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Show Mr". ' 0f MAN. Cbapa. Eefore our eyes a long time after; and from being long and ve e‘ mently attent upon Geometricall Figures, a man {hall in the dark, (though awake) have the Imaoes of Lines, and Angles before his eyes: which kind of Fancy hath no particular name, as being a thing that doth not commonly fall into mens difcourfe . The imaginations of them that fleep , are thofe we call Dreams. And thei‘e alfo (as all other Imaginations) have been before , ei- thei'totally, or by parcells in the Senfc. And becaufe in fenfe, the Brain, and Nerves , which are the neceffary Organs of fenfe , are fobenummed in flee , as not eafily to be moved by the action of Externall Objeéts, t ere can happen in fleep, no Imagination; and therefore no Dreame , but what proceeds from the agitation of the inward parts of mans body; which inward parts, for the connex- ion they have with the Brayn, and other Organs, when they be diflempered, do keepthe fame in motion -,whereby the Imaginations there formerly made, appear-e as if a man were waking; faving that the Organs of Senfe being new benummed, fo as there {is no new object, which can mailer and obfcure them with a more viorous impreflion , a Dreame mull needs be more cleare , in hlence of fciife, than are our waking thoughts . And hencethis it cometh to paffe, that it is ahard matter , and by many thought impomble to diflinguifh exaétly between Senfe and For my part, when I confider, that in Dreames, Dreaming . I do not often, not conflantly think of the fame Perfons, Places , Objeéts, and Actions that I do waking; nor remember of coherent thoughts, Dreaming, as at Other f0 long a traync times; And becaufe waking I often obfetve the abfurdity of Dreames , but ne- ver dream of the abfurdities of my waking Thoughts; I am well fatisfied, that being awake , I know Idreame nor; though when I dreame,I think my felfe awake . And {eeing dreames are caufed inward parts ofthe Body 5 divers by the difiemper of fome of the diflempers mufi needs caufe diffe- rentDrcams._ And hence it is, that lying cold breedeth Dreams of Feare, and raifeth the thought and the Brain being reciprocal] : ) And that as ‘ Ang er caufet h heat in fome arts of the Body, when We are awa ke; heating ofthe fame parts caufeth Anger f0 when w e flee , the over ,and raifeth up in t e brain the Imagination of‘an Enemy. In the fame manner 5 as naturall kin dnefs, when we are awake caufeth defire 5 and defire ma orher parts of _. the _ body -, fo alto, to omuch hea kes heat in certain t in thofe art s, while wee fleep, raiieth in the brain an ima In iumme,our Dreams are the rev gination of fome kin nefs fnewn. The motion when we are awake, erfe of our waking Imaginations; beginning at one end -, and wh Dream, at another. en we The molt difficultdii‘cerning of a mans Dream, from his wakin thoughts, Chit/m; of MAN' ' mind. There be alfo other Ima inations that rife in men, :tfhtdiigh waking) from the great impreihgon made_in fenfe: A15 frsom azing upon the Sun, the imprefiion leaves an image of t e hun Aflu'lllo'u n l'uyimu, pant. vhen b fome acCident we obferve not that we have {Iliéoilgiiztliiclh igfegfi: to liapipen to a man full of fearfull thouglgts; and wlibfe confcience is much ti'gugled; and that fffl‘chizecthdthh: (:11: (:11: '~ , in to e or ‘uttiigo . ,' _ :hlzftuhrdfddgfhsih gig-£715. For he'that Ithketh pains, and induflripufly la es himfelf to ilcep, in cafe any uncouth and exorbitag‘tz (meg; €031]th unto him, cannot eafily think it other than a Dream} c reap of Marcus Brutus, (one that had his life given hlmhby ézzhrzz.cC[Lj.zi , and was alfo his favorite, and notwrthftanding murt ere 1111,) Im: at Philippz', the night before he gave bittell to flags/fag: 61:13,. it:: y fi 91 151:, faw a fearfull apparition, which is commonly re a.e as a viiion : but confide-ring the circumftances, one may ea 1 )u b5 ha e beenbutaihort Dream. For fittingin his tent, pen me an to bl dWltll the horrour of his tail] aét, it was not haid for him, hrgihbfniw in the cold, to dream of that which molt affrighted him ; which feaiye, as by degrees it made him'wake -, fo alfo it muff} needs make the Apparition by degrees to vanifh: And haVianno a urance " that he flept, he could have. no caufe to think itda .ifeam, orttfiltciy thinn but a Vifion. And'this is no very rare Accr entn. {preven {y thatzhe perfeetly awake, if they be timorous, and {upper itiousfi Iii (died with fearfull tales, and alone in the dark, are fiibieéfttto t Ieki : fancies {and believe they fee fpirits and dead mens G 10 s .wal "111D en'Church-yards -, whereas it is either their FanCy onely, 0; e. s t e hnavery of 'fuch perfons as make ufe of fuch luperftitiousk eare, to paflE diTgui'fcd in the night, to places they would nOt be nown to taunt . Trom this ignorance ‘of how to diflinguiih Dreams, and ophgif firong Fancies, from Viiion and‘Senie, did arife thefgreated 3‘: ms ‘the Rhligion of the Gentiles-in time pail, that wor pippe inionytha; Fawnes, Nymphs,and the like; and now adayesblt 1e op d of the . rude people have of Fayries, Ghofts, and G0 has, hgirwitchpower ofWitches. For as for Witches, I think-nott aht d f -. the craft is any reall power 3 but yetthat they are will};1ppm '16 ,cglwitll falfe beliefe they have, that they can-do fuch mifc ie 63-1932) a new their purpofe to do it it‘tPey C519: their ngcfbéelllrifzrifsmfihd walking " " ' : "ator eience. ‘ . , _ ‘ ghhgitlgfihlemrdphniohlof them has I think beenf on ‘péirpofe, eéthgif taught, or not confined, to keep in credit the ue off éhmfilmnicn 0411),; 1: Crofles, of holy Water, and other fuch inventions o Neverthelefle, there is no doubt,but God can make unnaturah 1 pp. ritions : But that he does it 10 often, as men need to feape lufc 1:: rings, more than they feare the flay, or change, of the couiflel of . lamBlE; which he alfo can flay, and change,is no pomt or Chri f1mb 11131. t evill men under pretext that God can do any thing, are ko o as. It: fay any rhino when it ferves their turn,though theyt 111:1 it :11"ny n is the part or a wife man,to believe them no further? anifi1D _t ie f0 . makes that which they fay, appear credible. If this upei itlisms eat of Spirits were taken away,and With it,_1'rognofliques frolilti reanlif, £11k Pi‘ophccicst and many other things depending t treoihmy |