Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

Awake sinners, awake! you lie upon the brink of •he Pit, you are sleeping over the burning Lake; you are like Sailors, which drop asleep on the top of a Mast, whom a great wind would blow into •he Sea; so the wind of death, which may suddenly beat upon you, will blow you into Hell, ⟨p. 244⟩into the Ocean of Gods wrath; and can you secure your selves a moment from the stroke of death? when you are most secure, may not death be most near? when you think you shall live many years to eat, and drink, and take your pleasure like the rich fool in the Gospel, may not death knock at your door that night, and break in upon you, and fetch away your bodies to the grave, and Devils drag your souls to Hell?

Awake sinners, awake! you lie upon the brink of •he Pit, you are sleeping over the burning Lake; you are like Saylors, which drop asleep on the top of a Mast, whom a great wind would blow into •he Sea; so the wind of death, which may sud•enly beat upon you, will blow you into Hell, ⟨p. 244⟩into the Ocean of Gods wrath; and can you secure your selves a moment from the stroke of death? when you are most secure, may not death be most neer? when you think you shall live many years to eat, and drink, and take your pleasure like the rich fool in the Gospel, may not deat• knock at your door that night, and break in upon you, and fetch away your bodies to the grave, and Devils drag your souls to Hell?

Awake then, before you sleep the sleep of death awake out of the sleep of sin, think with yo• selves, this night we may be in Hell, and free, • rather bound in Chains of Darkness and horror amongst the damned; or to morrow we may b in torments with Cain and Judas, with the Dev and his Angels: and therefore give not sleep […] your eyes, nor slumber to your eye-lids, until yo have redeemed your selves out of the snare of th Devil and sin, as a Bird out of the snare of th Fowler, or a Roe out of the hand of the hunter.