OF THE REV. CHARLES BUCK, CONTAINING THE YOUNG COURAGEMENT, TO THE BELIEVER ON HIS FIRST ENTRANCE INTO THE DIVINE LIFE. A TREATISE ON Religious Erperience: IN WHICH ITS NATURE, EVIDENCES, AND ADVANTAGES, ARE CONSIDERED. TOGETHER WITH, BETICALLY ARRANGED, USEFUL OBSERVATIONS. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. Philadelphia : RELIGIOUS, MORAL, AND ENTER TAINING; SLEEPING AND INATTENTION IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. We may well ask whether such an inconsistency was ever seen in a Pagan temple or a Mahometan mosque. “ He who sleeps in a place of worship,” says one, " is as though he had been brought in for a corpse, and the preacher was preaching at his funeral.” Upon this subject I cannot help transcribing what has been written by an eminent author. “ Constant sleepers," says he, “are public nuisances, and deserve to be whipped out of a religious assembly, to which they are a constant disgrace. There are some who have regularly attended a place of worship for seven years, twice a day, and yet have not heard one whole sermon in all the time. These dreamers are a constant distress to their preachers. In regard to their health, would any but a stupid man choose such a place to sleep in? In respect to their character, what can be said for him, who in his sleep makes mouths and wry faces, and exhibits strange postures ; and sometimes snorts, starts, and talks in his sleep? Where is his prudence, when he gives such occasion to malicious persons to suspect him of gluttony, |