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I will no longer dally with you, but will give unto you according unto your works.
A. O God be merciful unto us, and deal not with us according to the wickednefs,
frowarduefs, and blindnefs of our hearts. Amen.
NOTE.
A. T "fPon this former part of the Third Aftion General, where my firft begotten Son
\_J[ (namely Anfrr) was alTigned to the Miniftry of feeing and hearing, in place and"
ttead of E.K. if he would utterly refvfe the ^ame office (hitherto by him executed, and by
him to be executed, uucil the fcven aftions general finiftied) And that the fame Childe
and Son, in the mean fpuce (that is to fay, between the day of the part of Aftion received,
and the end of the fame: determined to be fourteen day es after) fhould be exercifed
before GoJ. I thereupon thinking that E. JC. woidd, ftiould, or belt could inftruft and
dirfeft the Childe in that exercife, did alwayes await, that E.K. would of himfelf call the
Boy CO that Exercife with him ; and fomuch the rather, becaufe hefaid, that he was very
ghd now that he p'mhlkave a Witnefs of the thivgs jhewed and dtclaredhy ^iritual Creatures:
And that he would be more wdling to Jo what ihould be fo enjoyned to him to do, then
if oncly he himfelf did fee, and that for divers caufes. But when E. K. faid to pie, that
I ihould exercife the Childe and not he, and that he would not, I thereupon appointed
with my felf to bring the Childe to the place, and to offer him, andprefent him to the
fervice of Seeing and Skrying from God, and by Gods aifignment, and of the time ©f
fourteen daycs yet remaining, being the 15, 16, 17 dayes of April, and next before the
iS day, (the day alFigned to end the Aftion in) to have the Childe exercifed in them. And
thereupon contrived for the Childe ciiis order of Prayer enfuiitg.
T)ie Mercuriifummo mane die Apr ilis 15. anno 1587. T^rebona,
O Almighty
In the Name of God the Father, of God the Son, and of God the Holy
Ghoft. Amen.
Glory be to God the Father, God the Son, and God theHoly Ghoft;
As it was in the beginning, isnow, andever ftaJlbe, world without
end. Amen.
andEverlajiing, the true and living Ged, have ntersy, pity and compafion m my
futkcr John Dee, and on me Arthur Dee; who being now called hither by thy afftgnment,
amnowkerefrefntandr^adym all humility, obedience and faithfulnefi, to ferve thy Divine
Miiieity, with aL t^'e gifts and graces which thou baji hitherto endued me with ; and with all'othef
which of thy rnofi h^'imi'ifvl and fatherly mercy, thou wilt henceforward hejlow upon me. Lighten
(therefore) Al,nighty God ^ mine eyes, and open thou mine ears ; ^icken, InfiruU and Con-
firm in yae, and unto me, my difcretion^ judgement, undtrjiand/ng, memory, and utterance, that
I rytay he a true and fir fee: Seer, Hearer, heclanr and Wiinefi of fuch things which either immediately
of thy T) IV im Ma]e!iy, or mediately by the ministry of thy holy, mighty, and faithful
Angels pall be manifelhd, 'declared or Jhewedunto me, now, and at all times and occaftons, for
the advancing of thy Fraife, Honour and Glory. Amen.
Hereupon, ^fiw/H/«j morning, (the 15 of this ^pri/) I brought the Childe to the
holy Table, being in order of the furniture thereto belonging, and fet before him the
Stone in the frame, (my firft fanftified Stone) and caafed him on his knees, to fay the
forefaid Prayer. And I alfo piaid to the Childs hearing, other Prayers to God for the
purpofe ill hand : and at his coming to look and fee in the Stone,
There appeared to him (as he judged) divers little fquare figures, with pricks, and divtrs
other figures and lines, which I caufed him with his own hand to imitate upon a paper
with pen and ink.
The hues were white, and fome of the pricks alfo, but other of the pricks were black,
as of ink.
Arth. Two old men with black beards, and with golden Crowns
upon their heads, do appear. One is now gone : this holdeth hrs
hands before him like a Maid.
Arth.