Chap. 3 3. An Expofition upon the Book, of Job. Verf. r 5. 285 nod) is farre from fleepe, furtheft of all from deep fleep. In both thefe degrees offleep, the Lord fpeakes byDreames, firít, in deepJicep ; Secondly, in flumbrings. Some conceive that Elihn intended by thefe different words, to let forth two fortsof dreams ; Firft, thole dreams which men have when extraordinary deep íleep falls upon them ; fuch as that fpoken of ( Gen: 2. a a.) God commanded a deep fleep to fall on. 4dam, when he woke the rib out of his fide and formed the woman. We read alto( Gen: i 5. i a. ) that adeep fleep fell on effbrahamwhen God revealed to him what íhould become of pofterity, and how they íhould be in Egypt, and there much opprefled foure hundred yeares, &c. It is faid all() ( i Sam: a6. a a.) Adeepfleep from.the Lordwas fallen upon them ; that is, up- on Saul, and his guards,who lay round about him. And that might be called a fleep from the Lord,bothbecaufe it was a fleepwhich the Lord lent, and becaufe it was an extream deep fleep. Se- con dly, there are dreams in ordinary fleep, or invery flumbrings or noddings upon the bed, we may cati them waking dreames. Thus Elihrs íheweth God taking feverall times or feafons for the revealing of himfelfe in dreams ; fornetimes in deep fleep, and often in the leafl and fliahteft fleeps, called flumbrings. I fhall not here infift upon or difcourfe the way of Gods mani- felling himfelfe to the Ancienrs,by dreams & vifions, but referre. the Reader to what bath already been doneupon the 4th Chap- ter at the a zth and a 3th verfes ; where Eliphaz, fpeaks almoft in the fame manner as Ehha here about vifions ; And, indeed there is a very great Content between their two parts in this booke, that ofElipbax;, and this ofElihu ; They werebothholyand pro- phetical! men; both of them had the fame defigne in fpeaking a- bout dreams and vifions namely, to convince and humble fob;` and both of them expreffe themfelves in terms of a very neere Cognation. So that if the reader pleafe to cónfult that place ( fob 4. a a, a 3. )- he will find thefe words farther cleared, as to the nature and feverall kinds of vifions. And if he turne to what hath been done uponthe r 4th verfe ofthe 7th Chapter, he may find the do6rine ofdreams further opened. Only let me adds here a note or two Firft, It bath beenthe life of God ¡o reveabehis msrnlby dreamt. And
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