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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into the Deity: But if I fhould fpeak plainly what this trick of theirs is? it is to cover and hide the devil ; that neither the inje€ted malice and wickednefs of the devil in man, nor the anger of God, nor the evil beaft in the corrupt will in man, may be difcerned, and therefore the devil affifts them, that his kingdom may not be revealed, but that he may continue to be the great prince of this world ftill : for otherwife, if his kingdom was clearly feen, men might fly from him; and where is it more needful for Lucifer to oppofe, than on that pert where his enemy might moft effectually break in? He therefore covers the hearts, minds, thoughts and fenfes of thofe mini{ters, with covetoufnels, pride, and wan-

(, and they fhut up the light of God, at which they ftand amazed with fear and horror, and grudge the light to thofe feryants of God thar fee it.

6. But the time is coming, when the day-fpring will break forth, and then the beat, that evil child of perdition, fhall ftand forth naked and in great fhame, for the judgment of the whore of the great beaft goes on: therefore awake and fly

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