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

Of the Myftery of the Creation. 87

the wife heathens obferved, and adored it for God ; feeing the true God, who dwells, withour all nature, in himlelf, was not known unto them.

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Of the difference of the heavenly and earthly man,

re TIE text in Mofes fpeaks very cleary and fully, where it fays, ** And God created man in his own image ; “< in the image of God created he him: “¢ male and female created he them.” By the creating is underftood the body, which is two-fold, namely, a fpiritual body, and a corporeal, [that is, a flefhly body | the verbum fiat itfelf did figurize and form it into a fpiritual man, out of all the three principles, namely, according to the inward divine world; according to the fiery light world; and the outward world, 2. The fpiritual body is the image of God: which the fiat cloathed with the PE2 eflerice