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A88137	The life of one Jacob Boehmen: who although he were a very meane man, yet wrote the most wonderfull deepe knowledge in naturall and divine things. That any hath been knowne to doe since the apostles times, and yet never read them, or learned them from any other man, as may be seene in that which followeth. Wherein is contained a perfect catalogue of his workes.	Hotham, Durant, 1617?-1691.	1644 (1644)	Wing L2035B; Thomason E16_16; ESTC R240	3,894	8

The Life of one JACOB BOEHMEN WHO ALTHOUGH HE WERE A Very Meane man yet wrote the most wonderfull deepe knowledge in NATURALL and DIVINE things That any hath been knowne to doe since the APOSTLES TIMES and yet never read them or learned them from any other man as may be seene in that which followeth WHEREIN IS CONTAINED A perfect Catalogue of his Workes LONDON Printed by L. N. for RICHARD WHITAKER at the signe of the Kings Armes in Pauls Church-yard 1644. A briefe Relation of the Life and Conversation of JACOB BOEHMEN afterwards by learned men called TEUTONICUS IACOB BOEHMEN was borne in the yeare 1575. at old Seidenberg about two miles distant from Gorlitz a City lying in Upper Lusatia which is commended in the Writings of learned men His parents were Jacob his father and Ursula his mother both poore country people In his youth he kept cattell and afterwards by the counsell of his friends was sent to Schoole where he gate to learne to write and reade together with the feare of God and after that was put to the Trade of a Shoo-maker wherein when he became a Master Anno 1594. he married a mayd one Catharine the daughter of one John Kunshman of Gorlitz a Butcher with whom he lived peaceably and well thirty yeares and had by her foure sonnes who also learned handicrafts This man being from his youth up addicted to the feare of God and being a willing hearer of Sermons was at length stirred up by that Speech and Promise of our Saviours Luke 11. vers 13. Your heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit to them that aske him for it likewise through the differences and controversies in Religion in which he knew not how to satisfie himselfe was so moved that he in the simplicity of spirit ardently and uncessantly asked sought and knocked that he might know the Truth whereby according to the Divine Drawing and Will hee was in spirit rapt into the Holy Saboath where he remained seven whole daye by his own confession in highest Ioy. Afterwards when he came to himselfe and had layd aside the folly of youth he was driven by Divine Zeale to reprehend very earnestly impudent Scandalous and Blasphemous Speeches and withdrew himselfe from all unseemly actions with earnestnesse for the Love of vertue by which practice and life seeing it was cleane contrary to the way and course of the world he became only their scorne and derision in the meane time he maintained himselfe with the labour of his hands in the sweat of his browes till the beginning of the Sixt Seculum namely the year 1600 when he was a second time possessed with a Divine Light and by a sudden sight of a Pewter Vessell he was brought to the inward ground or Centrum of the hidden Nature But he yet somewhat mistrusting went out into an open field and there beheld the Wonder-workes of the Creator in the Signatures of all created things very cleerly and manifestly laid open whereupon he was taken with exceeding Ioy yet held his peace in silence praised God and in the meane time contented himselfe therewith But according to Gods holy counsell who manageth his work in secret after ten yeares viz. Anno 1610. through the Overshadowing of the Holy Spirit he was a third time touched by God and renewed Whereupon when hee became so enlightned lest so great grace bestowed upon him should slip out of his memory or he resist his God he wrote privately and secretly for himselfe by small meanes and no bookes at all but only the Holy Scriptures These Workes following viz. 1. Anno 1612. He wrote the first Book called Aurora the Rising of the Sun which book he being accused for being the Author thereof was by the Magistrate at Gorlitz at Court committed to custody with command to him that he should henceforth being an Idiot or simple man refraine such writing of bookes that did not belong to his profession and condition Whereupon he refrained seven yeares but afterwards being stirred up againe by the motion of the Holy Spirit of God and also being incouraged thereunto by the entreaty and desires of some people that feared God he betooke himselfe to his pen againe and proceeded in writing and perfected with good leisure and deliberation the rest which follow viz. 2. Anno 1619. The second Book Of the Three Principles together with an appendix of the Threefold life of Man 3. Anno 1620. A Booke of the Three-fold life of Man 4. An Answer to the 40 Questions of the Soule propounded by Doctor Balthasar Walterus Wherein the first chapter comprehendeth a Treatise of the Turned Eye or Philosophique Globe withall an addition concerning the Soule the Image of the Soule and the Turba or destroyeresse of the Image 5. Three Books The first of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ The second of the Suffering Death and Resurrection of Christ The third of the Tree of Faith 6. A Booke of Six Points 7. A Booke of the Heavenly and Earthly Mysterium 8. A Booke of the Last Times to P. K. 9. Anno 1621. A Booke De Signatura Rerum or the Sgnature of all things 10. A Consolatory Booke of the foure Complexions 11. An Apology to Balthasar Tilken in two parts 12. A Consideration upon Esaias Steefells Booke 13. Anno. 1622 A Booke of true Repnetance 14. A Booke of true Resignation 15. A Booke of Regeneration 16. A short Compendium of Repentance 17. Anno 1623. A Booke of the Predestination and Election of God 18. The Mysterium Magnum upon Genesis 19. Anno 1624. A Table of the Principles or a Key of his Writings to G. F. and I. H. 20. A little Booke of the Supersensuall Life 21 A little Booke of Divine Contemplation 22. A Book of the Two Testaments of Christ viz. Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord. 23. A Dialogue betweene the enlightned and the unenlightned Soule 24. An Apology upon the Booke of true Repentance dericted against a Pasquill of the principall Minister of Gorlitz called Gregory Rickter 25 A Booke of 177. Theosophick Questions 26. An Epitome of the Mysterium Magnum 27. The Holy Weeks or the prayer-Prayer-Booke 28. A Table of the Divine Manifestation or an Exposition of the Threefold World to I. S V. S. and A. V. F. In these two that follow the date of the yeare is not set downe 29. A Booke of the Errours of the Sects of Ezechiel Meths to A. P. A. or an Apology to Esaias Steefell 30. A Booke of The last Judgement Further. 31. Certaine Letters to divers Persons written at divers times with certaine Key 's for some hidden Words The Bookes which the Author finished not are marked with this signe _____ Herewith he hath left so noble and pretious a Treasure and Talent for the setting forth of Gods honour and to promote mans salvation for the present as well as for the future times that from the Apostles Times hitherto higher and deeper grounded Mysteries of the Deity have scarce been revealed

He had conversation and acquaintance for the most part with Godly learned Men and such as were experienced in Nature with whom as also with some of the Nobility of Lusatia and Silesia he conversed in all feare of God Although some common Preachers after their usuall Custome ceased not continually to vomit out their venome and malice against his writings and to slander him with all manner of scandall and calumny among the rude and foolish people Yet the Truth liveth still and hath overcome and shall at last Triumph in secret But he the blessed Jacob Boehmen Teutonicus at Gorlitz in his house lying at the water-side of Nise● Anno 1624. the eighteenth day of November stilo novo about six of the clock in the morning the twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity after he had heard an exceeding sweet Musick without his Chamber and refreshed himselfe with the Holy use of the Testament of Christ at his Supper praying and weeping with his sonnes and some good friends with these last comfortable words Now goe I hence into Paradise gently sighing blessedly departed in the fiftyeth yeare of his age After the funerall Sermon was done he was buried in the Church-yard at Gorlitz and upon the Grave was a woodden Crosse set up on which was pourtrayed a Mysticall three-fold Figure viz. An Eagle with a Lilly-Twigge A Lyon with a Sword A Lamh with a Mitre The Superscription on the Crosse was this V. H. I. L. I. C. I. V. That is Vnser Heil Im Leben Iesu Christi In Vns In English thus Our Salvation is In the Life of Iesus Christ In Vs Which was Jacob Boehmens Motto or usuall Speech and superscription in Letters also Borne of God Dead in Christ Sealed with the Holy Ghost Resteth here Jacob Boehmen of old Seidenberg Note 1. the Southerne Eagle which stood upon an high Rocke and with one foot trod upon a Serpents head and with the other held a Palme received with its Beake a Lilly-Twigge reached out of the Sun 2. The Northern Lyon was Crowned and Signed with a Crosse and bore before it in its right foot a fire-flaming Sword and in its left a fiery-Heart it stayed the Hough or hinder part of its right foot upon a Cube or Square and it s left on a Globe or Ball. 3. A Lamb with a Mitre walked quietly and simply between them both in the meadowes and by the brooks of Grace His seale or Impresse was a hand out of heaven with a Lilly-Twigge In the memoriall Bookes of Good friends he used to write these Rymes Weme Zeit i st wie Ewigkeit Vnd Ewigk●it wie die Zeit Der i st be ●reit von allem streit Englished To whom Time is as Eternity And Eternity as Time He is freed from all strife The Stature of his outward Body was almost of no Personage his person was little and leane with browes somewhat inbowed high Temples somewhat hauknosed His Eyes were gray and somewhat Heaven-blew and otherwise as the Windowes in Solomons Temple he had a thin Beard a Smale low voyce his speech was lovely He was modest in his behaviour humble in his conversation and meeke of Heart His spirit highly enlightned by God as is to be seene and discerned in the Divine Light out of his writings This that followeth was taken out of a Note of M. C. touching what happened at the End or departure of Jacob Boehmen On Sunday the eighteenth of November betimes in the morning he called his sonne Tobias and asked if he also heard that Excellent Musick he said no then he bad that the door should be opened that that musick might be the better heard Afterwards he asked what a clock it was being answered that it had strucke Two he said it is not yet my time Three howers hence is my time In the meane while he spake these words once O thou strong God of Hoasts deliver mee according to thy will O thou Crucified Lord Jesus have mercy upon mee and receive mee into thy Kingdome When it was neere about Six of the clock he tooke his leave of his wife and sonnes blessed them and said moreover Now goe I hence into Paradise spake to his sonne to turne him about and he sighed deeply and so mildly and quietly departed from this world FINIS