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(26) Now you will say, this must be God! No, it is not God, but it is God's Friend. Christ said; My Father works, and I work also; but it works not; it is in a Thing imperceptibly, and yet it may well be overpowered and used; especially in Metals, there it can (if itself be pure) make pure Gold of Iron, and of Copper; it can make a little grow to be a great deal, and yet it puts forth nothing. Its Way is as subtle as the Thoughts of a Man, and the Thoughts do even arise from thence.

(28) If a Man will see God the Son, he must once more look upon natural Things; otherwise I cannot write of him: The Spirit indeed beholds him, but that can neither be spoke nor written; for the Divine Being consists in Power, which can neither be written nor spoke.

(130) For Man is made out of all the Powers of God, out of all the seven Spirits of God, as the Angels also are. But now seeing Man is corrupted, therefore the divine Birth does not always spring, qualify, or operate in him; no, nor in all Men neither: And though indeed it springs in him, yet the high Light does not presently shine in all Men; and though indeed it shines, yet it is incomprehensible to the corrupted Nature. [* See v. 69.]

(47) Jesus said, "It is impossible for a man to mount two horses or to stretch two bows. And it is impossible for a servant to serve two masters; otherwise he will honor the one and treat the other contemptuously. No man drinks old wine and immediately desires to drink new wine. And new wine is not put into old wineskins, lest they burst; nor is old wine put into a new wineskin, lest it spoil it. An old patch is not sewn onto a new garment, because a tear would result."

(3) And therefore it is that Christ saith: If you had Faith as a Grain of Mustard-seed, you might say to the Mountain, Cast thy self into the Sea, and it shall be done. And i in this Power Men have raised the Dead, and healed the Sick, by the Word, and the Virtue and Power of the Spirit, or else they could not have been able to have done such Things, if they had not stood in the Power of all the three Principles.

(19) he says, 'Verily the Son can do Nothing of himself; but what he sees his Father do, the Son does also: Also if ye not convert, and become like Children, ye cannot come into the Kingdom of Heaven.' [Math. 18. 3.] [John 5. 19.]

(41) Therefore in this World all Things are given into Man's Power, because he is an eternal Spirit, and all other Creatures [are] no other than a Figure in the Wonders of God; and therefore Man ought well to consider himself, what he speaks, does, and purposes, in this World; for all his Works follow after him, and he has them eternally before his Eyes, and lives in them. Except it be, that he is again new regenerated out of Evil and Falshood, through the Blood and Death of Christ, in the Water and the Holy Spirit, and then he breaks forth out of the hellish and earthly Image, into an angelical [Image,] and comes into another Kingdom, into which its Untowardness [or Vices] cannot follow, and that [Untowardness, Contrariety, or Vice] is drowned in the Blood of Christ, and the Image of God is renewed out of the earthly and hellish.

(106) Jesus said, "When you make the two one, you will become the sons of man, and when you say, 'Mountain, move away,' it will move away."

(35) Jesus said, "It is not possible for anyone to enter the house of a strong man and take it by force unless he binds his hands; then he will (be able to) ransack his house."

(63) O Danger upon Danger! as our King Christ also saith; "It is very hard for a rich Man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. A Camel will easier go through the Eye of a Needle, than a rich Man enter into the Kingdom of Heaven." [Math. 19:21. Mark 10:25.]