Unica Actio, quae Pucciana vocetur, 1585

Anno 1585. Augusti 6. Unica Actio; quae Pucciana vocetur. Que durabat ab hora 5. manè, ad horam 11. PRAGAE.

Actio Pucciana.

✝ Pragae. Actionis Puccianae, prior pars.

Augusti 6.

Tuesday, Manè, circa ortum Solis, & nobis heri injungebatur.

Fusis de moere praecibus, &c. praesentibus nobis Δ, E. K. & Fr. Pucci, ut praescriptum erat.

Disposita erat Mensa foederis: Candelaque cerea accensa.

E. K. Here is one, covered in white to the brest, all white apparalled, he hath a long glasse in his left hand, full of filthy loathsome stuffe, like matter or like bloud and milk, or curds mingled together, and a staffe about an ell long in his right hand, he setteth the end on the ground, he pointeth with his staffe toward the

^[1] Table of Covenant.

Accede Dominum.

Δ He [E. K.] came to the Table of Covenant, and looked into the Holy-stone, and saw the same vision, but his face is (here) bare, and he seemeth to be Vriel.

Δ Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini: ô beata Dei Lux, URIEL. ..... Gloriatibi Domine, Rex coeli, & terrae, quies, & venturus es.

E. K. Now I see the foundation of an old thing, as though it were of a Church.

A voice ..... Measure.

Measure from the East to the North, and from the North to the West part, for behold, the rest is judged already.

URIEL ..... I have measured, (Lord) 25, and the half of twenty five. 37½.

The voice ..... Divide into three parts. [Δ The third part of 37½] is 12½.

URIEL ..... It is done.

The voice ..... Vnto the Kings of the East give the first.

Unto the Kings of West give the second.

The remnant measure unto the dayes of the North: that the fire of my indignation, may be a bridle amongst them, and that the whole World (except the excepte) may drink of the sorrow of the Prophetia; seventh part of the half time, yet to come.

URIEL ..... Thy mouth (O Lor) is a two-edged sword, thy judgments are perpetual and everlasting, thy words are the spirit of truth and understanding, thy Garments most pure and smelling incense; Thy Seat without end, and triumphing, who is like unto thee amongst the Heavens, or who hath known thy beauty? Great art thou in thy holy ones, and mighty in thy word amongst the Sonnes of men: Thy Testament is holy, and undefiled, The glory of thy Seat, and the health of thy Sonnes: Thy anointed is sacrificed, and hath brought health unto the faithful, and unto the Sonnes of Abraham. Thy spirit is everlasting and the oil of comfort: The Heavens (therefor) gather themselves together, with Hallelujah to bear witnesse of thy great indignation and fury prepared for the Earth, which hath risen up with the Kings of the Earth, and hath put on the Wedding Garments: saying with her self I am a Queen: I am the daughter of felicity. Remember all ye, that are drunken with my pleasure the Character I have given you, and prepare your selves to contend with the Highest, set your selves against him, as against the anointed, for you are become the Children of a strong Champion: whose Sonne shall garnish you with the Name of a Kingdome, and shall poure wonders amongst you, from the starres, which shall put the Sunne the steward of his Waggon, and the Moon the handmaid of his servants. But, O God, she is a Lyar, and the fire brandof destruction. For, behold, thou art mighty, and shalt triumph, and shalt be a Conquerer for ever.

E. K. Now the Stone is full of white smoak.

Δ A Pause.

E. K. The smoak is gone, and here standeth one over him in the aire with a Book, whose nether parts are in a cloud of fire, with his ^[2] hair sparsed, his arms naked, the Book is in his right hand, a four square Book, with a red fiery cover, and the leaves be white on the edge, it hath 7 seales upon it, as if the claspes were sealed with 7 ^[3] golden Seales. And there are letters upon the Seales, the first E. M. ^[4] E. T. T. A. V.

..... Take this Book, ut veritas Luce magis clarescat, Et Lux, veritate fiat valida. Data ^[5] est enim tibi potestas, dandi & aperiendi hunc librum mundo & mundis.

URIEL. .... Gloria tibi. Rex coeli & terrae qui fuisti es, & venturus, es hinc enim, judiciū meretricis.

E. K. Now Vriel taketh the Book, kneeling upon both his knees.

URIEL ..... Rejoyce O you sonnes of men, lift up your hearts unto heaven for the secrets of God are opened: and his word let out of Prison. Rejoyce, O you sonnes of God, for the spirit of truth and understanding is amongst you. Rejoyce O you that are of the Sanctuary, for you shall be full of wisdom and understanding. Rejoyce O thou the House of Jacob, for thy visitation is at an end, and ^[6] thy visitation is beginning: The four winds shall gather thee together, and thou shalt build up the trodden wall: The bridegroom shall dwell with thee. And lo, behold, the Lord hath sworn, and wickednesse shall not enter into thee, neither shall the Spirit of the Highest go from thee, but thy fathers bones shall have rest; And thou shalt live eternally.

