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

42 The final Caufe of eternal Nature.

as the foul is hid and wrapt up in the body, and the body in its cloaths: fo the Holy Trinity is covered and wrapt up in eternal Nature’s effence, and in the creatures thence proceeding. * Blefied are they, who, through all * thefe wiles and difguifements of nature, * can find him who is the Defire of all nations; who in this rubbifh of outward nature can find the Pear] of great price; which yet if we will fearch deep enough we cannot fail of: for the Holy Trin‘ty, in their pure Deity, is the moff innermof kernel of all things, being hid under eternal Nature’s effence, and all her working * forms and elements.’ Seventhly, Eternal Nature was to be ai habitation for the Holy Trinity. For though the eternal world be the moft glorious pa lace of the Deity, and the moft holy place, yet it was the will of the Holy Trinity, to have the outward court of eternal Nature added to it, in which they might dwell as the foul in the body. Kighthly, Eternal Nature was produced, * that it might,bea medium between two * extremes; God, and the creature: whereby * God might communicate himfelf to creas * tures,

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