A description of the three principles of the divine essence viz., of the un-originall eternall birth of the Holy Trinity of God ... : of man, of what he was created and to what end, and how he fell from his first glory into the angry wrathfulnesse ... : what the anger of God, sinne, death the Devill, and hell are ... / written in the German language, anno 1619, by Jacob Beme.
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A description of the three principles of the divine essence viz., of the un-originall eternall birth of the Holy Trinity of God ... : of man, of what he was created and to what end, and how he fell from his first glory into the angry wrathfulnesse ... : what the anger of God, sinne, death the Devill, and hell are ... / written in the German language, anno 1619, by Jacob Beme.
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Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.
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London :: Printed by M.S. for H. Blunden ...,
1648.
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God -- Attributes.
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"A description of the three principles of the divine essence viz., of the un-originall eternall birth of the Holy Trinity of God ... : of man, of what he was created and to what end, and how he fell from his first glory into the angry wrathfulnesse ... : what the anger of God, sinne, death the Devill, and hell are ... / written in the German language, anno 1619, by Jacob Beme." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28520.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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The Gate of the great necessitie and miserie.
O Man, consider thy selfe, how hardly thou art beset here, and how thou gettest thy misery in thy Mothers body:
Observe it O ye u Lawyers, from what Spirit you x [come to] y know [what is] right, consider this well for it is deepe.
53. The Spirit of the virgin sheweth us the mystery againe, and the great secresie; for the stifling [or stopping] of the bloud in the Ma∣trix (especially in the fruit) is the first dying of the Essences, where they are severed from the Heaven, so that the virgin cannot be gene∣rated there, which should [have been] generated in Adam, from the heavenly vertue [or power] without Woman, also without rending of his body: and here the Kingdome [or Dominion] of the Starres and Elements begin in Man, where they take hold of Man and mingle [or qualifie] with him, make and fit him, also nourish and nourture him, of which you may reade more about Cain.