The bloud of the Innocents shall be washed away from thee, and thou shalt do penance for many dayes. Then shall the Lamb stand in the middest of thy streets O Hierusalem: and shall give Statutes unto thy people and inhabitants: All Nations shall come unto the House of David: The Mothers shall teach their infants, saying, Truth hath prevailed, and the Name of the Lord shall be the ^[7] Watch-man of thee, O City.

E. K. Now all is full of a white clond.

URIEL ..... Silence unto me, and rest unto you for a season.

E. K. All is disappeared, and the stone seemeth cleer.

Actionis Puccianae posterior pars.

Δ Legi praemissa Latine ipsi Fr. Pucci, & pauca locutus sum de regibus & aliis qui haec putant esse nostras imposturas, & à nobis aec mala ratione tractari, &c.

E. K. He is here again.

E. K. He sitteth in a chair of Christal, with his Book in his lap, and the measuring rod in his right hand, and the glasse vial in his left hand.

URIEL ..... Seeing that power is given unto me, and that truth is added unto my Ministery, and I am become full of light and truth, I will open your eyes, and I will speak unto you the truth that you may shake off the lumpishnesse of your darknesse, and profound ignorance: and walk in truth with your fathers.

Give ear (therefor) diligently unto my voice: and imbibe my sayings, within the liquor of your hearts, that the sap of your understanding may receive strength, and that you mayflourish with acceptable Truth, as the chosen servants and Ministers of the Highest.

Totus mundus in maligno positus est, and is become the open shop of Satan, to deceive ^[8] the Merchants of the Earth with all abhomination. But what, are you the Pedlers of such wares? or the Carriers abroad of lies and false doctrine. Do you think it is a small matter to tie the sense of Gods Scriptures and mysteries unto the sense and snatching of your Imaginations? Do you count it nothing to sit in judgment against the Spirit of God: leaving him no place, but at your limitation. Is it lawful before the Sonne of God, to spend the whole dayes, yea, many yeares, with the Sonnes of Satan, the lying imps, and deceivers of the World? Are you so far entred into the shop of abhomination, that you point unto the Sonne of God the time of his comming, the descending of his Prophets, and the time wherein he shall visit the Earth? Moses durst not speak, but from the Lords mouth: The Prophets expounded not the Law, but the voice of the Lord. The Sonne of God spake not his own words, in that he was flesh, but the words of his Father; His Disciples taught not, but through the holy Ghost; Dare you (therefore) presume to teach, and open the secret Chamber of the Highest, being not called?

Tell me, have you left your Merchandize, and the counting of your mony deceitfully gotten, to beome Teachers of the Word of God? Are you not ashamed to teach before you understand? yea, are you not ashamed to lead away, where you cannot bring home? Hypocrites you are, and void of the Holy Ghost, lyars you are become, and the enemies of Christ, and his holy Spirit.

Peradventure you will say, in reading the Scriptures we understand But tell me, by what spirit you understand them: what Angel hath appeared unto you? or of which of the Heavens have you been instructed?

It may be you will say of the Holy Ghost, O thou fool, and of little understanding! Dost thou not understand that the Holy Ghost, is the School-master of the Church, of the whole Flock & Congregation of Christ? If he be the School-master (therefore) over a multitude, it followeth then, that one doctrine taught by the Holy Ghost, is a lesson or an understanding of a multitude: But what multitude are of thine understanding or of what Congregation art thou? Wilt thou say, thou art scattered. Thou speakest fasly, thou art a runnagate. But, behold, I teach thee, and thy error is beforethy face.

Whosoever doth understand the Scriptures must seek to understand them by Ordinance and spiritual tradition. But of what spiritual tradition understandest thou? or by what Ordinance are the Scriptures opened unto thee? Thou wilt say thou art informed by the Holy Fathers, and by the same Spirit that they taught, by the same Spirit thou understandest. Thou sayest so, but thou dost not so. Which of thy Fore-fathers hath tied reason to the Word of God? or the understanding of the Scriptures to the Discipline of the Heathen? I, say unto thee, that thy Fore-fathers were dear unto Christ, were pertakers of the heavenly visions and celestial comforts, which visions and celestial comforts, did not teach unto them, a new exposition of the Scriptures, but did confirm and give light unto the mysteries of the Holy Ghost spoken by the Apostles, the ground-layers and founders of the Church. Whatsoever, therefore, thou learnest of thy Fore-fathers, thou learnest of the Apostles, and whatsoever thou learnest of the Apostles thou hast by the Holy Ghost. But if thou expound the Fathers after thy sense, & not after the sense of the Apostles, thou hast not the Holy Ghost, but the spirit of lying. Therefore humble thy self and fall down before the Lord. Lay reason aside, and ^[9] cleave unto him. Seek to understand his word according to his holy Spirit. Which holy Spirit thou must needs find, and shalt find in a visible Church, even unto the end.

