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

104 Confiderations on the Scope

Seventh argument. The law of uncleannefs after child-bearing fhews how impure this way of propagation is ; for the woman having brought forth a man child was unclean feven days, and to continue without touching any hallowed thing, or approaching the fanctuary thirty-three days. But ‘if fhe had a maid child, her legal uncleannefs was for fourteen days, and not to be purified until fixty-fix days, Levit. xii. 2,4, 5. Whereas feven days fufficed for cleanfing a leper, or one who had an iffue; thofe on the eighth day might come into the tabernacle of the congregation as before, chap. xiv. g, 10.

All which evinces the human birth by the woman to have much more in it than bodily pollution fince feparating the tinctures. For the leprofy was a bodily pollution in a high degree; but the cleanfing the woman being near five times as much for a man child, and near ten times as much for a maid child, is a too pregnant teftimony that the impurity of this propagation is exceeding great, which moved David’s confeffion, ‘*I was fhapen in iniquity, and “in fin did my mother conceive me,”

Pfalm li. 5. Eighth