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A. All thanks be unto the King of Gloiy, &c.
A. Is it your meaning that wc (hall Itay here, and go no farther v?ith the Lord ^/i^rt
Laskje ?
Te-s in the Smnmer ; rohen it is more fair.
A. I befeech you. Where would you, that we fhould make our .... this Winter ?
H'here you tvUl. Are you ^o unwise to go with him now. Let him go before, and provide
fir himfelf, that he may the better povid for you. 7he weather will be hard, and the travel unfit
for children. If thou covet to live in eafe^ heap not up thy wives forrow.
A. I defire to live in quiet, that my (pirit may the better attend to the fervice of God
If'eil, Tarry yoUi and wy promife fhall be quickjy performed. I will net halt witbyott.
How faj jou Sirs ?
[£. K He fpcaketli to his Company,vvho make curfics,and fay nothing.]
A. I befeech you to appoint an apt place : This you fee is no fit place.
I willJiir thee tip fftch friends, as jhall content thee. As for dwelling places thou /halt
belhw them. JFell, you are contented.
A. Is it your will, that in this Town we fiiould part from the Lord Albert Laskje ?
What fhould jou do elfe ? Are yo» mad men? Will jou run headlong into danger?
wilfully ?
,A. I befeech you, (hall this be nothing prejudicial to our former doings, and order already
taken and decreed for our going together ?
What, isthis contrary to reason? Well you are content.
A. As the will of the Higheft is, fo is mine and none other.
Sirha, doyoufee this fword ? I will be a furety for this (^ J warrant thee ) alft.
four brother isclapped vpinprifon. How liisyou that ? lour houfe-kfeper Imean.
A. And why I pray you ?
For that, that thou mayeftbe afhamedof.
A. What is that?
Ihey examtnhim : "they fay., that thonhafi hid divers fecret things. As for tky Book^s-^
thou mayji go look^them at leafure. It may be, that thy kottfe may be burnt for a remembrance of
thee too. Well tf they do, fo it is : if Hn,as thou wilt. I have told thee my phanfie, and given thee
wy counfely offered thee my help, and defired to do thee good : The choice is thine.
A. O Lord the Authorof all truth, and direftor of fuchaspuc their truft in thee, 1 nioft
humbly befeech thee to confiderthefepremifes, thus to me propounded. If they be true,
and from thee, confirm them; If they Keillufions, and not from thee, difprove them. For,
hardly in my judgement, they do or can agree with our former precepts and order taken by
thee,
A voice He that afcendetb up to the top of the hill ^ let him believe : For until he come
thither, let him du his l.rbour.
O Lord, I doubc of rhcfe th ngs, and promifcsof eafe, wealth, and honour,
A voice J"dge the Truth, by the laji A^ion.
O LordjWhat is that Aftion ?
A voice Wenfdaies Adion.
'. This Cloud (^faid the voice of the Lord ) is put betwixt us and you ff'bat therefore may come
between^ Now judge you.
A. I fufpeft the whole apparition of the eleven to be an illufion. O Lord confirm ray
judgement or difprove it.
A voice The Spirit of the Lord is not amongjlyou.
A. What miferyare we then in ? O Lord, Mercy, Mercy.
A voice I ifpnte not with God, where whoredom is great.
A. O Lord, This whoredom we underftand not.
A voice Fray daily, with repentance, that this cloud may be takjn away, and this fword
diminijhed. For the Seal cannot be brokfn, until Satan have done his uttermoji ; yea the utter-
moji of his malice. For it n granted him and he mujl firikf. But pray you unto God , that the
fword may bemadejhorter, or pluck} out of the hilt, that in firikjng he want power. For ytmr fin
it abominable, and a fevenfold offence in the fight of the Lord.
A. What this whoredom is ( God knoweth ) we underftandnot perfcftly. If the Spirit
of God be not with us, how can our prayers be acceptable ?
A voice Thui faith the Lord, Turn unto me and be forry for your fins y and let my Angels
be witneffe thereof. For I[wear by my [elf, that myjujiice Jhall hang over you : And when
J punipyou next, I will raze you from the face of the earth. Therefcrej Vow your felves unto
tne , and mal{e your veffels clean , for your habitations in my fight are nothing : neither
is the fubjiance whereof I framed you acceptable . 1 am the Spirit of Truth and
VnderfiandiHg, and will net be dafijt in pieces with worldlings; Neither vfe I to dwell in defiled
places. For my Sanduary is holy, and my Gates are without fpot. And with me there dwelleth no
unrighteoufneffe.
A.
Lord