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

64 Confiderations on the Scope

But in the creatures in the feparate properties are terribly manifeft, which though Adam was not to have known in himfelf, yet is it what we ought to know.

God faid, ** Let us make man in our ‘« image, after our likenefs,” Gen. i. 26. but fays not fo of the other creatures ; man in his firft make being moft perfeétly his figure and offspring.

Yet every of the other creatures, the aftral, elementary, vegetative, fenfitive, and the dark world, do all in their various

| kinds (more or lefs perfectly) reprefent him; ‘* for the invifible things of him “© from the creation of the world are «© clearly feen, being underftood by the ‘* things that are made, even his eternal ** power and godhead,” Rom. i, 20.

And as there are the united three, bearing record in heaven; fo are here an agreeing three, bearing record on earth, namely, fpirit, water and blood.

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