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(12) For it forsakes the Love, and hangs on Covetousness, Extortion and Bribery; there is no Mercy at all therein: Every one cries out, If I had but Money! Those that are in Authority and Power suck the very Marrow from the Bones of Men of low Degree and Rank, and feed upon the Sweat of their Brows. Briefly, there is nothing else but lying, cozening, robbing and murdering, and so may very justly be called the Devil's Nest and Dwelling-house.

(2) For he that abideth feeleth sometime some comfort, and hath some hope of perfection; for he feeleth and seeth that many of his fordone special sins be in great part by help of grace rubbed away. Nevertheless yet ever among he feeleth pain, but he thinketh that it shall have an end, for it waxeth ever less and less. And therefore he calleth it nought else but purgatory. Sometime he can find no special sin written thereupon, but yet him think that sin is a lump, he wot never what, none other thing than himself; and then it may be called the base and the pain of the original sin. Sometime him think that it is paradise or heaven, for diverse wonderful sweetness and comforts, joys and blessed virtues that he findeth therein. Sometime him think it God, for peace and rest that he findeth therein.

(106) But God has therefore kindled Nature so much and so hard, and did so kindle the Burning in his Wrath therein, that he might thereby build a Dwelling-House for the Devils, and keep them Prisoners therein, in that they were the Children of Wrath, in whom he rules with his fierce Zeal or Jealousy, and they also in the Wrath of God.

(53) For it has not this Understanding or Meaning, that the Wrath-fire should be extinguished, and be no more; for then the Devils also must become holy Angels again, and live in the holy Heaven; but that not being so, a Hole, Burrow, or Dungeon in this World must remain to be their Habitation.

(94) that the Spirit first goes over the astringent and bitter Qualities unperceived, it signifies, that the Gate of God is every where in this World all over, wherein the Holy Ghost rules, and that the Heaven stands open every where, even in the Midst or Center of the Earth; and that the Devil no where can either see, comprehend, or apprehend the Heaven, but is a grumbling and snarling Hell-Hound, which afterwards first comes out from behind, when the Holy Ghost has built or raised to himself a Church and Temple, and destroys it in the Wrath, and bangs behind at the Word as an Enemy, who will not endure that a Temple of God should be raised or built in his Land or Country, whereby his Kingdom might be lessened or diminished. Of the Third Day.

(85) But thou must not think that Nature was thus corrupted and kindled even to the innermost Ground, but only the outermost Birth or Geniture; but the innermost, in which the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits generate themselves, retained its own Right to itself, seeing the kindled Devil could not reach into it. [Avarice.]