(78) And whilst it is but glimmering, it is only a gentle soft longing Delight, or pleasing Lust in thee, and does not consume thee; but if thy Heart be in a greater Commotion, and thou kindlest the sweet Quality or Fountain, so that it becomes a burning Flame, then thou kindlest all the qualifying or fountain Spirits, and then the whole Body burns, and to Mouth and Hands fall on to Work.

(122) Therefore the original Lust sticks in the Circle of the Heart, in the Council of the seven Spirits; and as they generate the Spirit, so also it is. And

(51) But the infectious Lust, Longing, and Malady of the Devil, who had infected and spoiled the Salitter of which Adam was made, that brought Man into an Evil Longing or Lust to eat of both the Qualities, the Evil and the Good, of which I shall write clearly, as follows, and demonstrate it. Of the Creation of Angels.

(115) In this casting of the Glance, the one Spirit caught the other, the unctuous Oil or Water in the Wrath conceived from the Love-Spirit in the Heart of God, and qualified, mixed, or united, with the same, and the astringent Spirit drew the Mass together; and there was clearly a Birth, or a Will, or Desire to the producing of a whole Creature, just as the Seed in Man is.

(19) For as the exhalations which arise from the earth, and from marshes, gather into mists and cloudy masses; so the vapours of fleshly lusts bring on the soul an evil condition, scattering about the idols of pleasure before the soul.

(79) Or if by Tasting it should fall into a Desire and Longing, to eat that which is not of the Quality of the Body, or is none of its own; as Mother Eve in Paradise fell a Longing to eat of the Devil's Swine-apples, and did eat thereof; such Stirring in Lust the Council also rejects.

(19) First, thou hast the bestial Flesh, which is come to be through the lustful longing Bit of the Apple, for it is the House of Corruption. For when Adam was made out of the corrupted Salitter of the Earth, that is, out of the Seed, or Mass, or Lump, which the Creator extracted out of the corrupted Earth, he was not then at first such Flesh, else his Body had been created mortal, but he had an angelical powerful Body, in which he should have subsisted eternally, and should have eat angelical [Tex. Mist.] Fruit, which grew for him in Paradise before his Fall, before the LORD cursed the Earth.

(2) Before ere man sinned was the Sensuality so obedient unto the Will, unto the which it is as it were servant, that it ministered never unto it any unordained liking or grumbling in any bodily creature, or any ghostly feigning of liking or misliking made by any ghostly enemy in the bodily wits. But now it is not so: for unless it be ruled by grace in the Will, for to suffer meekly and in measure the pain of the original sin, the which it feeleth in absence of needful comforts and in presence of speedful discomforts, and thereto also for to restrain it from lust in presence of needful comforts, and from lusty plesaunce in the absence of speedful discomforts: else will it wretchedly and wantonly welter, as a swine in the mire, in the wealths of this world and the foul flesh so much that all our living shall be more beastly and fleshly, than either manly or ghostly.