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

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it is faid, ‘* For behold the Lord will come << forth with fire, and with his chario:s « Jike a whirlwind, and render his anger: « with fury, and his rebukes with flames ‘© of fire,” chap. Ixix.15. Again, ‘* When ‘© J fhall execute judgments. in thee in an« ger and in fury, and in furious rebuke,” Ezek. v.15. But let us obferve, God’s fo doing is called ** his coming forth of “< his place, and his ftrange work,” Mlic. i. 3. fa. xxviil, 22.

Thus is found that the aftringent, and attracting powers, by their contrariety, produce anguifh ; that anguifh is a ftinging, raging, pricking fenfe, not by agent and patient, but by vislence. and impatience: This raging: fpirit. cannot: deliver. itfelf from the ftrong bands of the aftringency; and from that fource, by the conteft, heat is excited, the extremity whereof is fire.

The food of the fire is cold, as hath been faid, or for want of it the heat and fire would fall into anguifh; but Infinity has "no deficiency; therefore the fire by rarefaétion breathes the fullen cold into the liberty called air, that again by condenfation (being prefcribed by its father the.

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