Pkœnomenon of Dreaming* 173* , ls true, we are sometimes insulted withillusions: but we are at other times^tisied by more friendly powers. It is^ e asant to think that infinite goodness rulesall- this is a rational security. Were. ere no other thing, the discovery itself, S ^orth all the pain We suffer. This ap-^ ar ance is offered to us as a counterpartQead matter. I cannot repeat it too oft-, \ Every thing is best as God hath orderedNothing so ordered is void of instruction,ho that is rational would chuse to be with-^ 1 these intimations of an after-existence?

to return and shew other reasons, whyr scenes offered may be wild and inco-

^rent.

XL, VII. The indisposition of the body may^^der the perfeBion and consstency of the5 e sees designed. For, since these Beings^ ^diately affect the organ, and by it thej » some indispositions of the organ must.dispose it for their designs, and mar theinsistency of their schemes. We see an^/^sod organ often hinders real external, J e cts from raising the fame sensations ine soul. Some indispositions of the head so

affect