Mace(i)
2 for you very well know, that the day of the Lord steals on like a thief in the night.
3 whilst they flatter themselves with peace and safety, destruction shall fall upon them, like the pangs of a woman in travail, and they shall not escape.
4 but you, my brethren, are too well inform'd to be surpriz'd by that day, as by a thief.
5 you inherit the advantages of meridian light: we are not involv'd in the obscurity of night.
6 therefore let us not sleep away our time like others, but be vigilant and temperate.
7 they that are sober take their rest in the night, whilst they that are sots, are drunk in the night: