A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

Secondly, they differ in their effects, which in the one are more strong and permanent, in the other more weak and momentany. For the security of the unregenerate, striketh with a deadly blow all the powers of the soul, and bringeth them into a deep Lethargy, which depriveth them of all sense and feeling of their disease, and consequently, of all desire to be cured of it; yea, it maketh them (like the blind and dumb Shepherds of whom the Prophet speaketh) to delight ¹in sleeping, unwilling to be awakened, and angry with those who use any means to rouse them up. So that the more they sleep the more they may, till at last they are brought to eternal death and destruction, or if by the Trumpet of the Word, sounding loud in their ears, they be somewhat disturbed in their carnal rest, either with Pharaoh they will not at all acknowledge the voice of the Lord, nor ²have any desire of reconciling themselves unto him by unfeigned repentance, but use all means to quiet their minds, that they may fall into their deep sleep again (as shunning the hearing of the Word, Music, merry Company, and making themselves drunk with carnal and worldly pleasures and delights) or if they acknowledge Gods voice, they harden their hearts against it with Herod, and betake ³themselves to sleep still in their beloved sins; or with the secure Jews, they enjoin silence to Gods Prophets, that they may sleep still and not be disturbed in their rest; or with Felix, they desire to be