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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85424	The mystery of dreames, historically discoursed; or A treatise; wherein is clearly discovered, the secret yet certain good or evil, the inconsidered and yet assured truth or falsity, virtue or vanity, misery or mercy, of mens differing dreames. Their distinguishing characters: the divers cases, causes, concomitants, consequences, concerning mens inmost thoughts while asleep. With severall considerable questions, objections, and answers contained therein: and other profitable truths appertaining thereunto. Are from pertinent texts plainly and fully unfolded. / By Philip Goodwin preacher of the Gospel at Watford in Hartfordshire.	Goodwin, Philip, d. 1699.	1658 (1658)	Wing G1217; Thomason E1576_1; ESTC R200931	188,817	455

Body The certainty of Death and Judgment 1. A setled considering how excellent man is in soul Hence Bernard thus breaks out O my soul created after the Image of God redeemed with the blood of Christ adorned with the graces of the Spirit capable of the happiness of Heaven c. what hast thou to do with the flesh what hast thou to do night or day with the Devil yea the body of man is a brave and beautifull piece if we observe The Composition of it The Comparisons fr●m it How God hath made it How God doth use it The beauty of the body as it comes out of the hand of God we may gather from Eccles 12. 3 4 5. And as it falls into the hand of God again it abounds in beauty God makes it to be A Temple A Sample 1 Cor. 6. 19. Know ye not that your body is the Temple of the holy Ghost And 't is as a sample or pattern the Church of God the most glorious thing in the world is resembled by the body of man yea God borrowes similitudes from mans body to express Himself ascribing to Himself an Eye a Mouth a Hand c. God thus hath honoured the body This pondered may prove a means to preserve our souls and bodies from sinne-defilements 2. A setled considering how sure yea near death and judgment-day draws meditate much of deaths approach Thoughts of sinne may bring on death but thoughts of death will keep off sinne both asleep and awake thus die daily Let us also fix in our mindes the meditation of the day when the Lord shall come in the clouds to judgment We have heard of that saying of St. Jerom Whether I eat or drink whether I wake or sleep me thinks I hear that voice Arise ye dead and come to judgment Hence he had no room for a bad Dreame Bernard on the other side sadly of himself complains Alas what do I mean I eat I drink I play I sleep as if I had gone beyond death and passed over the day of judgment We are in danger to be sadly sinning when we are securely sleeping Such considerations will well setled prevent secure sleep and so arm against evil Dreames these will set the soul upon its watch-tower and while its vigilant it will not be peccant Thus much may suffice for antecedent duties The duties subsequent concern such sinfull Dreames in a double case In case we are not free from them In case from them we are free If by such Dreames we have been defiled our duty is Both to bewail the sinne that hath been with us in the night And to beware we no way encrease the sinne in the day 1. We must take to heart such night miscarriages Augustine in his confessions hereof makes sad complaints and so have others of Gods dear Saints Lament we must That the sinne hath been in us That we have been in the sinne That such a defiling sinne hath fallen upon us must be our grief that while we slept the enemy in our field hath sown such tares As that Mother comes with her complaint to Solomon 1 King 3. 20. While thine handmaid slept this woman came and laid her dead childe in my bosome So let a man make his moan to God O Lord while thy servant slept Satan came and laid this wicked Dreame in my minde But then that we have fallen in with such a sinne is matter of more mourning our corruptions have clapt in with Satans temptations our mindes have been complying our wills consenting fleshly desires raised carnall delights pleased O that that is most bitterly to be bewailed 2. We must take heed we do not in the day make the sinne much worse By mentall recalling of it By actual committing of it 1. Pleasingly to recall it in our minds will augment the sinne 'T is abominable for a man to communicate what communion he hath had with the Devil in the night as a Christian remembers what sweet communion his soul hath had with God in the night Psal 77. 6. says that holy man I call to remembrance my songs in the night That 's very good but for a carnal man to call to remembrance his sins in the night and to solace himself when awake with the renewed thoughts of what he had in his sleep is a sinne exceeding sinfull 2. Actually to fulfill it in deeds is very dangerous 'T is that the Devil indeed drives at to draw us to do when we are awake what we dreamt in our sleep For good things Satan is satisfied we should rest in the apparition and shew thereof and some slight imaginations thereupon to have no more but Dreames of grace and holiness Dreames of glory and happiness but he is not content that men should take up with imaginary supposals of sinne and some bare thoughts thereupon but he would have them to bring forth the further fruits thereof To have more then Dreames of sinne and wickedness of lasciviousness and wantonness more then Dreames of adultery f●rnication and uncleanness That which men think when they are asleep the Devil would have them act when they are awake If by such filthy Dreames we have not been defiled our duty is To be thankfull that God kept us in the night To be carefull in keeping to God in the day In giving thanks to God we have been so kept We must be Early thankfull Gladly thankfull 1. We must not delay our thankfullness Before the body be out of the bed let the heart be up with God yea let body and soul rise and render the Lord praise As Noah as soon as he was come safe out of the Ark Gen. 8. built an Altar and offered burnt offerings to God And the Lord smelled a sweet savour c. So as soon as ever we get safe off our beds offer upon the Altar Christ burnt-offerings of fervent praises unto God the Lord. 2. We must with joy enlarge our thankfullness In the morning when we apprehend what hazards our houses have escaped from fire or thieves in the night with great rejoycing we give glory to God when our selves have been delivered from the danger of these night-pollutions to God with great joy what glory ought we to give 'T is God that hath kept Satan and our sinfull souls asunder The Devil is like the Harlot that goes abroad in the dark and black night soliciting to bed-abominations Prov. 7. 9 10. And how oft would he prevail did not God prevent When the Egyptians pursued the Israelites God by a cloud and a pillar of fire was about his peoples camp that Pharaohs host could not come neer them all the night Exod. 14. 20. Thus God is about our beds and keeps Satan he cannot come neer us all the night O with what gladness of heart ought we to glorifie Gods holy Name 2. Care is required that we all the day keep close to God least we be worse

