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The upright mans character and crown. Preached in a sermon at Pauls before the…
The upright mans character and crown. Preached in a sermon at Pauls before the right Honourable the Lord Major, and the aldermen of the City of London, March 29. 1657. / By Thomas Watson minister of Stephens Walbrook London.
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1657
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It is with most people as with a drunken man fast asleep, he is non sensible of any thing that is done; let others be killed by him, and lie a bleeding, he is not sensible. Somno vinoque sepultus,—He sleeps securely in his wine. Thus it is with too many who are drunk with the wine of prosperity, and fallen fast asleep, though the Church of God lie bleeding of her wounds by them, and ready to bleed to death; they are not sensible; they have quite forgotten Jerusalem. Like Themistocles, who when one offered to teach him the Art of Memory▪ he desired that he would teach him the Art of Forgetfulness. The Devil hath taught many men this Art. They have forgotten the miseries of the Church; such may suspect themselves to be unsound. The Saints are called, [Greek or Hebrew], lively stones, 1 Pet. 2. 5. ⟨p. 32⟩therefore if there be any breach in the spiritual house, they must be sensible. Is not the Church Christs Spouse, and to see it smitten and Christ through her sides, will not this affect our hearts? The Church is the apple of Gods eye, Zach 2. 8. and to see the apple of his eye weep, will not this draw tears from us? An upright heart cannot but grieve to sit by the Churches bed side, and hear her dying groans.
It is with most people as with a drunken man fast asleep, he is non sensible of any thing that is done; let others be kill'd by him, and lie a bleeding, he is not sensible. Somno vinoque sepultus,—He sleeps securely in his wine. Thus it is with too many who are drunk with the wine of prosperity, and fallen fast asleep, though the Church of God lie bleeding of her wounds by them, and ready to bleed to death; they are not sensible; they have quite forgotten Hierusalem. Like Themistocles, who when one offered to teach him the Art of Memory▪ he desired that he would teach him the Art of Forgetfulnesse. The Devil hath taught many men this Art. They have forgotten the miseries of the Church; such may suspect themselves to be unsound. The Saints are called, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, lively stones, 1 Pet. 2. 5. ⟨p. 32⟩