Christs coming opened in a sermon before the honourable house of commons in Margaret's…

Again secondly, §2If ye look into this Scripture or Parable, ye find that those who fall asleep immediately before the coming of Christ, shall never wake again till Christ come. And they all slept (says the text of the ten Virgins) and waked not till the Bridegroom came.

Againe secondly, §2If ye looke into this Scripture or Parable, ye find that those who fall asleepe immediately before the coming of Christ, shall never wake again till Christ come. And they all slept (sayes the text of the ten Virgins) and waked not till the Bridegroome came.

Now if a man be very sleepy, and you come to him, and say, Sir, take heed of sleeping, for if you do fall asleep, you will never wake again, will he not take heed of sleeping? thus it shall be with the sleepers of this latter time; at other times men shall sleep and wake, and wake and sleep; but if men fall asleep, into a spiritual sleep immediately before the coming of Jesus Christ, they shall sleep till he comes, and shall be waked no more but by his coming: Oh! Lord, who would not watch and pray, least he enter into temptation!

Now if a man be very sleepy, and you come to him, and say, Sir, take heed of sleeping, for if you do fall asleepe, you will never wake again, will he not take heed of sleeping? thus it shall be with the sleepers of this latter time; at other times men shall sleepe and wake, and wake and sleepe; but if men fall asseepe, into a spirituall sleepe immediately before the coming of Jesus Christ, they shall sleepe till he comes, and shall be wake't no more but by his coming: Oh! Lord, who would not watch and pray, least he enter into temptation!