The spiritual watchThe spirituall vvatch

§. 82. Again, in the very act of sin there is¹ no small d•ference between these twain. For the one ^ksleepeth wholly, as he saith: he sleepeth a deep and a dead sleep: he is carried with full swing of heart and will unto sin. ^lThe other sleepeth but unquietly, like the Watchman that against his will in part falling asleep, hath but an unquiet sleep of it, and even watcheth in some sort in his sleep, he is dreaming of the danger that he is or may be in, and of the enemies approach, whom he is set to watch against. It is that which we may observe in the Churches sleep in the Canticles; ^mI sleep, saith she, but mine heart is ⟨p. 127⟩awake. We use to say of children, that their heart is asleep even when their eyes are awake: contrariwise it is said of the children of God, that their eyes oft are asleep when their heart is awake: so that though they be outwardly borne-down and carried away with the stiff wind, or the strong stream of some violent and untoward temptation, yet their heart inwardly is not wholly surprised with it, they sin not with a full and an absolute consent of will in it; there is some secret mislike still of themselves in that they do, and some inward strife and reluctation (though not at all times alike sensible) more or less against it, even in the very act usually of committing it. In a word, ⁿthe one willingly falleth fast asleep; the other unwillingly in some sort, slumbereth rather then sleepeth.

§. 82. Againe, in the very act of sinne there is¹ no small d•ference betweene these twaine. For the one ^k