167 (Aug.
18-25, 1653); Commons Journals, Dec.

30, 1654; Barclay's _Religious Societies_, pp.

421-422.] BOEHMENISTS AND OTHER MYSTICS:--Of the German Mystic Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) there had been a _Life_ in English since 1644, with a catalogue of his writings, and since then translations of some of the writings themselves had appeared at intervals, mostly from the shop of one publisher, Humphrey Blunden.

The interest in "the Teutonical Philosopher" thus excited had at length taken form in a small sect of professed BOEHMENISTS, propounding the doctrine of the Light of Nature, i.e.of a mystic intuitional revelation in the soul itself of all true knowledge of divine and human things.

Of this sect Baxter says that they were "fewer in number," and seemed "to have attained to greater meekness and conquest of passions," than the other sects.