Phænomenon of Dreaming. 201

na {‘ In the fortieth chapter of this Book he^tites thus. " The father of the faithful,, t an d first in the kingdom of God by cove-

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n ant, was Abraham. For with him wasthe covenant first made - wherein he ob-

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, "§ed himself, and his feed after him, toacknowledge and obey the commands°f God; not only such as he could takenotice of, (as moral laws) by the light ofnature; but also such as God should in aspecial manner deliver to him by dreams and

. visions" -And, having in a few words

^fisted, that there was no need of a parti-^ar contract, to add force to the obligation

of

Moral laws, he continues-

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, therefore the covenant which AbrahamMade with God, was to take for the com-, Mandment of God, that which in thelf name of God, was commanded him in a, c dream or vision ; and to deliver it to histt family, and cause them to observe thej ^Me." All that can be said to this, I think,’ that he who wrote thus, should not havev anced such an hypothesis, for solving the^PP e arance of dreaming in a mechanical way.^ , ere these dreams the motions only of externalJ e £ls zmprejjed on the senses, and continued

after