To apply therefore what was before said of watching, to the Soul, and so to our present purpose. Sin is in the word compared to a sleep. kLet not us sleep, as others sleep, saith the Apostle: For those that sleep, sleep in the night: and, We are not of the night, but of the light and of the day. He speaketh as of a spiritual lnight of ignorance, so of a spiritual sleep of sin. Repentance is said to be an awaking (as it were) out of this sleep. mAwake to righteousness; and sin not, saith the same Apostle. And again, nAwake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, from the deadly sleep of sin, and Christ will enlighten thee. And, oAs it is a sign that a man is awaked out of his sleep, when ⟨p. 6⟩he telleth what dreams he saw in his sleep: so it is a sign, saith the Heathen man, of one truly repentant, when a man maketh sincere confession of his former offence. And lastly, the striving to keep our selves from future relapse and from falling back into this our former deadly slumber again, is that which by the same metaphor is termed watching, as here, so pelsewhere.
To apply therefore what was before said of watching, to the Soule, and so to our present purpose. Sinne is in the word compared to a sleepe. kLet not vs sleepe, as others sleepe, saith the Apostle: For those that sleepe, sleepe in the night: and, We are not of the night, but of the light and of the day. He speaketh as of a spirituall lnight of ignorance, so of a spirituall sleepe of sinne. Repentance is said to be an awaking (as it were) out of this sleepe. mAwake to righteousnesse; and sinne not, saith the same Apostle. And againe, nAwake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, from the deadly sleepe of sinne, and Christ will illighten thee. And, oAs it is a signe that a man is awaked out of his sleepe, when ⟨p. 6⟩he telleth what dreames he saw in his sleepe: so it is a signe, saith the Heathen man, of one truely repentant, when a man maketh sincere confession of his former offence. And lastly, the striuing to keepe our selues from future relapse and from falling backe into this our former deadly slumber againe, is that which by the same metaphor is termed watching, as here, so pelsewhere.
- k1 Thess. 5. 6, 7. Pe•catores […] similes, Anastas. in Hexam. lib. 1. [Greek or Hebrew]. Cl•m. Alex. p•dag. lib. 2. cap. 10.1 Thess. 5. 6, 7. Pe•catores 〈…〉 similes, Anastas. in Hexam. lib. 1. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Cl•m. Alex. p•dag. lib. 2. cap. 10.
- lRom. 13. 12.
- m1 Cor. 15. 34.
- nEphes. 5. 14. Animam […] exci•at. Aug. in Psal. 6•.Ephes. 5. 14. Animam 〈…〉 exci•at. Aug. in Psal. 6•.
- oQuare vitia sua n•mo confit•tur? quia adhuc in illis •st. S•mnium narr•re vigilantis est: & vitia sua confiteri sanitatis indicium est. Exp•rgiscamur ergò ut errors nostros coarguere possimus. […]. epist. 54.
