(168) O thou lying Devil, stay but a little, the Spirit will discover thy Shame to thee; tarry but a little while longer, and thy Pomp, Pride, and Pageantry will be at an End. Stay, the Bow is bent, the Arrow will hit thee, and then whither wilt thou fall? The Place is ready provided and prepared, it wants only to be kindled, wilt thou bring Fewel lustily to it, that thou be not frozen with Cold? Thou wilt sweat very hard: Dost thou suppose thou shalt obtain the Light again? No, but Hell Fire. Smell to thy sweet Love, guess at it, what is that called? Gehenna; yes, that will be in Love with thee eternally. [Gehenna]

(101) Or dost thou think that the Spirit is drunken, and does not see thee? O, it sees thee very well: Thy Shame stands quite naked before God, thou art an unchaste, wanton, lacivious Woman, and goest a whoring Day and Night, and yet thou sayest, I am a chaste Virgin.

(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.

(15) But if thou wouldst know what the true Faith is, then observe: Thy Heart must not qualify or co-operate with the four Sons of the Devil, in Pride, Covetousness, Envy, Wrath, Extortion, Oppression, Lying, Deceiving, Murder, and tearing the Bread out of thy Neighbour's Throat, studying Day and Night to do Mischief, in bringing subtle Devices and Designs to effect, that thou mayest give Satisfaction to the proud, covetous, envious, and wrathful Devils, to court them, and exercise thyself in worldly Pleasures and Voluptuousness.

(61) If you take counsel with your lust, Even though it enjoin prayers and fasting, It is treacherously laying a snare for you.' You must abandon and ignore your own knowledge, Whatever seems profitable, flee from it, Contemn whatever praises you, Lend to paupers your wealth and profits! Quit your sect and be a subject of aversion, Cast away name and fame and seek disgrace!" If you seek the explanation of God's love and favor,

(91) Behold the Spirit will here a little present before thy Eyes what Manner of Love, Humility, and courteous Friendliness there is in thee, thou fair angelical Bride; behold, I pray thee, thy Dress, Ornament, and Attire, What excellent Delight and Pleasure may thy Bridegroom take in thee, thou beloved Angel, that dancest daily with the Devil?

(2) Thus shalt thou do with thyself: thou shalt loathe and be weary with all that thing that worketh in thy wit and in thy will unless it be only God. For why, surely else, whatsoever that it be, it is betwixt thee and thy God. And no wonder though thou loathe and hate for to think on thyself, when thou shalt always feel sin, a foul stinking lump thou wottest never what, betwixt thee and thy God: the which lump is none other thing than thyself. For thou shalt think it oned and congealed with the substance of thy being: yea, as it were without departing.

(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.

(1) LOOK up now, weak wretch, and see what thou art. What art thou, and what hast thou merited, thus to be called of our Lord? What weary wretched heart, and sleeping in sloth, is that, the which is not wakened with the draught of this love and the voice of this calling! Beware, thou wretch, in this while with thine enemy; and hold thee never the holier nor the better, for the worthiness of this calling and for the singular form of living that thou art in. But the more wretched and cursed, unless thou do that in thee is goodly, by grace and by counsel, to live after thy calling. And insomuch thou shouldest be more meek and loving to thy ghostly spouse, that He that is the Almighty God, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, would meek Him so low unto thee, and amongst all the flock of His sheep so graciously would choose thee to be one of His specials, and sithen set thee in the place of pasture, where thou mayest be fed with the sweetness of His love, in earnest of thine heritage the Kingdom of Heaven.

(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?

(61) Now, Lucifer! come on, with thy Love; how hast thou behaved thyself? Is thy Love also such a Well-spring or Fountain as this? We will now view that also, and examine what Manner of loving Angel thou art turned into. Observe,

(128) But when God shall bring forth the hidden Things, at the End of this Time, then you will discern in what God’s Love or Wrath has been. Therefore have a Care, and take Heed, and turn thy Eyes from Evil, or else thou undoest thyself, and so bringest thyself into Perdition. [Not.]