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Poiver not abfolute or unlimited. — 6'/</.7r Sleeping Phaiitafms, as 

 dl/iingni/hed from the Operatioyis of our Intelled: in Sleep. — Theft 

 likeiv'tfe under ihe Influence of the Habit of the Body. — Of the Phan- 

 tafms in our Sleep confidered as diflinci ft orn our Reafonings at that 

 Time. — Such Phantafms mufi neceffarily exift. — Confequences of our 

 Dreams being the Operation of 02ir Phantafia, and not our \n\.t\- 

 ItQ.. — The World in our Phantafu very much finer than the Natural 

 World. — OftbeT>rt2im^ ij/'Poets— o/'Philofophers. — Of the Dreams 

 of the wicked. — Thefe a great addition to their Mtfery. — The 

 Dreams of the generality of Men, betivixt thefe txvo, neither happy 

 nor miferable. — No Order or Regularity in the Phantafms of a vul- 

 gar Marty fleeping or waking. — Otherivife in the Brute and the 

 perfe(9: Man. — Baxter's Account of the Origin o/" Dreams refuted. — 

 0/^ Prophetic Dreams. — ObjeSlions to Synefius's Syflem concerning 

 them. — All Prophetic Dreams plain and direSl^ and proceeding 

 from Minds yap^n'or to ours. — Such Minds may cojnmunicate ivith 

 ourst though embodied. — The Revelation by Dreams in one of tnvo 

 Ways. — FaSls concerning Dreams — Particular Account of the 

 l!)reams o/*Ariftides^«n«^ 13 Tears; — Cured of a Difeafejhat lafl^ 

 edfo longy by Advice that he got in DTeams.— Delivered fro?n other 

 Dangers in that Way. — Nothing incredible in the Narrative of A- 

 riftides.— iZ^^wjybr believing it to be true.—Obje^ions anfivered, 

 to theTeflimony o/'Ariftides. — The authority o/"Synefius in favour of 

 Dreams. — His ivhole Life condu6led by them. — Of the Final Caufes 

 o/'Dreams. — The Philojophy ^Human Nature v^ry imperfe6l ivith- 

 out the knoivledge of that Caufe. — That Cau/e the Happinefs of Scn- 

 fitive Intelligent Beings during their -whole Lives. — The virtuous 

 happy in that Way^ as the vicious are miferable. — Another End of 



Dreaming, to convince us that ive are to exifl in a Future State. 



The Final Caufe of Supernatural and Prophetic Dreams is the Direc- 

 tion of Human Life, "which othervuife cannot be properly dire£ied, 



TH E phaenomena of Dreaming and Night- walking, of which I 

 have fpoken in the preceding Chapter, being fo curious, and as 

 the beft way we can judge of the operations of our Mind in a fepa- 



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