The saints rest

¹The Observation is this, viz. That when a child of god dies, though his death he never so unnatural and violent, yet it is nothing else but a falling asleep: Or, The death of a child of God, though stoned to death, though burnt to ashes, though it be never so violent and unnatural, is nothing else but a falling asleep. When he had said this, he fell asleep.

¹The Observation is this, viz. That when a childe of god dies, though his death he never so unnatural and violent, yet it is nothing else but a falling asleep: Or, The death of a childe of God, though stoned to death, though burnt to ashes, though it be never so violent and unnatural, is nothing else but a falling asleep. When he had said this, he fell asleep.

1. 1Doct.

Somnus est mortis imago, Sleep is the image of death. There are many notable resemblances betwixt sleep ⟨p. 5⟩and death; some of which I shall speak unto at this time.

1. Sleep is common to all men; there is no man can live without sleep; A man may live long without meat, but no man can live long without sleep. So it is true of death, Death is common to all, it is appointed for all men once to die: And therefore David said, He was to go the way of all slesh; Statutum est omnibus semel mori, Omnibus est calcanda semel lethivia, All men must sleep the sleep of death, or else be changed, which is a metaphorical death. 2. As sleep ariseth from the vapours that ascend from the stomach to the head, and tie the senses, and hinder their operations; so death came into the world by Adams eating the forbidden fruit, and by the poisonfull vapour of sin, that brought death upon him, and all his posterity. By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned,