(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.

(5) Seeing the Bow of Fierceness is already bent, let every one look to himself, lest he be found in the Limit of the Mark. For the Time is at Hand, to awake from Sleep.

(43) Thou judgest us, and thereby thou judgest thyself, in that thou blowest up the zealous or jealous Spirit in Anger and Wrath, which extinguishes thy Light. Note. * But if thou art grown on a sweet Tree, and suppressest the evil Influence or Suggestions, and livest well and holily in the Law of Nature, that shows thee very well what is right, if thou art not indeed grown out from a fierce or wrathful Twig or Branch. [Ezek. 18. 20.]

(131) Therefore if any one should be damned into Hell, he ought not to say, that God has done it, or that he will it to be so; but Man awakens or stirs up the Wrath-fire in himself, which if it grows burning, afterwards qualifies, mixes, or unites with God's Wrath and the hellish Fire, as one Thing.

(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!

(129) thus it is also with those Creatures which will continually sow and reap in the hellish Fire, especially that Man who lives in a continual Desire of Pride, Covetousness, Envy, and Wrath, and will at no Time fight and strive against them with the Spirit and Fire of Love; such a one does himself pull the Wrath of God, and the burning hellish Fire, upon his Body and Soul.

(120) Therefore no Man ought to think, that the Devil is able to tear the Works of the Light out of his Heart, for he can neither see nor comprehend them: And though he rages and raves in the outermost Birth in the Flesh as in his Castle of Robbery or Fort of Pray, be not discouraged or dismayed; only take heed thou thyself bring not the Works of Wrath into the Light of thy Heart, and then thy Soul will be safe enough from the deaf and dumb Devil, who is blind in the Light. [See v. 99.]

(60) O Man let this be told thee, for the Spirit is earnestly Jealous in this Thing especially: Desist from Pride, or else it will be with you as it befell the Devils. There is no jesting or trifling herein; the Time is very short, thou wilt suddenly taste it, I mean the hellish Fire.

(37) And indeed he has done somewhat, in that he has set the divine Power into a Burning, which appears even in the Sun and Stars; also the Fire in the Salitter in the Elements is often kindled, so that it seems as if the Deep was of a burning Fire; of which I shall speak in another Place. He slept back out of the Meekness into the anxious Fire-will, and fell into Darkness. The Reader is advertised, that he must not understand in any Place, as if the Devil had kindled or fired the Light of God; no, but the Forms of Nature only, out of which the Light shines. For he has not comprehended the Light, as little as the Fire does, which cannot lay hold on the Light: But he entered into the Fire, and is expelled into the Darkness, and has neither Fire nor Light, besides, without, or distinct from his Creature. [Or his own creaturely Existence.]