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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other bodies; though not confilting of accidents, not palpable, yet fubftantial, as is manifeft by the following demonftrations.

Firft demonftration. The mutations in nature are no deftruction of bodies;. as a erain of wheat being fown, pafies feveral mutations, yet is ftill the fame. For whereas at firft it dies, it is only by the Separator refolved into the divers kinds of its own compofition,. that it may: be capable of commixture, and unite affimilated bodies to ir, and fo collect increafe of matter which it admits in no greater proportion than to be the father and mother of all itfelf, and augment and multiply itfelf by ; yer ftill is wheat, though hath the increafe of quantity of many grains of wheat; as an oak is Lut an acorn improved.

Second demonftration.. Nature in orderly motion goes forward, and will not return into its myftery by the flepg it went out, until it has compleated its circulation. You may as well return the fun eaftward over us, as make a fruit become a tree, but in its orderly motion, firft into a fruit and fed: then in the new one is the old renewed, rather than another, So is the new

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