A Cabbalistical Dialogue
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A Cabbaliſtical Dialogue in Anſwer to the Opi. nion of 4 Learned DoGor in Philoloph y and Theology, That the World was made of Nothing. To which is Subjoined a Rabbinical and Parapbraſtical Expoſetion of the F zrſt Chapter of Genelis.
Compiler. HE Marts and Fairs drawing near, I cannot poſhbly «cnquice of thee concerning all thoſe things which [ once was determined to enquire of: Only tell me briefly tor th- preſene 3 Arg theſe the Fundamentals of thy Cabbala, wiiich arc propoled in the Aeto-pado-mzliſſean Dream?
Cabbal No, no; But what an{wer ſhall T giveto 6ne that is n haſt; unieis thou doſt allow me to defer until another time thofe things, which are more amply to be added to thoſe three Trea’ iles, called,. 4 further Diſquiſition, the Expoſition of the Mercava, and the. Cabbaliſtical Catechiſm
Compil. Be it ſo. This is all I ask in the firſt place, Whether doſt thou deny a’l Creation, prop-1ly fo called? Or what is Creation, according 10 thy Hypotheſis or doftrinal Suppolition 2?
Cabb. I will anſwer Paradox s with Paradoxes; and becau e-[ perceive thou examinelt all things {o {trict’y in the’ Ballance of Realon, which for the moſt part is ſtark bliad in thele moizg (ublime.matters; I ſhall anlwer problematically,. ſo as ye. may be able to jud ec, whether our Cabbaliſtical tera.s do not allo admir of ano: her interpretat on, -accordin: to che diCtate of reaſon, than ſu_h aone as may be laid ro Jabour under an abſurdity. Byt as tor our Hyp-tveſes it (elf, I ſhall more treely cxpatiate on that another time. Now there. tore to aniwer chy queſtion, I know one, who is of ou num zer, who d-<fttneth Creation, properly ſo call’d, to be the ‘effeCtron of an infs. nite efficient, whereby a ſeparible Being 3s con. ſtitiffed, or made. This de -frnition ot Acthwe Creation, may allo be ea(il, / 35h to Paſſe ve Creation or to that which’is Kelativ-, that is, to that reſped? which the Creator hath to the Creature, or on the contrary: As allo to that Creation which is mediate, whether it be ſo- in regard of the Efficient, or 1n regard of the Efte&t. - And what abſurdity 1s there in all this?
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