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

130 — Confiderations on the Scope

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Of the incarnation of the Lord Jefus Chrift.

Firft confideration. ¥T ought to be attentively pandered, that

when the fulnefs of time, or limit of the covenant was come, Jefus took man’s

whole nature of the virgin Mary; but inafmuch as fhe was the daughter of Joachim and Anna, and of Eve, fhe could not be totally a virgin of purity : “ Who can ** bring a clean thing out of an unclean? ** not one.” Job xiv. 4,

Second confideration. That Jefus Chrift neither came into a clean veffel, nor took « pure nature Smon him, but made the vefitl clean, and the polluted nature to become pure; the mifunderftanding which made Colliridiani to render to the virgin Mary divine worfhip.

Third confideration. We muft know then when our Redeemer took our nature

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