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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feveral principles that are truly in him ; for the child knows his parents better and better, as himielf grows up toebe a man. A breath of the air is of like nature with the whole element, a drop like as the whole ocean, a fpark like the whole origin, a clod of earth like the whole ball.

C H A P. XVI. Man’s eftate before his fall.

AN being ranged a little lower

than angels, yet with one principle

more, hath a fpirit penetrating as theirs,

if brought into an earneft hunger to fearch

and knock, Let none forbid fo doing;

for God delights to be fought and known;

by fuch can he be moft admired and loved, that difcovers moft of him.

“© And thofe, his children, who know «© moft clearly what they fell from, will “< ftrive moft to be recovered; and thofe ‘* that penetrate deepeft into that difmal * plight whereinto they. have plunged

‘© themfelves,

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