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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Lancelot Andrewes, Caspar Schwenckfeld, William Ames, Lelio Sozzini, Jakob Bohme, Thomas Muntzer, Simon Fish, Andreas Karlstadt, Fausto Sozzini, Richard Hooker, Richard Sibbes, William Whitaker, Petrus Canisius, Richard Field, Thomas Helwys, George Hakewill, Andrew Willet, Richard Bernard, Robert Bolton, Cornelius Loos, John Davenant, John Downame, William Wroth, Thomas Beard, Thomas Stapleton, Samuel Collins, Edmund Bunny, Everard Digby, Lawrence Humphrey, David Gans, Alexander Nowell, Johannes Mathesius, Edward Powell, David Calderwood, Thomas Gataker, Richard Carew, John Davies of Hereford, John Rainolds, Caspar Peucer, Johannes Mensing, Richard Fetherston, Dudley Fenner, Henry Mason, John Gibbons, John Bodey, Johannes Acronius, Miles Smith, Anthony Brookby, Sebastian Krelj, George Bullock, Walter Travers, Edward Cradock, Heinrich Decimator, John Addison, Georg Rorer, William Gregory, Francesco Stancaro, Jacob Keller. Excerpt: Jakob Bohme (probably April 24, 1575 - November 17, 1624) was a German Christian mystic and theologian. He is considered an original thinker within the Lutheran tradition. In contemporary English, his name may be spelled Jacob Boehme; in seventeenth-century England it was also spelled Behmen, approximating the contemporary English pronunciation of the German Bohme. Jakob Bohme (anonymous portrait)Bohme was born in April 1575, at Alt Seidenberg (now a part of Sulikow, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland), a village near Gorlitz in Upper Lusatia, a territory of the Holy Roman Empire. His father, George Wissen, was reasonably wealthy, but a peasant nonetheless. Bohme's first job was that of a herd boy. He was, however, deemed to be not strong enough for husbandry. When he was 14 years old, he was sent to Seidenberg, as an apprentice to become a shoemaker. His apprenticeship for shoemaking was h...
