By what meanes an hunger after the Word may be wrought in us Take a tast thereof in private by reading and meditation Hereby the soule cannot but get much both instruction and consolation 2. Consider the excellencie necessity and utilitie of the same whereof I have already spoken at large Psal 19.10 Prov. 3.15 and 8.10 and wereof both David and Salomon did make so much account that they esteemed it above gold silver rubies and what not 6. Resolve to attend unto and make conscience of the sacred ordinance of preashing there delivered as Job Job 31.1 J have made a covenant with my eyes why then should I thinke upon a maide So doe we make a covenant as with our eares to heare so with our eyes not to sleepe at Church Such was Davids religious care for the Arke Psal 132.4 that hee would not give sleepe to his eyes nor slumber to his eye-lids untill he found out a place for the Lord and habitation for the mighty God of Jacob And such must ours bee at the Word if wee would have any communion with God in that sacred ordinance Jacob being Labans shepheard Gen. 31.40 and making conscience of his duty his sleepe by night departed from his eyes and assuredly so would sleepe depart from ours especially by day if we made conscience of hearing the Word 7. Vse the creatures sparingly both sleepe for what is said of drinking water may be said of this Quo plùs sunt potae plùs sitiuntur aquae the more it is taken the more it is desired and meate and drinke for when men have over-liberally eate and drunke they are wont to bee heavie and drowsie ready to slumber as they sit fit for nothing but for sleepe Such excesse as it is a meanes even to drowne the mind and by casting reason and understanding into a deepe and deadly sleepe to make men unable to watch against the motions of sinne to shut the doore of the heart against all vertues and to set it open to all vices so much more stupifieth it the body contrarily 1 Thes 5.6 Sobrietie is an especiall helpe to vigilancie 1 Pet. 47. which therefore the Apostles are usually wont to joyne together 8. Consider whither wee are going before whom to what end and who wee are To Gods house into the presence of the God of heaven to bee made partakers of the Word for the good of our soules wee being as of our selves of all others the most unworthy 9. Pray as for the Preacher that his lips may preserve knowlede Mal. 2.7 he may be faithfull in delivering the whole Counsell of God unto us Act. 20.27 and hee may powerfully and wisely speake to our consciences Rom. 1.16 and the Word read or preached that it may bee unto us the power of God unto our salvation 2 Cor â—2 16 the savour of life unto life and as good seed sowne in a good ground so for our selves and others that our eares may be attentive our eyes fixed on the Preacher our mindes bee opened to understand and our hearts and affections sanctified to obey the holy Word Ob. Ob. I cannot possibly spare so much time from my Calling as to thinke on these things or be thus prepared A. Sol. 1. As our Saviour unto Martha Martha Martha thou art carefull Luk. 10 41 4â— and troubled about many things but one thing is needfull and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not bee taken away from her so may I unto thee The soule is to bee preferred unto the body and thou art more carefull of this then that 2. Bodily exercise profiteth little but godlinesse is profitable unto all things having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come 3. Seeke ye first the kingdome of God 1 Tim. 4.8 and his righteousnesse and all these things shall bee added unto you 4. Even in the doing of the workes of our Calling wee may both meditate pray resolve c. and so that bee no let to this Wee omit not our bodily recreation notwithstanding the workes of our calling and why should wethis 6. Wee take time to finne and why should wee not take time to prevent sinne Sect. 2. When wee come to Church When wee come to Church wee must In Generall In generall 1. Take heed unto our affections which the Preacher signifieth by these words Keepe thy foot when thou goest to the house of God Eccles 5.1 and be more ready to heare then to give the sacrifice of fooles 2. Get our eyes to bee anointed with eye-salve that we may see Rev. 3.18 and our eares open that wee may heare Remembring that as God hath bestowed upon us eyes and eares so when wee are come into his house both must be set on worke As our eyes must bee seeing so must our eares bee hearing and obedient as we our selves swift to beare Iam. 1.19 to this purpose is that so often reiterated phrase Hee that hath eares to heare Mat. 11.15 let him heare Yea as it is usuall for one that is drowsie to wash and rub his eyes or that feeleth any impediments in his eares to picke them so when wee perceive drowsinesse to creepe on us at Church wee must then rouse up our selves 3. Bee possessed with Gods feare Isa 66.2 1 Sam. 4.13 that wee may tremble at the Word As Eli whilst hee sate on a stooleby the way side watched because his heart trembled for the Arke of God So if when wee are at Church our hearts shall tremble in respect of our present danger through Satan wee shall be kept waking Dan. 2.1 Nebuchadnezzar being troubled his sleepe went from him so were wee troubled for sinne or did stand in awe of god because of the same it would not fall on us Griefe and sorrow occasion sleepe Luk. 22.44 Vigilabis si timebis August Timor domini janitor animi Ber. formido facit solicitudinem Ter. Psal 4.4 Pro. 16.6 but feare and care make vigilant and watchfull This is as a Porter set at the doore of our soule and will also keepe our eyes waking There is no affection more watchfull then this Stand in awe and sinne not yea as by this men depart from evill so shall wee through it from this of sleeping at Church This being kept fresh in our hearts will make us carefull to shunne and fearefull to doe ought that may offend him whom we feare In feare of invasion men are wont to keepe due watch and ward but when there is no such danger misdoubted like the men of Lachish Iudg. 18.7 they are the more carelesse and secure and thereupon are often upon the sudden oppressed At the hearing of the Word wee are at all times in danger of the assaults of Satan there is then neither time nor place to sleepe thereat The Crane which is by the rest appointed for Sentinell
