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

What kind of Principle eternal Nature is. 49,

£ principle is called a chaos or confuled * mixture, Gen. i. 2. becaufe in this prin* ciple there is no effences to be found, but all things are hid in it in a dark confufed manner.’

Anfw. 5. Eternal Nature is a middle effence, becaufe it is placed by God between the eternal world and the angelical, and this vifible creation, and is the original ground from whence all middle worlds and creations do proceed. Were not eternal Nature a middle effence, there would be no middle worlds, no middle ftates, nohing but the ftill eternity. But the {criptures tell us of worlds in the plural number, Heb. i. 2. which muft be the middle worlds of which I have here {poken.

Anfw. 6. ‘ Erernal Nature is in itfelf © an invifible effence, for it is the ground ‘ from whence all invifible worlds and ‘ creations do proceed, and we are taught ‘ that éven this outward vifible world was ‘ made of an invifible matter, namely, © eternal Nature’s efience: ‘* The things *< which are feen were not made of the ** things that do appear,” Heb. xi, 3.

Anfw. 7. Eternal Nature’s effence is a mixed and compounded effence, it is mixed

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