The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams, by Frank Seafield
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ISBN10: 1150956887
ISBN13: 9781150956881
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.18 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781150956881
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.18 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1865 Excerpt: ... A DREAM OF COMFORT. BISHOP HALL. 'My mother, Winifride, was a woman of rare sanctity. She was continually exercised with the affliction of a weak body, and oft of a wounded spirit, the agonies whereof, as she would oft recount with much passion, professing that the greatest bodily sicknesses were but flea-bites to those scorpions, so from them all at last she found a happy and comfortable deliverance, and that not without a more than ordinary hand of God. For on a time, being in great distress of conscience, she thought in her dream, there stood by her a grave personage, in the gown and other habits of a physician, who inquiring of her estate, and receiving a sad and querulous answer from her, took her by the hand, and bade her be of good comfort, for this should be the last fit that ever she should feel of this kind; whereto she seemed to answer, that upon that condition she could well be content for the time, with that, or any other torment. Reply was made to her, as she thought, with a redoubled assurance of that happy issue of this her last trial; whereat she began to conceive an unspeakable joy; which yet upon her awaking left her more disconsolate, as then conceiting her happiness imaginary, her misery real; when the very same day she was visited 160 A VERIFIED PREDICTION. by the reverend, and (in his time) famous divine, Mr. Anthony Gilby, under whose ministry she lived; who, upon the relation of this her pleasing vision, and the contrary effects it had in her, began to persuade her that dream was no other than Divine, and that she had good reason to think that gracious premonition was sent her from God Himself, who, though ordinarily He keeps the common road of His proceedings, yet sometimes in the distresses of His servants, He goes unusual ways to...