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

This World in ihe third Principle.

is come to be material, and to have the outward fun for its light, and life. But that light and life is not the wife mafter bimJef, but the wife mafter [who is God] keeps that light and life ftanding and continuing in the external matrix of this world, to manife/t the eternal wifdom: for the fun is neither the virtue nor wifdom of God, but has a beginning through the will of God, ard enters again into its ether, and it conti+ nually works faccording to its kind, vivifying and killing, without regard to evil, crooked, lame, or good, beautiful or potent; it caufes to live and to die, affords power and ftrength, and deftroys the fame again; and all this without any premeditated wifdom: whereby we may perceive that it is not the divine providence and wifiom itfelf, as the heathens did fuppofe, and foolifhly rely upon the virtue thereof. 5. It feems ftrange and wonderful to FINE Leason, to confider how God has created the fun, the ftars, and four elements ; efpecially when it contemplates and confiders the earth with its hard ftones, and very rough, indigefted, harfh fubftance, and fees there are great rocks and clifts

O 3 created,