put out the light of their owne consciences and forbid even those whose office it is to awake them out of sleepe to awake them till they please Ier. 44.16 As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord Amos 7.12 13. we will not hearken to thee said the people unto Ieremiah O thou Seer said Amaziah unto Amos goe flee thee away into the land of Iudah and there eat bread and prophecie there but prophecie not againe any more in Bethel for it is the kings Chappel and it is the Kings Court Yea as a man being asleepe doth for the most part take it ill when he is awaked so a sinner when hee is called upon to forsake his sinnes Prov. 6.10 yet a little sleep saith he a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep The time is not come Hag. 1.2 the time that the Lords house should be built said the people unto Haggai Hast thou found me 1 King 21.20 O mine enemy said Ahab unto Elijah If Iohn the Baptist say unto Herod Math. 14 3.4 It is not lawfull for thee to have thy brother Philips wife hee will lay hold on him and put him in prison If Paul reason of righteousnesse temperance and judgement to come Felix will tremble and answer Act. 24.25 Goe thy way for this time when I have a convenient season I will call for thee If Micaiah detect the forgery and falshood of Zedekiah Zedekiah will smite him on the cheeke 1 King 22.24 saying Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to speake unto thee 5. Sleepe during its continuance hindereth and letteth men even from the Performance of civill offices as the Souldier from fighting the Labourer from working the Carpenter and Mason from building and the like so cannot wee by reason of sinne performe any thing which is acceptable to God though the same bee in it selfe lawfull and warrantable till wee be raised there-from Psal 50.16 17. What hast thou to doe saith God unto the wicked to declare my statutes or that thou shouldest take my Covenant in thy mouth Seeing thou hatest instruction and castest my words behind thee Jsa 1.11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto mee saith the Lord unto his people I am full of the burnt offering of rams Jsa 1.15 c. your hands are full of bloud Gen. 4.5 As Cain could not offer up an acceptable sacrifice unto God being asleepe in sinne so whilest it goeth over our soules binding up the faculties of the same and bringing an heavinesse or rather deadnesse into all the powers thereof we are altogether unfit to goe about the actions of an holy life Hence commeth it to passe that the mind never thinketh seriously of God the conscience never or seldome accuseth for sinnes committed the will never or seldome willeth that which is truly good the affections seldome or never are moved at Gods word or workes yea so long as it beareth sway over us we can neither pray aright heare the Word aright nor rightly performe any other dutie 6. In sleepe wee doe often conceive our condition to bee better then indeed it is The poore man dreameth of riches the sicke of health the imprisoned of liberty the hunger-starved of dainty fare delighting themselves with a kind of content in the imaginary fruition of these things So doth a sinner blesse himselfe in his course I am saith Babylon and none else beside me Jsa 47.8 I shall not sit as a widow neither shall I know the losse of children Luk. 12.19 Soule said the rich man in the Gospel to his owne soule thou hast much goods laid up for many yeares Luk. 18.11 take thine ease eat drinke and be merry God I thanke thee said the vaine-glorious selfe-conceited hypocriticall Pharisee that J am not as other men are extortioners unjust adulterers or even as this Publican In particular In Particular 1. For carelesnesse Sloath and negligence whether in Pastors Isa 56.10 or people His watchmen are blind saith Esay they are all ignorant they are all dumbe dogs they cannot barke sleeping lying downe loving to slumber Hos 7.6 Their baker sleepeth all the night saith Hosea But while men slept saith our Saviour his enemy came Mat. 13.25 and sowed tares among the wheate and went his way Prov. 6.9 How long wilt thou sleepe O sluggard saith the Wise man when wilt thou arise out of thy sleepe 2. For whoredome or uncleannesse Come said Lots eldest daughter unto her sister Let us make our father drinke wine Gen. 19.32 and we will lye or sleepe with him that we may preserve seed of our father The effects of sinne The effects of sinne 1. Eph. 4.19 On the Soule even in this life a spirituall lethargie or deadnesse of heart by the custome of sinne when as the heart is made past feeling and altogether senslesse through continuance therein Whereof Isaiah Isa 29.10 For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deepe sleepe and hath closed your eyes 2. Perpetuall and irrevocable destruction Psal 76.5 Psal 13.3 whereof the Psalmist The stout-hearted are spoyled they have slept their sleepe And againe lighten mine eyes lest J sleepe the sleepe of death Ier. 51.39 So the Lord by Ieremiah Jn their heat J will make their feasts and I will make them drunken that they may rejoyce and sleepe a perpetuall sleepe and not wake saith the Lord. Ioyntly The godly and ungodly joyntly considered in respect both of the godly and ungodly either death being by sleepe significantly expressed The godlies 1 King 2.10 as David slept with his fathers Ioh. 11.11 Mat. 27.52 Our friend Lazarus sleepeth and the graves were opened and many bodies of saints which slept arose The ungodlies 1 King 14 20 1 King 15.8 1 King 16.6 as Ieroboam slept with his fathers Abiam slept with his fathers Baasha slept with his fathers c. Quest Quest But as David of Abner 2 Sam. 3.33 died Abner as a foole dieth Is there no difference betweene those and these the godly and the ungodly in death Ans In some respect there is no difference at all Sol. according to that of Solomon Eccles 2.16 How dieth the wise man as the foole But in others very great according to that of the same Author Prov. 14.32 The wicked is driven away in his wickednesse but the righteous hath hope in his death Their agreement consisteth in these particulars Wherein that death of the godly and wicked agree 1. Our beds represent our graves the sheetes wherein wee lye our winding-sheets wherein were shall bee wrapped The cloaths that lye on us the clods of earth that shall bee cast upon us when wee are laid in our graves yea as they that are asleepe are for the time voide of care and insensible
body and soule under which they shall lye world without end But it is not so unto Gods children Thereby is put an end unto all their miseries Rev. 14.13 for they rest from their labours neither doe they hunger any more or thirst any more and all teares are wiped from their eyes Thereby are they freed from all sorts of sinnes Rom. 6.7 for hee that is dead is freed from sinne thereby from the being of sinne from the infection of sinne from the guilt of sinne from temptations unto sinne from the authority dominion and rule of sinne from the imputation of sinne from the reward or dangerous effect and consequents of sinne and that wholly fully perpetually Thereby from all sorts of crosses Thereby from all sorts of feares Thereby from all sorts of cares In a word thereby freed from all sorts of evill past present and to come Psa 57 1â— They lie downe in sure and certaine hope of resurrection to eternall life I Cor. 15.42 43 44. Their bodyes are sowne in corruption but raised in incorruption sowne in dishonour but raised in glory sowne in weaknesse but raised in power sowne naturall bodyes as many goe heavily to bed but raised spirituall bodyes when