Preface.

...it is just as well for them as before, and they must nevertheless live under the yoke of Christ.

One can serve God everywhere.

God is in heaven, and heaven is in man; but if man wishes to be in heaven, then heaven must be made manifest within man. This must happen through earnest repentance and heartfelt yieldedness original: "Einergeben." This is closely related to the mystical concept of Gelassenheit, or the total surrender of one's own will to God.; they can certainly do that at home and in their own places. That which they intend to flee from, they will instead run into. If they walked a divine path at home, so that other people had an example in them, it would be more pleasing to God.

Judgment concerning Stiefel’s followers. Referring to the adherents of Isaiah Stiefel (1561–1627), a contemporary mystic whose views on the perfection of the soul led to significant controversy and accusations of arrogance from other reformers like Böhme.
For there are also proud, haughty, and mocking people among them, who only despise and revile; in many, there is more of an assumed manner and spiritual pride Spiritual pride: Geistliche Hofart, a term for the ego-driven belief that one is holier or more enlightened than others, which mystics considered a grave danger. than I have personally experienced. For I have, in a completely Christian and brotherly way, requested and instructed one among them concerning a published booklet wherein I found something difficult against God and the foundation of truth; I hoped he would become seeing. But he answered quite proudly and contemptuously, and moreover mockingly, and gave such an answer in which no Spirit of God can be sensed.