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

God's Union with eternal Nature. 83:

The nature of this union, I fhall explain and open to you in thefe following particulars : :

1, Firft then, © This union of God with < eternal Nature, is a true, real, effentigl < and moft intimate. union. In every « ynion thefe three things are to be found, © and: meet together,. namely, the uniter, « the thing united, and the union itfelf, < which joins the uniter and united together. < In this union of God with eternal Nature, ‘the uniter is the bleffed Trinity ; the ‘ thing united is the principle of eternal © Nature; and the union of them both is ‘the divine nature of love;

© Now this love, which is the link and. ‘ tie of both the-uniter and united, is the < effential love of the Deity, therefore this < union muft. be an. effential and moft in© timate union.

© It is a kind of incorporation, the uniter” ‘and united penetrating and mixing with ¢-one another: and therefore this union of <- God and eternal Nature in love’s effence “is compared to a uuplial unton, becaufe ‘ God kas, as it were, efpoufed bimfelf. with ‘eternal Nature, as a pure, Jpotlefs, ond. ‘ yndefiled virgin, in an judiffoluble bend,

D 6 & qphich.