[9] The writings were translated in the following order: In 1647, _Forty Questions_ by Sparrow; _The Clavis_, by Sparrow. In 1648, _The Three Principles_, by Sparrow; _The Way to Christ_ (including the Treatises, _On True Repentance_; _On True Resignation_; _On Regeneration_; _The Supersensual Life_; and _On Illumination_), by Sparrow. In 1649, _Of the Last Times_, by Sparrow; _Epistles of Jacob Behmen_, by Ellistone. In 1650, _The Three-fold Life_, by Sparrow. In 1651, _De signatura rerum_, by Ellistone. In 1652, _Christ's Testaments_--Baptism and Supper,--by Sparrow. In 1654, _The Mysterium magnum_, by Ellistone and Sparrow; _A Table of the Divine Manifestation_, by H. Blunden and Sparrow; _A Table of the Three Principles_, H. Blunden and Sparrow; _An Epitome of the Three Principles_, by Sparrow. In 1655, _On Predestination_, by Sparrow; _A Short Compendium on Repentance_, by Sparrow. In 1656, _The Aurora_, by Sparrow. In 1659, _The Treatise on the Incarnation_, by Sparrow. In 1661, _The Great Six Points_; _The Earthly and Heavenly Mystery_; _The Four Complexions_; _Two Apologies to Tylcken_; _Considerations concerning Stiefel's Threefold State of Man_; _An Apology concerning Perfection_; _On Divine Contemplation_; _An Apology for the Books on True Repentance and True Resignation_; _177 Theosophic Questions_; _The Holy Week_; _25 Epistles_, by Sparrow. [10] Sparrow refers to this book in his Introduction to _The Three Principles_ as follows: "For a taste of the Spirit of prophecy which the author [Boehme] had, there is a little treatise of some prophecies concerning these latter times, collected out of his writings by a lover of the Teutonic philosophy and entitled Mercurius Teutonicus." [11] Introd. to _Forty Questions_. [12] Introd. to _Forty Questions_. [13] Ibid. [14] Ibid. [15] Introd. to _The Three Princ._ [16] Introd. to _The Three Princ._ [17] Ibid. [18] "To the Reader" in _Myst. mag._ [19] "To the Reader" in _Myst. mag._ [20] Preface to the Reader in _Aurora_. [21] Preface for the _Aurora_. [22] Preface for the _Aurora_. [23] A contemporary of Sparrow, probably Samuel Pordage, wrote an Encomium on Sparrow in the Introduction to a long Behmenite Poem called _Mundorum explicatio_ (London, 1661). The passage is as follows: