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

24 Of eternal Nature after

difcern it, much le‘s comprehend it; it only feels it, and fees a glimpfe of it in the mind: which mind is the chariot of the foul: and which foul, if it be regenerated in the light of God, it fees in the light of God the Father, which light is his Juftre or fon in the eternal birth, wherein it lives and remains eternally.

Of eterna] nature after the fall of Lucifer, and of the creation of this world, and of man.

10. I know very well, and my {pirit-and 4nind fhows me, that many will be offended at the fimplicity and meannefs of the author, for offering to write of fuch high things, and will think he has no authority to do it, and that he fins, and runs contrary to God, and his will, in prefuming, being but a man, to go about to {peak and fay what God is. For it is lamentable, that fince the fall of Adam, we fhould be fo continually cheated by the devil, as to think that we are not the children of God, nor of his effence, or offspring.

11. Your monftrous, outward, beaftial form or fhape indeed is not God, nor of his effence; but the hidden man, which is

the