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 the one was inmediately after death carried up by angels into Abraham's bosom, and the other thurst down immediately to hell.

COOL. Excuse me, sir, that does not contradict one word that I have said, but you seem not to understand the parable, whose only end is to illustrate the truth, that at man may be very happy and flourishing in this world, and most wretched and miserable in the next; and that a man may be miserable in this world, and more happy and glorious in the next.

OGIL. Being so, Cool, I shall yield that point to you and pass to another, which has afforded me much speculation since our last encounter; and that is, How you came to know that I talked after the manner that I did concerning Mr Paton, on the first Sabbath of February last. Was you present with me, but invisible? He answered very haughtily, No, sir, I was not present myself. I answered, I would not have you angry, Cool; I proposed this question for my own satisfaction, but if you don't think proper to answer, let it pass. After he had paused, with his eyes on the ground, for three or four minutes of time at most, with some haste and seeming cheerfulness, says,

COOL. Well, sir, I will satisfy you in that point. You must know that there are sent from heaven, angels to guard and comfort and to do other special good services to good people, and even the spirits of good men