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

68 What kind of Principle eternal Nature is. hove fire gives forth itfelf for food to all

‘be properties of nature, it becomes unto them eternal bread and wine, wherewith they are fed aud refrefhed for ever; which makes them all cry out, O love! thou haft fatisfied our hunger and quenched our thirft, nay thou haft filled us with the higheft exulting joys; behold, we defire no longer to have any will of our own, but that all our wills may be thine, and fo thy will may be our will; shou halt have the dominion over us, only feed us with thy heavenly food, and give us thy wine to drink eternally. When this love effence mingles with the fpirit, it begets in him a divine and fpiritual underftanding, and opens his fpiritual fenfes of feeing, hearing, tafting, fmelling and feeling : thus the blind properties of nature come to fee fpiritually and intellectually, the deaf to hear, the dumb to fing, and the barren to become fruitful. bis is the feeling life of nature, and proceeds from the love fire's deminior in and over all its properties. When this love fire tinélure enters into the dark fire forms, and comes to penetrate the burning fulphur, poifonous mercury, and fal-nitre of the fire fpirit, and to

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