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

36 Of eternal Nature after

34. If you cannot believe this, take the holy fcripture before you, which tells you, that when man was fallen into fin, and thereby broken off in the light part of life, that he yet continued in the original of the firft principle, and God re-fpake the feed of that light, that it might be kindled and fo himfelf united to man again.

35. If the foul of man were not fprung out of God the Father, he could not have , beftowed that higheft pledge of his own heart and light upon him, as himéflf witneffes, faying, ‘‘ I am the light of the ** world, and the life of man:” but he could very well have helped man fome other way, if man had been created cut of any other matter than God’s own effence. 36. And what do you think our bleffed Lord brought to man, into the flefh, when he came? Nothing elfe but that which Adam, and our mother Eve, loft in Paradife! the fame did the treader upon the Serpent bring again to the foul, covered in the monftrous birth, and delivered man out of that elementary and fyderial houfe of flefh, and fet him again in Paradife: of which I have written largely in other plaees, 37. If