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

62 What kind of Principle eternal Nature is.

root. Thus God brings down the pride of the fire, by placing its food and refrefhment in the deeps below it. No. fooner had the fire fpirit, by finking down into its Own root, allayed its fierce hunger, and quenched its dry and infatiable thirft zn rhe walter effence, but it became as tranfported with joy, and faid, O bleffed element! how cameft thou to be fo near me, even in my very root and center, and I not aware of thee? behold I have drank deep of thy fountain and am fatisfied: I have tafted thy fweetnefs andam refrefhed: O come and mingle thy foftnefs and meeknefs with my ftrength and fiercenefs, that my anguifhing hunger and painful thirft may no more be felt by me, but be fwallowed up in fatisfaction and delight! Thus you fee how the fire, by finking down into its own root, mingles with the water, and the wa‘water raifing itfelf penetrates the fire, by which means the hunger and thirft of the fire are mitigated and affuaged; not that they are quite taken away, but the. attraction being more moderate, the thirit and hunger, which before were painful and anguifhing, now become pleafing and delightful, ‘it