Contributed by John Wesley on Apr 4, 2006
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"Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."
Ephesians 5:14
In discoursing on these words, I shall, with the help of God, --
First. Describe the sleepers, to whom they are spoken:
Secondly. Enforce th
I.
1. And first, as to the sleepers here spoken to. By sleep is signified the natural state of man; that deep sleep of the soul, into which the sin of Adam hath cast all who spring from his loins: That supineness, indolence, and stupidity, that insensibility of his real condition, wherein every man
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