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PhœnoMBnon of Dreaming. 125k°dy can as little produce these visions nubileT e are awake , as while we sleep, or ratherS J so that an ObjeSlor seems to argue with^ 0r e disadvantage in bringing in this as ar^allel cafe , to shew that our dreams pro-c ^ed from a bodily distemper. But to ap-*.v the argument particularly: it followsr °m what has been said, that if a man,Un der an indisposition of body, from whatCa use soever it may arise, should see what0t her people about him do not see, and can-^ot see j if the object seen is such, as can-n °t be produced without a living sponta-ne °us cause; if he sees it with fright andre luctancy, and if it gives him uneasiness^ftd pain, so that the soul itself cannot be^his cause; provided, I say, he sees it so,soch, it follows from the reasoningsthove, that a living intelligent cause as cer-.tatnly tampers with his organ then i and^kes these impressions upon it, and main-/tains them there, notwithstanding the actionexternal objects upon it at the same time,,if the same thing happened to him in hisfleep only. If the thing seen be of that kind,hath all the conditions requisite to inferke conclusion concerning a vision seen in