But m! heart waketh. •lfleep,nor adead man that he is dead : So/Arre tU S~. hefaith he iJ Ajltep~he iJ awAlu. Now the Church : confdl'eth that llie. was ajleep, by that part that was aw11ke in her,other men doe not complaine, are not fenlible of their fleepinetfe and flumbring)but compofe themfelves to flumber, and feeke darkndfe, which is afriend of fleep, they wculd willingly be ignorant, to keep their con- . fcience dull,and dumbe asmuch as theycan).that it may not upbraid them~ This is the difpolition ·of 3 Carnall man, he is not fenlible of his efiat~, as here the Church is. v1w.1king flate i5 aMejedjl.ttte. 06ferv. T~eChurch you fee fupporrs· and comforts her fdfe,that fhewas waking inher inward man, • 1 that ilie was happy in thJt refpe6l:.How{hall we !!.!!,efl. doe: to keep& prderve our fouks in tl-1iswaking condition, efpecially in thefe drowfie times ~ r. Propound untothemwakingcon~derations. What caufeth our fie.eps, but want of mattersof ~:[. 111• fc 'br. . N '1111 h I. .......,YUIIfleJ mo~e e:tous o 1ervatton~ one Wl 11eepw en 1110 propound · a rhang ts prefented of excelkncy more then or- waking.:lmfi· _ dinary. To {e·eand know, andthinke ofwhat a derations. fiat~ we arenow advanced unto in Chrifr, what -we lhall be ere long, yea the fearefull efiate we fuould be in, if God leave us to o.ur fdves '? A fi:ate of afioai{hmenr, mif~rable and wr~tched, · beyond fpeech, nay beyond ccmceit. Thus did the bldfed foules in former times exerdfe their -thoughts,raife and ftirre them up by medication, that fo they migllt hold their foules ina high efieeme ofthe beH: things,and not fuffer them to '--------------------------~fl_ee~P_·~----·--'
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