is to be acceptably performed. 289 withdrawn ; they leave impreffions by which S E R Me they are afterwards revived, fometimes with- X. out our defign, or we can turn ourfelves to the review of them at pleafure. Thefe are to the intellectual faculty the materials of knowledge; by examining and comparing them together, it difcerneth their agreement and difagreement, or forms propofitions up- on which it judgeth, that they are true or falfe. They are alfo the materials which the fancy worketh upon ; it can form no fimple ideas, but diverfify, varioufly compound, and affociate, the notions which we have received. As every part of our conftitution manifefteth the wifdom and goodnefs of its author ; this fa- culty in particular affordeth elegant entertain- ment to the mind, and heighteneth the enjoy- ment of life. But it is under the direction and controul of a higher power ; and great caution is required that we be not milled by it, as too of- ten we are, when it forms agreeable fcenes, whereby we are diverted from ufing our under - flandings in a proper manner : We reft in them through inattention, without examin- ing, taking our meafures by, and founding our expectations upon them. Now, there is in this refpe& a refemblance between dreams and the prayers which Solomon here fpeaketh of; they are both of them the labour of the V o L. IV. U ima-
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