and force of the powder from it: That it should be unprofitable: And that he should become a beggar.

[…] was the deliverer of the powder to E. K. at the digging in England. Note, unleast conditionally. Q. El. K. Phi.

And of me also he said that I did evil to require proof, or testimony now, that this last Doctrine was from God Almighty, and said that I should be led prisoner to Rome, &c.

He told of England, and said, That about July or November her Majesty should from heaven be destroyed; and that about the same time the King of Spain should dye. And that this present Pope at his Mass should be deprived of life before two years to an end. And that another should be Pope, who should be Decimus quintus of his name; And that he would begin to reform things, but that shortly he should of the Cardinals be stoned to death. And that after that there should be no Pope for some years.

Of England he said, That after the death of our dear Queen, One of the house of Austria made mighty by the King of Spain his death, should invade and conquer the land, &c. He said, One (now abroad) should at Milford-haven enter, and by the help of the Britans subdue the said Conqueror: And that one Morgan a Britan should be made King of the Britans, and next him, one Rowland, &c.

He said also, That this Francis Garland was an espy upon us from the Lord Treasurer of England: And that Edward Garland is not his brother: And that so the matter is agreed between them, &c.

That my Lord Rosenberg should be in danger of poysoning for these certain months to come.

That my Tables of Enoch, were in some places falsly written.

Of Antichrist he spake, and of his appearing:

Of Ely and Enoch coming out of Paradise: And of Saint John Evangelist, that he dyed not, but in Pathmos had his invisible being: And that he it was, who did give […] Apostata his deaths wound.

He said also that he hath at divers times preached visibly since the time of his invisible state entred.

He confirmed the words of the great Famine and Blood-shed that should come shortly.

He said that on every side of us, people should be slain, but that we should (by the Divine protection) escape.

He said that shortly this Francis Garland should go into England: And that we should be sent for. But that it were best to refuse their calling us home.

He said that there were four other, who were made also privy of God his mysteries as we were, with whom we should meet at Rome.

He said that Mary and one more in England, should see the wonderful days to come.

Madimi appeared to him there also.

The same Ben went once away mounting up in a flame of fire: and afterward upon occasion of asking him somewhat, he came down so again.

And of the manner how to draw the oyl of the Spirit of wine being burnt, he brought thither the instruments of two silver dishes, whelmed one upon another with an hole passing through the middle of them both, and with sponge between them: in which the oyl would remain, &c.

After all these, and many other things told me by the same Mr. E.K. we departed each to his bed, where I found my wife awake, attending to hear some new matter of me from Mr. Kelly his reports of the apparitions, continued with him above four hours, being else alone, I then told her, and said, June, I see that there is no other remedy, but as hath been said of our cross-matching, so it must needs be done.

Thereupon she fell a weeping and trembling for a quarter of an hour: And I pacified her as well as I could; and so, in the fear of God, and in believing of his Admonishment, did perswade her that she shewed her self prettily resolved to be content for God his sake and his secret Purposes, to obey the Admonishment.

Δ. Note, Because I have found so much halting and untruth in E. K. his reports to me made, of the spiritual Creatures, where I have not been present at an Action: and because his memory 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. I perceive that commonly one is to be abated of the number.

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.