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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63812	A treatise of dreams & visions wherein the causes, natures, and uses, of nocturnal representations, and the communications both of good and evil angels, as also departed souls, to mankind. Are theosophically unfolded; that is according to the Word of God, and the harmony of created beings. To which is added, a discourse of the causes, natures, and cure of phrensie, madness or distraction. By Tho. Tryon, student in physick.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1689 (1689)	Wing T3197A; ESTC R221812	87,971	320

continued unto and enjoyned by multitudes of holy pious and reserved Souls in all Age● since of which various Examples might be given from 〈◊〉 Histories I shall only cite one remarkable one out of the Book of M●rtyrs In Queen Maries days when the Prosecution was hot against the Pro●estants there was but one Congregation in all the City of London that kept it self int●●e and privately held Assemblies to which one Mr. Rough belonged as a Dea●on or Officer to eare for the poor and to that purpose had in his Custody a Roll wherein all the names belonging to the Congregation were entered it happened one night that Cuthbert Simpson Dreamed that Mr. Rough was taken and the Roll in his Pocket and then awaked and falling asleep again had the same Dream r●peated with which being much affected he gets up intending to go to Mr. Rough but before he got ready Mr. Rough came unto his Chamber to whom he told his Dream and desired him that he would some way dispose of that Catalogue that it might not be taken with him Rough reproved him for such a conceit telling him Dreams were but silly fancies and Christians ought not to regard them but Sympson upon whose Spirit it had made a greater impression adjured him in the Name of the Lord as he would answer the mischief which might befal the innocent People of God to mind what he said and convey away the Book so he consented and secured it and within two or three days was himself taken and had the book been found with him all the whole Congregation had been discovered and ruined if not lost their lives which by this providence was prevented Secondly Is there not as great need and occasion still for such spiritual 〈…〉 of mankind still continue in blindness and unbelief The 〈◊〉 and number of Profest 〈◊〉 is inconsiderable in respect of the vast numberless number of 〈◊〉 and Heathens besides most called Christians have more of the name then of the nature of that holy Religion The adorable Jehovah sent his well beloved and eternal Son our Saviour into the World to appease his wrath and to break down that irefull Partition Wall which separated man from the Peace of God and the God of Peace and to enlighten the Heathens and those that sat in darkness and the shadow of death and to reconcile man to his maker against whom he had rebelled and was become an Enemy not only to him but consequently to all goodness and vertue Now since divine Visions and Revelations by Dreams were so frequent before our Saviours incarnation why should we imagine that this most illustrious Light should put a total stop to all those holy celestial Communications As though the ever Blessed God that made all things in Heaven and Earth in concord and sympathy were not the same nor so kind to man as in former days who is certainly unalterably and always ready to draw near unto and hear all those that fear his Name But the true original reason or occasion why Visions useful Dreams and the Communications of good Angels are ceased to many nominal Christians is their infidelity and disobedience and not living in the Power of that pure Spirit of Light Love and Wisdom that they profess in name For alas What do names or formal empty professions and talk signifie in this particular the Lord accepts of no Worship but that only which is hearty viz. in Spirit and in Truth as the great Light of the World does testifie To shew that I assert no new or singular opinion in this poin● I shall here add the words of a most Learned and Reverend Author the famous Dr. Vsher Archbishop of Armaugh who in his Body of Divinity fol. 150 saith thus Doth man commit Sin in the Night when he Dreameth that is sometimes when he hath evil Dreams for of those the Author is speaking Yes surely saith this Learned and Holy man the Soul is never idle bu● when it thinketh not of Good it thinketh of Evil. And the Godly may mark that after they have had many Dreams of things 〈◊〉 their heart is in a measure wounded till they obtain Peace and Pardon from God. What use are we to make thereof to pray 〈◊〉 that God would sanctifie our corrupt Heart that it may be a Fountain of Holy and not Sinful thoughts and in the Night to commit our selves specially to God that because we having our Senses and Iudgment bound and silent are less able to resist and judge our sinful thoughts God would preserve us from them by his Grace And 2dly that we avoid all occasions thereof in the Day Thus far that Judicious Author If mankind suffer the fierce wild savage Spirit of Wrath Violence Oppression Intemperance and Uncleanness to reign in their Hearts and Souls then there is no doubt but all Illuminations true Dreams and divine Visions will cease in them and the Spirit of Error and Cruelty grow Strong and Powerfull These are things all sober serious well-minded Christians ought to consider and not to be lead away with Tradition Noises and Clamours for all such as shall adhere unto and regard the Voice of Wisdom that continually cries in the Gates of mans Microcosmical City and hereby have clensed themselves from Uncleanness both of Flesh and Spirit shall find the Inward and Spiritual Eye of their Understanding opened and having by obedience separated themselves from the giddy Croud of the Multitude and their pernitious Wayes they become Subjects of the coelestial Country and belong to the New-Ierusalem whose Gates stand open to them so that they are Fellow-Citizens with Saint Iohn in the Revelation where he saith The Gate of the Heavenly City was opened unto him on the Lords-Day that is the Divine Principle of Gods eternal Light and amiable Love disclosed its self in the Center of his Heart Now this was by a Divine Vision and the Eye of the mind that he saw the Heavenly Mysteries through the Outward Nature which is a true figure of the Inward because from thence it proceeds nor can any know this holy Sabbath or Lords Day out those that have retained the Counsel of the Voice of Wisdom and been true to he heavenly Power for unto them alone is granted the Key that opens the Gate of the Heavenly Ierusalem CHAP. XII The Causes why Dreams are always Represented us actually present As also some means tending to promote intellectual Communications The Excellency of Temperance and a Regular Diet and Sober Vertuous Life to conciliate and advance true significant and profitable Dreams and to make an honest useful improv●ment thereof THE Soul of man having a divine original being an Eye or Ray of the Eternal power and Heavenly Fire when loosened from the outward gross senses of the Elimental nature as in Dreams ●ees into the great Mystery of Eternity as into its Mother where there is neither Place nor Time but near and afar off is all one and the same For the Soul