John Trapp on Romans 13:11

Verſe 11. To awake out of ſleep] Whiles the Crocodile ſleepeth with open mouth, the Indian rat gets into his ſtomack, and eateth thorow his entrails. Whiles Iſhhoſheth ſlept upon his bed at noon, Baanah and Rechab took a way his head. Security uſhereth in deſtruction. Goe forth and ſhake your ſelves as Sampſon did, when the Philistims were upon him: leſt Satan ſerve you, at leaſt for your ſouls, as Captain Drake did the Spaniard at Taurapaſa in the Weſt-Indies for his treaſure; he found him ſleeping ſecurely on the ſhore, and by him thirteen bars of ſilver to the value of 400000 duckets,Co[illegible: 2 letters]dens Eliſa. fol. 422. which he commanded to be carried away, not ſo much as once waking the man. Or leſt Chriſt himſelf deal by us, as Epaminondas did by the watchman, whom he found aſleep: He thruſt him thorow with his ſword, and being blamed for ſo ſevere a fact, he replied, Talem eum reliqui, qualem inveni, I left him, as I found him.

For now is our ſalvation nearer] Stir up your ſelves therefore, and ſtrain toward the mark. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Heſych. Poliux l 3 [illegible: 1 letter] 30 There is a Greek word ſignifying the end of a race, which is derived of a word that ſignifieth to ſpur or prick forward. Surely, as they that run their horſes for a wager, ſpur hardeſt at the races end: ſo, ſith our ſalvation is nearer now then ever it was, therefore we ſhould run faſter now then ever we did.