3Q- - SAINT PAULS TRUMPET. R AnAllarm for SleepyChrifians. SERMON XXVI. Rom. 13. ti. And that knemittg the time, that no it it high time to awake out of Beep. He holy Apoftle in this Chapter he delivers a number ofpre- cepts, and general rules for fatisfa&ion, and enforceth them with fundry reafons. Among them all,the words that I have read,thcy are one principal, both Precept and Reafon enfor- I cing it ; Confdering thefeafon,it istime thatyear:fe fromfleep. Thefe fewwordsmay be called, Saint Paulo Trumpet, to route the fluggifh Chriftian. Theywere the occafion ofthe converfion of that famous inftrument, St. e4uflin, as he ..fug. lib: 8. faith in the eighthBookofhis Confeffloni, the laß Chapter. He reports, that when c''f : Cap he time of his Conve (ion came near, he was in a marvellous great agony,and con- "18' fli&, befet with a nun bet of Temptations, wherebySatan would ftillhave detained him in the fpiritual fleep he was in : being in this marvellous confli&, he couldnot but go from his Chamber to his Garden,and there he proftrated himfelfon his face before the Lord, and earneftly, and ardently calledupon God. And in his Prayer (as himfelfrecords) he feemed that he did hear the voiceofa Child fpeak to him, Tolle, lege : Take up the book and read. Hereupon runningback again to hisftu- dy, his Book being open, the firlt place that he caft his eyeupon was this Verfe; /t is now time, confsdering thefeafon, thatyou awake out offieep. And' ( faith he ) with the endofthe fentence, 1found an infufed life. Ike found in the reading of this
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