Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: livcth for ever and ever, Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee. 11. May we all thus experience what it is to be, not almost only, but altogether Christians; being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus; knowing we have peace with God through Jesus Christ; rejoicing in hope of the glory of God; and having the love of God shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost given unto us SERMON III. AWAKE, THOU THAT SLEEPEST: PBEACHED ON SUNDAY, APRIL 4,1742, BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. BY THE REV. CHARLES WESLEY, M. A., STUDENT OF CHRIST-CHUBCH. Awake, thou that steepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Ephesians v. 14. In discoursing on these words, I shall, with the help of God, First. Describe the sleepers, to whom they are spoken: Secondly. Enforce the exhortation, Awake, thou that sleep- est, and arise from the dead: And, Thirdly. Explain the promise made to such as do awake and arise: Christ shall give thee light. 1. 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 comes into the world, and continues till the voice of God awakes him. 2. Now, they that sleep, sleep in the night. The state of nature is a state of utter darkness; a state wherein darkness covers the earth, and gross darkness the people. The poorunawakened sinner, how much knowledge soever he may have as to other things, has no knowledge of himself: In this respect he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. He knows not that...