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answer thee, all thowgh it be not my office, 116 to declare that thow desirest: yet for that thow desyrest my Medicine. I say, Thow shalt preuavle agaynst them. 117 yea euen agaynst the Mightiest. As thow wilt, so shall it be in God his blessings. Beware of Vayne glory. Use few wordes. Thy weapons, are small, But thy Conquest shalbe great. Lo. Doth this satisfy thee? Haue a firme faith. It is the greatest lesson. Be it unto thee as thow hast deliuered. One thing, I answer thee, for all Officis. Thow hast in Subiection all Offices. Use them when it pleas thee, And as thy Instruction hath byn. I haue sayde. A: As things be planted here, for preparation of Table, Sigillum Dei &c, which things are not portable with eas: So, bycause I think, that some seruices to be done in gods purposes by me, will require other places than this howse. so shall diuerse my practises haue (as I think) a more compendious manner, and redy, to be executed in any place &c. Me: Truely thow hast sayd, and so shall it fall unto thee. As I am here in this place, and yet in dede not, So, here: So shall it fall oute, and follow in the Mysteries of your Associated Operation. The other 118 shall be. but, as a necessary help to the first Practises, to plant the Tree: which being confirmed and strongly rooted shall bring furth frute, most abundantly.^9 The Erth and the tree, can not be separated. This is the ende, and true it is. Let him be record, whom I beare record of here,
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Note, each in his Office.
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Praevalescentia. -A ("Prevailing against." -Ed.)
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A: and EK, and A. Gilbert.
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The erth — 1. EK The Tree — 2. A The planter — 3. AG