through the glorious beames of the Sunne of righteousnesse shining on them they shall fully recollect both their spirits and strength in all which respects that of Salomon may bee applyed unto them that Their day of death is better then the day wherein they were borne 3. As every one is not alike willing to sleepe especially such as are unusually terrified by dreames so neither are all alike willing to die The godly wait for death Iob 7.14 All the dayes of my appointed time will I wait saith Iob till my change come yea Iob 14.14 with the Apostle desire to be dissolved Phil. 1.23 Heb. 9.27 and to bee with Christ But the ungodly whose consciences tell them that after death commeth judgement Act. 24.25 doe with Foelix tremble at the very mentioning thereof yet how loath soever to undergoe it what paines or charges soever they are at when they feele it or feare it approaching to remove it and put it off doe most of them even willingly as it were through intemperancie incontincencie carking cares and such like courses bring it upon themselves 4. As through sleepe they that are in misery are fitted and enabled to undergoe more misery and they that are in a good condition become capable of more happinesse so through death are the ungodly as it were fitted for hell the godly for heaven those for unconceivable misery these for unspeakable happinesse Take we it in this Treatise in its proper signification Sleepe how taken in this Treatise but for such a sleepe as is altogether unlawfull howsoever ordinarie and common for then to sleepe when wee ought to bee swist to heare and then to bee drowsie when it concernes us to be most vigilant as at the preaching of the word and prayer who will not judge the same unreasonable and so neither lawfull nor warrantable Be this then this unreasonable unlawfull unwarrantable kind of sleepe or rather sleeping evill sleeping at Church this inordinate ordinary bodily drousinesse I say whereby the Word read or preached becommeth wholly ineffectuall and no blessing from God but rather an undoubted curse can bee expected thereupon the subject of this discourse CHAP. II. How convenient and necessary it is to handle this Argument NEither needs any to wonder that this should bee medled withall Reasons shewing the utility and necessary of this Treatise or conceive him to have little to doe unlesse to keepe himselfe awake which busieth himselfe about such a sleepy subject These with the like warrantable reasons will questionlesse justifie our proceeding 1. Because this is by most no otherwise if at all medled withall then by a bare cursory speaking against it and that not of set purpose but occasionally upon the view of some one or other sleeping yea and that but in generall tearmes which how fruitlesse and ineffectuall it proveth to reclaime any there-from daily experience sheweth As therefore for the subduing of other vices Isa 28.10 there must bee both Precept upon precept and lyne upon lyne so must there be for the subduing of this 2. Because there are so many which offend herein and yet thinke that either they have not at all or but a little offended Those standing upon their justification These going about to excuse their practise Such had need to bee wrought on brought on to see the greatnesse of this sinne Gen. 19.20 and that as Lot of Zoar they may not conceit that it is but a little one Before those must the evils hereof bee laid open Reasons disswading from the same be propounded as in like manner their severall objections to the contrary plainly and solidly dissolved 3. Because there are so many which being customarily addicted hereunto yet exceedingly desirous and willing to leave the same are notwithstanding wholly ignorant how to effect it Those must bee made acquainted as well with the Causes hereof as Remedies how to be rid of the same 4. Because there are but a few which doe truly take notice of the danger ensuing hereby or consider the wrongs occasioned through the same The ignorant therefore and carelesse are to bee shewed that hereby they wrong the blessed Trinitie hereby are stumbling blocks unto others which through their evill example in this kind prove no leste wicked then themselves Hereby the Word becommeth ineffectuall and the Ministers thereof discouraged yea that this is one maine cause why they doe so long continue in their sinnes to the griefe and hurt of their ownesoules 5. Because this sinne cannot be so well met withall by speaking against it as by writing For if a Minister should in his Sermon when an occasion is presented unto him as when is there not inveigh against the same hee might haply through weaknesse or want of memory forget himselfe neither bee able againe without much adoe to come to his matter or rather be forced by new objects of drowsinesse to renew his reproofes and continually to goe on in that argument yea though there were no feare of such destruction yet in as much as a Minister is not to nominate any of his auditors in particular Neither haply if it were lawfull for him to name them knoweth hee his Auditors by name though hee should observe them to bee asleepe his reproofes must bee generall which as in other things who doth not almost put from himself as if they did not at-all concerne him or the Minister therein had no ayme at him Mat. 26.21 Our Saviour having informed his Disciples in generall tearmes not particularizing the name of any that one of them should betray him Verse 25. Indas thereupon who indeed was the villaine the man aymed at could say notwithstanding Is it I Master so doe too too many in
shut their eyes lest they see with their eyes and heare with their eares and understand with their heart and convert and be healed Sect. 2. The Word of God The Word it s 1. In respect of its dignitie Dignity evidenced by its which is from the Author thereof the Nature thereof the Matter therein contained together with the Antiquity and perpetuity of the same may be cleerely evidenced The Author thereof Author God which is therefore tearmed Gods wayes Psal 25.5 29.9 33.6 Isa 2.3 26.19 Luk. 11.49 Heb. 4.12 Luk. 1.70 the speach of Gods glory the breath of Gods mouth Gods paths the dew of the Lord the wisdome of God the sword of the Spirit As hee spake of old by the mouth of his holy Prophets which have beene since the world began So doth hee now speake by his Ministers whom as his Ambassadors hee hath raised up in their roomes The Nature thereof The nature thereof both as it is in it selfe and as it is unto us As it is in it selfe As it is in it selfe Psal 19.7 Psa 1â—9 160 it is perfect eternall immortall most pure and precious A most true right certaine infallible simple faithfull absolute sincere unspotted and undeniable Word alwayes constant one and the same for ever wherein there is no errour no falshood no defect no imperfection As it is unto us As it is unto us It is wine to comfort us bread to feed us drinke to quench ourthirst fire to purge us an hammer to beate upon