John Dee, 1527-1608 / / by Charlotte Fell Smith ... with portrait and illustrations.

  • Fell-Smith, Charlotte, 1851-1937.
Date:
1909
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Credit: John Dee, 1527-1608 / / by Charlotte Fell Smith ... with portrait and illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    more, if at the end he might be sure of attaining to godly wisdom, whereby to do God service for His glory. He was resolved either willingly to leave this world, to enjoy the fountain of all wisdom, or to pass his days on earth in the enjoyment of its blessings and mysteries. Another violent scene occurred before long; this time the mistress of the house was the one offended. Dee says : By A[drian] G[ilbert] and Providence, E. K.'s vehement passions were pacified. He came back again to my house, and my wife was willing and quiet in mind and friendly to E. K. in word and coun- tenance. A new pacification in all parts confirmed and all upon the confidence of God his service faith- fully performed. Kelley's wife had not yet joined him at Mortlake, but he had occasional letters from her. One found him in a tender religious mood, about to pray in his bedchamber, on a little prayer book which Mr. Adrian Gilbert had left here, and it lay on the table during the action. It was Seven Sobbes of a Sorrowful Soul for Sinne, in English metre, made by Mr. William Harris. When he opened it, he found some automatic script in the end, or, as he calls it, a counterfeit of his own hand. He took it to Dee, who saw in it the work of a wicked spirit trying to shake their confidence. The next evening, both prayed against their enemy, Kelley on his knees before the green chair standing at the chimney. Uriel appeared and said temptation was requisite. If it were not, how should men know God to be merciful ? He speaks to Kelley :— Thou, O yongling, but old sinner, why dost thou suffer thy blindness to increase ?