I will plainly say unto thee (That, Truth may appear mightily in light:) Whosoever is contrary unto the will of God, which is delivered unto his Church, taught by his Apostles, nourished by the Holy Ghost, delivered unto the World, and by Peter brought to Rome, by him, there taught by his Successors, held, and maintained, is contrary to God and to his Truth. ^[10]

Luther hath his reward.

Calvin his reward.

The rest, all that have erred, and wilfully runne astray, separating themselves from the Church ^[11] and Congregation of Christ obstinately, and through the instigation of their father the Devil, have their reward. Against whom the Sonne of God shall pronounce judgment, saying, Go you deceivers into Hell fire, provided for your Father and his Children from the beginning.

You rise up amongst your selves, saying, The Pope is Antichrist; For by this name you call ^[12] him, an evil man he may be, and fall from his vocation: But he can never be Antichrist: For Antichrist is he, the sonne of the Devil, a man flesh and bloud, born of a wicked and deceitful Harlot, that shall seduce the people, swell with the strength of his father, and resist God in Earth amongst men, as his father did in Heaven among the Angels, utterly denying his Omnipotency, and setting himself against him.

O you fools, and of little understanding: When unto the Apostles, the Keyes of Heaven were ^[13] given, that is to say, the same authority and power of Christ Jesus the Sonne of the Living God, to forgive sinnes, and to exclude sinners from the Kingdome of Heaven; (An) when unto the same Apostles; it was said also Come behind me Satan: you have not under standing to see into the mysteries of the Highest; if the Sonne of God did commend and reprehend his Disciples, why may not (therefor) a Bishop, be counted good and evil; if it follow (therefor) that good aend evil may be a ^[14] Bishop it followeth also, that neither good nor evil addeth unto the Authority of a Bishop, but unto his own life; if he be good he reapeth the benefit of his goodnesse, but if he be evil, he is a Lyar, because his Doctrine is against himself, if therefore for the sinne of man, God hath suffered many in the spirit of ^[15] Ananias to sit in the holy place, it is for your finnes sake; and for your rebellious nature to be punished: And not for the obscuring or darkning of his Church.

Open your eyes therefore, and understand, and cleave to the Church for the Church sake, and not for the love of man. Despise not the Church, because of the transgressions of man: But submit your neck under that holy yoke and ordinance, which shall lead you to the Congregation governed by the Spirit of God, wherein you shall under stand the secrets of God his Book, to be interpreted ^[16] according to the sense of your fathers: whose understanding was the finger of the Holy Ghost, you cannot authorise your selves, and without authority you can do nothing; Therefore if your authority be not, why take you upon you the doings of the Church, which it is one thing to seek to understand the Scriptures, and an other thing to teach the Scriptures according to his understanding, for he that teacheth, teacheth, by Authority, but if he have no Authority, he is an Usurper. ^[17]

My brethren remember your selves, and consider you are Children: you are not, vestri juris, but alieni. Therefore, do nothing that is of your selves: But follow, (as good childre) the steps of ^[18] your Mother: which Mother is a pure Virgin, and is alwayes instructed with the wisdom of the Comforter; What meat she shall give unto you her Children: and how she shall bring you up and instruct you: Simplicity is much worth, and obedience is a Garland before the Lord. But Curiosity is the Devil; Have you not read; That the bread of the holy ones is not to be cast unto `Dogs? Look unto your selves whether you be Dogs or no. See if your life be holy: your doings straight and just, your patience manisold: your affliction great for the Lord: if you find not your selves so, you are not Children; If you be not Children, you are not Sonnes, if you be not Sonnes you have no Mother, if you have no Mother you are Dogs, you are devourers of the bread of Children, currish, senselesse, and against God.

Enter therefore into judgment with your selves.

Consider you are created by God.

Consider you are redecmed by God.

Consider also you are also left to the spiritual tuition and comfort of God: which God hath made of you a Congregation: a holy and sanctified fellowship, feeding alwayes as brethren together, under his wings, and at his Lable: which feedeth you with the bread of life and understanding, with the body and bloud of Jesus Christ the Sonne of the Living God.

With understanding that you may know the will of your Father which is in Heaven, and knowing him, be obedient: which is the conclusion of your vocation. Shake not off therefore the yoke of Obedience, least you put away also the Cup of understanding, and so know not the will of your ^[19] Father.

But my thinketh, you are starved, your guts are shrunk up: your bones and sinewes are withered. What is the cause thereof? When received you the bread of the Lord? When received you nourishment? O you of little faith: and lesse understanding you erre, and runne astray: you are blind, you follow not the will of your Father: Return, Return, and say within your selves,

O eternal God and loving Father, great is thy care and mercy ^[20] over us, which being led astray (with Satan and the spirit of darknesse) hast brought us home: which being blind hast set open before our eyes: (our eyes also opened) the true path and line of understanding: Happy are we whom thou lovest so deerly: and unto whom the care of our health is so dear: We will therefore praise thy Name, and return from our errors: we will acknowledg our sinnes, and follow thy Commandements: for thou, O Lord, art onely just and true, and thy mercy is everlasting: Thy Lawes are sweet, and thy love and kindnesse mighty amongst us, Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of Zebaoth, all honour praise and glory be nnto thee for ever.

