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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tified, and the path of refignation not trod, that religion is vain, deceitful and deftru@tive. As the prophet Ifaiah declared, in the name of the Lord, * For‘«* afmuch as this people draw near me ‘© with their mouth, and with their «« lips do honour me, but have re** moved’their hearts far from me, and their fear towards me is taught by the precepts of men: Therefore the wifdom of their wife men thal! perifh, and the underftanding of their prudent men thali be nid,” Ifa. xxix. 13, 14. Our Saviour, reciting this place of the prophet, fays, But in «< vain do they worfhip me, teaching * for doctrines the commandments of «men, Matt. xv. 9. The wifdom of this world, { which is foolifhnefs with GodJ fexitting in the perverted will of man, which has broken itfelf off from God, and ftands upon its own bottom ; the world by this wifdom can neither know or worfhip God. The wifdom of God in his fervants ftands in an

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