636 Chap. 7. AnExpofitien open the Book. of J O B. Vert. I4.. king of the heart by godly fo crow ! fuch a breaking is upon me thorough the dreames which fall upon me, in, and break niyi fleep ; If I have any deep, it is terrifying, and not refrcfhing flee 6 , Thou skareff me with dreams. That word fprings from a per ono tote¡.fn root fignif7ing thick vapours ; becaufe sleep is caufed by thick fx v lroríbúr13 vapours afcending from the flomach to the braille, and clang up crafßr pis se- the fences ; dreames ufually come in that fleep, and the flronger nit fmnra qua and thicker the vapour is procuring sleep, the more we are fubjeet fomaia confo- to dream. untu . ilfoner flit Andterririeff me thorough vifions. In the fourth Chapter 1 fifiba, percent, had occalion to fpeake at large concerning vifions, therefore I flail baturbb erant not here inCal upitr that point, but referr the reader thither ; I rerricetvmen (hall onely fay thus much,that thcfe were not vifions as thofe be- ra,temure! fpe fore treated of, for the revelation ofany divine (inns, to enligh- rte! t`°'br`, ten the mind ofman, but only vifions of helli(h honour, to dar fmalocr, el,e1 ken and vex the mind of man. TheHebrew word fignihes to fee, nlio hujufmodi whence the ancient prophets were called. (Chozim) *Seers, Our ®damrnepro- englifh word Gaze hath near affinity with it. And we call Star= (orate, guar+ prophets ( who pretend skill in preditions, from the the vifions ar' ipfe Iobfsbi of the Heavens )Star-gazers Deoinífferir, Gfear ®a i . Jobhad both dreamcs and vifions, every for in dreame there is tot 7 e.31. fomewhat ofa vifion ; There are many vifions without a dreame, 11111'0 but there cannot be a dreamwithout a vifion ; An image or fmi- I radice i'I1n litude, is alwaies reprefented to, or formed in the fancy, or elfe Hinrprophet` there can be no dreame. Jacob dreamed t Gen. aS 'I2.) anal be bold oho;imviden ladderfor upon the earth, and the top of it reached to Heaven, Ktdií?i. The vifion here fpoken of,was(Iconceive) the vifion ofhis dream, though fume underhand it of dayor waking vifion. There is a two-fold caufe ofdreams ;- There is an inward cauf and an outward caufe, And The inward caufeofdreams is two- fold:. r The accidental motions of the fa'ncie,. of which a man can give no reafon from any precedent agitations of mind os. body. a,. The titled natural, temperament and conflitution of the body. Theexternal or outward caufes, are ufually. according to the objetswith which, or about which we are converfant in the. (daytime, the imprcilions of thefc kept in the fancic, are formed into:
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