(Contains a
valuable list of contemporary and earlier mystical and theological books,
tracts and pamphlets.
valuable list of contemporary and earlier mystical and theological books,
tracts and pamphlets.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09
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(2) Attack on the Stage.
Dennis, John. The Stage Defended, . . . Occasion'd by Mr Law's late
Pamphlet against Stage-Entertainments. . . . 1726.
Law Outlaw'd: Or, A Short Reply to Mr Law's Long Declamation against
the Stage. . . . 1726.
(3) Reply to Mandeville,
Mandeville, Bernard de. The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick
Benefits. . . . 1714.
[The poem was first printed in 1705, in a 6d. pamphlet, under the title
The Grumbling Hive; or Knaves turn'd Honest. ]
(4) The Deist Controversy.
(Tindal, Matthew. ) Christianity as old as the Creation. Vol. 1. 1730. (The
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Trapp, Joseph. The Nature, Folly, Sin, and Danger of being Righteous
over-much; with a particular view to the Doctrines and Practices of
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2 vols. 1738-41.
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remarks about Law, see specially The Doctrine of Grace, Works, vol. IV,
pp. 565, 624, 626, 699-707. ]
Payne, John. A Letter occasioned by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester's
Doctrine of Grace. . . . 1763.
Hartley, Thomas. A Short Defence of the Mystical Writers; against some
Reflections in a late Work, intitled The Doctrine of Grace; (appended
to] Paradise Restored. . . . 1764.
Horne, George (bp of Norwich). Cautions to the Readers of Mr Law.
(c. 1750? ) (Printed in Appendix to] Memoirs of George Horne, . . . by
William Jones. . . . 1795, pp. 198–204.
A Letter to a Lady on the Subject of Jacob Behmen's Writings. April
8, 1758. [In Appendix, ibid. pp. 205-21, see, also, ibid. pp. 73-4. )
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F. Biographical and Critical Works
A Letter to Mr Law; Occasion'd by reading his Treatise on Christian
Perfection: By a Lover of Mankind. . . . 1728.
A Short Account of the two charitable Foundations at Kings-Cliffe, Stamford.
1755.
Article on Law in Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary, vol. xx, 1815.
Four Letters on Law and his works (by W. Hamilton Reid, Z. Cozens,
"Quranius' and 'Theophilus') in The Gentleman's Magazine, Nov. 1800,
pp. 1038-41.
(Langcake, Thomas. ] A Serious and Affectionate Address to all orders of
Men. . . in which are earnestly recommended the Works of . . . William
Law. . Bath . . . 1781.
[Moreton, G. ] Memorials of the Birthplace and Residence of . . . Law at
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Overton, J. H. The Nonjurors, their lives, principles and writings. 1902.
William Law, Nonjuror and Mystic. 1881.
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Tighe, Richard. A Short account of the Life and Writings of . . . Law. . . . 1813.
[Walton, Christopher. ] Notes and Materials for an adequate Biography
of . . . Law. . . . 1854.
[A mine of information in all that relates to Law and Boehme, as well
as to many other mystics,
principally of the eighteenth century. The part
more directly relating to Law will be found imbedded in a footnote, which
runs from p. 334 to p. 628. ]
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II. FOLLOWERS OF LAW
A. John Byrom
An Epistle to a gentleman of the Temple. . . . 1749.
Enthusiasm; a Poetical Essay. 1751.
Miscellaneous Poems. 2 vols. Manchester. 1773. Rptd at Leeds, 1814.
Francis Okely collected and printed those of Byrom's poems which
are paraphrased from Law, under the title:
Seasonably Alarming and Humiliating . . . Truths . . . in a Metrical Version
of certain select passages taken from the works of . . . William Law. . . .
1774.
The Private Journal and Literary Remains of John Byrom. Ed. Parkinson,
R. 4 vols. Chetham Society. 1854–7.
The Poems of John Byrom. Ed. Ward, A. W. 2 vols. Chetham Society.
Manchester, 1894-5. (A third volume is about to appear. ]
A Catalogue of the Library of the late John Byrom. . . . 1848.
(Contains a
valuable list of contemporary and earlier mystical and theological books,
tracts and pamphlets. ]
Stephen, Sir Leslie. John Byrom. , Studies of a Bibliographer, vol. I. 1898.
B. Henry Brooke
The Fool of Quality; or the History of Henry Earl of Moreland. In four
volumes. . . . 1766. Vol. v, 1770. Ed. Kingsley, Charles. 2 vols. 1859. Rpt
in one vol. Routledge, 1906. [All references are given to this latter edn. ]
and The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland. 1781. [Abridged and edited by
John Wesley. ]
I Poetical Works. 3rd edn. 4 vols. Dublin, 1792. [With life of Brooke. ]
Brooke, Richard Sinclair. Article on Henry Brooke in Dublin University
Magazine, Feb. 1852.
