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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

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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