Autobiographie

Jane Lead and her Transnational Legacy

“…In fact, they dwelled at King's Lynn between at least 1647 and 1657. thus William was made a freeman of the borough by birth in 1646-47. thereafter he was elected to the Common Council on 21 May 1649 and became an alderman on 20 august 1655. 105 the man he replaced on the aldermanic bench was John Bassett, the eldest son of his father's former master and one of the people with whom he had the witnessed the will of a King's Lynn gentleman in October 1652. 106 Jane remarked that together with William she had raised four daughters.…”

“…104 Graduates from harvard released works in Boston and London simultaneously, Benjamin harris selling them out of his London Coffee house. 105 It can be argued that the powerfully paradigmatic 'new england mind', as captured by perry Miller, was partly predicated on this shared transatlantic eschatology. 106 puritans both sides of the pond equated personal salvation with the fashioning of a godly community of the elect, wherever the elect happened to be.…”

“…/ as it sunk Low; so shall it now rise higher. / his First-born, God in thee again shall Own / … / and england's Monarch high shall wear the Nations Crown', 105 the only basis that Lead indicated for this special status of england and London was that she and her followers were 'hid in thee', a 'mighty Star that in thy Bethlehem City is born'. 106 In contrast to this absence of comment, it is evident that, even among Lead's acolytes, there was the recognition of a need to anchor apocalyptic fulfillment to contemporary events.…”

Jacob Böhmes Rettung

“…Wer Böhme kritisieren wolle, müsse zunächst unter Beweis stellen, »das er selber besser und frommer für Gott ist als Jacob Böhm gewesen.« 37 Wer Böhme kritisieren wolle, müsse zunächst unter Beweis stellen, »das er selber besser und frommer für Gott ist als Jacob Böhm gewesen.« 37 …”