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III. OTHER ENGLISH MYSTICS AND FOLLOWERS OF BOEHME IN THE
SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
A. Thomas Bromley (d. 1691)
The Way to the Sabbath of Rest, or the Soul's Progress in the work of the
New-Birth. . . . 1710. [First published c. 1678? , a 2nd edn in 1692. ]
B. George Cheyne (1671-1743)
Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion. . . . 1705; 2nd edn, corrected
and enlarged. . . . 1715.
Dr Cheyne's own Account of Himself and of his Writings. . . . 1743.
C. Jane Lead (1623–1704)
[For list of works, published between 1681 and 1704, see D. of N. B. See,
also, art. in British Quarterly Review, vol. LVIII, pp. 181-7. ]
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D. Francis Lee (1661-1719)
ANOAEITIOMENA, or, Dissertations. 2 vols. . . . 1752.
[A paraphrase or enlargement of Boehme's Supersensual Life, printed
in 'Law's edn’ of Boehme, and said by the editors to be by Law, Fol. 19,
1781, q. v. , below. The MS of this, in Lee's writing, is in Dr Williams's
library, 11. 8. ]
The Last Hours of Jane Lead, by an Eye and Ear Witness. [No English edn
of this is now to be found, although a German translation of it was
published at Amsterdam. A MS re-translation into English is in
Dr Williams's library, C. 5. 30. ]
Mystical poems (in Jane Lead's works). These are almost certainly by Lee.
See Notes and Queries, Ser. iv, vol. XII, p. 381.
For many other books by Lee published anonymously, see Dictionary of
National Biography, vol. XXXII.
Unpublished MSS from his hand are preserved in Dr Williams's library,
C. 5, 30, 11. 8, II. 6.
Secretan, C. F. Memoirs of the Life and Times of the pious Robert Nelson.
1860 (pp. 69-71, and chap. 111].
[Though Law had little sympathy with the Philadelphians' (see below
of which society Lee was a member, he was deeply interested in Lee's writings
He obtained Lee's MSS about 1740, and copied out many of them, and the
MSS were found among Law's papers after his death. Walton procured
them from Miss Gibbon's successors, and deposited them in Dr Williams's
library, where they now are. See Walton's Notes, pp. 225, 505. For sh
account of Lee, see Overton's William Law, pp. 408–10, as well as Lee's
Dissertations, and Secretan's Life of Nelson. ]
E. Morgan Llwyd (1619-1659)
[A Welsh puritan divine and mystic writer, who, during the civil war, was
with the Parliamentary forces in England, probably as chaplain. He must
undoubtedly have known Boehme, and he wrote many books in Welsh which
are full of Boehme's philosophy; more especially:]
Llyfr y tri Aderyn (Book of the Three Birds). 1653. Rptd by Dent, Mcm.
у
Ed. Owen Jones. 1889.
An English translation of the above by Parry, L. J. , was published in
the Transactions of the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Llandudno, 1896,
pp. 195 ff.
[One book in English is attributed to Llwyd:]
Lazarus and his Sisters Discoursing of Paradise: . . . 1655. [A MS copy
of this in Francis Lee's writing was found among Law's papers, and
is now in Dr Williams's library. ]
For an account of Morgan Llwyd and his writings, with extracts
from the Three Birds, see Palmer, A. N. , A History of the Older Non-
conformity of Wrexham and its Neighbourhood, Wrexham, 1888.
For a fine appreciation of him by a contemporary, see A Winding
Sheet for Mr Baxter's Dead . . . being an Apology for several ministers
. . . 1685.
F. Philadelphian Society (1697-1703)
Propositions . . . extracted from the Reasons for the Foundation . . . of a
Philadelphian Society. . . . 1697.
The State of the Philadelphian Society. . . . 1697. [By Philadelphus, le
Francis Lee. ]
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Theosophical Transactions of the Philadelphian Society. Nos. 1-5. . . . 1697
See a good article on the Philadelphian Society in The Dawn (London),
Dec. 1862, pp. 236-42.
[This society, founded in 1697, and dissolved in 1703, was formed in order
'to cultivate spiritual and practical piety, founded on the study of Jacob
Behmen. Its principal members were Mrs Jane Lead; Dr Francis Lee, q. v. ,
and Thomas Bromley. For Law's views on it see Animadversions, Works,
VI, p. 313, and Walton's Notes, p. 370, also letter to Langcake, ibid. pp. 45-6.
See also correspondence of Henry Dodwell and Francis Lee, 1698-9, in
Walton's Notes, pp. 188-232. ]
G. Richard Roach (1662-1730)
The Great Crisis. . . . 1725. [Published 1726. ] [Interesting for an account
of contemporary mystics, the Philadelphian Society, etc. ]
The Imperial Standard of Messiah Triumphant. . . . (1727. ]
H. Thomas Tryon (1634-1703)
The Way to Health. . . . 1691. Tryon's Letters. .