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tellectual Light, prior to the Sun, fhone forth, the adverfe Shades gave way, God difpelling and feparating them, who difcerns thoroughly the Contrarieties of Things, and their natural Contests." p. 80.

"Let us pray with Mofes, Deut. xxviii. 12. That God may open to us his Treafure, that fublime Word full of divine Light, which above he called Heaven." p. 92. "In like manner, the divine Word difcerns most acutely, who is fufficient to fee into all Things, by whom we may fee whatever is worth feeing; and therefore Manna is white. What is more refulgent or more radiant than the Word of God? By the Means and Participation of which, even other Things fhake off their Gloom and Darkness, defiring the Light of Souls." P. 93. "The Word of God is alfo fuperior to the univerfal World, more antient and general than all Creatures-But his Angel, who is the Word, is represented as the Physician of our Diseases, and that very naturally." p. 714. "As the Darknefs vanishes at the Rifing of the Light, and every thing is enlightened, just so it is when the divine Light illuminates the Soul. p. 312. "Until the divine Word inhabit our Souls, as a Temple." p. 500. This Word is fo fharp, that it diffects

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all Things." p. 33. formed after the most perfect Idea, and had all the Accomplishments of Body and Mind, but his Defcendants partaking of the fame Idea, neceffarily preferve, though obfcurely, the fame Modes of Relation which are between the Father and themfelves. But what is this Relation? Every Man, with regard to his Soul or Mind, is related to the Divine Word, the Seal of his bleffed Nature, or a certain Particle, or Splendour or Ray, &c." p. 577. "For the Soul, like Light, has the whole Rule over us, extending its Rays every way." P. 195. "God as King rules by Right and Law, having fet his Word, his firft begotten Son, over them, who, as a great Viceroy, takes upon him the Care of this facred Flock." p. 140. "Therefore as that Unbegotten-one is before all Things which are begotten, fo the Word of the Unbegotten outruns the Word of the Creature, for it flies beyond the Clouds." [Confer Pfal. cxlvii. 15.3 p. 490."The Voice of God came to Abraham, as it were knocking inwardly in the Heart*". Heart *."-p. 302. "He diftributes Munificence by the Administration of his Word,

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by whom he made the World." p. 221. "When he says it was made by the Hands of God, it means his Powers or Potentates, the Opificers of the World." p. 507. "All other Things are vain by their Nature, or if they have any thing folid in them, it is made to adhere by the Divine Word. For by this, as by a Bond or Ccment, is every Effence confolidated; connecting or weaving together all Things, being its own Complement, and needing no other." p. 1142. p. 1142. "For in Truth the Stream of the Divine Word flowing with a continual and even Current, exhilarates and makes glad every thing." p. 312. "For until the Divine Word enters our Soul, as an House-or what else is to be called the Prieft-when that Pricft, the true Reprover, comes to us, like the cleareft Light."-p. 509. ઠંડ But the omnipotent Father has granted this high Privilege to that Prince of Angels, the most antient Word, that standing on the Confines, he might be an Umpire between the Creator and Creature. He also, as a Supplicant, deprecates the Immortal from Mortals, and is as a Legate from the great King to his Subjects, which Office he fo willingly exercises, that he boasts of it, saying, I ftood a middle one between you

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and the Lord: Namely, not unbegotten as God, nor begotten as you *, but a Medium, between the Extremes, acting the Part of an Hoftage between both." p. 466. speaking of the Delivery at the Death of the High-Pricft, "This is our Opinion, that this High-Pricft is not a Man, but the Word of God, who is free from all Sin, -having God for his Father, who is the Father of all, and Wisdom for his Mother, who made all Things (Gr. is the Genefis of all Things) that are made.— His Head is anointed with Oil; and I say, his principal or fuperior Part fhines all around with fplendid Light, as if it was covered with a Garment; for the most antient Word of him who is, is cloathed with the World, as with a Garment," P. 575. "Never departing from the Faith of God; but meet the Divine Word, the Mediator, who fuggefts the best Precepts, and fuch as are fuited to all Times and

Occafions." p. 594. "The He-Goat and Ram are Heads of their refpective Kinds, and these Animals are Symbols of the two perfect Words, of which the one purifies the Soul and frees it from Sin, the other cherisheth it, and fills it with good Works." Though the Name Jehovah be so often. * Here is the Description of our eternal Generation.

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ufed, he was not able to allegorize upon that, I find it but once mentioned upon the third Commandment, and there, as usual, to pervert it; though indeed, as you will fee, it refers to one of his Potentates." p. 504 "The third Commandment concerns the Name of the Lord, not the creative Name, for that is ineffable, but that which is predicated of his Potentates; for this is alfo prohibited to be taken in vain."

Of the third, p. 170. " But the Spirit of Life, Gen. i. 2. infufed from the Fountain of Reason, is not Air in Motion, but a certain Character and Image of the Divine Power, &c." p. 287. "The Air in Motion upon the Earth is, in one Senfe, called the Spirit of God, [confer Pfal. cxlvii. 18.1-in the other Sense, the Spirit fignifies that pure unmixed Knowledge, of which every wife Man is defervedly a Partaker. Now this Spirit of Wisdom which is in Man, is divine, indivifible, upright, &c. and fills all around." p. 908. "The Divine Spirit from above inspiring his Soul." p. 394. "When we speak of God, we must do it in Terms far below his Effence, for the Potentates of him who is, are above all Description." p. 525. "The Burning-Lamps (Gen. xv. 17.) are the fplendid

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