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

Concerning God in eternal Nature. 79

2. Secondly, when I fay that God introduced himfelf, &c. I do include the eternal wifdom which God introduced, together with himfelf, into the principle of eternal Nature.

3. In the third place, God introduced himjelf into eternal Nature together with bis effential love, which is the boly nature cf the Trinity, according to that of the apoftle John, ‘* God is love!”

Object. But fome may object, That the divine nature does not only conGift in love, but alfo in light and life, which are attributed to the Holy Trinity, as well as love.

Sol. To which I anfwer, that love, in the fenfe I take it, does include both light and life, for this effential love is-all light and all life; fo that neither death, nor darknefs, can come near it. Now we muft know that this effential love ts the unchangeable nawure of the Trinity, and therefore we muft net think that the divine Nature is changed by being brought into and clothed upon with eternal Nature, and from love turned to wrath, or from meelknefs to feverity. No, by no means : for

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