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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that could either deftroy, or annoy this temperature : As gold indures in the fire, and as a tincture penetrates, -and gives way unto nothing; fo likewife, man was not fubject unto any thing, fave only and alone to the only God, who dwelt through him, and was manifeft in him with the power of the holy effence; and this was an image and likenefs of God, in whom the Spirit of God inhabited.

20. The cnild reafon will not underftand this right, and will fay, I fpeak of a two-fold man: but by the fpirit of light I fay, no! .I fpeak only of one only man, which is a likenefs according to God, namely, according to the manifefted God ; according to the exprefied formed word of the divine power, of divine underftanding. a1. As all things are in God in eflence, and yet he himfelf is not that very effence ; and yet that effence rules every eflence according to its property ; fo likewife the inward fpiritual man is an image of the formed word of the divine power, and the outward an inftrument of the inward: the outward man from the limius of the earth and four elements, with its outward con-

ftellation,