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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the tin€tures of the fire, and light in him ; in the conjunction of which, the virgineal centre ftood ; we alfo fhall be fuch in the relurrection of the dead; as Chrift tells us, ‘© That we fhall neither marry, nor be ** given in marriage, but be like the an** gels of God.” Matt. xxii. 30.

3. Such a man as Adam was, before -his Eve was taken from him, fhall arife and again enter into and poffefs Paradife; nota man or woman; but as the fcripture fays, ** they are virgins, and follow God, ~sed ** and the Lamb, they are Jike to the an** gels of God,” yet not only pure fpirit, but in heavenly bodies, in which the {piritual angelical body inhabits.

4. Seeing that Adam was created in Patadife to the life eternal in the image of God; and God breathed his life and {pirit, into him; we can well defcribe him, how he was in his innocency, how hefell : what he is now, and what he fhall again be at laft.

5. If God had created Adam for the earthly corruptible, miferable, naked, fick, beaftial, toilfome life; then he had not brought him into Paradife: If-God had de= fired [or willed] the beaftial copulation, and

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