The works of George Swinnock, M.A

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.

He hath little reason to give himself to sleep who is every moment surrounded with mortal enemies, which are neither few nor weak. Naturalists tell us that the bird Onocratulus, and the Pelican take their rest with their Beaks upright, expecting the Hawk; and that the Whale and Dolphin sleep with their heads erected above water, for fear of hurt. Though there were but that one text of Scripture