(2) But if it so be, that this liking or grumbling fastened in thy fleshly heart be suffered so long to abide unreproved, that then at the last it is fastened to the ghostly heart, that is to say the will, with a full consent: then, it is deadly sin. And this befalleth when thou or any of them that I speak of wilfully draw upon thee the remembrance of any man or woman living in this life, or of any bodily or worldly thing other: insomuch, that if it be a thing the which grieveth or hath grieved thee before, there riseth in thee an angry passion and an appetite of vengeance, the which is called Wrath. Or else a fell disdain and a manner of loathsomeness of their person, with despiteful and condemning thoughts, the which is called Envy. Or else a weariness and an unlistiness of any good occupation bodily or ghostly, the which is called Sloth.

(124) as this has a Being or Substance, Form or Condition in Angels, so it has also a Being, Substance, Form or Condition in Man. Therefore bethink and consider yourselves, you that are proud, covetous, thievish, extorting Usurers, calumniating, blasphemous, envious, and whorish or lascivious, what Manner of little Son or Spirit you send into God. [Or as this Condition is in Angels, so there is such a Condition in Man also.] “The Soul was originally comprehended in the eternal Nature with the Word Fiat, which is God’s Nature according to the first Principle and eternal Original of Nature; and if it kindles itself in the Original, then it kindles God’s Wrath in the eternal Nature.” Objection. Thou wilt say: We do not send this into God, but only into our Neighbour, or into his Work which we like and have a Mind to. Answer. [Or meddle with in our Minds.]

(129) thus it is also with those Creatures which will continually sow and reap in the hellish Fire, especially that Man who lives in a continual Desire of Pride, Covetousness, Envy, and Wrath, and will at no Time fight and strive against them with the Spirit and Fire of Love; such a one does himself pull the Wrath of God, and the burning hellish Fire, upon his Body and Soul.

(127) But that the astringent and bitter Spirit sits still in its Seat at the hinder Gums on the Tongue, and thrusts forth the Word at the Mouth, and yet cannot get away from thence, it signifies, that the Devil and the Wrath of God would indeed be domineering in all the Creatures, yet should not have full Power in them, but must stay in Prison; and there would belch forth or blow into all the Creatures, and plague them, but should not overcome them, unless the Creatures themselves are minded to tarry there in that Place, or love to live in the Qualities, and be of the Conditions of the Devil, and Wrath of God.

(120) Whereby then, in many a Creature, the Wrath-fire would be so very hard kindled, that the Body together with the Spirit will afford and produce an eternal Wrath Saltiter in Hell.