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A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written
A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas AdamsA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas Adams
London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Jacob Bloome, 1633London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Iacob Bloome, 1633
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sleep (such is the nature of it, that it) cannot occur to the nature of God: •o is an Eternity of rest, without any vicissitude or change. There is no mutati•• himself, nor mutuation or borrowing from another. Phabus ab externo radios […] mutuatur: much less God. Rom. 11.25. Who hath first given to him, and it shall •compensed? Who hath laid out any thing for him, and it shall be paid him a•e? In sleep the exterior senses are bound up, and there follows a quiescence •n motion. As of the contrary; Vigilia est solutio & remissio sensuum, ut liberè ⟨p. 480⟩agant secundum suam naturam. Wakefulness is the remission and unbinding of the senses, that they may freely officiate the requirements of nature. But the Lord mo• all; and created things derive their first motion from him. Aristotle says, […] is a retirement of the heat to the inward parts: and a conflux of that natural ••• lation which ariseth from out sustenance; Compresso primo sensitorio, that is […] but God lives not by nourishment, therefore hath no need of sleep. Cale•• fines it to be a remission of the soul, according to nature, ab extremis ad prin•••• binding up the mind, and discharging the sensitive instruments of their office […] heat which is taken up in those organs, being recalled to the heart and lungs. Oth•• thus summarily▪ Sleep is the rest of the animal virtues, together with […] tention of the natural faculties, stirred by a profitable humour in the brain: […] in the soul suspends her functions in the outward parts, to relieve the inward […] principal, for the health of the whole. But God is not capable of any weary […] therefore not liable to any sleep. Nothing needs sleep, but what is nourishe• wearied? No spirit is subject to such a nutrition, therefore not desiderable of […] a cessation. The sword of God may be said to sleep in the scabbard, while he […] bears to draw it, but he that wears it, sleepeth not.