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

Nothing is more dangerous than this drowsiness and security in sin: when men think they can pass as they please; through the womb to grace, •horow grace to wantonness, through wantonness to glory. With^o Gallio, •hey think Religion only a question of names and words, and therefore will not •eddle with it Or, if they resolve to hear it, with Felix they can neither get […] convenient time, nor a convenient heart for it. They are not like the Bee that •illeth her belly and thighs with honey from the flowers: but like the butter fly, which only dies and paints her wings in their colours, and so leaves them. They swim like Dolphins, playing upon the waves of carnal delights; and are always •erriest, when destruction is nearest. Wake therefore, and learn to die before •hou die; that when thou must die, thou mayest have no more to do but to die. While •he foolish virgins slept, they lost their entrance into that joyful bride-chamber •or ever. Watch and pray: they that would keep themselves waking, do it best •y talking. Hold thy self in a continual conference and discourse with God, so •halt thou not fall asleep in sin. If thou dost fall into a slumber, yet let^p thy heart •ake. But the reprobate doth sleep soundly, Somno sepultus. Therefore let us not •eepe as others do, but let us watch and be sober, 1 Thes. 5.6. As Christ couples watching and prayer: so the Apostle couples watching and sobriety. Sobriety is either corporal, the moderation of appetites: or mental, the moderation of affections. Now as drunkenness enforceth sleep, so sobriety keepeth awake. But as Phy•tians rid their hands of incurable patients, and send them to the mineral or melline bathes, or leave them Deo & naturae, to God and nature. So I remit these […] their maker to be wakened; either by the Evangelical trumpet here, or by the rchangelicall trumpet hereafter.