Dreams: The Ancients: Put Great Faith In

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Judges 7:15
And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD has delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
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Examples from Church History, Confirming the Words of Moses...
... like that evil prophet or dreamer of dreams whom Moses ... was harried from place to
place till death put an end ... together many notices of him left by the ancients. ...
/.../the commonitory of vincent of lerins/chapter xi examples from church.htm

The Call of Abraham
... The ancients pictured Mercury with wings upon its heels, and surely ... We sometimes
put blinkers upon horses that they may not see too ... His very dreams were blessed ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/the call of abraham.htm

Of Evil Angels
... are left by the wisest of the ancients, or given ... has a hand also in those terrifying
dreams which many ... power, and subtlety of your great adversary, put on the ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 72 of evil angels.htm

Funeral Oration on the Great S. Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea in ...
... of famine, turning to account the dreams of others ... with this, he summoned him, and
put him on ... the Bishops, and their allies, which involved great disgrace, and ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/oration xliii funeral oration on.htm

Paracelsus {13}
... self-conceit, rash contempt of the ancients, violent abuse of ... They put the dreams
of the Neoplatonists, Iamblicus ... spirits, in the significance of dreams, in the ...
/.../kingsley/historical lectures and essays/paracelsus 13.htm

A Mystery! Saints Sorrowing and Jesus Glad!
... not "Thus saith Nathan," or "Thus do the ancients say," but ... possible that there should
be a hook put into the ... he should not send me visions, or dreams, or even ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 10 1864/a mystery saints sorrowing and.htm

Of Immediate Revelation.
... people were prophets, and that he would put his Spirit ... hearts, assuring them that
the voices, dreams, and visions ... the examples of that of the ancients, or to ...
/.../proposition ii of immediate revelation.htm

The Authority and Utility of the Scriptures
... ask, How they did know that their dreams or visions ... and over weary the world to put
them in ... the Spirit's teaching become wiser than their ancients, than their ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/lecture iii the authority and.htm

Of the Popish Mass. How it not Only Profanes, but Annihilates the ...
... of gifts for the adoration of God"dreams and visions ... aim of the mass but just to
put Christ again ... here obtrude concise sentences of the ancients, and contend ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 18 of the popish.htm

Matt. I. 17
... in Babylon, what befell touching the furnace and the dreams. ... It being the way of
the ancients for the most ... of the mysteries, and see the one sort put out, the ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily iv matt i 17.htm

Subtopics

Dreams

Dreams: Enemies of the Church

Dreams: Excess of Business Frequently Leads To

Dreams: False Prophets: Condemned for Pretending To

Dreams: False Prophets: Not to be Regarded In

Dreams: False Prophets: Pretended To

Dreams: God the Only Interpreter of

Dreams: God's Will often Revealed In

Dreams: Impure Imaginations

Dreams: Mentioned in Scripture of Abimelech

Dreams: Mentioned in Scripture of Daniel