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case, is to misapply learning. Atheism couldnever otherwise have commenced. As hasbeen said in a like case before, when speak-ing of a stone’s falling down to the Earth ;if a man dreamt only but once a year, howmuck more would the rare phænomenon beattended to ? The night would be expectedwith impatience, and all the circumstancesmarked with care. With how much moresolicitude, may we think, do those, uponwhom the sun rises after some months ab-sence, expect the glorious fight , than weupon whom it rises once in twenty fourhours, who neither regard the rising or set-ting of it ? But is there any reason for this ?

X. The instance above, of a man with adrawn sword, &c. which I have here pitchedupon, and argued from, is plain and sim-ple, and hath nothing in it extraordinary.Whereas almost every man’s own experiencewill suggest to him, or his suture observationwill soon furnish him with examples, ofseeing in his sleep more variety of circum-stances, and a longer series of action than ishere mentioned. And observation and ex-perience, with reflexion on the particulars,

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