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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Third argument. The law of circumcifion on that member, fhows God’s difpleafure at that new-gotten way, like the | beaftial propagation.

Fourth argument. The Lord Jefus his preferring the chajfte virein’y life, though (of pity to our impotence and infirmity) reftraining them only to that ftate to whom the power is extended, fignifying (as himfelf faid in another cafe not very foreign to this) that in the beginning it was not fo.

Fifth argument. The fad and aftonifhing effect, as the firft fruit of copulation after dividing of the tinétures was, when Eve brought forth Cain, fhe faid, «« I have ** got a man from the Lord,” more truly rendered, ‘I have got a man the Lord;? intimating fhe thought that fon was the feed promifed that fhould break the ferpent’s head. But Cain proved, as the feed of the ferpent, the murderer of him who had the image of the promifed feed ; which was fo great a confternation to Adam and his wife, that fhe conceived no more until after feventy years,

Sixth argument. The difregard God shows towards that divided image (namely,

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