•. hIn regard of himself, that he sleep not in 2death: not meant, as some think, of isleeping in Sin; though kSin in Scripture be oft compared to Sleep; no•, as others, *of the •eath of grief and despair; though that be said too to be a kind of Death; and 6maketh a mans life oft no better, yea more bitter than Death: nor yet as others. lof dying eternally, of being everlastingly damned: but ⟨p. 3⟩mof temporal death, (that is usually termed na Sleep; and is nothing indeed but oa Sleep longer than usual; yea in some sort pa perpetual Sleep, because to continue qas long as the world lasteth:) that rhe might not die in this distressed14 and discomfortable estate.
•. hIn regard of himselfe, that hee sleepe not in 2death: not meant, as some thinke, of isleeping in Sinne; though kSinne in Scripture be oft compared to Sleepe; no•, as others, *of the •eath of griefe and despaire; though that be said too to be a kinde of Death; and 6maketh a mans life oft no better, yea more bitter than Death: nor yet as others. lof dying eternally, of being euerlastingly damned: but ⟨p. 3⟩mof temporall death, (that is vsually tearmed na Sleepe; and is nothing indeed but oa Sleepe longer than vsuall; yea in some sort pa perpetuall Sleepe, because to continue qas long as the world lasteth:) that rhee might not die in this distressed14 and discomfortable estate.
- hVers. 3.
- 2Reason 1.
- iDe somno peccati. Ruffin. in Psal. 12. In peccato. Aug. in Psal. 12. & contr. advers. leg. l. 1. c. 11. Cassiod. & Remig. & ex •que Lombard. De somno peccati qui ducit ad mortem. Acacius Caesar. quaest collect. 4. apud Hieron. epist▪ •d Miner. & Alex.
- k1. Thess. 5. 6, 7. Ephes. 5. • 1 Cor. 15. 34.
- *Theodoret. & E•thym.
- 6Gen. 27. 46. Jo• 3. 20, 21. Eccles 7. 28.Gen. 27. 46. Io• 3. 20, 21. Eccles 7. 28.
- lCùm • peccato, quod est ad mortem irrevocabiliter perseveratur. Bern. in Cant. 52. Ne poenitentiam • mortem differens, dormiam cum morte peccati in inferno. Hugo Card. in Psal. 1•.
- mJun. Calvin. &c. Vide Drus. lib. 3. quaest. 27. & H•resbach. in
