/ .u& . 1 . Bu1myheart waketh. . S ~ a.IIII .I Saints,aod ofour fpiri tua11 good acquainrance to k~epone another awake. Its an unpleafing worke on both fides : But we fhall one day cry out again(} all them that have pleafed thernfdves· I ~ I ' t I J . ' i l ~' i I i J I , and us,in rockingus afleep, and thank thofe that have pulled us with {et~re our of fire, though againft our wils. · Let us labour upon our owne hearts in the con· fcionable ufeofall thefe meanes,intheir feverall times and feafons, that we may keep our hearts waking, and the more earneft ought we ro be from conliderationof_the prefenr age and feafon in whkhwe Jive. Certainly a drowlie temp~r is the moll ordinary temper in the world : For would men fuffer idle words, yea filthy and rotten tal keto come from their tnouthes ifthey were awake~Would a waking man nm into a pit ~ or upon afwords point '? A man. that is afieepmay cloeany thing. · 1 What doe men meaoe when the~ feare not to-· lye,ddfemble, qnd rufh upon thep1kes of Gods · 1 difpleafure ~ When they fay one thing and doe ~ another,ar~ they not dead ~-- or take them acthe beft, are they not afleep '! Were they awake., 1 would they eve,r doe thus~Will nota fowle that 1 ~1arh wings avoid the fnare ~ or will abeafi run ·inr~ a pit when it fees it ~ There is afnare laid in your Play.houfes, gaming-houfes, Common• houfes that Gentlemen frequent that generally profdfe Re1igion,<md take d1e Cottlmunion. If the eye oftheir fouies were awake, wouJ.d they nm into thefe fnaresJthattheirowneconfciences 1 · . tell l ~~- . .........,. _______ ·----------- -
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