zgg How Divine Warfhip SERM. thoughtful prayers, confifting of many words X. and little meaning, to dreams which come from a multitude of bufinefs, in the 3d verfe, and, again, he referreth to it in the 7th verfe, in the multitude of dreams, and many words, there are divers vanities. There is no appear- ance in our nature, however inexplicable in its caufe, more frequently the fubjelt of ob- fervation than dreaming ; and the fait is alto very well known, which the wife man ob- ferveth here concerning it, that it cometh through the multitude of bufinefs ; that which employeth our waking thoughts and cares, is very often the fubjelt of our re- veries in fleep. This, as well as other things in ourfelves which we are confcious of, plain- ly fheweth us, that there is a power of the mind, called the imagination, intirely diffe- rent from the underftanding, often very altive, and varioufly affeIting us with pleafure and pain, while the other is not exercifed at all; which will eafily appear to any one, who refleçteth on the fcenes formed by the fancy, particularly in fleep ; for he cannot but fee there was no ufe of judgment in them, no confederation of truth, and the difference of things, which is the proper office of judg- ment. The ideas which were originally pre- fented to the mind by external objelts, do not immediately perilla when the objelts are with-
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