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

146 Confiderations on the Scope

did re-unite this in himfelf to the fallen nature, and fo by him was human nature reftored. And haying made men priefis, made them alfo kings, reigning over the firft and third principles in man: irradiateing and divinely governing the firft principle, and facrificing the wills, lufts, and mifplaced love to thie third principle.

This holy. Thing, was begotten by the Holy Ghoft, as the pure heavenly humanity comprifed the eflences of the virgin Mary, as a daughter of Eve.

The Lord faid, ‘* He that eateth my ** Aefh, and drinketh my blood, hath “* eternal life,” John vi. 54. He faid not, He that eateth and drinketh it worthily, s¢ hath eternal life,” but ‘* he that eateth ‘© and drinketh.” For none can be faid to eat that flefh and drink that blood, that eat and drink unworthily ; they eat and drink. what is common to thofe that have not eternal life; and but eat and drink the elements only, orat moft nothing more but imagination, grounded on, and extended no farther than on the hiftory, never the more enabled to enter into the fuffering, dying, and-new life of Chrift.

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