But they that can sleep when it thunders; like the Catadupans, inhabitants of •e cataracts, who hear not the roarings of Nilus, ingenti cum sonitu se praecipitantis: •ummes and trumpets, and that loud rupture of the air with Ordinance, being •e soft music to their ears to play them asleep: what hope of their waking? declaration of sins, denunciation of judgements, description of torments, no more •rre them, than a tale moves a man in a dream. Here is a supine stupidity, […] capable of excitation, as the sea-rocks are of motion, or the sea-billows of com•ession. As Mori mortem is to die an everlasting death, so this Dormire somnum (as •e Psalmist speaks) is to sleep an everlasting sleep. The Hebrews call sleep by •ree distinct and gradual terms. Therumah, which signifies a light sleep, Capitis •tatio, quasi prima rudimenta somni. Schemah is a more profound sleep. Tharde•h exceeds all, as it were a dead sleep.g The Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon ••am: that he neither had his sight offended, nor his sense oppressed, when his side •as opened, Gen. 15.12. Thardemah irruit: a deep sleep fell upon Abraham. So the •reekes distinguish them; [Greek or Hebrew], which is a certain necessity of sleep: [Greek or Hebrew], which is Torpor, a heaviness of sleep: and [Greek or Hebrew], an inexpugnable appetite of •eping. The Latins, if we consult Physicians, distinguish them into Somnum, •orem, & veternum: a natural sleep, a preternatural sleep, and a continual slummer. The faithful cannot avoid some naps their nature is so weak; some sins •ey admit: vulgar sinners have long and drowsy slumbers: only the desperately ••cked are cast into a dead sleep; an exstaticall stupefying lethargy of sinfulness, •rd even to be a little roused. The first is a natural, the second a preternatural, •e last a contranaturall sleep. A natural sleep is short, for six or eight hours, owed by Physicians, to the body; but allowed not by Divines, to the soul. The •eter natural is a drowsy slothfulness, an inordinate desire of sinning.h Yet a lit• slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. The last contranaturall, is omnem dumb exundans, beyond all measure, a lethargical kind of death, which will never ••ke until it hath no more power to sleep.
But they that can sleepe when it thunders; like the Catadupans, inhabitants of •e cataracts, who heare not the roarings of Nilus, ingenti cum sonitu se praecipitantis: •ummes and trumpets, and that loud rupture of the aire with Ordinance, being •e soft musicke to their eares to play them asleepe: what hope of their waking? •eclaration of sins, denuntiation of judgements, description of torments, no more •rre them, than a tale moves a man in a dreame. Here is a supine stupiditie, 〈…〉 capable of excitation, as the sea-rockes are of motion, or the sea-billowes of com•ession. As Mori mortem is to die an everlasting death, so this Dormire somnum (as •e Psalmist speakes) is to sleepe an everlasting sleepe. The Hebrewes call sleepe by •ree distinct and graduall termes. Therumah, which signifies a light sleepe, Capitis •tatio, quasi prima rudimenta somni. Schemah is a more profound sleepe. Tharde•h exceeds all, as it were a dead sleepe.g The Lord caused a deepe sleepe to fall upon ••am: that he neither had his sight offended, nor his sense oppressed, when his side •as opened, Gen. 15.12. Thardemah irruit: a deepe sleepe fell upon Abraham. So the •reekes distinguish them; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which is a certaine necessitie of sleepe: 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, •hich is Torpor, a heavinesse of sleepe: and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, an inexpugnable appetite of •eping. The Latines, if we consult Physitians, distinguish them into Somnum, •orem, & veternum: a naturall sleepe, a preternaturall sleepe, and a continuall slum•r. The faithfull cannot avoid some nappes their nature is so weake; some sinnes ey admit: vulgar sinners have long and drousy slumbers: only the desperately cked are cast into a dead sleepe; an exstaticall stupifying lethargie of sinfulnesse, rd even to be a little roused. The first is a naturall, the second a preternaturall, e last a contranaturall sleepe. A naturall sleepe is short, for sixe or eight houres, owed by Physitians, to the body; but allowed not by Divines, to the soule. The eter naturall is a drousie slothfulnesse, an inordinate desire of sinning.
- gGen. 2.21.
- hProv. 24.33.
