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 Cool. You are miſtaken, for that queſtion I can anſwer, and after this you may underſtand it.

Ogil. Well then, Cool, have you never yet appeared before God, nor received any ſentence him as a Judge. Cool. Never yet.

Ogil. I know you was a ſcholar, Cool, and 'tis believed that there is a private  beſide the general at the great day; the  immediately after death  Upon this he interrupted me, arguing,

Cool. No ſuch thing, no ſuch thing! no trial till the great day. The heaven which good men after death, conſiſts only in ſerenity of  minds, and ſatisfaction of good conſciences,  the certain hopes they have of eternal joy,  that day ſhall come. The puniſhment or of the wicked immediately after death,  in the dreadful ſtings of an awakened, and the terrors of facing the great judge,  the ſenſible apprehenſions of eternal torments , and this bears ſtill a due proportion to  evils they did when living; ſo indeed the of ſome good folks differ but little in from what they enjoyed in the world, ſave  they are free from the body, and ſins and  that attend it: on the other hand, there  ſome who may be ſaid rather not to have been, than that they were wicked, while living;  ſtate is not eaſily diſtinguiſhed from that of  former, and under that claſs comes a great {{reconstruct|herd} of ſouls, a vaſt number of ignorant people,  have not much minded the affairs of eternity,  at the ſame time have lived in much , ignorance, and innocence.