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

16 Of God’s firft Manifeftation

peculiar and proper name is Jehovah: who is without all nature: without all beginnings of effence: a working in himfelf; generating, finding, or perceiving himfelf without any kind of fource from any thing, or by any thing. He has neither beginning nor end; he is immenfe: no number can exprefs his extent and greatnels; he is deeper than any thought can reach. He is no where far from any thing: he is through all, and in all: his birth is every where, and without and befide him there is nothing elfe. He is time and eternity ; byfs and abyfs; and yet nothing comprehends him fave the true underftanding, and that is God himfelf.

8. Behold, the holy Trinity has an eternal will in itfelf! and the will is the defiring, and the defiring is the eternal effences, which goes forth out of the heart and cut of the mouth of God by the Holy Ghoft, or Spirit of God: and the will, that is gone forth out of the {pirit, is the divine virtue which comprehendeth the will, and holds it; fo that in it, as in God himfelf, all effences are. So that the bloffom of the light fprings up in it out of the heart of God, and that bloffom is the

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