in general, or rather the state of a man not yet regenerated by the grace of GOD; who has not yet begun to live in CHRIST. For the man who has already received the grace of GOD, finds it indispensable to holiness to be always active in spiritual things, since he has to go on from strength to strength. But idleness, in this case, would hinder his progress in good: and what is not to advance towards perfection, but to go back? With godly men, however, even sleep is not inactive; since during the silence