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

TO THEREADER. Wii

underftanding, and read again, and then he fhall fee more and more in them, till at length he be drawn, by the power of God, into the very depth itfelf, and fo come into the fupernatural and fuperfenfual ground, namely, into the eternal unity of God; where he fhall hear unfpeakable and effectual words of God, which will bring him back and outward again, (by the divine effluence) to the very groffeft and meaneft matter of the earth, and afterward back and inwards to God again: then it is that the Spirit of God fearches all things ‘with him, and by him, and fo he is rightly taught and driven by God.

g. The revelations, or manifeftations of divine things are opened by the inward ground of the fpiritual world, and brought into vifible forms ; juft as the Creator will manifeft them.

Jacob Behmen.