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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nity from the virgin Mary, he really be- came what he was not before, namely, a real Son of man, with a true human foul, body and {pirit, as we are,. and capable to fuffer and die.

Eleventh confideration.. We are to knows. the human nature or creature in the afcenfion and glorification, was not fwallowed up by the divipe nature, as the flame of a candle is by the fun extinguifhed; but the human nature, now glorified, remains for ever a glorified. body : being the fame true individual human nature or man, which was crucified, dead, buried, and raifed by his almighty power, as the firft fruit, original, and author of the general refurrec« tion.

Twelfth confideration. .That the Lord Jefus Chrift, who in the womb of the virgin, became as truly a man as we are; who have our feels, fpirits and bodies, propagated by our immediate parents; yet he was the true Son of God, and fo was a true heavenly Man, and a virgin of holinefs, purity and modefty, and. fo begotten by the Holy Ghoft: Alfo the nie epee nity, as the fecond Perfon in the Trinity by

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