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

00 Confiderations on the Scope

earthly part; both inconfiftent with the purity and eternity of Paradife.

Evidence 4. The elements themfelves pafs into their ethers, and ceafe as to their prefent exiftence, when the myftery fhall be fulfilled, and the end has found the beginning. Adam was a virgin of purity, with both mafculine and feminine tinétures, as is evident; for it is faid (when Adam only was made) ‘* Male and female created he them,” fo compleat was he, as to be able to encreafe and multiply, and bleffed thereunto, Gen. i. 28. By both tinétures; not by two perfons, for Eve’s being made is not recorded until Gen xi. 21.

Objection. Will any fay, Adam and Eye were made at once, Gen. i. 27. and the order only more at large given ? Gen. ii. 18.

Anfwer, It is anfwered, by the Holy Ghoft, 1 Cor. xi. where the apoftle convinces by one argument the reafonablenefs of the woman’s fubjection; by the priority of man’s creation. :

This muft be farther noted, that woman was not given him, as were the females to other creatures. Alfo that before the woman was made, God faid, ‘* All was very

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