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A20507 The drousie disease; or, An alarme to awake church-sleepers Wherein not onely the dangers hereof are described, but remedies also prescribed for this sleeping evill.; Drousie disease. 1638 (1638) STC 6913.5; ESTC S122417 51,584 164

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vaine thoughts Ier. 4. 14. Isa 3. 16. disdainfull and proud lookes wanton eyes walking with stretched-forth necks and such other unseemly gestures and of every idle word that men ●at 12. 36. shall speake they shall give an account on the day of judgement how much more then taketh he notice of this sinne How much more shall wee be called to an account for the same 2. Even small sinnes ●utta cavat ●pidem non ● sed saepè dendo continued in and unrepented of becomming at the length sinnes of custome are most dangerous A drop of water by falling on the hardest stone maketh it at the length hollow and the smallest sinne continued in doth at the length no lesse wound the conscience then the greatest yea those which at the length prove hainous crimes were but as we may so speake pettie offences Did not Mariners daily pumpe out the water that by little and little unperceived entereth the ship it would be thereby no lesse endangered then by some sudden great leake so did not Gods children daily mortifie their smallest corruptions they could not but at one time or other make shipwracke of Faith and of a good conscience 3. It is even in it selfe a great sinne and in like manner the cause of others as hath beene already shewed 4. Gods children make conscience even of their smallest sinnes If David doe but 1 Sam. 24. 5● cut off the lappe of Sauls garment his heart smites him for it As Moses would have the Exod. 10. 26. cattell to goe with them and not an hoofe to bee left behind for Pharaoh that thereof they might take to serve the Lord their God in the wildernesse so must not we employ any one member on the service of Satan but our whole man in Rom. 12. 1. every part and facultie thereof on the service of God at all times 5. Even for small sinnes as wee may so speake hath Gen. 20. 2. 6. 18. God inflicted fearefull judgements as on the familie of Abimelech who had taken but not touched Sarai Abrahams wife On the men of Bethshemesh for looking into the Sam. 6. 19. Sam. 6. 7. Arke and on Vzza for putting his hand thereon when the oxen shaked it 6. As the least sinne displeaseth God and for the least wee are to call upon God for mercy as David for the sinnes of his youth so even ●sal 1. 25. 7. the least occasioned the death of Christ II. It is an ordinary usuall thing and so the lesse to be regarded A A. Therefore it is the more dangerous the more to be avoided Gods judgements being chiefly inflicted because 1 Pet. 3. 20 of Nationall sinnes Was not disobedience the common sinne of the old world yet was not it left unpunished God spared 2 Pet. 2. 5. not the old world saith S. Peter but saved Noah the eight person a Preacher of righteousnesse bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly were Ezek. 16. 49. not pride fulnesse of bread abundance of idlenesse and unmercifulnesse to the poore the common sinnes of Sodome yet 2 Pet. 2. 6. ●urned he it into ashes and condemned it with an overthrow Agreeable hereunto is that of ●he Prophet touching Israel The Lord hath a controversie Hos 4. 1. ●ith the inhabitants of the and because there is no truth ●or mercy nor knowledge of ●od in the land By swearing Verse 2. and lying and killing and stealing and committing of adultery they breake out and blood coucheth blood Therefore shall the land mourne and every one Verse 3. that dwelleth therein shall languish The Benjamites one Iudg. 20. 14. and all tooke part with those wicked men in Gibeah and did they not notwithstanding smart for it Though then Church-sleeping bee common it followeth not that therefore it is warrantable The rifer any evill is in the places or ages we live in the more carefull should wee be to shun and avoide the same See then saith the Apostle that yee walke Eph. 5. 15 16 circumspectly not as fooles but as wise redeeming the time because the dayes are evill Are the times then wee live in or the places wee abide in more then ordinarily evill in this kind That giveth us no liberty but should make so much the more wary lest wee be taken napping Noah was a just Gen. 6. 9. man in his generation even in that generation wherein the whole world was over-grown with wickednesse so should wee watch at Church though others be thereat taken with the sleeping evill To sleepe at Church is not hurtfull or prejudiciall unto others III. A. But what good is A there hereby done unto any Malum est non fecisse bonum Chrysde virt vit To doe no good is in effect the same with to doe evill yea thus doing thou dost both hurt thy selfe and others Thy selfe as being hereby deprived of the sincere milke of the Word Others as being unto them through thy evill example a stone of offence IIII. To sleepe at Church is not so bad as then and there to have thoughts of covetousnesse Ezek. 33. 31 eyes of adultery revenge disdaine and the like by being awake A 1 A. 1. The question is not which of the two are the lesser evill this or that 2. If thou didst seriously consider in whose presence thou art even in his who is a God cloathed with majestie and honour a Heb. 12. 29. consuming fire and an everlasting burning who cannot away with sinne the least sinne in any and to what end thou didst come into Gods house thou wouldst neither sinne so nor so 3. Thy thoughts and lookes being such it appeares that thou makest but small conscience of thy wayes 4. If thou wouldst pray with the Psalmist Incline mine heart Psal 119. 36. unto thy Testimonies and not to covetousnesse And Turne away Verse 37. mine eyes from beholding vanity and quicken thou me in thy way thou shouldst have no such cause to object V V. It is not done of set purpose A A. Of set purpose leave it undone Let it be thy stedfast resolution whilst thou art at Church not to give sleepe to thine eyes norslumber to rhine eye lids VI. Sleepe there is but napping asmall time a shutting of the eyes a winke and away A A. Yet so that thou thereby loseth the whole Sermon Though thou hearest the Word now and then yet how it hangeth on the former how it precedeth the latter thou canst not tell Sect. 2. The persons committing The persons committing it it I. I am accustomed hereunto that either I must stay at home or notwithstanding of mine unwillingnesse to sleepe and paines which I take to shake it off sleepe when I come to Church A 1 A. 1. Though thou customarily sleepest at Church yet come for haply as Master Mr. Latimers Serm. Latimer once said thou maist be there taken napping 2. If thou dislikest it art