our hardned hearts a staffe to uphold us a treasure to inrich us a lant horne to direct us a guide to conduct us a weapon to defend us seed to beget us meate for men milke for babes Yea as the Sunne is to the world so is it to us the light of our lives and the life of our soules The Matter therein contained The matter therein contained such as may give content unto all the same so farre exceeding all other subjects as the Creator whose workes and will it principally setteth forth doth the creatures It revealeth unto us the blessed Trinitie It maketh knowne unto us Christ and him crucified It pointeth out unto us the vertue of his death and resurrection It setteth forth the excellencies of a better life which for the present are wholly hid from the ungodly and but in part revealed unto the godly Doth any loath it for its plainnesse It is milke for babes Eccles 11.10 It is pleasant affording unto each Christian heart more sweetnesse then is in the honey and the honey combe It is upright as being voide of errour It is a word of truth pure wheat without chaffe pure gold without drosse It is a word of wisdome whereby alone we become wise It is as a goad whereby being pricked whilst wee sleepe in sinne wee doe thereupon awake It is as a naile whereby indeed wee are fastened and confirmed Is any delighted with history Rener Clivis Script prophecies parables lawes morall judiciall and Ceremoniall Geographie Cosmographie Astronomie Arithmeticke Logicke Rhetoricke Musicke and what soever else Yea who so longeth after newes from heave aboue from the earth beneath from the waters which are under the earth Newes of wars peace plenty famine and thâ— like Hereby may hee in eaâ—â— receive satisfaction The Antiquitie and perpeâ—â— tuitie thereof The Antiquity and perpetuity thereof As it yet coâ—tinueth so hath it done eveâ— from the very beginning anâ— even the Word written is moâ— ancient of greater antiquitâ— then all other writings now eâ—tant in the world 2. In respect of its necessitie which may appeare by considering Necessity from first the estate wherein we are 2. The estate wherein we should be 3. The estate of such as are altogether deprived thereof The estate wherein naturally wee are The estate wherein we are dead in trespasses and sinne wanderers from God â—reyes unto the divell poore â—nd blind unregenerate polluâ—ed with sinne both in soule and â—ody stony-hearted unfruitâ—ull and barren guilty of death â—nd damnation c. It is not â—hen needfull a trumpet to awake us a guide to conduct us 〈◊〉 buckler to shield us a treasure â—o enrich us eye-salve to anoint â—s seed to beget us a fountaine â—o wash us raine both to molâ—ifie us and make us fruitfull The estate wherein we should â—e Alive unto God The estate wherein we should be the soulâ—iers and servants of Christ â—emples of the holy Ghost â—ruitfull in good workes and the like and hereunto doe we attaine through Gods word The estate of such as are altogether deprived therof The estate of such as are without it wretched and miserable No judgement greater then famine no famine so grievous as this of the Word 3. In respect of its utilitie which may â—appeare Amos 8.12 It s utility appearing by 1. By the similitudes whereby it is expressed 2. By the effects which are thereby produced 3. By the duties which are thereto of us required 4. By the meaneâ— which for the suppressing and hindering thereof have beene at all times by Satan and his instruments used The similitudes whereby it is expressed are divers Similitudes as Manna bread water light a rod of strength wine fire silver a precious stone a new garment a banner a sharp sword a glasse a staffe c. This being no lesse or rather much more profitable for the soule then those and the like for the body The effects which are thereby produced effects are such as concerne either this or the life to come This. It clenseth us It inlighteneth us It regenerateth us It changeth us It makes us fruitfull It maketh us wise to Salvation It gladdeth our hearts with spirituall joy It â—egetteth faith in us Wee are hereby informed of the duties which wee owe one towards â—nother It tells the Magistrate â—ow hee should rule who else â—night be either too severe or â—oo milde Eras apophth lib. 4. milde As Machetes appealed from Philip asleepe for whilst his cause was pleading â—e was asleepe to Philip awake so sendeth it them from â—heir ungodly government unâ—â— that which is lawfull It tels â—udges Act. 24.26 that with Festus they â—ust not looke for bribes It â—ls Subjects that with Sheba 2 Sam. 20.21 â—ey must not be rebellious It â—s husbands Col. 3.19 that they must love their wives and not be bitter to them It tells wives that they must not be taunting Peninnaes painted Jezabels whorish Dalilaes scolding Zipporaes It informes Ministers to be instant in preaching the Word in season 2 Tim. 4.2 and out of season It tells Lawyers how and for whom they are to plead 1 Thes 4.6 It directs the Merchanâ— and tradesman how to buâ— and sell c. Now if it werâ— not for the Word would any of those performe their duties â—nay Cic. de fato by it as Socrates from hiâ— naturall constitution
by the study of Philosophie they anâ— bettered both in their judgement and practise Through 〈◊〉 doe the covetous forsake theâ— Mammon the drunkard hiâ— wine the adulterer his luâ—â— which till it thus worke aâ—â— unto them no lesse preciouâ— then their lives Would Herâ— have heard Iohn Baptist anâ— Eli his sonnes their Father either might have learned their duty Rev. 16.15 and escaped the judgements which befell them By hearing this and watching hereat we are blessed Luk. 16.29 Mat. 26.41 hereby are saved from hell and hereby avoide temptations If hereat we be informed of the malice of Gods enemies shall we not hereupon profit the Church by calling upon God in the words of the Psalmist Awake Psal 44.23 why sleepest thou O Lord arise cast us not off for ever And as when Ahasuerus could not sleepe Ester 6.3 hee had his Chronicles brought unto him and thereupon came to know what Mordecay had done for him so if wee would awake at the reading and preaching of the Word we should heare what deliverance the Lord hath wrought for our poore soules The life to come Joh. 12.48 The Word must judge us The Duties required of us The duties required of us in respect of it Prov. 3.3 Prov. 7.2 Col. 3.16 Iam. 1.19.21 To write it in the tables of our heart To keepe it as the apple of our eye To let it dwell in us plenteously To bee swift to heare To have it ingrafted in us and receive it with meekenesse Yea not onely to be hearers but doers thereof prizing it above Rubies and accounting it sweeter then the honey and the honey combe even as the words of eternall life The opposition which by Satan and his instruments hath beene made against the same from time to time Some have beene brought to dislike it others not to believe it others to fall from the hearing of it others to deprave it by mangling mingling