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

54 Confiderations on the Scope

fuch is this, it is an infinuation of a faint, falfe, delufory light, comprehending the craft, fubtlety, fophittry, ferpentine wifdom, to abufe the fenfes, and mifimploy the outborn natural powers to jugling deceits, uniting earthinefs and fenfuality to devilifh defigns. Of this wifdom the Lord fays, “¢ Tf the light that is in thee be darknefs, ** how great is that darknefs,? Matt. Vi 22.

Divine love has its root in the center of the effence of the firft four fpirits; but moft immediately in the light, and that from the fire. And the activity of the firft four fpirits, as a perpetual rotation, is the caufe that love can never cool. Thus is it as {trong as death; for love is that name by which the God of life is known to us. Whom thus to know is life eternal. The inftrument in the out-birth of this {pirit is Venus,

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