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

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and image of God, all heavenly things departed from him, and he fell into the dark vale, or valley of darknefs, and could no more raife his imagination up into God, but remained in the anguifhes of the firft four forms of the original of nature.

7. For he is always fhut up in the firft principle, (as in the eternal death) and yet he raifes himfelf up continually, thinking to reach the heart of God, and to domineer over it: for his bitter fting climbs up eternally in the fource or root of the fire, and affords him a proud will to have all at his pleafure,’ but he attains nothing. His food is the fource or fountain of poifon, namely, the brimftone fpirit: his refrefhing is the eternal cold fire: he has an eternal hunger in the bitternefs; an eternal thirft in the fource of the fire. His climbing up is his fall, and the more he climbs up in his will, the greater is his fall: like one ftanding upon a high clift would caft himfelf down into a bottomlefs pit, he looks ftill further, and he falls in further and further, and yet can find no ground.

8. Thus he is an eternal enemy to the heart or Son of God, and to all the holy

angels,