perverting and misapplying the same Others to prohibite the reading and hearing thereof and divers the like which might particularly be instanced Every of which implieth the utilitie of the same Sect. 3. The Preacher The Preacher 1. Because at his peoples sleeping hee cannot choose but be much discouraged 2. Because hereby he cannot but be much disturbed 3. Because such cariage argueth their contempt of him 4. Because thus hee should lose his paines as if one should preach to a deafe man or wash an Aethiopian 5. Because hee is in Gods steed as his ambassador 2 Cor. 5.20 and who bringeth the glad tydings of salvation Rom. 10.15 whom if we shall not heare we heare not Christ himselfe they being Wisdomes his maidens Sect. 4. The Congregation The Congregation 1. Because the best are hereby offended and their attentiâ—n hindered 2. Because hereupon the ignorant either come not to Church or if they come sleight the Word as not worth the hearing Yea as those which did eat in Idols temples 1 Cor. 8.9 occasioned others also there to eate by their example and as the very sight of those that yawne is wont to set others on yawning so the very sight of others sleeping may make a man sleepie that were otherwise wakefull much more shall one slothfull man infect another and the rather because wee are prone enough of our selves to take infection without helpe our inbred and inward corruption being as flaxe easie enough by the least sparkle to bee set on fire Sect. 5. The place of meeting The place of meeting 1. It is Bethel Gods house As Jacob when hee had the vision of the ladder Gen. 28.17 could say how dreadfull is this place This is none other but the house of God and this is the gate of heaven So the Lord being here present in his owne ordinances are we to conceive of this 2. It is as Bethesda where the blind lame paralyticke Joh. 5.3 and such other soule-diseased creatures may have comfort and are not wee such Wee thinke wee see but wee are indeed blind thinke wee know but doe not indeed understand 3. It is a store-house of all needfull commodities Here are Gods stewards his almners Jsa 55.1 his Physitians lackest thou meat drinke money raiment or whatsoever else here is for thee Ho! every one that thirsteth come and who so hungereth come c. 4. It is as Athens where newes were to bee heard and Ephesus where shewes were to â—e seene What newes Isa 9.6 that â—nto us a child is borne that hee is the propitiation for our sinnes 2 Cor. 5.18 that God is reconciled unto us through Christ c. What showes 1 Pet. 5.5 God resisting the proud but giving grace unto the humble God breaking the hornes of the ungodly Little David vanquishing great Goliah with store both of Comedies and Tragedies Sect. 6. The end of comming The end of comming Not to gaze laugh chide prate neither yet to sleepe as once one who had not slept wel the night before and in the morning hearing the bell toll to Church willed her maid to make ready for shee would goe to Church to take a nap but to heare Luk. 21.38 22.46 pray and sing and why then wilt thou sleepe Thoâ— must rouse up thy selfe tilâ— which time thou must ofteâ— heare rise and pray and heare and sing Sect. 7. The Time The Time 1. It is time now to awake As when the Sunne shines wee are to make hay Rom. 13.11 and wee must strike whilst the iron is hot The Pismire followes her businesse in the Summer Prov. 10.5 and prepareth meat for Winter 2. It is Gods harvest Now he that sleepeth in harvest is a sonne that causeth shame 3. They that sleepe sleepe in the night 1 Thes 5.5 and the night commeth wherein no man can worke 4. The time is but short could yee not watch with mee one houre Mat. 24.42 5. Wee must give an account for the same and at what houre wee shall bee called to an account wee know not It is required of us to number our dayes Psal 90.12 which assuredly whilst we sleepe we cannot doe 6. No time but should be well spent how much more this Titus conceived that he had lost that day Hâ—st of the Church wherein hee had not done some good and so dost thou the profit which commeth of the Word by sleeping thereat Sect. 8. Satan Satan 1. He and our other enemies the world without Isa â— 27 and the flesh within as Israels enemies sleepe not Philip said he might safely sleepe Eras apophth for Antipater was awake but we contrarily must awake for the divell an Anti-pater indeed is not asleepe 1 Pet. â— 8 Bee sober and watch saith the Apostle for your adversary the divell goeth about continually like a roaring lyon seeking whom he may devoure Shall men watch saith the heathen man to slay and destroy others Vt jugulent
rags Pro. 23.21 Pro. 20.18 As hee that loveth sleepe commeth to poverty So he that loveth to sleepe at Church cannot but bee poore in grace and seeing the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleepe Eccles 5.12 thy sleepe bewrayes thy povertie 10. They receive no benefit by the Word preached the same being unto them wholly unfruitfull CHAP. V. Objections for Church-sleeping answered THey are of divers sorts some justifying it others extenuating it others translating the fault thereof on others all which may bee reduced into these five Objections Whereof the 1. may be taken from The sinne it selfe The 2. from The person committing it The 3. from The Preacher The 4. from The matter delivered The 5. The persons reproving it Sect. 1. The sinne it selfe From the sin itselfe I. It is no great sinne It is at the most but one of the little ones A. and so not worth the regarding A. 1. If it bee a sinne it is to be avoided how small soever in it selfe How small soever in comparison of other sinnes Ier. 4.14 Isa 3.16 The Lord taketh notice even of vaine thoughts disdainfull and proud lookes wanton eyes walking with stretched-forth necks and such other unseemly gestures Mat. 12.36 and of every idle word that men 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 Gutta cavat lapidem non vi sed saepè â—adendo 2. Even small sinnes continued in and unrepented of becomming at the length sinnes of customeare 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 1 Sam. 24.5 If David doe but but off the lappe of Sauls garment his heart smites him for it Exod. 10.26 As Moses would have the 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 Rom. 12.1 but our whole man in every part and facultie thereof on the service of God at all times 5. Even for small sinnes as wee may so speake hath God inflicted fearefull judgements Gen. 20.2 6.18 as on the familie of Abimelech who had taken but not touched Sarai Abrahams wife 1 Sam. 6.19 2 Sam. 6.7 On the men of Bethshemesh for looking into the 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 ever the least occasioned the death of Christ Psal 1.25.7 II. Jt 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 1 Pet. 3.20 Gods judgements being chiefly inflicted because of Nationall sinnes Was not disobedience the common sinne of the old world yet was not it left unpunished 2 Pet. 2.5 God