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

232 — Confiderations on the Scope

erred; for how elfe had the effences of our poor captivated fouls been refcued; if the fecond Adam had not as truly affumed a human foul, as that whereof the firft Adam confifted? It was our fouls had fin and death, and were to be redeemed; fo our Lord made his foul, which was a true, real human foul, the offering for fin. Seventh confideration. Nor need we fear that the Lord took not our mortal fieth and blood on him, but brought heavenly fiefh in his conception, and had only heavenly fieflh: For he alfo took our true, real body of flefh and blood on him from the virgin Mary.. He took our weak, infirm body, {fubjected to paffions of hunger, fleep, &c. wherein lay wrath and the curle, all which he bare with the fufferings inciGent thereunto, -as temptations, fcourgings, reproaches, piercings, crucifying, anguith, death, burial: -And raifed the felf-fame body ; which gives us affurance of our refurrection, and opens a door for the body (though now mortal) to partake with the foul eternal life. lig¢hth confideration. We are to know that our new bodies, will be the fame very true real bodies we now have, and not other