A compendious view of the grounds of the Teutonick philosophy : with considerations by way of enquiry into the subject matter and scope of the writings of Jacob Behmen, commonly called, the Teutonick philosopher : also several extracts from his writings and some words used by him explained

x The Epritor to the Reaper.

prefence, and came in more fpirit, then they were acquainted withthem. And he faid to Peter, «« What I do, thou ‘© knoweft not now, but thou fhalt ‘* know hereafter :” John xiii. 7, And in the laft converfation he had with his difciples before his crucifixion, he told them, “He had yet many things to fay «« tothem, but that they could not then s¢ bear them; neverthelefs when the «¢ Spirit of truth came, he would guide ‘© them into all truth.” John xvi. Faithful fouls have their feveral fpheres of fpiritual light and life, but the lefier circle can by no means contain the greater. If a truth be very {piritual, divine grace never fhews it usin the firft ray of light, but we become enlightened by beam after beam: And if I by my glimmering light.fhail go about to examine and judge things fpoken in a clearer day, I fhall be fubject to many miftakes, and in great danger of rejecting the truth becaufe I do not underftand it. ‘In my Father’s houfe, fays

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