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our dreams, will thus appear sufficiently* a ken off, if what hath been said in severalP ar ts above be here remembered. For, first-,these scenes are only inconsistent, considered''fith respect to objects that really exist; but*ot absolutely contradictory, as hath beenthewn just before. Secondly, They are notthe work of the foul itself, but involuntarily°btruded upon it; and it is as passive, andmuch under a necessity of beholding them,as of beholding the greatest beauties in theCs eation. Thirdly, It hath been shewn not°uly convenient, but even necessary, upon thea ccount of the body, that the region of me-mory should be covered up in sleep, so thatthese objects, though fantastical, must ap-

istore absurd to ascribe these effects to the very firstCause ? And yet there is a plain necessity of falling in-to this absurdity, without allowing a cause of a diffe—re nt nature. Men do not consider that by denyingkcondary and imperfect causes, they load the perfect-E of Beings with all that is mean and unworthy ."-she truth is, they have not been accustomed tor-b'mlc any cause at all necessary ; and therefore reckona ^an extremely unreasonable to pretend to insist onnecessity of a cause to produce an effect ; or ofa d:ffer en t cause to produce an effect of quite an op-posite nature.

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