A94156:922
The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature…
The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature and necessity of it is discovered. : As also the Christian directed how he may perform it in [brace] religious duties, natural actions, his particular vocation, his family directions, and his own recreations. / By George Swinnock ...
London: printed for T.P., 1662
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.
2. The season of sleep; In general, the day is by the command of God and order of nature, the time for watching, and the night for sleeping. The Sun approaching draweth forth the spirits from the centre to the Circumferent parts, and openeth the pores of the body, both which do provoke to working and waking; but when the Sun departeth, the spirits return to the inmost parts of the body, which inviteth to sleep; and besides, the natural moisture and silence of the night, are according to Physicians, very conducible to sleep: Wherefore to sleep in the day, and watch in the night, is (unless necessity compelleth it) sinful, and a perverting the course of nature; They that sleep, sleep in the night, 1 Thes. 5.6, 7. Which may be understood literally of a natural, as well as mystically of a spiritual sleep. That Roman Emperor that turned the day into night, and the night into day, was abhorred as a monster in nature: Such persons are great hinderers of their own health, and thereby of their outward happiness; for sleep draweth the natural heat inward, and the heat of the day draweth it outward, whereby there ariseth a fight with nature, to the ruin of the body. Sleep after dinner in young persons, causeth heaviness of the head, dullness of wit, defluxions of humours, lethargies, and other cold diseases of the brain, and also palsies by relaxing the sinews; Besides it is not to be forgotten, that Ishbosheth lost his life, and David his chastity, by lazing on their beds in the day time.
2. The season of sleep; In general, the day is by the command of God and order of nature, the time for watching, and the night for sleeping. The Sun approaching draweth forth the spirits from the center to the Circumferent parts, and openeth the pores of the body, both which do provoke to working and waking; but when the Sun departeth, the spirits return to the inmost parts of the body, which inviteth to sleep; and besides, the naturall moysture and silence of the night, are according to Physitians, very conducible to sleep: Wherefore to sleep in the day, and watch in the night, is (unless necessity compelleth it) sinful, and a perverting the course of nature; They that sleep, sleep in the night, 1 Thes. 5.6, 7. Which may be understood literally of a natural, as well as mystically of a spiritual sleep. That Roman Emperor that turned the day into night, and the night into day, was abhord as a monster in nature: Such persons are great hinderers of their own health, and thereby of their outward happiness; for sleep draweth the natural heat inward, and the heat of the day draweth it outward, whereby there ariseth a fight with nature, to the ruine of the body. Sleep after dinner in young persons, caufeth heaviness of the head, dulness of wit, defluxions of humors, lethargies, and other cold diseases of the brain, and also palsies by relaxing the finews; Besides it is not to be forgotten, that Ishbosheth lost his life, and David his chastity, by lazing on their beds in the day time.