Case 3 Unto this great prevalence and predominance of sin in the whole nation, there is added a strange and unspeakable security. The truth is, men were a little awakened for a while in the nation. When the judgments of God—the pestilence, the fire, the sword, and, the year after, another warning from heaven—were upon us, then there was a little awakening, like a man out of a deep sleep, who lifts up his head and rubs his eyes for a time.