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

go God?s Union with eternal Nature) blifhed their dominions, and are-very active and ftirring in it.

* And though God is in: fallen nature, yet * not to the fame end for which be was pleafed © to introduce bimfelf in pure nature, for ‘ he introduced himfelf into: pure nature, © thac he might be the fole mover and actor © in it, and thereby to keep and preferve it © in its original purity : whereas the end why © God entered into fallen nature, was, that be © micht redeem it, and reftore it to its original * purity, from whence it is fallen.’

Queft. But you will fay, How can the high purity of the divine nature be. preferved in the unclean vefiel of defiled and corrupted nature.

To which I anfwer: ‘ That if we con© fider what has been faid, we fhall find, the © divine Nature is the bhigheft unity and fim© plicity, and conféquently cannot admit of any mixture, or compofition with any thing, being free from all; though in, and penetrating through all, like the beams of the fun, ¢ which though they pierce the air, and ¢ water, penetrating them throughout, yet © are they not mixed, or jumbled with them, but abide in their perfect liberty, and untouched from either of them.’

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