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on spirit, since they so affect these organ 5 ’that they affect the soul, in the manner b/them designed. They must have an in-tuition of the secrets of material nature, t0us inscrutable in our present state j and kno^the occult methods which the God of natu f6hath instituted, by which the nerves aff<^

terial action the cause of dreaming; and therefore ^the organ is primarily affected. And then the masts'^of our reminiscence of dreams; we remember th^^when awakened, by the. help of those impressions’just as we do other things: a man’s face, for instant’is the fame way remembered in both cafes, and lea^the fame impressions. Lastly , that the foul should ^directly affected by these spirits, and the impression 5by which we remember, reflected back by it on ^sensory, recedes farther from our philosophy, and m airner of conception, and the method of nature, wh>^God hath instituted, which is the very reverse of tbi S *Yet if any should contend, that this last method is ^true one ; it would rather heighten, than dimin ^ 1the wonderful power and knowledge of these being 5 ’that they should effect the fame things, by a contra 1 ?method to that which the God of nature hathluted, and more strongly prove all that iis infersin this whole section. To grant that the matter of $sensory is not first and direSily aSted upon, would be' a Js er t 3 I thinks instead of denying, an immaterialof dreams.

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