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. 85

perceive the effects of God’s love and hatred, mercy and juftice, fweetnefs and feverity; yet im pure nature, into which God bas introduced bimfelf, and concerning which we fpeak here, nothing can ever be found but the effects of au unchangeable Jove: which unchangeable love is that bond, which makes the infeparable union between God and pure nature, between the Deity and humanity, This love is that which after a vital manner does pafs through and penetrate all and every part of eternal Nature, and eternal Nature prefles into the love, which makes the union of them both moft intimate, vital, and infeparable: fo that we may fay, who fhall, or who can feparate God and pure nature ? or who can difannul the eternal covenant between them? But yet notwithftanding all that has been faid concerning this union between God and pure nature’s principle, we are to underftand that this union zs without confufion; fo as Ged is not pure nature, nor pure nature God; for though one be inthe other, yet nalure cannot

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