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  • We are now concerned only with such of Behmen's emblematic works as have been translated into English.

    Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various

  • It is customary to call the edition of Behmen's _Works_, published 1764-1781, "William Law's Edition."

    Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

  • Wesley (Journal, i. 359) writes of Behmen's Mysteriun Magnum, 'I can and must say thus much (and that with as full evidence as I can say two and two make four) it is most sublime nonsense, inimitable bombast, fustian not to be paralleled.'

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Behmen's Behmenite High Dutch, and that too after he was an old man, in order that he might completely master the _Aurora_ and its kindred books.

    Jacob Behmen an appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878

  • Behmen's treatise has been well described by Walton as containing the philosophy of temptation; and by Martensen as displaying a most profound knowledge of the human heart.

    Jacob Behmen an appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878

  • 'Man never knows how anthropomorphic he is,' is a characteristic saying of a fellow-countryman of Behmen's.

    Jacob Behmen an appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878

  • When Behmen's philosophy and theology become penitence, prayer, and praise, then by their fruits we know how good his philosophy and his theology must be, away down in their deepest and most hidden nature.

    Jacob Behmen an appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878

  • Behmen's greatest disciple has assimilated his master's teaching in this matter of complexion also, and has given it out again in his own clear, plain, powerful, classical manner, especially in his treatise on _Christian Regeneration_.

    Jacob Behmen an appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878

  • And, accordingly, Walter laid a plan so as to draw upon Behmen's profound and original mind for a solution of some of the philosophical and theological problems that were agitating and dividing the learned men of that day.

    Jacob Behmen an appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878

  • Behmen's most original and most powerful books finished, -- the _Signatura

    Jacob Behmen an appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878

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