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

Of Jaco Beumen’s Writings. 69

«© Oh therefore that we were wife, that <¢ we underftood this, that we would con<<: fider our latter end!”? Deut. xxxil. 29-

The out-birth into which Adam’s fall has caft our mortal bodies, is fignified by the earthen vefiels, which having touched fome legally unclean thing, could not be made clean and purified, but muft be broken; fuch is the mortal body of all the children of Adam.

But thofe vefiels which were of brafs or other metal, being wafhed, &c. were become clean; for metals are one ftep higher, more noble, deriving from the aftral powers more immediately, and with a purer tincture, more fimple, and lefs voJatile than our flefhly tabernacles.

CAPO ArnP. XI.

Of the fecond principle, in four demontftrations. HE Divine Wifdom, and that of

this world, are on terms of hofti-

lity ; hence was [it that when the Lord himfelf