A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

9 This wakeful and prepared vengeance is threatened against the ungodly […] fitly. For nothing is more proper to the nature of sin, than to sleep in security. E• 5.14. Awake thou that sleepest; that is, Repent thou that sinnest. The godly […] their naps, the wicked their sound sleeps. Continuance in sin may be compass to Sleep in many resemblances.

9 This wakefull and prepared vengeance is threatned against the ungodly 〈…〉 fitly. For nothing is more proper to the nature of sin, than to sleepe in security. E• 5.14. Awake thou that sleepest; that is, Repent thou that sinnest. The godly 〈…〉 their nappes, the wicked their sound sleepes. Continuance in sin may be compa• to Sleepe in many resemblances.

1 For the cause of sleep: the natural heat drawing in his virtue, stirs […] vapour or exhalation, which ariseth from the meat, or from labour, sorrow, •• rinesse: this ascending, the coldness of the brain beats back again, and so co•• sleep. Thus the heat of concupiscence in the sinner first reigns within, and st••• to fortify it self in a complacency of evil: and when the conscience sends any •• tions or considerations to the intellect, like vapours to the brain, they are re•• berated back again by the extreme cold and grossness, which possesseth the ra• nal part; and thus follows the sleep of sin. When the conscience cannot pr•• with the concupiscence, it is rocked asleep in sin, and all the organical forces […] called in to wait upon lust.