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

40 Confiderations on the Scope

5. That contraéts and obdurates the fubtile parts of metals to a continuity, and re{trains or confines their alleéted virtues, even to unity or identity by continuity. By thefe and a thoufand more doth the aftringent fpirit demonftrate itfelf to be one fountain, whofe outward agent is (confeft by ancient and modern philofophy to be) Saturn.

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Demonftration of the fecond fountain fpirit Attraction.

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hold all as in a dark, dry, hard prifon, alk would be. ftone, bone, or the like dead eoncrets, no production, no creation: And the ftronger this attractive power is, the ftrenger the other binds; alfo the more tough and ponderous the. aftringency, the more actively vigorous is this. As the more you-comprefs air, or water, the greater violence has the fo-fuppreffed body to refift ,