Fast asleep
He reigns therefore, although in a different way, yet as absolute in one land as in the other. He has the gay Italian unbeliever in his teeth as sure as the wild Tartar. But he is fast asleep in the mouth of the lion, who is too wise to wake him out of sleep. So he only plays with him for the present, and when he pleases swallows him up.
1771 text
5. *He reigns therefore, altho’ in a different way, yet as absolute in one land as in the other. He has the gay Italian infidel in his teeth, as sure as the wild Tartar. But he is fast asleep in the mouth of the lion, who is too wise to wake him out of sleep. So he only plays with him for the present, and when he pleases swallows him up.
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Sermon 38 in the 1771 Works. Mark 9:38-39.
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