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

F54 Cénfiderations cn the Scope

and proportion as his continuance in childhke obedience is more or lefs univerfal and tledfatt.

Adam loft, and we lofe the heavenly virgin of purity and modefty, by finding and living to the luft of the third principle, namely, the feeming wifdom guiding to obtain the miftaken fulnefs of pleafure, profit, and honour, by the elementary, palpable, tranfitory and aftral world.

When man makes thefe idolatroufly the object of his love, hope, delight, and confidence, as the rich man in the gofpel did, which fhould be ufed only as a picture or glafs, through which to contemplate, by divine help, the eternal powers reprefented by them: He catches at a fhadow, and worfhips the afs on which he was to ride.

What that death is that gives true life.

It is evident; his thus living to his third principle, was Adam’s, and is our dying to, and lofs of the fecond principle: And "it is as clear that the dying to the third, that is, only giving it leave to hang to us as an old loofe garment, or looking through it as through a cloud or medium on the fun, is the only means to recover the life that Adam loft. Thus