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

106 Of Adam’s State before his Eve

propagation, then he would inftantly, in the beginning have created man and woman, and both fexes would have come forth in the Verbum Fiat, into a divifion of both tinétures, as it was in the other earthly creatures.

6. Every creature brings its cloathing upon it, from its dam [or mother’s body | But man, who comes into the world miferable, naked, and bare, in deepeft poverty, and inability; and is able to do nothing. In his arrival into this world he is the moft wretched, forlorneft, and moft fhiftle/s creature amongft all kinds, and cannot at all help bimfeif: which does fufficiently fhow unto us, that he was not created of God unto this mifery,

. but in and unto his perfection ; as all other creatures were to theirs; but which perfection the firft man fooled away and loft, by falfe luft, wherein he flept; Whereupon God afterward in his fleep did firft fgurife him in the outward Fiat [or let it be] to the natural life of man and woman, aecording to the property of all earthly creatures, and bung upon him the worms carca/s with the beftial members for propagation, of which the poor foul is to this day efbamed, and

- mourns