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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 24: Of True Repentance: How the poor Sinner may come to God again in his Covenant, and how he may be released of his Sins. The Gate of the Justification of a poor Sinner before God. A clear Looking-Glass. (5)
My dear Mind, thou supposest thou art very sound, but thou art so beaten, that thou feelest thy Disease no more. Art thou not very near unto Death, how then canst thou account thyself to be sound? O my dear Soul, boast not of thy Soundness, thou liest fettered in heavy Bonds, yea in a very dark Dungeon; thou swimmest in a deep Water, which rises up to thy very Lips, and thou must continually expect Death. Besides, the Hunter is behind thee with a great Company of thy worst Enemies, whereby he draws thee continually down by his Chains into the horrible Deep, into the Abyss of Hell, and his Crew thrust thee on behind thee, and run upon thee on all Sides, yelling and hunting, as if they had the Hind they hunt after.
The Path of Light
Chapter 7: The Perfect Strength (2)
It is well for thee to think fearfully of thyself here as of a living fish, much more so for the sinner to dread the fierce anguish of hell. Thou art...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (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...
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (60)
When thou art pressed, according to the Desire of thy Heart, into Riches and Power, then is it with thee, as if thou stoodst in a deep Water, where th...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (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...
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (7)
Soul was so afflicted in Anxiety, as if it was captivated by the Devil, whereby Reason got so many Checks and Assaults, as if the Body were presently ...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (46)
And though thy Body perhaps is put hard to it and suffers Pain and Misery, yet it is much worse with him when he is vanquished, for then he roars like...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 42: That by indiscretion in this, men shall keep discretion in all other things; and surely else never (2)
For surely I trow I should rather come to discretion in them by such a heedlessness, than by any busy beholding to the same things, as I would by that...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (80)
Come on, brave Sir, upon thy brown Nag! who ridest from Heaven into Hell, and from Hell into Death, and therein the Sting of Death lies; view thyself...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (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...