(44) Behold! thou pompous, stately, lofty, and proud Man; the World is even too narrow for thee here, and thou thinkest there is none like thee, or equal to thee: Bethink thyself in this, whether thou hast in thee the Manner, Quality, or Condition of an Angel, or of a Devil. To whom now shall I liken the Angels? Answer.

(173) O thou blind Man! How does the Devil Mock at thee? O! wherefore dost thou trouble Heaven? Dost thou think thou hast not have enough in this World? O blind Man! Is not Heaven and Earth thine? Nay, God himself too? What dost thou bring into this World, or what dost thou take along with thee at thy going out of it? Thou bringest an Angelical Garment into this World, and with thy wicked Life thou turnest it into a Devil’s Mask or Vizard.

(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.]

(100) O thou excellent angelical Kingdom, how comely dressed and adorned wast thou once? How has the Devil turned thee into a murderous Den? Dost thou suppose thou standest now in the Flower of thy Beauty and Glory? No! thou standest in the Midst of Hell: If thine Eyes were but opened, thou wouldst see it.

(165) O, was not the gracious, amiable, blessed and fair Love in thee also? O thou high and lofty-minded Devil! Why wouldst thou not be contented? Wert thou not a Cherubim? and was there any Thing so beautiful and bright in Heaven as thou? What didst thou seek for? Wouldst thou be the whole or total God? Didst thou not know that thou wert a Creature, and hadst not the Fan and Casting-Shovel in thy own Hand or Power?

(170) O Security! the Devil watches for thee. O High-mindedness! thou art a hellish Fire. O Beauty, Pomp, or Bravery! thou art a dark Valley. O Potency of Dominion! thou art a Raging and Tearing of the hellish Fire. O Self-Vindication or Vengeance! thou art the fierce Wrath of God.

(169) Woe, Woe, poor miserable blinded Man, why sufferest thou the Devil to make thy Body and Soul so dark and blind? O temporal Good, and the Pleasure and Voluptuousness of this Life! thou blind Whore, why dost thou go a wooing and whoring to the Devil?

(99) O World, where is thy Humility? Where is thy angelical Love? Where is thy courteous Friendliness? At that very Instant when the Mouth saith, God save thee; then if the Heart was seen, it might be said; Beware, look to thyself, for it bids the Devil take thee.

(26) O Man! Here consider thyself, here thou seest, from whence the Devil and his fierce wrathful Malice has its Original, as also God's Wrath, and the hellish Fire, also Death and Hell, and eternal Damnation. Ye Philosophers, observe that!