But Lord Lucifer would (in the Creation) have fain been above the Meekness of the Heart of God, above the End of Nature; therefore he would fain also have persuaded the Son of the Virgin to fly without Wings, above the End of Nature, in Pride; of which shall be handled in its due Place at large. I have brought this in thus, but in brief, that my Writing may be the better understood, and how it stands with [or upon] the Ground, [or Foundation] of the Scripture, and is not any new Thing, neither shall there be any Thing new [in them,] but only the true Knowledge, in the Holy Ghost, of the Essence of all Essences. Of Adam 's Sleep.

"From hence, in the creation, good and evil are existed: I exhort the Reader to conceive our very deep sense aright, and not mistake or go astray...

For in that place, or in this birth or geniture, is lord Lucifer become a creature, and his dominion did reach no farther or deeper than so; but if he...

Though indeed the Deity, without or distinct from his body, would have meekly and gently qualified or acted towards him, and would have enlightened...

But seeing the body of Lucifer, was created out of nature, [which is] the most outward birth or geniture, therefore it was unjustly done that he shoul...

For the heart of God delighted in love and meekness; and Lucifer would needs turn the same by force into a raging tyranny: So there was nothing but en...

In such a gentle way and manner should king Lucifer also have generated, qualified or operated; and according to the right of the Deity, with his...

Now when the Heart of God with his meekness and love made haste towards Lucifer, he despised it, and thought himself far better than it, and then...

Now Lucifer being so royally imaged or framed, that his spirit in his forming and imaging rose up in him, and was received or embraced of God very...

But lord Lucifer would himself be the mighty God, and kindled his body, and excited or stirred up therein the sharp birth of God, and opposed the ligh...