Apokrypta apokalypta velata quædam revelata : some certain, hidden, or vailed spiritual verities revealed : upon occasion of various very prying and critical queries concerning God, the devil, and man, as to his body, soul, and spirit, Heaven, Hell, Judgement &c : propounded to George Fox, John Perrot, Samuel Fisher : and after that (with a complaint for want of, and stricter urgency for an answer) re-propounded to Edward Burroughs : by two persons, choosing to notifie themselves to us no other way then by these two unwonted (if not self-assumed) titles, viz. Livinus Theodorus, and Sabina Neriah : which truths (as there inspired by the spirit of God) are here expired in love to the souls of men / from ... Samuel Fisher.

THese Returns to the Letter, and Replies to the Queries here ensuing, were in no wise written at first with any purpose of publishing them so generally as at the Press: But with particular respect to the satisfaction of those two private Querists onely, viz. L. T. & S. N. who have (on their part) so privily all along managed the matter of their enquiry, that we can truly say (notwithstanding our express desires to them of such a thing) we cannot learn to this very day, by any hint to us (as from themselves) distinctly either Who, or What, or Whence, or Where they are; their Let∣ters bearing no date from any Sign or Place, whereby we might be put into a capacity to come unto any outward Cognizance of, or Acquain∣tance with them; And themselves not willing (for ought I see) to be known to us either by their faces, or by the places of their abode, but onely by these two (I will not say Hypocritical, but) Aenigmatical names of Livinus Theodorus, Sabina Neriah. But so it was, that they never sending at all for our Answer to their Queries to that person nominated by themselves, with whom it was left for them at their own request * 1.1, but about five or six weeks after it was made ready for them, propounding their Queries all over again verbatim to E. B. together with not onely expressions of greater earnestness, and sharper eagerness after an Answer, but also a Letter of complaint against us three, G. F. J. P. S. F. as either nilling or neglecting, and not at all regarding to gratific our friends (as they style themselves) in a matter of so grand importance; and lastly, they not yet coming, nor so much as sending to me for it, though in a Letter left for them, and carried to them by their Messenger, it was long since signified to them, that it lies by me

for them, if they would either call themselves, or send for it to me by any that might signifie to me where any of us (as occasion is) may speak with either of them; their Messenger also intimating (as I hear) that their expectation and desire now is of seeing something Printed as in An∣swer to them; I held it meet, in no less love to their souls (who e're they are) and even to the souls of all men, then to my own, to commit and commend this long since written Reply in Print to their or any other persons, whether private, or publick perusal, in such manner and form as hereafter follows.

S. F.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Viz. Robert Wilson, who together with my self, was then, and is still impri∣soned in Westminster Gatehouse; where, and from whence also this present An∣swer was written and gi∣ven forth.