CHAPTER VI.

We could here relate and declare what all the time from
the year 1378 (when our Christian father was born) till now
hath happened, what alterations he hath seen in the world
these one hundred and six years of his life, what he left
after his happy death to be attempted by our Fathers and
by us, but brevity, which we do observe, will not per-
mit at this present to make rehearsal of it ; it is enough for
those which do not despise our declaration to have touched
upon it, thereby to prepare the way for their more close
union and association with us. Truly, to whom it is per-
mitted to behold, read, and thenceforward teach himself
those great characters which the Lord God hath inscribed
upon the world's mechanism, and which He repeats through
the mutations of Empires, such an one is already ours, though
as yet unknown to himself ; and as we know he will not
neglect our invitation, so, in like manner, we abjure all
deceit, for we promise that no man's uprightness and hopes

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shall deceive him who shall make himself known to us under
the seal of secresy and desire our familiarity. But to the
false and to impostors, and to those who seek other things
then wisdom, we witness by these presents pub likely, we
cannot be betrayed unto them to our hurt, nor be known to
them without the will of God, but they shall certainly be
partakers of that terrible commination spoken of in our
Fama, and their impious designs shall fall back upon their
own heads, while our treasures shall remain untouched, till
the Lion shall arise and exact them as his right, receive and
imploy them for the establishment. of his kingdom.