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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better make a fhift to puzzle and perplex the notions of another, than know how to difentangle and extricate our own. The fun appears not to us in his true brightnefs and glory, when we fee him in the mornings and evenings, through thofe earthly vapours and mifts which interpofe. Such fogs are continually gathering between the God of truth and our underftandings, while they dwell below; all our fentiments of fpiritual truths are at bef but as a | twilight, in which light and darknefs meet. How unreafonable is it then while your own light is fhaded with fo much darknefs, to think there is no mixture of light in your brother's darkne‘s.

It is the partiality of our knowledge, which caufes the darknefs of it, and turns into obfcurity, that which will be plain and pleafant to us when we come at once to fee the whole body of divine truth ; when we fhall in one view: behcld the entire frame and uni-

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