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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verted God’s holy work, by the wrath of the frft four fpirits.

Demontftration the fifth. We fee an ability of propagation in the univerfal {perm iffuing at the conduct pipes of the three principles. The eye obferves it in fhell fith, trees, fowers, herbs, having their various kinds in their refpective feeds with their tinétures of male and female united, or fire and light in one. And though thefe laft, the vegetative tribe be more remote than the fenfitive; yet every one gives pregnant teftimony to illuftrate and lead to the moft noble.

And fhall any think, man, whofe Original exempted him (had he perfevered) and fixed and fet him on high, far from the reach of any the leaft approach of mortality, as forrow, wearinefs, ficknefs, fleep, _ could admit the defect of any thing that might tend to impeach his perfection ? Should not he be fully able to perform all the parts of what might concern the perpetuating his race, by communicating his heat and light as the fun does his, in pure modefty, and higheft humble love, that his divine offspring might have affifted in that holy paradifical employment,

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