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

The Fall of Lucifer. : 25

the foul, is the proper effence of God, forafmuch as the love in the light of God, is {prung up in your centre, out of which the Holy Ghoft proceeds, and wherein the fecond principle of God confifts. How then fhould you not have power and authority to fpeak of God, whois your Father, of whofe effence you (the regenerated) are, as a child is the Father’s own fubftance? The Father is the eternal power, or virtue; the Son is the heart and light continuing eternally in the Father; and all regenerated fouls continue in the Father and the Son: And now being the Holy Ghoft proceeds from the Father and the Son, the eternal power of the Father is in you, and the eternal light of the Son fhines in you. Why will ye be fooled by antichrift? know ye not what the apoftle faid? ‘* that our converfation « is in heaven, from whence we expect « our Saviour Jefus Chrift,” who will bring us out of this monftrous image [im the corruption of the third principle of this world} in the paradifical birth to eat the word of the Lord. 12. For it is written, ** You muft be «< born anew through the water and the «« fpirit, or elfe you fhall not fee the kings* dom