spared 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 Ezek. 16.49 were not pride fulnesse of bread abundance of idlenesse and unmercifulnesse to the poore the common sinnes of Sodome 2 Pet. 2.6 yet â—urned he it into ashes and conâ—emned it with an overthrow Agreeable hereunto is that of he Prophet touching Israel Hos 411. The Lord hath a controversie with the inhabitants of the â—and because there is no truth â—or mercy nor knowledge of God in the land Verse 2 By swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing of adultery they breake out and blood toucheth blood Therefore shall the land mourne Verse 3 and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish The Benjamites one and all tooke part with those wicked men in Gibeah Iudg. 20.14 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 circumspectly Eph. 5.15 16 not as fooles but as wise redeeming the time because the dayes are evill Arâ— the times then wee live in oâ— the places wee abide in morâ— then ordinarily evill in thiâ— kind That giveth us no liberty but should make so much the more wary lest wee bâ— taken napping Gen. 6.9 Noah was a just 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 III. To sleepe at Church is not hurtfull or prejudiciall unto others A. A. But what good is there hereby done unto any Malum est non fecisse bonum Chrys de 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. 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 Heb. 12.29 a 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 Psal 119.36 Jncline mine heart unto thy Testimonies and not to covetousnesse Verse 37 And Turne away mine eyes from beholding vanity and
quicken thou me in thy way thou shouldst have no such cause to object V. It is not done of set purpose A. Of set purpose leave it undone A. Let it be thy stedfastresolution whilst thou art at Church not to give sleepe to thine eyes norslumber to rhine eye lids VI. Sleepe there is but napping a small time a shutting of the eyes a winke and away A. Yet so that thou thereby losest the whole Sermon A. 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 it The persons committing it I. I am accustomed hereunto that either J 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. A. 1. Though thou customarily sleepest at Church yet come for haply as Master Latimer once said thou maist be there taken napping Mr. Latimers Serm. 2. If thou dislikest it art humbled for it and strivest against it it is not thy sinne neither shall it be laid unto thy charge 3. If thou findest thy selfe prone thereunto it is the sinne that God especially calleth thee to keepe watch and ward against II. I am old and weake and so am to bee borne withall Whatsoever it is in others in me I hope it is no great sinne to sleepe at Church A. A. 1. The older thou art the more need hast thou to abstaine therefrom as being nigh thine end 2. Thou wouldest be loath that whilst thou art thus sleeping death should seize on thee 3. As old as thou art thou canst watch longer about thine owne businesse or in hearing some vaine triviall sinfull discourse or in seeing a Play or some vaine show Canst thou thus watch and not watch one houre in hearing Gods Word 4. Simeon was as old as thou art yet when he came into the Temple Luk. 2.28 did hee not thus behave himselfe and Anna the Prophetesse Verse 36 who was a widow about fourescore yeares departed not from the temple Ioh. 3 2◠but served God with fastings and prayers night and day yea and Nicodemus to enjoy Christs company came by night unto him when hee should have slept III. I watch on the other dayes of the weeke A. and labour hardly A. 1. Thou wert then in thy calling for the good of thy body and therefore didst watch and when thou commest to Church thou art then also in thy calling for the good of thy soule and therefore shouldst watch 2. Thou hast watched indeed Eras apophth lib. 4. but was it for thy neighbours good as Parmenio excused Philip of Macedon unto the Grecians which complained one time that hee sleept by day wonder not saith he that Philip now sleepeth for when yee slept and seemed carelesse of your owne affaires hee was awake was it not rather for his good or to worke him some mischiefe Iob 24.14 15 16 17. The murtherer rising with the light saith Iob killeth the poore and needy c. for the morning is to them even as the shadow of death To the same purpose is that of the Poet Horat. Theeves rise by night that they may slay men as hath beene already alleaged If thou hast thus watched unto villany whilst others were at their rest thou shalt find one day that better it had beene for thee that thou hadst beene asleepe 3. If thou hast done thine owne workes on the other dayes thou must doe Gods on his Since he hath not deprived thee of thy due which notwithstanding is onely thine by his gift thou must not rob him of his 4. Thou must not so toile on the weeke-dayes as thereby to make thy selfe unfit for the sanctifying of the Lords day 5. Even by night are wee to watch in Gods service Psal 134.1 Psal 119.55 much more then by day and on Gods day IIII. I rose very early A. 1. A. Didst thou not rise about thine owne worldly affaires and art thereby made unfit for this duty was it not to meet such a friend in such a place to bee merry with him for an houre or two before Sermon was it not to make up such and such a bargaine formerly spoken of was it not to cast up thy accompts and looke after thy Debtors If thou didst rise for these or the like ends better it had beene for thee to have lyen a bed 2. If thou rosest not for those or the like ends thou hadst the more time to prepare thy selfe in private for the performance of thy duty in publike neither would that have beene any let unto this nay rather prayer reading meditation and conference preceding it would bee especiall furtherances thereunto V. I have farre to Church sit farre from the pulpit am thicke of hearing and the Preachers voyce is weake A. A. Though thou canst not doe as thou wouldest doe so much as thou canst Rise earlier and come sooner and sit or stand nigher waiting on Gods providence who as he hath given thee eares and both can and hath made the deafe to heare so may be pleased to bestow on them their proper office of hearing Mar. 7.37 yea though thou canst not heare and so profi◠thy selfe yet thou must not sleepe lest thou offend others which may and would heare VI. I know my duty already as well as they that give bes◠attention A. A. Suppose thou doest yet shouldest thou know it much better by thy watchfulnesse neither doth the Word onely teach thee to know Gods will but calleth upon thee to be a doer thereof Iam. 1.22 Bee yee doers saith S. Iames and not hearers onely VII What I shall lose at one time by sleeping at Church I can get up either when J come home or at another time when I goe to Church At home either by reading as good a Sermon or one on the same subject if not the very same words or by hearing the same repeated by some one in my family which writeth the Sermon At Church by giving attendance unto what shall bee then and there delivered A. A. To the first branch of the former To the former and 〈◊〉 branch thereof Mal. 2.7 1. Experience teacheth that the lively voyce is more effectuall then ocular reading 2. As the Priests lips are to preserve knowledge So art thou required to heare it at his mouth Mal. 2.7 c. 3. If thou canst so well profit at home why dost thou come to Church at all 4 Sermons are not therefore printed that thou mightest heare no more but to put thee in mind of what thou hast already heard Thou art to profit as well by the Sermon which thou hearest as those which thou readest To the second branch The second branch 1. Doth hee so write it as that hee neither addeth thereto nor taketh ther-from I suppose few or none have such cunning
