A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

For Sleep I need say but little; it is a soft Enemy, that steals away half our Time, and should be reckoned among our Burdens, and not our Pleasures; as a thing to be born with Patience, rather than to be taken with Delight. It is our Unhappiness, that so much of our Lives should be spent, and not one Act of Love and Kindness should be showed to God. The Angels that are wholly spiritual, are exempted from this Necessity; Night and Day they are always praising God, doing his Will, and hearkening to the Voice of his Word. Yea, we may see many other Creatures are restless in their Motions, and obey the Law of their Creation without weariness: The Sun in a constant unwearied Course, moves from East to West, and from West to East, and never ceaseth. When thou liest upon thy Bed in the Morning, thou mayest think of it, how many thousand Miles the Sun hath travelled since thou wenest to rest the last Night, that he might come again this Morning to give thee Light to go about thy Labour and Exercise, and yet thou liest snorting upon thy Bed, and turning hither and thither, as Solomon saith, like a Door upon the Hinges. David contended with the Sun, who should be up first; as the Sun to represent God to the World, so he to acknowledge God in his Prayers and Supplications, Psal. 119.147. I prevented the dawning of the Morning, and cried. But of this I will speak no more; Common Prudence, and the Light of Nature, will give us sufficient Direction.

For Sleep I need say but little; it is a soft Enemy, that steals away half our Time, and should be reckoned among our Burdens, and not our Pleasures; as a thing to be born with Patience, rather than to be taken with Delight. It is our Unhappiness, that so much of our Lives should be spent, and not one Act of Love and Kindness should be shewed to God. The Angels that are wholly spiritual, are exempted from this Necessity; Night and Day they are always praising God, doing his Will, and hearkning to the Voice of his Word. Yea, we may see many other Creatures are restless in their Motions, and obey the Law of their Creation without weariness: The Sun in a constant unwearied Course, moves from East to West, and from West to East, and never ceaseth. When thou liest upon thy Bed in the Morning, thou mayest think of it, how many thousand Miles the Sun hath travelled since thou wenest to rest the last Night, that he might come again this Morning to give thee Light to go about thy Labour and Exercise, and yet thou liest snorting upon thy Bed, and turning hither and thither, as Solomon saith, like a Door upon the Hinges. David contended with the Sun, who should be up first; as the Sun to represent God to the World, so he to acknowledg God in his Prayers and Supplications,