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.

On the 35th Question and Answer. On the six days work of the Creation, and the Sabbath.

1. The six days Work demonstrate the six working Properties, and they being distinct, do yet every of them generate another, and all six meet to generate the seventh, yet when they concenter in the seventh, do not there cease to Work, which were as impossible as for them to cease to be; but if they Work in the seventh, their Operations are heavenly, sweetly, harmoniously, triumphantly; as saith our Lord, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

2. Hath not Man brought himself in a most wretched degree o•• the Curse by the Fall, of Toil and Labour and Confusion of Language, it is on the Work and Word, what hath and is man more? A great aggravation of this Misery is, either when we sit down under Bondage in Soul and Body▪ feeding among Swine, having a Beast's Heart, as Nebuchadnezar, and groan not after working in God and for God, which would gradually deliver from the Curse. Also when we mistake our present working-time, and flatter our selves with undue and imaginary rest, whereas we are here in the Seed time, in a Journey in the six days of Work.

2. But thou (my Soul) spare no pains, spur thy lazy Asso••iate, my Body, subject it to the Cross, to free you both from the Cross, endure patiently, die daily, and having done all stand, empty thy self, lose thy self, pour out thy self; Let not

thy Will be bought, but pay it to the Owner, give and resign it gladly and irrevo∣cably. As to thy Name, be content it should wither as if blasted with the East Wind, be willing to be nameless, the Memory of it to be as written on the Sand, and (while here) to be a Fool, a Child, an off-scouring, any thing or nothing: yet must not thy work stop, let it proceed chearfully, till thy Body like the Matter of a Taper be consumed; if then thou art found so doing, no sooner shall this Can∣dle expire, but the Sun will rise who shall never set, and the Sabbath enter at the end of the Week.