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

108 — Confiderations on the Scepe

cally on the fruit of her womb cherries, firawberries, &c. things fhe longed earneftly for, as well as other tokens of ill, created by her paffions of fear ; others do mortally wound by their anguifh, defpair, &c. Others exalt to expreffions of joy, by the raifed ferenity of the mother’s {pirit, as the babe, in the womb of Elizabeth leaped at the falutation of the virgin Mary.

Demonftration the fourth. If therefore fuch vigour remain as the relidof languifhing magic power, in fo great a degree dead; and that in the weaker fex of the divided tincture of mortal man, when rouf{ed; fhall any doubt but that fufficient virtue and majefty fit enthroned in Adam, while perfectly enriched and enobled with both the tinctures? who was a fpark of God’s omnipotence, divinely to effect what his Creator blefled to, namely, to multiply the new race, bearing God’s compleat image, inftead of the apoftate angels, who by extinguifhing the kingdom of love (implanted in their creation) had let loofe, awakened, and introduced into themfelves, the wrath of the firft principle, and fo per-

verted