Δ Amen.

..... After a while I return again.

E. K. He is gone.

Δ Note, I read the premisses to Fr. Pucci, in Latin, which seemed to us to be wonderfully pithy, and to the purpose, &c.

E. K. He is here againe.

URIEL ..... Francis Pucci, give ear vnto my word. Stay a while.

Δ Hereupon Fr. Pucci did kneel on both his knees. ^[21]

URIEL ..... True it is, that, as thy spirit moved thee, so God hath called thee to the partaking and understanding of his will to be fulfilled in punishment and wrath against the falshood and deceit of the earth. And therefore hath God in his great love and exceeding mercy called thee away from the Sonnes of the accursed, and from the way of unrighteousnesse: wherein if thou follow him in simplicity of Conscience, and righteousnesse (the works of faith) thou shalt be confirmed: for I say unto thee, I will power my vengeance upon the whole Earth, and I will chasten her in her iniquity, and in the middest of her pride, I will throw her down head-long, and she shall triumph no more And because thou hast humbled thy self, my spirit shall be with thee, ^[22] and thou shalt understand. And this wicked Monster, that sitteth in the Holy Temple, and sinneth against the Highest, shall be thrown down head-long with his pride: And he shall be chastised and corrected with the mouth of you two; For at the house of the Lord Judgment must begin. And the rebelling sonne must be scourged before the wicked servant be punished. Fear not, I will put [〈◊〉] your words, strength and power: And if he hear you not, but stretch forth his hands against you, I will rain fire and brimstone from Heaven: and his dwelling places shall sink. And the Lake that shall remain, shall bear witnesse against him for evermore: Lift up thy heart therefore, and despise the World; Fight with her manfully, and be not overcome. Moreover, acknowledg thy sinnes, and fly unto the Lord. Seek out his House, and eat of his bread: for thou hast much need of it.

The seeds that thou hath sown abroad, gather up again, least thou be punished for the sins of thy Brethren.

Thy Soule standeth deare before the Lord, which is the cause that he hath mercy upon thee, which saith unto thee, If thou be obedient before the Lord, follow the instructions and discipline of the holy Ghost: and do the works of righteousness and Charity, my Spirit shall rest upon thee. I have said.

K. E. He is gone.

Δ I read over the last parcel in Latine to Francis Pucci: after he had in very penitent sort thanked God, confessed himself an offender, as he was here noted, &c.

E. K. He is here again.

URIEL. ..... Your Penance and Devotion premised, The blessing of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, in his everlasting truth and light, comfort you, blesse you, and be merciful unto you.

Δ Amen.

URIEL. ..... Extingue lumen: Nam decedo.

Δ Deo nostro Omnipotenti, aeterno Lucis & Veritatis Authori sit omnis laus, gratia actio, honor & gloria, nunc & sine fine.

Amen.

Anno 1585 Augusti 6 PRAGAE.

Actionis Puccianae posterior pars.

Videns, (E. K.) nubem jam recessisse conspexit: ut supra URIELIS caput (quasi in [〈◊〉]) ^[23] alium vidit Angelum: cujus pars inferior, nube ignea continebatur. Capitis veri capilli, circa hameros sparsi, & orachia nuda apparebant. Dextra autem Librum tenebat, quadrata figura, tegmine, (quasi ignito, [〈◊〉] colore,) velatim: Foliorum verò exterior margo, albicans erat. Septem retinaculis, quasi totidem seris, clausus esse, liber videbatur. Atque super retinaculorum ora, sigilla quasi aurea, impressa comparebant. Et super singulis sigillis, litterae inscriptae singulares. Super primo E, sup. 2 M, sup. 3 E, sup. 4 T, sup. 5 T, sup. 6 A, sup. 7 V.

..... Accipe librum hunc, & verit as luce magis clarescat: Et lux, veritate, siat valida. Dataeft tibi potest as dandi, & aperiendi hunc Librum, Mundo, & Mundis.

URIEL. ..... Gratia tibi, Rex Coeli, & tenae, qui fuisti, cs, & venturus es, hinc enim Judicium [〈◊〉].

E. K. Jam accipit librum URIEL, utrisque flexis genibus.

URIEL. ..... Gaudete, ô vos filii homini, [〈◊〉] corda vestra Coelum versus. Secreta enim [〈◊◊〉]: & [〈◊〉] ejus ex [〈◊〉] emissum [〈◊〉]. Gaudete, ô vos Filii Dei, quia Spiritus veritatis & intelligentiae inter vos existit: Gaudete, ô vos, qui de sanctuario estis, quia sapientia & intelligentia replebimini. Gaudete, ô tu domus Jacob, quia jam tua finita est visitatio, atque [〈◊◊◊〉]. Quatuor venti [〈◊〉] unâ colligent: & conculcatum redificabis mirum. Tibi [〈◊◊◊〉]. Et, ecce, juravit Dominus, & non te invadent impietates; neque Spiritus [〈◊〉] á te recedet. [〈◊〉], Petrum tuorum ossa quietem nauciscentur: & tu ipse aeterna frueris [〈◊〉]. Sanguis innocentum, a te abluetur: & ad dies multos poenitentia te affliges. Tunc quidem Agnus, in [〈◊◊〉], [〈◊〉], ô Hicrusalem: Edictaque promulgabit populo tuo, civibusque tuis.

