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

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In the following confiderations, upon the feope of J. Behmen’s writings, the

writer doth (from the types, figures, and facrifices, under the law, from things we are moft converfant with through the whole creation, from heaven and earth, and from man himfelf) demonftrate the truth of the doctrines laid down by Jacob Behmen, to be well grounded upon the uncontroulable maxims of confeffed theology and philofophy.

The apoftle Paul preached to the Athenians the knowledge of that God who they ignorantly adored: Even fo thefe writings ferve or tend to teach us, by plain demonftration, what we, like the Athenians, are too ignorant of. It , as written, ‘God is one,” which certainly is as true as where it is faid, “© There are three that bear record in *« heaven.”

It is written, ‘*Our God is acon‘« fuming fire,” Heb. xii. 29. and yet

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