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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fruits, wherein were the evil and good properties, And he might (like the wild deftroying and ravenous beafts, fowls, and fifhes of prey) kill and feed on the tame, and live in fear and hoftile enmity with his fellow-deftroyers, who bear the image of the dark world.

He might alfo (until his aftral revolution or other evil had given extream date and period to his accurfed dying life) have (like other beafts) generated his children, having now the members (monuments of fin and thame) hanging on him for propagation; and thofe his offspring fhould inwardly have been devils, and outwardly beafts, according to the third principle. Yea, and what could have hindered, but their bodies fhould have been conformed to the image of the feveral beafts here wheres of their minds had the nature, affections and qualities, as of dogs, goats, foxes, {wine, bears, wolves, tygers, vipers, ferpents, toads, lions, &c. And have had no other refurrection than thofe mifchieyous odious animals, by their monftrous ideas, to bear the image of the dark world’s properties. Whether