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

98 Confiderations on the Scope

** themfelves, muft needs be moft pro** foundly humbled; and thofe that find “* the fecution of their own wills, to “* bea fighting againft God their Reftorer, * will be eafieft prevailed with to lay down “‘ their arms; die to their wills 3; Tefign “* themfelves to his conduét; repair to his ** fchool; bear his yoke: at any price buy “* the pearl; fight the battle of faith ; that ** they may lay hold of eternal life. Wif** dom calls; they only are the fons of ** wifdom who will hear.” I come now to the following moft impor tant points and enquires : 1. What man was before the fall. 2. By what degrees he fell. 3- What fallen man’s eftate was and is. 4. What may be his recovery, ift, Concerning man’s eftate before his fall. God made man, in, or after his image, and it has been fhewn how he was God’s image; namely, an extract out of all the three principles: The ignorance whereof made Audeus, in the fourth century after the incarnation fay, * That God had hands * and feet.’ But God’s image was to exprefs in Adam, that he had in harmony his whole firft principle, n