On dreams, in their mental and moral aspects, as affording auxiliary arguments for the existence of spirit, for a 'separate state' and for a particular Providence. In two essays / by John Sheppard.

  • Sheppard, John, 1940-2009.
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1847
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    SECTION III. DREAMS RECORDED IN SCRIPTURE AS SENT OF GOD. Declarations as to true and false dreams, pp. 101, 102. Classes and uses of the true, 102—110, viz.— I. Protection of God’s servants—Abimelech—Laban—Magi, p. 102. II. Encouragement of good men—Jacob—Pharaoh’s house- hold—The Midianite, 103, 104. Solomon-St. PaulatTroas— Judas lilaccabmus, 104. III. Impressing reverence for the true God—Pharaoh— Nebuchadnezzar. IV. Distinctly prophetic—Joseph’s, of the sheaves—Abram’s, of his posterity—Daniel’s visions—Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, 105, 106. V. Solemn impression of truth—Eliphaz—Elihu, 106, 107. Such dreams were “ visions’’—the terms often synonjunous, 108. Dreams of Daniel, 108. Their plurality of uses, 109. Sent of God, 110,—or let unbelievers explain them, ibid. Dream of Joseph—of the wife of Pilate, ibid. SECTION IV. DREAMS RECORDED IN ANCIENT SECULAR HISTORY. Several mentioned in Scripture were sent to heathens—as Abimelech — Laban — Pharaoh — N ebuchadnezzar — Pilate’s wife, p. 111. Ultimate object appears to have been the impressing Jehovah’s attributes, 112. Some sort of theism among heathens—But polytheism often combined with virtual atheism, 113. Plato atheist—Hebrews known to be mono- theists, ibid. Jews and proselytes many, through all lands, 114. Remarkable dreams were related of eminent persons, 115, 116. Objection, “that they fostered idolatry—Juno Sospita— Goblet of Hercules, 116. Some paganism better than atheism —Dr. Jortin —Dr.Parr—Bayle, 117. Death of Lucretius, 117. Divine dreams might amend atheistic paganism, 117, 118. Crcesus and Atys, 118. Alexander, concerning Ptolemy, 119. Cyrus in his last days, 120. Socrates in prison—Simonides, 121, 122. Cicero, on his own dream of Marius, 122. On the whole, theism was thus aided, 123. Arcadians, 124. Credulity may be imputed—But credible because useful, 125.