i. p. 33.
[46] _Op. cit._ A.
[47] See, for specimen passages, _Journal_, i. pp. 36 and 124.
[48] See especially _Myst. mag._ xxxviii. sections 52-59.
[49] Preface to _Aurora_, B.
[50] _Journal_, i. p. 19.
[51] _Three Princ._ xvi. 31-37.
[52] See _Journal_, i. p. 13; pp. 190-191 and _passim_.
[53] _Three Princ._ iv. 5. See also _ibid._ xv. 24; xvi. 42; and
xviii. 24.
[54] _Journal_, i. p. 12.
[55] _Three Princ._ ix. 25-26.
[56] _Ibid._ xix. 33.
[57] _Myst. mag._ lxii. 17 and lxiii. 36.
[58] See Fox's _Journal_, i. p. 19.
[59] _Reliquiae Baxterianae_ (London, 1715), i. 77.
[60] _A Fountain of Gardens_, 4 vols., London, 1696-1701.
[61] _Op. cit._ i. pp. 17-19.
[62] _A Fountain of Gardens_, p. 25.
[63] _Theologia mystica_, p. 81.
[64] Christopher Walton, in his _Notes and Materials_ (1854), gives a
list of eighteen of her books.
[65] _Ibid._ p. 238.
[66] _Op. cit._ p. 9. Pordage disliked the Quakers and speaks
slightingly of them in _Theologia mystica_. He also wrote a Treatise
against them. See Walton, p. 203.
[67] Important material on this subject may be found in Walton's _Notes
and Materials_, especially pp. 188-258.
[68] The full title-page of Anderdon's book is as follows: _One Blow at
Babel_. In those of the Pepole called Behemnites, whose Foundation is
not upon that of the Prophets and Apostles, which shall stand sure and
firm forever; but upon their own carnal conceptions, begotten in their
Imaginations upon Jacob Behmen's writings: They not knowing the better
part, the Teachings of that Spirit that sometime opened some Mysteries
of God's Kingdom in Jacob, have chosen the worser part in Esau,
according to the predominancy of that Spirit which ruled in them when
they made choice of their Religion, as it doth in others the hearts of
the children of disobedience.--By John Anderdon. (London, printed in
the year 1662, written in 1661).
[69] _One Blow at Babel_, p. 3.
[70] _Ibid._ pp. 1 and 6.
[71] _One Blow at Babel_, pp. 1-2.
[72] Jane Leade's writings give great importance to the outward
sacraments.
[73] The use of the phrase "its own Centre," which became an important
Quaker term, is an interesting relic of Boehme's influence.
[74] _Minutes of the Morning Meeting_, i. George Fox apparently asked
to see Frattwell's MS., for in a Letter under date of eighth mo. 1st,
1674, Alexander Parker writes to George Fox: "I likewise spoke to Edw.
Man [Ed
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