Philadelphian
Society (1697-1703)
Propositions .
Propositions .
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09
.
.
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. ]
IN
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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kon!
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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Bibliography
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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515
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. . . . 1700. The Knowledge
of a Man's Self. . . . 1703. Some Memoirs of the Life of Mr Tho. Tryon
[mostly by himself]. 1705. And other works.
Gordon, Alex. A Pythagorean of the seventeenth century. (A paper. ] 1871.
[Tryon is an interesting person, a student of Pythagoras and of Boehme.
He was read by Byrom (Journal, vol. I, pt. 2, p. 615), and was doubtless
known to Law. ]
1
IV. FOREIGN INFLUENCES
A. Jacob Boehme (1575-1624)
[Although Boehme wrote some 32 works, only one small volume, Weg zu
Christo (=(13), (14), (15) in list below), was published during his lifetime. His
MSS went to Holland, and were printed one by one at Amsterdam, principally
by Heinrich Beets, a Dutch merchant, between the years 1633-76. Beets's
editions date from 1656-77. Three of his works, Christ's Testaments, the
Book of Prayer, and 177 Theosophic Questions, were also printed at Dresden,
1641, 1642. The first collected edition of Boehme was edited by Gichtel, J. G. ,
Amsterdam, 1682. His works—which must have been circulated in MS-were
translated into English, by John Sparrow, John Ellistone, Humphrey Blunden
and Charles and Durand Hotham, and published in London between the years
1645-62. Some of his books have rather long titles, and, in the various lists
given of them, are not always called by the same name, nor are the same
treatises always published together, which is confusing. Below is given
a complete list of his works in the order in which he wrote them, followed
by the titles of the English translations. For the best account of Boehme's
writings, see Hamberger's Jacob Böhme, 1844. ]
(1) Collected Editions
German.
Des Gottseeligen Hoch Erleuchteten Jacob Böhmens Teutonici Philosophi
Alle Theosophische Wercken. (Ed. Gichtel, J. G. ] Amsterdam, 1682
and 1715.
Theosophia revelata. Das ist: Alle göttliche Schriften . . . J. Böhmens.
Anbey mit. . . . J. G. Gichtels. . . Summarien. . . ausgezieret. 7 vols. Am-
sterdam, 1730-1. [This is the best and fullest edn of Boehme. ]
Jakob Böhme's sämmtliche Werke herausgegeben von K. W. Schiebler.
7 vols. Leipzig, 1831-46.
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516
Bibliography
English.
[There is no complete English edition of Boehme's works, although the
various translations published between 1644-62 make up a complete editing
,
with several works duplicated. The 4 vols. 4to of 1764-81, generally called
*Law's edition,' contain only 17 out of Boehme’s 32 works. This edition wa
not edited by Law, but by his friends George Ward and Thomas Langcake.
who published it after Law's death, at the cost of Mrs Hutcheson. They
rptd it in the main, with some few alterations, from the earlier English
editions by Sparrow. Below is the title of this edition, and its contents
The works of Jacob Behmen, The Teutonic Theosopher. Volume 1 containing,
I The Aurora. II The Three Principles. To which is prefixed, The Life
of the Author. With Figures, illustrating his Principles, left by the
Reverend William Law, M. A. 1764. [Vol. m. 1772. Vol. iv. 1781
On pp. v-vi of vol. i there is A Dialogue between Zelotes, Alpha
betus, Rusticus and Theophilus, almost certainly by Law.
Altogether, the following works are printed in this edition (see complete
list): vol. 1, (1), (2); vol. 11, (3), (4), (5), (31); vol. 111, (19), (20); vol. 15, $
,
(17), (13), (14), (15), (21), (24), (10), (23).
A complete reprint of Boehme's works in English is now in hand, ed. by
Barker, C. J. , the first two volumes of which, The Threefold Life of Man, and
The Three Principles, have already been published.
(2) Complete list of Jacob Boehme's Works in the order
in which he wrote them
(1) 1612. The Aurora (unfinished). With Notes added by his own hand,
in 1620. (2) 1619. The Three Principles of the Divine Essence.
With an Appendix Concerning the Threefold Life of Man.
The Threefold Life of Man. (4) 1620. Answers to Forty Questions
Concerning the Soul, proposed by Dr Balthasar Walter. With an
Appendix Concerning the Soul and its Image, and of the Turba.
1620. The Treatise of the Incarnation; in 3 parts. (i) of the Incarns-
tion of Jesus Christ. (ii) of the Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resur.
rection of Christ. (ii) of the Tree of Faith.
(6) 1620. A Book of
the Great Six Points. Also a small book of other Six Points.
Of the Earthly and of the Heavenly Mystery.
(8) 1620. Of the Last
Times. [2 Epistles to P[aul] K[eym), included in (32) i. ]
De Signatura Rerum. (10) 1621. Of the Four Complexions.
1621. Two Apologies to Balthasar Tylcken : (i) for the Aurora, (ii) for
Predestination and the Incarnation. (12) 1621. Considerations apop
Esaiah Stiefel's Book concerning the Threefold State of Man, and the
New Birth, (13) 1622. A Book of True Repentance.
A Book of True Resignation. (15) 1622. A Book of Regeneration
(16) 1622. The Apology in answer to Esaiah Stiefel concerning Per
fection. (17) 1623. A Book of Predestination and Election.
1623. A Short Compendium of Repentance.
(19) 1623. Mysterium
Magnum. (20) 1623. A Table of the Divine Manifestation,
Exposition of the Threefold World.
