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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25315	A discourse concerning the divine dreams mention'd in Scripture together with the marks and characters by which they might be distinguish'd from vain delusions : in a letter to Monsieur Gaches / by Moses Amyraldus ; translated out of French by Ja. Lowde ...; Discours sur les songes divins dont il est parlé dans l'Escriture. English	Amyraut, Moïse, 1596-1664.; Lowde, James.; Gaches, Raymond, d. 1668.	1676 (1676)	Wing A3034; ESTC R16142	63,942	221

Imprimatur Ab. Campion R mo D no Arch. Car. à Sacris Domest Feb. 12 ' 167● Ex AEdib Lamb. A DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE Divine Dreams MENTION'D IN SCRIPTURE TOGETHER With the Marks and Characters by which they might be distinguish'd from vain Delusions In a Letter to Monsieur Gaches by Moses Amyraldus Translated out of French by Ia. Lowde Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge LONDON Printed by A. C. for Walter Kettilby at the Bishops-head in S t Paul's Church-Yard 1676. TO THE Right HONOURABLE JOHN Earl of Bridgewater Viscount Brackley Baron of Elsemere Lord Lieutenant of the County of Bucks and one of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council MY LORD THE first Fruits by the Law of Moses were due to God yet is it no violation now of the Laws of heaven in some proportion to shew our just esteem of those who are so much like it here on earth Hence it is that I presume to Dedicate these my first endeavors of this kind to Your Lordships Patronage and Protection and I could wish that the first productions of Art and Study were like those of Nature that is the best and most perfect in their kind that so the Present might more resemble it's Patron I do not present this to Your Honor as if you stood in need of Translations for in this respect You perhaps are the most improper Person in the Kingdom to make such Dedications to being Your self so Great a Master not only of the French but also of the more Ancient and Learned Languages But I look upon my self under some obligation of justice to return that to Your acceptance which was the result of some few hours which I should have counted stoln from Your Lordships Service but that such is your Candour and benign Temper such Your great love and affection to all commendable Studies that You and they seem to have the same Ends and the same Interests thus what ever time is employ'd in them You are pleas'd to look upon it as spent in Your own Service But this is not all the right You may justly challenge to this Translation Your Title to it seems yet more particular wherein such was your Favour and Condescension that as it would be Ingratitude to conceal so would it be almost Arrogance to acknowledge them wherein pardon the pride of the expression I had the Honour to be instructed by Your Lordship in the French Tongue You being pleas'd not only to peruse but in many places to Correct it so that I cannot now so properly challenge any thing therein my own as the Imperfections And now I hope you will pardon this my innocent Ambition if I desire to publish my Gratitude and that sense of my Obligations which is too big to be confin'd in a private breast How acceptable this Treatise may be to the World I know not yet this I know that I should have sufficiently oblig'd the Age if in the Dedication I had given it Your Lordship's just Character this being the most probable way to provoke men to the love and imitation of Vertue not to represent it in Idea and Speculation only but as it appears both more amiable in it self and more prevalent on others when thus incorporated in the lives and practices of Noble Persons But this though a true and just Relation would be as uneasie for You to hear as it would be difficult yea above the power of my Pen to perform Thus among other things Your own Temper concurs in this to make You Heroically Vertuous that is a follower of Vertue merely for Vertues sake since Your modesty will not endure the common cheap Reward of a due Praise and just Commendation But yet I could wish that I had not so much to plead for the seasonableness of the Discourse in an Age where Infidelity on the one hand Fanatical Enthusiasm on the other seem to divide the greater part of the World where some men look upon all Divine Revelations to be mere Dreams others mistake their mere Dreams for Divine Revelations Now what more proper and seasonable in these circumstances then that which is the design of this Discourse that is to evidence the Grounds and Reasons why we receive those that are truly Divine and reject the vain pretences of others And to whom could the Dedication be more suitable then to one whose Principles and Practices at once confirm and adorn the Religion you profess whose well-settled judgment and understanding of Your Religion in general and Your great affection to the Church of England in particular render You equally distant from the Superstition of the Romanists and the Novelties of later Enthusiasts My Lord I shall not any further by a tedious address misemploy those precious minutes which are usually spent either in Your serious and private Studies or in more publick Employments I shall only beg that God would long continue You amongst us and bless Your endeavours in settling and securing the Kingdom by Your Counsel and supporting the Church by Your constant Affection which is the hearty Prayer of Your Humbly Devoted Servant Ja. Lowde THE PREFACE TO THE READER I Shall not go about to make any tedious Apologies for the publication of this Treatise being conscious to my self of the innocence of my intentions that however I may be mistaken in my apprehensions or have fail'd in my design yet I did intend herein not to offend but to serve thee for I am not of the temper of those who would rather commit a deliberate crime then want an occasion of Apologizing the reasons then inducing me hereunto were principally these two 1. Because those who have not stock enough of their own to trade withall are not altogether unserviceable to the Commonwealth by becoming Carriers and conveyers of other men's goods and Translations I conceive bear some resemblance hereunto and if it be for the benefit and advantage of a Kingdom to bring in the Riches of Forreign Countries then certainly can it not be disserviceable to the Commonwealth of Learning to make the works of other Nations intelligible to our own and whatever Law there may be in particular against other things of the French Nation yet there is none against the Importation of their Learning 2. This Treatise if we consider the whole Series and Method of it's mannagement seems a sufficient vindication of the sober use of Reason in matters of Religion if we reflect upon those natural and necessary deductions which the Learned Author makes from certain and undoubted Principles and those other rational motives of credibility which he makes use of to prove those dreams he there treats of to be truly Divine Yet not so as to exclude that secret sense and inward consciousness which was the immediate result of the Divine Impression made upon their minds by the Spirit of God especially in those dreams and visions where particular and personal commands were convey'd to any of his Servants as to Joseph to convey our