"O thou strong God of hosts, deliver me according to thy will! O thou crucified Lord Jesus, have mercy upon me, and receive me into thy kingdom!" When it was near six o'clock, he took his leave of his wife and sons, and blessed them, and said, "Now I go hence into paradise; then bidding his son turn him, he immediately expired his last breath in a deep sigh.

A great number of persons have been misled by the visions of this fanatic, notwithstanding his talents in involving the plainest things in mystery and enigmatical jargon. Among others, the famous Quirinus Kahlman may be reckoned the principal of his followers in Germany: who says, he had learned more being alone in his study, from Boehmian, than he could have learned from all the wise men of that age together; and, that we may not be in the dark as to what sort of knowledge this was, he acquaints us, that amidst an infinite number of visions it happened, that, being snatched out of his study, he saw thousands of thousands of lights rising round about him. Nor has he been without admirers, and those in no small number, in England: among the foremost of whom stands the famous Mr William Law, author of Christian Perfection, &c. who has favoured his countrymen with an English edition of Jacob Boehmian's works in 2 vols 4to.

the name of two ancient kingdoms, one of which was founded or rather restored by Cadmus, and named by him Boeotia, from the ox which is said to have directed him to the place where he built the capital of his new kingdom, better known afterwards by the name of Thebes. But as the inhabitants were scarcely ever distinguished as a nation by the name of Boeotians, but of Thebans, we refer to the article THEBES for their history, &c.

The other Boeotia was in Thessaly, and is said to have been founded by Boetus the son of Neptune and brother of Æolus, by Arne the daughter of Æolus king of Æolis. This last, having sent his daughter to Metapontium a city of Italy, she was there delivered of those two sons, the eldest of whom she called after her father's name Æolus; and he possessed himself of the islands in the Tyrrhenian, now the Tuscan sea, and built the city of Lipara. Boetus the younger son went to his grandfather and succeeded him in his kingdom, called it after his own name, and the capital city Arne, from his mother. All that we know of these Boeotians is, that they held this settlement upwards of 200 years; and that the Thessalians expelled them from it; upon which they came and took possession of that country, which till then had been called Cadmeis, and gave it the name of Boeotia. Diodorus and Homer tell us, that these Boeotians signalized themselves at the Trojan war; and the latter adds, that five of Boetus's grandsons, viz. Penelous, Leitus, Prothoe-nor, Arcephilus, and Clonius, were the chiefs who led the Boeotian troops thither.