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

138 —Confiderations on the Scope

They were not to have known evil and good in the root of them, and although the experimental knowing was deftructive to thems yet is it deftruétive to us to be ignorant of it, fince it highly concerns us tO extricate and difentangle ourfelves, and tO retrieve the mifcarriage fo fatal to our firft parents.

C H A P, XIX,

What the eftate of fallen man was by the fall.

FE fecond principle, which is the

majeftic, {weet, divine love, meek light, and the chafte virgin of God's wifdom, was withdrawn, and he left dead as tO it.

' His foul, though it had Icft the divine life of pure angelical modeft love, yet being out of the fountain fpirits, was incapable of diffolution, but muft ever remain its own ftinging fire, and its own anguifh, without poffibility of enkindling the light in icfelf.

Now