Omnis Nationes ad domum Davidis confluent matres, suos informabunt infantis, iis verbis: Praevaluit [〈◊〉]: atque Dei nomen, [〈◊◊〉] vigil, ô Civitas.

E. K. Jam, omnia, nube alba, oppleta sunt.

URIEL. ..... Mihi silentium, vobis verò, ad temporis exiguum intervallum, quies esto.

E. K. Ex oculis meis prorsus evanuer prorsus.

Δ Nota. Interea ab ipso Angelico sermone, praescripta in Latinum recitavi conversa, legendo expeditè, ipsi Domino Francisco Puccio, praeterea abiter pauca locutus sum, de Calumniis, contra nostras actiones tales oraculatis, &c.

E. K. Iterum hic mihi apparet Uriel, atque in Cathedra sedet Chrystallina cum Libro illo, in suo gremio: dextra autem, illam tenet virgam Geometricam: & sinistra, illam Philosophiam vitream, ut prius.

URIEL. ..... Cum mihi sit concessa potestas, & cum meo ministerio sit adjuncta veritas; (unde lucis & veritatis sum factus plenus) vestras ego aperiam oculos, atque vobis ipsam eloquar veritatem; ut inertem illam molem tenebrarum vestrarum, et profundae ignorantiae, excutere positis, et in luce cum patribus vestris ambulaie. Voci igitur meae diligenter praebere aurem, & intracordium vestrorum liquorem, dicta imbibatis mea. Ut vestrae intelligentiae succus, vigorem recipere possit: & vos ipsi florere positis cum acceptabili veritate, veluti servi electi, et Ministri ALTISSIMI.

Totus mundus in maligno positus est, aperta Satane factus est officina, ad terrae mercatores omni abominandae impietatis genere decipiendum. Ast, quid vosne facti estis talium mercium sub mercatores garuli? vel mendaciorum et doctrir ae falsae, in publicum vectarii: AEstimatisne vos, levis momenti negotium esse Scripturarum Divinarum & Mysteriorum sensum, judicium et temeritati alligare vestrarum imaginationum? nihili rem esse statutis, in judicio sedere contra spiritum Dei, nullum illi concedendo locum, nisi vestro ex praescripto?

Vobisne licet, [〈◊〉] Filio Dei, integros dies, immò injustos consumere annos, cum filiis Satane mendaci sobole, & mundi deceptoribus? Adeonè penitus in abominationis officinam vosmet contulistis ut Dei filio, futuri adventus sui tempus praescribere velitis, Prophetarumque suorum descensus: temporisque terminum, in quo ipse terram erit visitaturus?

Moyses nihil loqui ausus erat, nisi ab ore Dei.

Prophetae Legem non explicabaut, sed Dei vox.

Filius Dei propria sua non est locutus verba, quatenus Caro crat, sed verba patris sui.

Discipuii ejus, nihil, nisi ex [〈◊〉] sancto docuerunt.

Audetisne (igitur) vos, vobis docendi assumere munus, aditáque secreta Altissimi pandere, minime ad id admissi, vocative?

Dieite mihi, Mercaturamne deseruistis, vestrarumque pecuniaium (fraude partarum) supputationes, ut verbi Dei essetis Doctores?

An non pudet vos, ante docere, quàm ipsi intelligatis?

Immò an non vos pudet seducere, prius, quam domum reducere noveritis?

Hypocritae estis, & Spiritu sancto vacui.

Mendaces esse devenistis, & ipsius Christi ininuci, & sui sancti Spiritus.

Fortassis dicitis, ex Scripturarum Lectione, intelligentiam comparamus earundem.

Ast mihi respondeatis; cujus spiritus auxilio, hane vobis comparatis intelligentiam?

Quis vobis apparuit Angelus? vel ex quo Coelo, vestram recepistis instructionem?

Fieri potest, quod, ex Spiritu sancto dicetis.

O stulte tu modicaeque intelligentiae! non intelligis tu, quòd Spiritus sanctus Ecclesiae Paedagogus est, integri gregis, & congregationis Christi?

[〈◊〉] si [〈◊〉] Paedagogus est, sequitur, quòd Doctrina aliqua, quàm Spiritus sanctus decet, [〈◊〉], documentum, sive intelligentia sit multitudinis.

Atqui, quae hominum multitudo, tuae est intelligentiae?

Vel cujus es tu Congregationis?

