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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

four Crowns they might hereupon go and make this impression in the Imagination of this great Person However I do not see in this Dream any the least Character which doth necessarily oblige us to refer it to evil Angels no more then briefly to mention it that of Calpurnia the wife of Caesar who the night immediately before the death of her husband dream'd that she saw one run him through with a Sword in the Senate though the relation which she made and the prayers by which she endeavour'd to divert him from the Senate that day prov'd all ineffectual but good Angels may give us good advertisements though we do not follow their advice and this is a testimony of the care they have for the conservation of the life of Princes as the neglect thereof is a proof of the imprudence of those who are concern'd therein It is not related to us in Scripture what was the dream of Pilate's wife when she sent to pray him not to have any thing to do in the death of our Lord Christ however it was it seems to have come from the impression of a good Angel though Pilate did not submit thereunto However it was sufficient for the Angel in this case to have caus'd his wife thus to give testimony to the Innocence of our Saviour However I say it was for I would not make it an Article of Faith and every one here may use the liberty of his own judgment perhaps this was done to distinguish betwixt those Dreams which Angels cause in our Imaginations by the express Command of God and those which proceed from their operation by bare permission those ought to be more powerful and efficacious for as much as they are intended for the execution of some Design which God hath purposed with himself and therefore 't is necessary that he so far dispose the understanding of those whom these visions concern that they defer so much to them as is necessary to bring about the Design but these coming only from the good Inclinations of Angels which God suffers them to follow and to discover on such and such occasions it is of no great importance though they do not produce the effect which their Authors design'd and it is sufficient satisfaction to them that they have shown that good will which they have for men and especially for those who are eminent in vertue or dignity CHAP. III. Of Divine Dreams AS for Divine Dreams they are also of two sorts the one contains future things under AEnigmatical and Mysterious Representations the other are much more plain and naked there are very remarkable Examples of the first sort in the History of Ioseph as well in those which concern'd himself to foretel his own grandeur as in those of Pharaoh to forewarn him of the seven years of plenty and seven others of dearth The Image of Nabuchodonosor is yet more remarkable as the stone cut without hands which from small beginnings came to be a great mountain and fill'd all the World There are Examples of the other kind in the History of the birth of our Saviour as well those which were sent to the wise men to warn them to return some other way then where Herod did expect them as in those by which Ioseph was commanded to carry Christ into Egypt and to bring him back again in due time As for Iacob's vision which was convey'd to him in a Dream when he went into Padan-Aram it was compounded of both the sorts for the Ladder upon which the Angels did ascend and descend had without doubt a mysterious signification which related to Christ but the words which he heard contain'd the promises plain and intelligible which were not wrap'd up in the vail of dark and mysterious representations Now concerning these and all other Divine Dreams in general we may make these three Enquiries 1. Why God hath sometimes reveal'd himself in Dreams to his Servants 2. How they could certainly know that those Dreams had God for their Author and that they were not vain delusions 3. Whether this way of Revelation by Dreams be yet practis'd and whether God doth still make use of it under the Dispensation of the Gospel As for the first of these questions the Apostle tells us That God at divers times and in sundry manners spoke of old to the fathers by the Prophets but hath now in these last days spoke unto us by his Son where he opposes the dispensation of the Son to the former of Law in three things 1. That God formerly spoke to the Fathers by the Prophets but hath now spoke to us by his Son 2. This he did at divers times that is he reveal'd the knowledge of himself by degrees and as it were by parcels adding one light to another successively whereas he has now reveal'd to us all at once so much of his truth as he design'd us to know even to the end of the world 3. He now only reveals himself in one way viz. By the preaching of the Gospel whereas then he did it in divers manners And these divers manners may refer to those several kinds of faculties which as I said before we make use of for the getting and preserving of knowledge viz. The External Senses the Internal and the Vnderstanding As for the External God makes little use of three of them for this end viz. Touching Smelling and Tasting but doth frequently employ the other two for he hath been presented visibly to our eyes as well in humane appearance as to Abraham and Manoe and to some others as in other shapes as to Moses in the burning Bush And as for hearing he hath often caus'd voices to be heard from heaven as by Abraham and also by Moses in the Bush and in many other instances As for the Internal Senses he employs them both waking and sleeping 1. Waking by Extasies which he hath sometimes sent to his Servants for then he acted in such manner upon their Imagination by that Power and Vertue which he there display'd and made so great and so powerful an abstraction of their souls from their External Senses that their functions did altogether cease though they were not then asleep and yet in the mean time he Imprinted in their phansie the Images of Extraordinary and Admirable things and made them inwardly to understand the voice which gave them either some Instruction or Command We see a famous Example hereof in S. Peter when he saw the sheet descending from heaven and heard the voice Kill and eat for he was then in an Extasie or Trance and the things which S. Iohn relates to us in his Revelation were thus convey'd to him 2. In sleep by dreams such as I have already mention'd and others of the like nature and there is little difference betwixt Extasies and Dreams only that though in both there was a Cessation of the Functions of the bodily senses yet in an Extasie it was not altogether so entire and absolute as