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could red ore the fouls truly to their bodies, muft ffirft know what is the pro- per nature of the foul from whence it went forth, with how many and how great degrees of perfection it is replenifhed, with what intelligence it is itrengthened, by what means diffufed into the body, by what harmony it ffiall be compacted with it, what affinity it hath with God, with the intelligences, with the heavens, elements, and all other things, whofe image and refem- blance it holds. To conclude, by what influences the body may be knit together again for the raffing of the dead, requires all thefe things which belong not to men, but to God only, and to whom he will communicate them.
CHAP. XX.
OF PROPHETICAL DREAMS.
I CALL that a dream which proceeds either from the fpirit of the phan- tafy and intelleCf united together, or by the illuftration of the agent intel- lect above our fouls, or by the true revelation of fome divine power in a quiet and purified mind for by this our foul receives true oracles, and abundantly yields prophecies to us ; for in dreams we feem both to afk queffions, and learn to find them out ; alfo many doubtful things, many policies, many things unknown, unwifhed for, and never attempted by our minds, are manifefted to us in dreams : alfo the reprefentation of things unknown, and unknown places, appear to us ; and the images of men, both alive and dead, and of things to come, are foretold ; and alfo things which at any time have hap- pened are revealed, which we know not by any report. And thefe dreams need not any art of interpretation, as thofe of which we have before fpoken, which belong to divination, not to foreknowledge j and it comes to pafs that diey who fee dreams, for the mod part, underftand them not : for as to fee
dreams