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

80 Concerning God in eternal Nature. as God is al! love in bimfelf, fo be is the fame

ain eternal Nature.

Queit. But you will fay, how can this be reconciled with feripture, which attributes wrath, anger, feverity, and juftice to God?

Anfw. T anfwer, that when the fcripture {peaks of God’s anger, wrath, and feverity, it has regard to God’s manifefting of himicif in and through eternal Nature, as it is infedted and defiled by fin. Whereas when 1 fay, that the maniféftation of God in nature is all love, I fpeck of nature in its purity, before it was infected by the fall of Lucifer, and when all its forms and properties were harmonized to the maft perfec? concord and unity: for in this ftate nothing but love, which is the unchangeable nature of God, was to be found in eternal Nature’s principle.

4. Inthe laft place, I fay, God introduced the feven fpirits before the throne, together with himfelf, into eternal Nature ; elle thefe feven fpirits could never have been feen, or manifefted in eternal Nature’s principle; but the fcripture often

makes mention of them as introduced into eternal