Franc. Senens de Excub vigil holdeth in its foot a small stone whereby it may be kept awake and Alexander the Great held in the night a silver ball over a brazen bason that if he should fleepe by the sound thereof he might be awaked such a stone such a ball will Gods feare prove unto us to keepe us from Church-sleeping 4. Bee perswaded that the Scriptures to bee read or the Sermon ready to be uttered may doe us more good then all those we have yet heard Yea that they may be the last which we shall ever heare as that very houre Platar the last of our lives As Miltiades his triumph hindered Themistocles from sleeping So did we consider the benefit of the Word and duly weigh what good God may thereby convey into our soules as he hath done to others we would questionlesse not sleepe thereat Ecclus 31.1 The care of riches driveth away sleepe saith the sonne of Sirach So did wee care for the durable riches which the Word affordeth we would not sleepe thereat 5. Consider that as God sleepeth not for our good Psal 121.4 and the divell sleepeth not for our hurt So if we should sleepe at Church God would leave us and the divell would make a prey of us 6. Call to mind that there will be store of witnesses to rise up against us on the day of judgement if wee shall thus sin Then will the Lord say I spake unto them but they would not heare me I was present with mine owne ordinance but they would not looke upon mee Then will Christ say I offered my selfe unto them but they would none of me I called upon them but they would not answer me I would have shewed them what I had done for them but they did not regard me Then will the Holy Ghost say I would have entered into their hearts I would have there lodged I would have made the Word to take roote in them but by their sleeping thereat they grieved me Then will the Word say They despised me The Saints say They offended us The ungodly say They hardened us in our sinnes and occasioned our contempt of the Word It were not amisse Dan. 5.5 6. that as Belshazar was driven from his carnall mirth by viewing the hand-writing which appeared on the wall they that are accustomed to sleepe at Church would imagine at least that it were written over their Pewes Awake thou that sleepest Eph. 5 14. In particular in hearing we must use In particular use 1. Attention which is when the whole body Attention especially the eare and the eye are reverently composed about hearing the Word The eare Act. 10.33 as Cornelius and his houshold were already waiting for Peter to heare the Word The eye Luk. 4 28. as the eyes of all that were in the Synagogue were fastened on him that is on Christ when hee began to teach them wee must with Mary sit at Jesus feet Luk. 10.39 and heare his Word Doth not the hungry stomack watch for meat and should not wee watch for the food of our soules 2. Intention which is of the mind Intention when wee diligently marke those things which wee are taught We see by experience that in a deepe meditation though our eyes be fixed on some certaine object yet wee smally regard it so if the mind bee not present aswell as the body all is to no purpose To this purpose is that of Salomon Prov. 2.2 Cause thine eare to hearken and encline thine heart to wisdome and understanding 3. Retention which is of the memorie Retention Luk. 2.52 when wee lay up the word of God in the heart as the Virgin Mary the sayings concerning Christ Hee that maketh conscience here of will hardly sleepe hereat 4. Devotion which calleth for an heart truly religious Devotion A devout soule never heares of mercy but with comfort of Gods justice but with feare of his truth without assenting to it of his workes without admiration and where devotion dwelleth drowsinesse is shut out 5. Subjection God speakes and must not wee heare Subjection yea yeeld obedience therunto how repugnant soever the same seemeth unto our corrupt nature now how can there bee obedience when there is no subjection how subjection where knowledge wanteth how knowledge bee had without instruction how receive instruction without hearing it how heare it if sleepe bee entertained 6. Discretion The eare is to the soule Discretion as the mouth is to the body The mouth refuseth unsavoury meat that may bee hurtfull to the body so must our eares reject erroneous and hereticall doctrine But if the mouth bee out of taste what food will it not receive how noysome soever so if the eares bee dull and heavy will not falshood be embraced for truth mens traditions as Gods commandements Those that we may the better performe Means wherby to performe those we must 1. Remember that we are in Gods presence at Bethel Gods house Psal 16.8 1 Cor. 11.10 and that hee both seeth us and speaketh to us we must set the Lord alwayes before our eyes especially at this time If Paul will have women reverently to behave themselves in the congregation because of the Angels much more ought all both men and women to behave themselves reverently because of the presence of God who is the Lord both of men and Angels This was that which kept David in compasse Psa 119.168 I have kept saith hee thy Precepts and Testimonies for all my wayes are in thy sight Doe wee at any time begin to find our selves drowsie at Church speake we thus unto our owne soules Should I thus doe in Gods presence yea as the Lord called Samuel 1 Sam 3.10 Samuel Samuel and the ship-master unto Jonah Ionah 1.6 What meanest thou O sleeper So doe we imagine that the Lord speaketh unto every one of us in particular Why sleepest thou O sluggard awake thou that sleepest 2. Stand up It is very memorable which is reported of Constantine the Great by Eusebius Euseb de vita Constant lib. 4 cap. 33. Being requested by Divines that disputed before him that after long standing hee would sit downe and take his ease answered It is an impious thing to heare negligently disputations concerning God 3. Rouse up our selves ever and anone as the cocke clappeth his wings that he may the more cheerfully crow wee must stirre up the grace of God in us yea 2 Tim. 1.6 wee must check our selves when wee perceive our drowsinesse Prov. 6.9 How long wilt thou sleepe O sluggard when wilt thou arise out of thy sleepe We must say unto our selves art thou in a way to heaven will the Lord bee pleased herewith 4. Vse now and then short and sudden ejaculations Psal 13.5 as in the words of the Psalmist lighten mine eyes lest I sleepe the sleepe of death 6. Goe along with the