Aliter dispersionis. Dicisne, dispersus alicujus te unum esse: Falsum narras, fugitivus es.

Verùm, ecce, te doceo: Errorque tuus ante tuam constat faciem.

Quicunque ad Scripturam intelligentiam perveniet, conari debet ad illarum intelligentiam praevenire, [〈◊〉] Ordinationem, & Traditionem spiritualem.

Ast ex qua spirituali traditione, nactus es tu intelligentiam?

Vel juxta quam Ordinationem, tibi est apertus Scripturarum sensus?

Dices (forsan) ex sanctis Patribus, informatum esse te, & per eundem spiritum per quem docebent illi, tuam te esse consecutum intelligentiam.

Dicere sic quidem potes, verum non te sic facere certum est.

Quis enim antiquorum Patrum, rationem copulavit verbo Dei, vel Scripturam intelligentiam, Ethnicorum astrinxit disciplinae?

Tibi dico, quò antiqui Patres, Christo chari erant, & coelestium visionum, consolationumque Coelestium participes: quae visiones [〈◊〉] ésque consolationes non illos docebant novam Scripturarum expositionem, sed confirmabant, lucéque illustrabant mysteria Spiritus sancti, per Apostolos declarata, qui Ecclesiae ipsi sua posuêre fundamenta; quicquid igitur ab antiquis Patribus discere possis, ab Apostolis discis, & quicquid ab Apostolis intelligis, habes id quidem, à Spiritu sancto, sed si ipsos Patres exponas tuo sensu modóque, & non juxta sensum Apostolorum, certè Spiritum sanctum non habes, sed spiritum mendacii.

Humilem, igitur, temet praebeto, & coram Domino procidas, rationem semoveas, Dominoque adhaereas, laborésque verbum ejusdem intelligere, ex Spiritu suo sancto: quem Spiritum sanctum, omni ex necessicate invenire debes, atque invenies invisibili Ecclesia usque ad mundi finem.

Perspicuè tibi dicam, (ut veritas potenter in luce appareat) quicunque Dei contrarius est voluntati, quae suae est tradita Ecclesiae per Apostolos quidem publicata, per Spiritum sanctum enutrita, & mundo impertita, & per Petrum ad Romam tradicta, & per eundem ibidem expressa, ab ejusdem successoribus retenta atque sustentata est: Hic idem Deo & veritati suae contrarius est.

Lutherus suorum recepit mercedem.

Calvinus suam.

Reliqui omnes [〈◊〉] erraverunt, & sponte in devia concurrerunt, separando seipsos ab Ecclesia & Congregatione Christi, obstinatè & Diaboli (patris sui) instinctu, mercedem suam receperunt.

Contra quos filius Dei judicium pronunciabit, dicendo:

Ite Deceptores in gehennae ignem, Patri vestro & filiis illius, ab exordio praeparatum.

Inter vos ipsos insurgitis asserendo, Papam Antichristum esse (hoc enim nomine illum insignitis) homo [〈◊〉] malus esse possit, atque à sua excidere vocatione, verumtamen Antichristus esse nunquam potest.

Antichristus enim ille est, qui filius est Diaboli, homo quidem ex carne & sanguìne natus ex impia & [〈◊〉] meretrice, qui populos seducet tumidusque sui patris potentia, Deo resistet in Terra inter homines, quemadmodum pater ejus in Coelo fecerat inter Angelos: prorsus denegando Dei Ominpotentiam seque illi opponendo.

O vos stulti & exiguae intelligentiae, quum Apostolis Coeli concredabantur claves: (quasi diceres) eadem Christi [〈◊〉] filii Dei viventis, authoritas & potestas ad hominem condonanda peccata, & ad peccatores Coelo excludendos, & quum ^[24] eisdem Apostolis, vade post me Satana, etiam diceoatur, non tanta estis intelligentia ut in Altissimi haec introspicere valeatis mysteria.

Si Dei filius tum commendabat tum etiam [〈◊〉] Discipulos suos, cur non possit igitur Episcopus, & bonus & malus censeri? Si hinc consequatur, bonum malumque Episcopo inesse posse, pari ratione inferri posfit authoritatis Episcopalis rationem, à bono malove illo non pendere, sed ipsius ad Episcopi vitam hoc bonum malúmve spectare si bonus sit, suae bonitatis metet beneficium; sin malus sit, mendax est; sua enim illi contraria est doctrina. Proinde, si, propter hominum peccata Deus permiserit, multos in spiritu ^[25] Ananiae sedere in loco sancto, id quidem propter peccata vestra est, & rebellem naturam, ut supplicium recipiatis: & non obscura vel tenebrosa ejus fieret Ecclesia.

Aperitè itaque oculos vestros & intelligite, & Ecclesiae adhaeritatis, amore ipsius Ecclesiae, & non hominum. Neque Ecclesiam contemnatis, propter hominum iniquitatis.

