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A76946 Concerning the election of grace. Or Of Gods will towards man. Commonly called predestination. That is, how the texts of Scripture are to be understood which treat of fallen lost Adam, and of the new birth from Christ. Being a short declaration and introduction concerning the highest ground, shewing how man may attain divine skill and knowledge. Written in the German tongue, anno 1623. / By Jacob Behme. Teutonicus philosophus.; Von der Gnadenwahl. English Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665? 1655 (1655) Wing B3398; Thomason E859_5; Thomason E859_6; ESTC R4192 5,912 12

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JACOB BEHME'S Table Of the Divine Manifestation Or An EXPOSITION Of The Threefold World Shewing What God is in Himself without Nature and Creature and how he is to be considered in Nature according to the Three Principles Also What Heaven Hell the World Time and Eternity as also all Creatures both Visible and Invisible are and out of what all things are proceeded and sprung forth This Table is here Expounded in brief according to the Numbers but in the Treatise of Predestination the Matters are handled more at Large especially in the first Five Chapters And Is as it were the Summe of all the Authours Writings and as an A. B. C. to Beginners London Printed in the Year 1655. What God is considered as without and beyond Nature and Creature and what the Great Mystery Mysterium Magnum is shewing how GOD hath by his Breathing forth or Speaking introduced himself into Nature and Creature What GOD is viz. without or beyond NATURE and CREATURE   1 Abysse Nothing and Allthings     FATHER 2 Will of the Abysse I. E.   SONNE 3 Longing delight or the impression of the will H.O. SPIRIT 4 Science Root or Mobility V.A.   5 GOD in Trinity   Thus is God considered without Nature and Creature 6 WORD in GOD.   7 Wisdome   Here beginneth the Great Mystery Mysterium Magnum viz. the Distinction in the Speaking of the WORD wherein the WORD through the Wisdom becometh distinct also Natural Sensible Perceptible and Palpable or Inventible whereby the two Eternal Principles of Gods Love and Anger in Light and Darknesse are understood The Beginning of the Mysterium Magnum or Eternal NATUR GOD in LOVE GOD in WRATH   8. The Second Principle 9. The First Prin ciple Spiri   10. Tincture or the Trinities Speaking   Moving Sense tual     Dark feeling Mind NATUR   V. Love fire I. Desire II. Sting Science III Anguish IV. Fire 11. Angel Light VI. Sound or Distinction Harsh cause of Enmity fiery hot-Root   Angelical World Root of the 4. Elements VII Substance or the Substantial Wîsdom Hard. Hellish life Hell Sub   12. Pure Element Sharp cold fire Root Devill stan The Growing or Springing in the Spiritual World 13. Paradise Sal. Mercurius Sulphur tial Here beginneth the Outward visible World viz. the Outspoken visible WORD Wherein 1. Is understood the Good Life of the Creature which stands in the Quintessence 2. The Poyson and Grossenesse of the Earth and Earthly Life 14. The Beginning of the Outward World The Third Principle     15. Heaven   Starres 16. Quinta Essentia Good powers The 17. The 4. Elements the Devils poyson introduced Outspoken WORD 18. Earthly Creatures   Now If the Reader understandeth these things all Doubts and Questions cease in him and Bâbel is left in Ignominie and Scorn A Short Exposition of the foregoing Table concerning God Revealed or Manifested shewing how he perpetually generateth and breatheth forth Himself from Himself and how this Table is to be understood ABYSSE 1. NOTHING ALL THINGS AT Number 1. standeth the Abysse the Nothing and All things and there we must begin to Consider what God is in himself without and beyond Nature and Creature and that Consideration of the hidden God goeth on to Number 7. Wisdom whereby is understood how God dwelleth through and through all things and how all existeth from him and yet himself is incomprehensible and as a Nothing to All things and yet makes himself visible perceptible palpable and inventible by and through All things 2. Will of the Abysse At Number 2. standeth the Will of the Abysse and right before it standeth FATHER and on the other side standeth I.E. this signifieth that the Will of the Abysse is the Father of Every being or of all Substances and the I.E. signifieth the Eternal One viz. the Name JESUS proceeding from the Eternal One. 3. Longing Delight or Impression At Number 3. the Longing Delight or the Impression or Contraction of the Will standeth right before which words standeth SONNE and after them standeth H. O. which signifieth how the Own will impresseth or frameth it self into a place for its possession that place is the Generating forth from it self wherein God Generateth God viz. a longing delight or Well pleasingnesse to himself The H. O. is the breathing of the Will whereby the Longing goeth forth 4. Science Root or Mobility At Number 4. standeth Science Root or Mobility and right before it standeth SPIRIT and after it standeth V.A. The Science or Root is the Wills drawing in to be a place for God wherein the Will impresseth the outgone Longing or Delight to be the Sonne or Breathing by the breathing forth of which is understood the Spirit of God And here the Great Name JEHOVA viz. the Tri-Une Substance is understood viz. how the Father generateth his Sonne out of himself and how the Holy Spirit goeth forth from them both and yet they are but One only Substance which hath nothing before it For the Science in the Impression is understood as a Root of the Eternal Skill Knowledge or Mobility 5. God in Trinity At Number 5. standeth God in Trinity signifying the Tri-une Substance whereof a Similitude may be given in the Will Mind and Senses or Thoughts wherein the Eternal Understanding Lyeth for that is the Trinity of the One Eternal Understanding and Cause of Every Beeing 6. WORD At Number 6 standeth WORD signifying the Distinction or Separability in the Understanding viz. the Speaking or Expressing the perceptibility of it self which Word continueth Eternally in God and God viz. the Power or Vertue of the Perceptibility is the Eternal † Goodnesse Good 7. Wisdom At Number 7. standeth Wisdom signifying the outspoken Word viz. the Power of the Divine Vision wherein God himself is understandingly and perceptibly Revealed and Manifested And thus far God is Invisible and Incomprehensible to the Creature and not Natural also not Creatural The Beginning of the Mysterium Magnum or Eternal NATUR Under the line standeth these words The beginning of the Great Mystery Mysterium Magnum or Eternal Nature viz. the distinction or Separability percepribility and inventibility of properties whereby is understood the Divine Explication or Revelation shewing how God introduceth himself into Love and Anger in the Eternal Nature and not in himself for he is himself the Eternal One only Good which yet without distinction or separability could not be perceptible or Manifested But here we are to note that the Seven chief Forms of Nature are marked with Number I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII to difference them from the other Numbers used in this Table 8. The Second Principle   9. The First Principle On the first side at Number 8. The Second Principle standeth and on the other side at Number 9. The First Principle standeth The words at Number 9. signifie the Fathers property through the Speaking of the Word in Wrath and those at Number 8. signifie the Sonnes property in