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20 May.

TO SALUTE A STRANGE KING, 1584 - topics: travel,court_patronage,household_family,angelic_spiritual

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20 May. - Daybook Entries. Records travel, court patronage, household family, angelic spiritual: Monday a meridie horam circiter 6, in my study.

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Records travel, court patronage, household family, angelic spiritual: Monday a meridie horam circiter 6, in my study. CracoviOE. Note. E.K. sitting with me in my study told me that after my going to Rithwian, to the Lord Laski, he had very many apparitions, and divers matters declared unto him, of the state of Christendom, &c....

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TO SALUTE A STRANGE KING, 1584

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travel,court_patronage,household_family,angelic_spiritual

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Monday a meridie horam circiter 6, in my study. CracoviOE. Note. E.K. sitting with me in my study told me that after my going to Rithwian, to the Lord Laski, he had very many apparitions, and divers matters declared unto him, of the state of Christendom, &c. He said (moreover) fault was found with my manner of standing before Stephen; I should have made some more ample declaration of my calling and knowledge in these our Actions. Secondly, he said that Michael Dee should die, and that I should thereby be afflicted, and divers such things he told me, and among other that he was willed to be ready to leave me when he should be called: for he said our Actions should be cut off, for some of our unworthiness, &c. All which things were so grievous unto me, as I was (in manner) ready to sownd; and my distress was the greater because (after a sort) I was barred from requiring the presence of any of our spiritual friends till Stephen had been rebuked by the Lord, and I had vowed to obey their commandments and instructions, whereby I was driven to beseech God to consider my cause and grief, who unfeignedly desired to be his true servant: and being desirous to obey them, staying of my voice for the presence of his good ministers, I was contented to offer up my obedience herein for a sacrifice, and ready to receive this distress and affliction as a punishment for my sins, awaiting his will and pleasure. E.K. said: 'It shall not be amiss to bring forth the Show-Stone, and assay what the good will of God would be herein.' I fetched the Show-Stone, and after it had been set about a quarter of an hour, E.K. espied in it a little naked boy with a white cloth, scarf-wise, from under his navel hanging down unto his knees. And about that time came the Lord A.L. unto us, who sat down by us. BOY: 'If the sun shine not in vain, if the stars move not but by variation and discourse, moving things by turns, to an end: if the earth stand still because she is so created: much less ought man to despair in the mercies and promises of God, which are not without a cause, neither any time spoken without effect. "'I remember thee (Laski),'" saith the Lord. "If thou live according to my laws, I will add unto thy years, and will not blot out thy name out of my remembrance. "'I greatly thirst after Stephen, for the course of things are at hand. "'When I come in one week, behold, I strike, and those that are proud become poor and desolate. "'Rise, therefore, and with speed go before Stephen.'"

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Monday a meridie horam circiter 6, in my study. CracoviOE. Note. E.K. sitting with me in my study told me that after my going to Rithwian, to the Lord Laski, he had very many apparitions, and divers matters declared unto him, of the state of Christendom, &c. He said (moreover) fault was found with my manner of standing before Stephen; I should have made some more ample declaration of my calling and knowledge in these our Actions. Secondly, he said that Michael Dee should die, and that I should thereby be afflicted, and divers such things he told me, and among other that he was willed to be ready to leave me when he should be called: for he said our Actions should be cut off, for some of our unworthiness, &c. All which things were so grievous unto me, as I was (in manner) ready to sownd; and my distress was the greater because (after a sort) I was barred from requiring the presence of any of our spiritual friends till Stephen had been rebuked by the Lord, and I had vowed to obey their commandments and instructions, whereby I was driven to beseech God to consider my cause and grief, who unfeignedly desired to be his true servant: and being desirous to obey them, staying of my voice for the presence of his good ministers, I was contented to offer up my obedience herein for a sacrifice, and ready to receive this distress and affliction as a punishment for my sins, awaiting his will and pleasure. E.K. said: 'It shall not be amiss to bring forth the Show-Stone, and assay what the good will of God would be herein.' I fetched the Show-Stone, and after it had been set about a quarter of an hour, E.K. espied in it a little naked boy with a white cloth, scarf-wise, from under his navel hanging down unto his knees. And about that time came the Lord A.L. unto us, who sat down by us. BOY: 'If the sun shine not in vain, if the stars move not but by variation and discourse, moving things by turns, to an end: if the earth stand still because she is so created: much less ought man to despair in the mercies and promises of God, which are not without a cause, neither any time spoken without effect. "'I remember thee (Laski),'" saith the Lord. "If thou live according to my laws, I will add unto thy years, and will not blot out thy name out of my remembrance. "'I greatly thirst after Stephen, for the course of things are at hand. "'When I come in one week, behold, I strike, and those that are proud become poor and desolate. "'Rise, therefore, and with speed go before Stephen.'"