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THE DANISH TREASURE, 1583 - topics: travel,household_family,angelic_spiritual

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20 Apr. - Daybook Entries. Records travel, household family, angelic spiritual: This Saturday had been great and eager pangs between E.K.

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Records travel, household family, angelic spiritual: This Saturday had been great and eager pangs between E.K. and me: while he would utterly discredit the whole process of our Actions, as to be done by evil and illuding spirits seeking his destruction. And that he was not thus to lose his time: but that he is...

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THE DANISH TREASURE, 1583

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travel,household_family,angelic_spiritual

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This Saturday had been great and eager pangs between E.K. and me: while he would utterly discredit the whole process of our Actions, as to be done by evil and illuding spirits seeking his destruction. And that he was not thus to lose his time: but that he is to study, to learn some knowledge whereby he may live: and that he was a cumber to my house, and that he dwelled here as in a prison: that it were better for him to be near Cotsall Plain where he might walk abroad without danger or to be cumbered or vexed with such sklaunderous fellows as yesterday he was, with one little Ned dwelling at the Black Raven in Westminster, who railed at him for bearing witness of a bargain made between the same Ned (or Edward) and one Lush, a surgeon, who was now fallen in poverty, a very honest man &c. With a great deal of more matter, melancholic, and cross overthwartly to the good and patient using of ourselves to the accomplishing of this Action. I replied, and said that we might find ourselves answered on Thursday, 15 as that God would clear when it pleased him: and that we were not to appoint God a time to perform his mysteries and mercies in, shorter than he hath spoken of. And as concerning his doubting the goodness of the creatures (dealing with us), he was to blame, to say or doubt the tree to be ill that bringeth forth good fruit. For of these creatures, from the beginning of their dealing with us unto the last hour, we never heard other than the

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This Saturday had been great and eager pangs between E.K. and me: while he would utterly discredit the whole process of our Actions, as to be done by evil and illuding spirits seeking his destruction. And that he was not thus to lose his time: but that he is to study, to learn some knowledge whereby he may live: and that he was a cumber to my house, and that he dwelled here as in a prison: that it were better for him to be near Cotsall Plain where he might walk abroad without danger or to be cumbered or vexed with such sklaunderous fellows as yesterday he was, with one little Ned dwelling at the Black Raven in Westminster, who railed at him for bearing witness of a bargain made between the same Ned (or Edward) and one Lush, a surgeon, who was now fallen in poverty, a very honest man &c. With a great deal of more matter, melancholic, and cross overthwartly to the good and patient using of ourselves to the accomplishing of this Action. I replied, and said that we might find ourselves answered on Thursday, 15 as that God would clear when it pleased him: and that we were not to appoint God a time to perform his mysteries and mercies in, shorter than he hath spoken of. And as concerning his doubting the goodness of the creatures (dealing with us), he was to blame, to say or doubt the tree to be ill that bringeth forth good fruit. For of these creatures, from the beginning of their dealing with us unto the last hour, we never heard other than the