Jacob Behmen's theosophick philosophy unfolded in divers considerations and demonstrations, shewing the verity and utility of the several doctrines or propositions contained in the writings of that divinely instructed author : also, the principal treatises of the said author abridged, and answers given to the remainder of the 177 theosophick questions, propounded by the said Jacob Behmen, which were left unanswered by him at the time of his death : as a help towards the better understanding the Old and New Testament : also what man is with respect to time and eternity, being an open gate to the great mysteries / by Edward Taylor ; with a short account of the life of Jacob Behmen.
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Jacob Behmen's theosophick philosophy unfolded in divers considerations and demonstrations, shewing the verity and utility of the several doctrines or propositions contained in the writings of that divinely instructed author : also, the principal treatises of the said author abridged, and answers given to the remainder of the 177 theosophick questions, propounded by the said Jacob Behmen, which were left unanswered by him at the time of his death : as a help towards the better understanding the Old and New Testament : also what man is with respect to time and eternity, being an open gate to the great mysteries / by Edward Taylor ; with a short account of the life of Jacob Behmen.
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Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.
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1691.
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Theology -- Early works to 1800.
Theology -- History -- 17th century.
Theosophy.
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"Jacob Behmen's theosophick philosophy unfolded in divers considerations and demonstrations, shewing the verity and utility of the several doctrines or propositions contained in the writings of that divinely instructed author : also, the principal treatises of the said author abridged, and answers given to the remainder of the 177 theosophick questions, propounded by the said Jacob Behmen, which were left unanswered by him at the time of his death : as a help towards the better understanding the Old and New Testament : also what man is with respect to time and eternity, being an open gate to the great mysteries / by Edward Taylor ; with a short account of the life of Jacob Behmen." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69597.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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CHAP. XLIV. Of Lot's Departure out of Sodom, and the terrible overthrow of that whole Region.
1. THE Angels took Lot, his Wife and Daughters by the Hand; they were in∣wardly taken by the hand of Faith in the Covenant. So were the Men of Sodom, taken by the hand of their Essence, and brought into Judgment and Execution.
2. The Sun was Externally risen, so was Internally the Sun of God's Truth, the Sun of the Covenant, on Lot: and the scorching Sun of God's Anger, on Sodom. This figure concerns Babel.
3. Lot obtain'd the saving of Zoar (and himself in it) as oftentimes God's Chil∣dren do with-hold great Plagues from falling on People. The Angel saith▪ I can do nothing till thou come thither. God's Anger becomes impotent as it were, where the Sons of Love are present. It rained Brimstone and Fire from the Lord, &c.
4. It was not the Hellish Fire, which at the End shall purge the Floor; if so,
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the four Elements had been changed; for that inward Fire consumes Earth, Stones and Elements; but this Fire, was generated in Turba Magna, an Egest or Thunder∣clap: And though it be no palpable Matter, yet is a spiritual Substance, in which Mercurius doth enkindle, and there the flagrat doth fix itself into a Substance.
5. The first Principle did behold the third with a darting flash, or aspect. As if the inward dark spiritual World should move itself; the outward with the four Elements would forthwith be swallow'd up.
6. Lot's Wife was apprehended in the Proba, and remain'd in the Salt Spirit; for that, Covetousness was most predominant in her.
7. Lot's Daughters, caus'd him to drink Wine, and lay with him; that they might receive the Holy Seed: which is not so as reason censureth, but that Ammon and Moab might spring from one Root in Affinity with Abraham's Line.