A62040:1076
The works of George Swinnock, M.A
The works of George Swinnock, M.A. containing these several treatises ...
London: printed by J.B. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1665
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Its reported of the Dragon that whilst he sleepeth a jewel is taken out of his head. Noah lost the jewel of Temperance; David the jewel of Chastity whilst they were fallen asleep. If this eye of watchfulness be once shut the soul is open to all wickedness. When Argus, notwithstanding his hundred eyes, was by Mercury piped into a sleep, he was transformed into a Cow.
Reader hearken to Gods Watch-word; Ye are all children of light, and children of the day; we are ⟨p. 736⟩not of the night nor of darkness: Therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober, 1 Thess. 5. 5,6,7. Sleep is not seasonable in the day of grace, nor suitable to a child of light: They that sleep, sleep in the night, Rom. 13.11. The night is for sleep, therefore in it God draweth a curtain of darkness about us; as the Nurse when she would lay her babe to sleep, throweth a cloth over the head of the cradle. But the day is for watching, for working.
Reader hearken to Gods Watch-word; Ye are all children of light, and children of the day; we are ⟨p. 736⟩not of the night nor of darkness: Therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober, 1 Thess. 5. 5,6,7. Sleep is not seasonable in the day of grace, nor sutable to a childe of light: They that sleep, sleep in the night, Rom. 13.11. The night is for sleep, therefore in it God draweth a curtain of darkness about us; as the Nurse when she would lay her babe to sleep, throweth a cloth over the head of the cradle. But the day is for watching, for working.