death as some have asserted considering himself should be thereby destroyed but the Dreame was Divine to withdraw Pilate from his sentence or to aggravate his sin O saies shee Have thou nothing to do against that just man for I have suffered many things in a Dream because of him In such Dreames sinfull men are meerly passive when others are active Dreams that have entered into gratious hearts with pleasure and delight have come into carnall hearts with trouble and pain they have taken such impressions as oppressions Now lastly The reasons for which good Dreames have been given in of God Why to naturall and sinfull men Why to regenerate and sanctified men First Into the minds of sinfull men God hath sent in such Dreames In relation unto others In relation unto themselves 1. 'T is certain God hath sometimes come unto bad men by Dreames for others sakes To restrain them from doing evill against others To encline them towards others to do them good When Laban pursued Jacob and purposed at least to plunder him of all he had Gen. 31. 24. God came to Laban the Syrian by night in a Dreame saying Take heed thou speak not to Jacob either good or evill This so bound up Laban that when he overtook Jacob he did him no hurt but shewed kindnesse to him made a covenant of peace with him and departed from him blessing him and his ver 55. 'T is written of Alexander the Jewes having denied him some help he was so enraged against them that he resolved to ruine them and accordingly with his conquering Army going against Jerusalem Jaddus the High Priest hearing thereof put on his Priestly attire met him in the way whom when Alexander saw he fell off his Horse and offered him peace telling his Nobles that God in a Dreame had shewe'd him the same Man so attired the Night before and so he departed with some expressions of bravery and bounty in obedience to that vision 2. 'T is sure God hath also come to Men bad by Dreames for their own sakes To prevent their sinnesull evil To promote their saving good When Abimelech King of Gerar had sent and took Sarah who was reported to him to be Abrahams sister into his house God admonished him by Night in a Dreame to forbear to take her to wife and to restore her unto Abraham whose wife she was Gen. 20. 2 3 6 7. Thus did the King escape that sad sinne of Adultery And thus hath God sought the salvation of the soules of some That Dream which Pilate's wife had the intent of it was not to deliver Christ from the death of the Cross for that was according to the determinate Counsell of God but as Theophlyact conceives it was to save the womans soul from everlasting death not so much for the clearing of Christ while he was at the barre as for the converting of the woman whose case was bad Secondly Into the minds of sanctified Men God hath sent in Dreames In reference unto others In reference unto themselves God into good Men hath given Dreames for others advantage thereby As to admonish others of evil where of they were in danger So to establish others in good wherein they did waver God hath caused Dreames in the mindes of his Sants that they might warn others of danger 'T is reported of Beza that in the Night having dreamt that Geneva was sadly surprized he pressed the Governours in the morning immediately to search whereupon a desperate plot against the place was discovered the perill prevented and the people preserved Yea and also 1. God hath brought Dreames into the mindes of his Saints that they might help others in doubts Mr Philpot the Martyr having over night received a Letter from his fellow-Prisoner wherein he desires his Judgement concerning the baptisme of Infants made this return Before says he in his Letter back I shew you what for it I have learned from Gods holy Word and the practice of the purest Churches I cannot but declare how the same Night musing upon your Letter I fell asleep and had such a Vision and Dreame which he relates and concludes This Dreame I take to be the working of Gods Spirit that I might the better content your request as he wrought in Peter to satisfie Cornelius Acts 5. 10. 2. God hath made good Men to receive such Dreames for their own advantage As to prepare them for evil which they were to sustain So to assure them of Good which they were to obtain 1. God by Dreames hath signified to his Saints what afflictions they should suffer that so they might the better prepare History reports of Policarpus who in Smyrna suffered martyrdome under Antonius the Emperour about a hundred seventy yeares after Christ that three dayes before he fell into his enemies hands sleeping upon his bed he dreamt that the bolster whereon his head lay was all on a flame and the other bed-cloaths burning about him whereupon when he awoke he told his friends God had declared that he must be burnt quick for Christ for which he much fitted himself and so it soon fell out 2. God by Dreames hath signified to his Saints what mercies they should receive that so he might strengthen their faith and also quicken their obedience Thus Jacob in his journey lying down upon a stone to sleep Gen. 28. 11 12 13. He Dreamed and behold a ladder set upon the earth and the top reached up to Heaven and behold the Angells of God ascending and descending on it And behold the Lord stood above it and said I am the Lord God of Abraham thy Father and the God of Isaac the land whereon thou lyest to thee will I give it and to thy seed And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed Behold I am with thee and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest and will bring thee again to this land and will not leave thee till I have done what I have said The Application to our selves concerning such Dreames now follow This referres to a two-fold case In case we have them not In case we have them Be we without these Dreams then let us observe The grounds why we should desire them The meanes how we may procure them Such Dreames from God are to be desired Because of the excellency that is in them Because of the commodity that is by them These Dreames are in themselves excellent because through them The Soule in sleeping-time is highly Imployed Sleeping-time by the soul is rarely Improved 1. The imployment of Mens soules in such Dreames is high and holy Mans soul we must observe it sleeps not as the body does for as it lives when the body dyes so it wakes when the body sleeps 'T is an Argument some bring to prove the Immortality of the soul that it does not die as