An account of A Dream of the late
Dr Phillip Doddridge

After some conversation with Dr Clark of
St Alb[an]s who had been conversing in the
evening upon the nature of the seperate [or dead]
state & the probability that the scenes on which
the soul would enter on its first leaving the body
would have some resemblance to those with which
it had been conversent while on earth that it might
by Degrees be prepared for the more sublime happiness
of the Heavenly Kingdom, this & other conversation
of the same kind probably occasioned the following
Dream

The Doctor immagined
himself dangerously Ill at a friends House in London
& after lying in this state some hours he thought
his soul left the body & took its flight in some
kind of live Vehicle which though vary different
from the gross body it had just left was still
ordered to persue his course through the air
expecting some celestial Messenger to direct him
till he was at some distance from the city, when
turning back & viewing the town could not
forbear saying to himself, how vain & trifling
are those affairs in which the Inhabitiants of those
places are so eagerly employed Appeared to me a
seperate spirit = at length as he was still continuing
his progress & tho without any certain
directions yet easy & happy in his thoughts of
the universal providen[c]e & government of God
which extends alike to all [blank] worlds he
was met by one who told him he was sent to con-
duct him to the place appointed for his abode from
whom he considerd could be no other than an Angel
but as I remember he appeared in the form of an
Man they went on conversing together till they
came within sight of a large spacious building
which had the air of a palace upon his inquiring
what it was his guide told him it was the place
assigned for his residence at present, upon
which the Dr [blank] That he remembered he read
while on Earth that the eye had not seen nor the
ear heard nor the heart conceived what God had laid
up for his servants [1 Corinthians 2:9] whareas he could easily have
formed an idea of such a biuilding from others he
had seen though he acknowledged they were

An Account of a Dream of the late Dr Phillip Doddridge

After some conversation with Dr Clark of St Albans who had been conversing in the evening upon the nature of the seperate state & the probability that the scenes on which the soul would enter on its first leaving the body would have some resemblance to those with which it had been conversent while on earth that it might by Degrees be prepared for the more sublime happiness of the Heavenly Kingdom, this & other conversation of the same kind probably occasioned the following Dream

The Doctor immagined himself dangerously Ill at a friends House in London & after lying in this state some hours he thought his soul left the body & took its flight in some kind of live Vehicle which though vary different from the gross body it had just left was still ordered to persue his course through the air expecting some celestial Messenger to direct him till he was at some distance from the city, when turning back & viewing the town could not forbear saying to himself, how vain & trifling are those affairs in which the Inhabitants of those places are so eagerly employed appeared to me a seperate spirit = at length as he was still continuing his progress & tho without any certain directions yet easy & happy in his thoughts of the universal providence & government of God which extends alike to all [blank] worlds he was met by one who told him he was sent to conduct him to the place appointed for his abode from whom he considerd could be no other than an Angel but as I remember he appeared in the form of an Man they went on conversing together till they came within sight of a large spacious building which had the air of a palace upon his inquiring what it was his guide told him it was the place assigned for his residence at present, upon which the Dr [blank] That he remembered he read while on Earth that the eye had not seen nor the ear heard nor the heart conceived what God had laid up for his servants whareas he could easily have formed an idea of such a building from others he had seen though he acknowledged they were