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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effence out of all effences, namely, it cloathed it with the heavenly holy effénce, the heavenly holy corporality of the inward holy love defire: and from the outward love defire it was cloathed with the limus of the earth and the other elements, together with the vifible conftellation of the third principle.

3. The inward holy man was in the heaven of God, alimus of the holy {piriritual heaven: thereforefays Mofes, ‘* God “© created man in his image,” | to the image of God] for IN betokens that he was known by the Spirit of God in this effence from eternity in the myftery of wildom: and into this knowledge God introduced the effence, and he created the efience To THE image of himfelf. And the outward mian was in the outward heaven, a limus of the outward heaven.

4. Thus underftand, by the inward creating, the true heavenly image; namely, an holy fpiritual man out of all the properties of the angelical divine world: by the inward bedy, underftand the one only pure element, whence the four were exprefied and underftand the outward man for the outward world with the flars and

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