336 The soul necessarily living)

being kept from rustling in too suddenlyAnd since this happens at any time indifJe-*rently, it is at least a probable argument*and repeated experiment, as it were, whichwhen duly made, always succeeds, and (hew®that the matter of fact is probably as thosephilosophers suppose it (x)<

XXIV. Though the point were not to bsaccurately determined on any side; probabilityinclines most to the incessant action and pet*ception of the soul, even in this state. Theseis nothing more common than to rcmembeka scene of vision, which we have had in steep*some considerable time after, from some'thing that then happens to ourselves or others }and which, without this occasion given se

(z ) Mr. Locke doth not represent the objection rig^in his Self. 14. cb. 1. b. 2. It appears from this, th^it is not only not impossible, but easy, to forget on befoAawakened, what we were dreaming the minute before'And due care being taken, it is certainly also not imp 01fible to observe it in many cases. A very remarkable A uthor, writing on this subject, hath these words. IfaPPVjthe soul is never totally inactive. 1 never awaked, fi nCt ^had the use of my memory, but I found myself cotni n £es a dream. And I suppose they that think they dreamthink so , because they forget their dreams. M.his defence of the soul’s immortality. ^