[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. ]
IN
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.
tel
kon!
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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514
Bibliography
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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Chapter XII
515
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. . . . 1700. The Knowledge
of a Man's Self. . . . 1703. Some Memoirs of the Life of Mr Tho. Tryon
[mostly by himself]. 1705. And other works.
Gordon, Alex. A Pythagorean of the seventeenth century. (A paper. ] 1871.
[Tryon is an interesting person, a student of Pythagoras and of Boehme.
He was read by Byrom (Journal, vol. I, pt. 2, p. 615), and was doubtless
known to Law. ]
1
IV. FOREIGN INFLUENCES
A. Jacob Boehme (1575-1624)
[Although Boehme wrote some 32 works, only one small volume, Weg zu
Christo (=(13), (14), (15) in list below), was published during his lifetime. His
MSS went to Holland, and were printed one by one at Amsterdam, principally
by Heinrich Beets, a Dutch merchant, between the years 1633-76. Beets's
editions date from 1656-77. Three of his works, Christ's Testaments, the
Book of Prayer, and 177 Theosophic Questions, were also printed at Dresden,
1641, 1642. The first collected edition of Boehme was edited by Gichtel, J. G. ,
Amsterdam, 1682. His works—which must have been circulated in MS-were
translated into English, by John Sparrow, John Ellistone, Humphrey Blunden
and Charles and Durand Hotham, and published in London between the years
1645-62. Some of his books have rather long titles, and, in the various lists
given of them, are not always called by the same name, nor are the same
treatises always published together, which is confusing. Below is given
a complete list of his works in the order in which he wrote them, followed
by the titles of the English translations. For the best account of Boehme's
writings, see Hamberger's Jacob Böhme, 1844. ]
(1) Collected Editions
German.
Des Gottseeligen Hoch Erleuchteten Jacob Böhmens Teutonici Philosophi
Alle Theosophische Wercken. (Ed. Gichtel, J. G. ] Amsterdam, 1682
and 1715.
Theosophia revelata. Das ist: Alle göttliche Schriften . . . J. Böhmens.
Anbey mit. . . . J. G. Gichtels. . . Summarien. . . ausgezieret. 7 vols. Am-
sterdam, 1730-1. [This is the best and fullest edn of Boehme. ]
Jakob Böhme's sämmtliche Werke herausgegeben von K. W. Schiebler.
7 vols. Leipzig, 1831-46.
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516
Bibliography
English.
[There is no complete English edition of Boehme's works, although the
various translations published between 1644-62 make up a complete editing
,
with several works duplicated. The 4 vols. 4to of 1764-81, generally called
*Law's edition,' contain only 17 out of Boehme’s 32 works. This edition wa
not edited by Law, but by his friends George Ward and Thomas Langcake.
who published it after Law's death, at the cost of Mrs Hutcheson. They
rptd it in the main, with some few alterations, from the earlier English
editions by Sparrow. Below is the title of this edition, and its contents
The works of Jacob Behmen, The Teutonic Theosopher. Volume 1 containing,
I The Aurora. II The Three Principles. To which is prefixed, The Life
of the Author. With Figures, illustrating his Principles, left by the
Reverend William Law, M. A. 1764. [Vol. m. 1772. Vol. iv. 1781
On pp. v-vi of vol. i there is A Dialogue between Zelotes, Alpha
betus, Rusticus and Theophilus, almost certainly by Law.
Altogether, the following works are printed in this edition (see complete
list): vol. 1, (1), (2); vol. 11, (3), (4), (5), (31); vol. 111, (19), (20); vol. 15, $
,
(17), (13), (14), (15), (21), (24), (10), (23).
A complete reprint of Boehme's works in English is now in hand, ed. by
Barker, C. J. , the first two volumes of which, The Threefold Life of Man, and
The Three Principles, have already been published.
(2) Complete list of Jacob Boehme's Works in the order
in which he wrote them
(1) 1612. The Aurora (unfinished). With Notes added by his own hand,
in 1620. (2) 1619. The Three Principles of the Divine Essence.
With an Appendix Concerning the Threefold Life of Man.
The Threefold Life of Man. (4) 1620. Answers to Forty Questions
Concerning the Soul, proposed by Dr Balthasar Walter. With an
Appendix Concerning the Soul and its Image, and of the Turba.
1620. The Treatise of the Incarnation; in 3 parts. (i) of the Incarns-
tion of Jesus Christ. (ii) of the Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resur.
rection of Christ. (ii) of the Tree of Faith.
(6) 1620. A Book of
the Great Six Points. Also a small book of other Six Points.
Of the Earthly and of the Heavenly Mystery.
(8) 1620. Of the Last
Times. [2 Epistles to P[aul] K[eym), included in (32) i. ]
De Signatura Rerum. (10) 1621. Of the Four Complexions.
1621. Two Apologies to Balthasar Tylcken : (i) for the Aurora, (ii) for
Predestination and the Incarnation. (12) 1621. Considerations apop
Esaiah Stiefel's Book concerning the Threefold State of Man, and the
New Birth, (13) 1622. A Book of True Repentance.
A Book of True Resignation. (15) 1622. A Book of Regeneration
(16) 1622. The Apology in answer to Esaiah Stiefel concerning Per
fection. (17) 1623. A Book of Predestination and Election.
1623. A Short Compendium of Repentance.
(19) 1623. Mysterium
Magnum. (20) 1623. A Table of the Divine Manifestation,
Exposition of the Threefold World.