Verùm colla illi submutatis sancto jugo & ordinationi, quae vos ducet ad illam Congregationem quae gubernator per Spiritum Dei, in qua intelligetis secreta Libri Dei, explicata esse juxta sensum antiquorum vestrorum Patrum: quorum intelligentia erat dignitus Spiritus Sancti.

Non potestis a vobis ipsis authoritatem recipere, & hinc authoritas nihil facere potestis.

Idcircò cum vestra authoritas nulla sit, cur Ecclesia opera Actave intra vestras arripitis manus? ^[26]

Una quidem res est, Scripturarum aliquem quaerere intelligentiam: atque alia est Scripturas docere, secundùm intelligentiam suam. Qui enim docet, ex authoritate docet: sed authoritatem si non habeat usurpator five intiusor est.

Fratres mei, Considerate vosmet ipsos bene, & considerate vos pueros esse, & quod vestri juris non sitis sed alieni. Nihil igitur faciatis quasi ex vobis ipsis: sed insistatis (ut pueri boni) vestigiis Matris vestrae, quae Mater pura Virgo est, & semper à Paracleti sapientia informatur, quem vobis (pueris ejus) exhibere cibum debet; & quo vos modo educare atque instruere.

Simplicitas multùm valet & obedientia, certum est, coram Domino; Ast curiositas Diabolus est. ^[27]

An non legistis quid sanctorum panis, non sit ante cancs projiciendus?

Penitius vosmet examinetis, utrum canes sitis, ncc ne.

Videte utrum vita vestra sancta sit, opera vestra recta & justa; patientia vestra multiplex; afflictio vestra, magna propter Dominum.

Si vosmet ipsos, in hoc statu esse, minimè deprehendatis, pueri non estis; si pueri haud sitis, non estis filii; si filii haud sitis matrem non habetis; sin verò matrem non habet, devoratores estis illius panis qui filiis debetur, canini, insensati, & contra Deum estis.

In [〈◊〉] judicium status vos ipsi descendatis.

Pater

• Considerate, per Deum Creati estis ^[28]

Filius

• Considerate, per Deum Redempti estis.

Spiritus S.

• Considerate etiam, relicti estis Spirituali Tutelae & consolationi Dei.

Qui Deus ex vobis congregationem ordinavit, sanctam & sanctificatam societatem, pascentem semper simul tanquam fratres, sub alis suis & insua mensa; qui vos pascit vitae & intelligentiae panae; corpore ([〈◊〉]) & sanguine Jesu Christi filii Dei viventis.

Intelligentiae autem pane vos pascit, ut patris vestii voluntatem intelligatis, qui in Coelis est; Obedientia ut illi quum noveritis, obedientes factis; quae obedientia vestrae vocationis finis est.

Nullo igitur modo obedientiae jugum excutiatis, de simul etiam Calicem intelligentiae à vobis repellatis; atque ea ratione Patris vestri vos lateat voluntas.

Sed judicio meo famelici estis, vestra contracta sunt intestina, ossa nervique mariescunt.

Quae hujus rei causa est? quando illum Domini [〈◊〉] recepistis? quando nutrimentum accepistis? ô vos modicae fidei & intelligentiae minoris erratis, & devii curritis. Coeci estis, patris veftri, non obtemperatis voluntati; redite, redite & intra vosmet ipsos talia dicatis.

O sempiterne Deus, & benigne Pater, magna certè est cura misericordiáque tua erga nos, quos in devia actos per Satanam, & spiritum tenebrarum reduxisti domum; & nobis coecis praeposuisti (visu etiam nobis restituto) veram semitam lineamque rectam intelligentiae. O nos soelices, quos tibi tam charos habes; & quorum salus tantae tibi curae est. Nomen proindè tuum, laudibus celebrabunus; & à nostris revertemur crroribus. Peccata confitebimur nostra, & praecepta observabimus tua. Quoniam tu solus, ô Domine, justus & verus es, & misericordia tua aeterna est. Leges tuae suaves sunt, et per amans tua benignitas inter nos valida est. Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Zebaoth. Honor omnis laus et gloria tibi detur in perpetuum.

Δ Amen.

URIEL. ..... Modico transacto temporis spatio revertam.

E. K. Abiit.

Δ Nota.

Δ Interim Francisco Pucci haec (quae Anglicè dictata recepimus) Latine recitabam. Nobisque nervosa valdè, [〈◊〉] accommoda institut is videbantur.

E. K. Iterum illum adesse video.

URIEL. ..... Francisce attentis auribus, verba excipias mea.

SISTATIS PAULULUM.

Δ Hinc statim, Franciscus Puccius a sede sua genibus utrisque (quasi Deo supplex) terram petebat.

URIEL. ..... Verum quidem est (ut tuus te aliàs commune fecit spiritus) quòd Deus te [〈◊〉] ut particeps & intelligens esses voluntatis suae explendae, in vindicta & ira sua exercenda, contra terrae falsitatem & fraudem.

