Chap, 3 3, An Expofitiorn upon the BoeíLof J o s. Verf. i 5. up of the outward fences, hearing,feeing, feeling, &c. yet then the inward fences,phantafie andmemory are at liberty and free to worke. The phantafie is very quick and nimble, when the body lieth as a logge and ftirres not. The phantafie (aswe fay) builds Cailles in the ayre, and makes ftrange Chimera's in the brameby _ ,t day, much more bynight. In Dreams, there is an imageof things or perfons reprefented CO us. WhenPloaroah dreamed, hejawfe- ven leankne, and leven thin ears, as al fofevenfat kne and liven'' full ears of corn. 3acob law a ladder in his dreame reaching up to heaven, and the-Angels- - -of God afcending and defcending. fojeph f «hisbrethrens fheaves `doingobeyfance to his fheafe, heía*alfo the Sun and Moone and ehwen Surs, doingobey- fame to him. Nebuchadnezzar dreamingfaw an Image with the headofgold, with shoulders andbreaft offtiver , with belly and thighs of brafs, and leggs of Iron, arc: Thefe dreamershad ima- ges as cleàrely reprefented to their mindest as any thing can be to the molt waking and wakeful! eyeof thebody. And though in many dreams there are no fach formali limilitudes prelented to the mind, but onlyavoyce heard fpeaking,yet nothingcanbe de- clared to us in a dreame without forming in our mind force kind of likeneffe. When it is fayd that God came to Abimelech (gen.. 20. and to Laban Gen: 31. ) and anAngel of the Lord to Jojeph ( Math: a. ) fpeaking to them indreames , they had finch things exhibited to and impreffed upon them, as gave the former two affurance that God fpake to them, and the thirdthat he was fpoken to by an Angel of God. Further, We may diftinguil1a of dreames; Firft, force are meere naturali dreames; and they arife foure wayes; Firfl, from the temperature of the body , Melanchol`ly and flegtnaticke perfons, have theirfpeciall dreames , and fo have men of a Tan- ("uine and of a cholericke compleótion. The firff encline to dreame of fad, thefecondof fottifh, the third of pleafant things, and the Taft of wrathfull wranglings and contendings. Secondly, Natural! dreames are caufedby the diet or food which we dare, fpeciall meate inclining to fpeciall thoughts and imaginations. Thirdly, Meerenatnrall dreams flow from thebuifinefs or fpeci- all worke wherein we have been ingaged in the day ; as Solomon fpeakes ( &clef 5. 3. ) a dreame cometh thorow the multitude o f buifinefs ; that is, aman dreams at night ofwhat he bath been do- Oo ing 281
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