A Christian Directory

and many thousand sins to be forgiven! Thou hast death and judgement to prepare for: thou hast Heaven to win, and Hell to scape! Thou hast many a needful Truth to learn, and many a holy duty to perform; and yet dost thou think it time to sleep? Paul that had less need than thou, did watch, and pray, and labour day and night, Acts 20. 31. 1 Thess. 3. 10. O that thou knewest how much better it is to be awake. While thou sleepest, thou losest the benefit of the Light, and all the mercies that attend thee: The Sun is but as a clod to a man asleep: The world is as no world to him: The beauty of Heaven and Earth are nothing to him: Princes, friends and all things are forgotten by him! So doth thy sleep in sin make nothing of health, and patience, time and help, Ministers, Books and daily warnings: O what a day hast thou for everlasting, if thou hadst but a heart to use it! What a price hast thou in thine hand? Prov. 10. 5. Sleep not out thy day, thy harvest time, thy tide time: They that sleep, sleep in the night, 1 Thess. 5. 7. Awake and Christ will give thee light, Rom. 13. 12. Ephes. 5. 14. Awake to righteousness, and sin not, 1 Cor. 15. 34. O when thou seest the Light of Christ, what a wonder will it possess thee with, at the things which thou now forgettest? What joy will it fill thee with? and with what pity to the sleepy world?—But if thou wilt needs sleep on, be it known to thee, sinner, it shall not be long. If thou wilt wake no sooner, death and vengeance will awake thee: Thou wilt wake when thou seest the other world, and seest the things which thou wouldst not believe, and comest before thy dreadful Judge! Thy damnation slumbereth not, 2 Pet. 2. 3. There are no sleepy souls in Heaven or Hell, all are awake there: and the day that hath awakened so many, shall waken thee: Watch then if thou love thy soul, lest thy Lord come suddenly and find thee sleeping,