Atque hanc ob causam, ex magno suo amore, & immensa misericordia sua avocavit te Deus à filiis hominum, Deo invisorum, & ab injustitiae tramite.

In qua tua vocatione, si illum imiteris, in tuae conscientiae simplicitate, & justitia (quae fidei sunt opera) confirmaberis. Tibi enim dico, vindictam meam effundam super universam terram atque illam castigabo in iniquitate sua, & in suae superbiè summo gradu illam praecipitem posternam; neque ultra triumphabit.

Et quia te demissum humilémque exhibuisti spiritus meus tecum erit, & intelligentiam tu consequeris.

Et monstrum hoc impium, quod in Templo sancto sedet, & contra Altissimum peccat, [〈◊〉] ^[29] cum superbia sua, Atque ex ore utriusque vestri castigabitur & corrigetur. Judicium enim à Domo Dei inchoari debet, E filius rebellis prius flagellis caedi debet, quam impius puniri servus.

No timeatis, Vestris enim verbis, vires & potentiam adjungam.

Et vestra si contemnat verba manusque suas contra vos [〈◊〉]: de Coelo ignis atque sulphuris demittam imbrem, & Palatia ejusdem in terram descendent: lacusque ibidem remanens contra illum testimonium dabit perpetuum.

Erigas igitur cor tuum mundumque despicias, & contra cjusdem veriliter pugna, neque ab eodem vincans.

Tua [〈◊〉] confitearis peccata: & ad Dominum confugias, illius perquirito domum, & de illius pane comedas: eo enim multum tibi opus est.

Et semina quae sparsim [〈◊〉], recolligas: ne fortè tu poenas tuas, ob fratrum tuorum peccata.

Anima tua Deo chara est, atque ideirco misericordia erga te movetur, tibique dicit, si coram Domino [〈◊〉] appareas: atque sequaris instructiones & disciplinam Spiritus sancti faciásque opera Justiciae & Charitatis, spiritus meus super te requiescet.

Dixi.

E. K. Abiit.

Δ Ex Anglicis dictatis istis ultimis Latine eundem expressi sensum, Domino Fr. Puccio, valde devoto humili, & praemissa agnoscenti & acceptanti, &c.

E. K. Iterum mihi conspicuus est.

URIEL. ..... Praemissa vestra tam poenitentia quam devotione, Benedictio Dei Patris Filii, & Spiritu sancti, in sua sempiterna veritate lucéque vos consoletur, vobisque benedicat, & vobis misericordiam impertiat copiosam.

Δ Amen.

Ex Actione, quae erat die Veneris, September 6. 1585. Pragae.

Eat Puccius, ut promissis per ficiendis provide at.

At cor habeat sincerum rectumque. ^[30]

Immò saepe proprios detergat caliceos.

Inter eu ndem autem alloquatur mortua arbusta, de Domino venturo.

Ambulet cum montibus ut illi ejus audire possit.

Tunc revertatur ut quod reliquum est ad implere possit.

Atqui dico proprios tergat caliceos.

Δ Vos oro ut illam nobis explicare phrasem velitis obscuram.

Qui flagellatur ipse sentit. ^[31]

Angelica vox. ..... Reliqui (iejunii vestr) dies, non hic complebuntur, sed in illis viginti diebus, in quibus Romae operari Decretum est mihi.

Marginal notes

1. Δ I had set S. K. at the usual Table, in our secret study, and had [〈◊〉] my usual Shew-stone before him. ↩
2. A Vision. ↩
3. Liber cum 7 sigillis. ↩
4. Emet tau. ↩
5. The angel with the Book. ↩
6. Δ Visitatio Justitiae [〈◊〉]. Judaeorum. [〈◊〉]. ↩
7. Veritas prevalebar. ↩
8. Malitia, Mundama, Pompa, & [〈◊〉]. ↩
9. Reason. Ecclesia [〈◊〉]. ↩
10. Lather. Casvin: Wilfully, Obstinately erring. ↩
11. The definition of an Here tique. ↩
12. The Pope is not Antichrist. Antichrist. ↩
13. Claves Coeli [〈◊〉] datae. ↩
14. Remember [〈◊〉] amending of this place. [〈◊〉] belong eth. ↩
15. Acts 23. A. ↩
16. Nullus [〈1 line〉]. ↩
17. An usurper. ↩
18. [〈1 line〉]. ↩
19. [〈1 line〉]. ↩
20. [〈1 line〉]. ↩
21. Pranciscus Pucci. ↩
22. Judicium incipiet à domo Dei. Filius, Servus. ↩
23. Videntes olim, qui Prophetae postea dicti. ↩
24. Matt. cap. 16. C. D ↩
25. Act. 23. A ↩
26. Malae fidei possessor. ↩
27. Matt. 7. a 15. C Mar. 7. C ↩
28. Vox haec [〈◊〉] multum [〈◊〉]. ↩
29. [〈◊〉]. 9. C 1 Petri 4. D ↩
30. Angelica vox. ↩
31. Augelica vox. ↩