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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Vers. 15. In a dream, in a vision of the might, &c.
1The root of the word rendered a dream, signifieth that which is thick, gross or fat, and by a metaphor a dream, because dreams are naturally caused by gross and thick vapours, arising from the stomach & fuming up into the head. Sleep is caused immediately by vapours and dreams are our work in sleep. A dream is an Imagination which the mind frames and forms, or which is formed and framed in the mind while we sleep; or, A dream is the work of the soul, while the body is asleep. Sleep is the binding ⟨p. 281⟩up of the outward senses, hearing, seeing, feeling, &c. yet then the inward senses, fantasy and memory are at liberty and free to work. The fantasy is very quick and nimble, when the body lieth as a log and stirs not. The fantasy (as we say) builds Castles in the air, and makes strange Chimera's in the brain by day, much more by night. In Dreams, there is an image of things or persons represented to us. When Pharaoh dreamed, he saw seven lean kine, and seven thin ears, as also seven fat kine and seven full ears of corn. Jacob saw a ladder in his dream reaching up to heaven, and the Angels of God ascending and descending. Joseph saw his brethren's sheaves doing obeisance to his sheaf, he saw also the Sun and Moon and eleven Stars, doing obeisance to him. Nebuchadnezzar dreaming saw an Image with the head of gold, with shoulders and breast of silver, with belly and thighs of brass, and legs of Iron, &c. These dreamers had images as clearly represented to their minds, as any thing can be to the most waking and wakeful eye of the body. And though in many dreams there are no such formal similitudes presented to the mind, but only a voice heard speaking, yet nothing can be declared to us in a dream without forming in our mind some kind of likeness. When it is said that God came to Abimelech (Gen: 20. and to Laban Gen: 31.) and an Angel of the Lord to Joseph (Math: 1.) speaking to them in dreams, they had such things exhibited to and impressed upon them, as gave the former two assurance that God spake to them, and the third that he was spoken to by an Angel of God.