§. 3. But it is no such bodily watching that is here intended. A man may not watch thus, that keepeth himself so awake: and ba man may not keep himself so awake, and yet watch. cPeter watched thus while he slept in the prison between two soldiers tied fast with two chains. And so did dDavid, when trusting to Gods gracious protection, ⟨p. 5⟩he laid himself quietly down to sleep. Whereas on the other side, eJudas sate up all the night long (as fthieves and murderers also do many times) to put his treason in practise, gwhile his fellow Disciples slept; and yet watched he no more, nay not so much as they did. And hDavid was broad awake, when he spied Bathsheba from off his terrace; and yet watched he not so well as before he did, when on his pallet he lay fast asleep: he rose from one sleep, to fall into another, a worse sleep. It is not ia corporal, but a spiritual; not a proper, but a figurative, a metaphorical watching, (and yet a watching that hath reference to that proper, some resemblance of that corporal watching) that our Saviour here intendeth.
§. 3. But it is no such bodily watching that is here intended. A man may not watch thus, that keepeth himselfe so awake: and ba man may not keepe himselfe so awake, and yet watch. cPeter watched thus while he slept in the prison between two souldiers tied fast with two chaines. And so did dDauid, when trusting to Gods gratious protection, ⟨p. 5⟩he laid himselfe quietly downe to sleepe. Whereas on the other side, eIudas sate vp all the night long (as ftheeues and murtherers also doe many times) to put his treason in practise, gwhile his fellow Disciples slept; and yet watched he no more, nay not so much as they did. And hDauid was broad awake, when he spied Bathsheba from off his terrace; and yet watched he not so well as before he did, when on his pallet he lay fast asleepe: he rose from one sleepe, to fall into another, a worse sleepe. It is not ia corporall, but a spirituall; not a proper, but a figuratiue, a metaphoricall watching, (and yet a watching that hath reference to that proper, some resemblance of that corporall watching) that our Sauiour here intendeth.
- b1 Thess. 5. 10. Si d•rmituri sum•, quomodo vigi•amus? Cord vigilamus, •tiam c•m co•pore dormimus, Aug. de verb. Dom. serm. 22.1 Thess. 5. 10. Si d•rmituri sum•, quomodo vigi•amus? Corde vigilamus, •tiam c•m co•pore dormimus, Aug. de verb. Dom. serm. 22.
- cActs 12. 6.
- dPsal. 3. 5. & 4. 8.
- eMatth. 26 47.
- fJob 24. 14. Vigilat fur, & expectat ut homines dormiant. Aug. in Psal. 125.Iob 24. 14. Vigilat fur, & expectat vt homines dormiant. Aug. in Psal. 125.
- gMatth. 26. 40.
- h2 Sam. 11. 2, 3, 4.
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