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 Fail of Lucifer. 37

which he himfelf formed ; and becaufe the light of God is his eternal fhame, therefore is he God’s enemy, becaufe he is no more in the light of God.

32. Now, nothing can be here produced by reafon, that God fhould ever have ufed any matter out of which to create the evil, for then the devil might juftify himfelf, that he was made evil, and created of evil matter. But God created him out of nothing but meerly and intirely out of his own divine effence, as well as the other angels: as it is written, ‘* Through him, and in *s him, are all things.” And his only is the kingdom, the power, and the glory; and all is in him, as the holy fcripture witnefs. And if it were not thus, no fin could be imputed to the devil, nor to men, if they were not eternal, and had their being out of God himfelf.

33. For to a beaft, which is created out of matter, and has its original in the third principle of this outward world, in the elementary and fyderial kingdom, no fin is imputed ; for its fpirit reaches not the firft principle: the beafts are in the corruptibility, and reach not the Deity, as the devil, and the foul of man does,

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