(15) Concerning this Kindling in this Circumference or Extent, it is that God calls himself “an angry, zealous, or jealous God against those that hate him,” that is, against those who kindle his Wrath and Fierceness still more with the diabolical Spirits, with Swearing, Cursing, Blaspheming, and all Manner of furious Fierceness and Wrath, which stick in the Heart, with Pride, Covetousness, Envy, and Anger; all that whatsoever is in thee, thou castest into God; [“that is, into the Genitrix of Nature, and therefore thou must be proved and tried through the Fire, and the Soul’s Spirit also, and the Wickedness or Malice must abide and remain in the Fire.”] [Which is every where in this World, in every Creature.] Now thou askest, How can that be? Answer.

(47) "But in the Out-speaking of his Word, wherein the Nature of the spiritual World exists, wherein Perceptibility or Sensibility is understood to consist, and wherein God calls himself an angry, zealous or jealous God, and a consuming Fire, therein indeed God has known the Evil from Eternity, and that in Case he should once move himself therein, that the Source or Quality thereof would become creaturely also, but therein he is not called God, but a consuming Fire. [† In that, according to which he is called a consuming Fire.]

(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!

(54) Man cannot be absolutely or wholly pure without Wrath and Sin, for the Births of the Depth in this World are not fully pure before the Heart of God; but always Love and Wrath wrestle one with another, whence God is called "an angry zealous God." [Job 15:15. Exod. 20:5. Deut. 5:9.]

(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.]

(46) It is the Firmament between the clear Deity and the corrupt Nature, which thou must break through when thou intendest to come to God; and it is that very Firmament which does not quite stand in the Wrath, neither is it altogether or perfectly pure; concerning which it is written, 'The very Heavens are not pure in the Sight of God.' And at the last Judgment-Day the Wrath will be purged from them. For it is written, Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but my Word shall not pass away, says Christ. [Mark 13. 31.] [Matth. 24. 35.] [Job 15. 15.]

(127) But thou must know, that the Kernel of Love also sticks in all in the hidden Center, unless it be too, too altogether evil; and so evil a Thing Man has neither no liking to at all. God possesses all, only as to Nature He is not the Essence, He possesses Himself. Or dost thou think thou dost well, if thou bathest or forsakest thyself in God’s Wrath? Take heed, that it does not kindle thy Body and Soul, and so thou wilt burn therein eternally, as befell Lucifer.

(16) For thus saith the Spirit in its Zeal, or in the Jealousy of God's Wrath in this World: While thy Spirit and Will qualifies or co-operates with and in the four Abominations of the Devil, thou art not one Spirit with God: And saith the Spirit, Though thou presentest me every Hour with thy Lips, and prayest and bowest thy Knees before me, yet I will accept none of thy Labour: Is not thy Breath however continually before me? What shall thy Incense be to me in my fierce Wrath? Dost thou think, I will receive the Devil into myself, or exalt Hell into Heaven?

(16) When thou openest thy Eyes, and seest the ‘Being of God,’ then thou prickest as it were with Thorns into the Eting of God, and movest or stirrest up the Wrath and Anger of God. And

(4) And because that ever the whiles thou livest in this wretched life, thee behoveth always feel in some part this foul stinking lump of sin, as it were oned and congealed with the substance of thy being, therefore shalt thou changeably mean these two words—sin and God. With this general knowing, that an thou haddest God, then shouldest thou lack sin: and mightest thou lack sin, then shouldest thou have God.

(119) For the kindled Spirits of God generate themselves thus. I. The Hardness generates a hard, raw, rough, cold, and astringent Quality. II. The Sweetness is grown faint, like a glowing Coal, when there is no more Sap in the Wood, that gasps, and there is no Refreshment for it. III. The Bitterness tears like a hot Plague, and is as bitter as Gall. IV. The Fire burns as a fierce wrathful Sulphur. V. Love is an Enmity here. VI. The Sound is a mere Beating, Rumbling, or Cracking, like the Noise of a Fire breaking forth out of a hollow Place, as if it were great Claps of Thunder. VII. The Circuit, Region, Court, or Residence of the Body is a House of Mourning.