Preacher from point to point applying the Word in particular to the part affected as the stomacke conveieth nourishment to each member Heare we comfort wee are to apply it to our feare as Gods promises against distrust So if wee heare threatnings against sinne whether whoredome covetousnesse pride or any else and know our selves guilty thereof wee are to apply it to our selves for our humiliation saying of both upon occasion This is for mee This promise This comfort This threatning Sect. 3. After we are come from Church use After we are come from Church we must 1. Call our selves to an account how wee behaved our selves at Church Examination as about Church-sleeping whether wee be guilty thereof or not that upon our not guilty wee may expresse our thankfulnesse See Gatak Spirit Watch pag. 81. as upon guilty remorse and humiliation 2. Recall and revolve in our minds such gracious instructions Meditation as the Word afforded us thus bringing into out remembrance what we heard formerly delivered as the Bereans who as they received the Word with all readinesse of mind searched the Scriptures daily whether those things which they heard were so Whereupon will arise such profit and pleasure as that wee shall endevour thereafter not to deprive our selves through unseasonable sleeping of the good which may bee gained by the Word This is the very life of hearing neither can wee without meditation bring the Word into practise 3. Impart unto others by repetition what the Lord in his Word hath communicated to us Repetition not doing the same at some one time but constantly as a duty whereunto we are tied upon our hearing the Word 4. Conferre of such things at home Conference as have beene delivered at Church and that especially by way of Catechising or by question and answer 5. Put in practise such gracious things Practise as the Word hath revealed unto us If thou didst profit by one Sermon as assuredly thou mightest if thou didst practise what thou art therin prescribed thou wouldst not sleepe at the next Prompt sâ—p refor pag 456 A certaine Lady having asked her servants whether the Sermon was done to whom affirming that it was shee answered It was said not yet done implying that though the Minister had performed his part they had not yet done theirs that is though he had taught them yet they had not yet followed all his instructions CHAP. VII The Application of the foregoing discourse for Reprehension Vse of Reprehension unto Preachers Exhortation Sect. 1. Reprehension of Preachers People Preachers 1. Which doe any way occasion this evill Whether by taking no paines in their Ministerie by ayming more at applause unto themselves then at Gods glory therein by delivering erroneous and hereticall doctrine by wearying their auditors by leading their â—ives scandalously and the â—ike 2. Which doe not what in â—hem lyes to remove this evill Should they not at sometimes â—all into a commendation of Gods word to bring their people into a liking thereof should they not at other times set forth the misery of such as are without it should they not now and then inveigh against those which doe negligently heare it or sleepe thereat should they not be as Boanerges even filled with zeale against those that thus despise it Must not their voyces bee lift up as a trumpet and upon occasions sound these words of the ship-master unto Jonah What meanest thou Ionah 1.6 O sleeper and that of Salomon to the sluggard Prov. 6.9 When wilt thou arise out of thy sleepe how long wilt thou sleepe O sluggard And those of the Spirit Eph. 5 14. awake thou that sleepest People People 1. Which whilst the Word is taught laugh talke reade gaze up and downe in every corner and the like every of which through the just judgement of God doth for the most part end in sleeping when the senses are wearied with those then doe they retyre unto sleepe for their recreation 2. Which make a jest of it as if that which doth so much displease God so much wrong Gods word so much prejudice Gods people so much advantage Satans kingdome and hath beene so severely punished were indeed to bee laughed at Unto such I say Iam. 4.9 Bee afflicted and mourne and weepe let your laughter bee turned to mourning and your joy to heavinesse 3. Which doe what in them lyes to continue in it yea doe so love to sleepe as that they will further their inclination hereunto through intemperancie worldly care selfe-conceit prejudicate opinions â—nd the like thus entertaining â—uch things as may make them more drowsie 4. Which are angry with those that doe awake them They come to Church against their will They there stay against their will and if they there heare any thing it is against their will Ecclus. 22.7 They love sleepe set themselves to sleepe and cannot abide to be awaked Their untoward faces froward words Let mee alone what have yee to doe with me meddle with your selves c. and uncivill behaviour toward those that doe awake them were worth the observation Wouldst thou when thou commest to Church sleepe all the while farre bee it from thee As the Disciples unto our Saviour Christ being asleepe Mar. 4.38 Master carest thou not that weâ— perish So may it be said unto thee that affectest drowsinesse Carest thou not though thou perishest Mar. 4.24 Dost thou already know too much or hast thou already heard too much wouldst thou heare more should be given unto thee 5. Which being guilty hereof Non fenestra nunc non fames non somnus interturbat ait Chrysostomus attamen 〈◊〉 audimus 〈◊〉 angustia loâ—â— non aliquid horum Lorin in Acta p. 591. doe notwithstanding use one or other excuse for their justification What canst thou pretend long preaching much crowding heat hard labour and the like Beware lest in pleading not guilty unto one sinne thou beest not guilty of lying and so punished for both 6. Which will not by any meanes bee reclaimed therefrom God calleth thee as hee did Samuel 1 Sam. 3.3 and wilt thou not heare Hee would acquaint thee with his will and shall thine eyes bee alwayes heavy How long wilt thou sleep Prov. 6.9.10 O sluggard yet a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of the handsto sleep Knowest thou not that many littles make a great and that but a nappe at a time comes in time to a good deale of time Of old they that slept 1 Thes 5.7 slept in the night as they that were drunke were drunke in the night and wilt thou now sleepe in the day and that in Gods house Art thou an Image or wilt thou make thy selfe one having eyes seest thou not Mar. 8.18 and having eares why wilt thou not heare wouldst thou die whilst thou sleepest at Church were that the way unto heaven Not any thing the divell more hinders