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

48 Of eternal Nature after, &c.

flowing in the Father, out of the kindled light; a water, generated out of the {piritual water and light of God.

53. Thus God is one only undivided eflence, and yet threefold in perfonal diftinétion, one God, one Will, one heart, one defire, one pleafure, one beauty, one almightinefs, one fulnefs of all things, neither beginning nor ending: for if I fhould go about to feek for the beginning or ending of a fmall dot, or punctum; or of a perfect circle, I fhould be confounded. 54. And although I have written here of the fpringing of the fecond principle, and the birth of the divine effence in the Trinity, as if it took a beginning, yet you muft not underftand it as having any beginning, for the eternal manifeftation of the pure Deity is thus, without beginning or end; and that in the originalnefs in creation: for I am permitted to write as far as of the originalnefs, to the end that man might learn to know himfelf, what he is, and what God in the Tri-une One, heaven, angels, devils, and hell are: And alfo what the wrath of God and hell fire is, by the extinguifhment of the divine light.

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