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 God, who is pure and perfect Reaſon itſelf, will not overlook: Theſe are not ſo much under the load of divine diſpleaſure, as they are out of his grace and favour; and you know it is one thing to be diſcovered, and quite another thing to be perſecuted with all the power and rage of an incenſed earthly king. I aſſure you, mens' faces are not more various and different in the world, than their circumſtances after death.

Ogil.] I am loath to believe all that you have ſaid at this time, Cool, (but I will not diſpute thoſe matters with you) becauſe ſome things you have advanced, ſeem to contradict the ſcriptures, which I ſhall always look upon, to be the infallible truth of God; for I find in the parable of Dives and Lazarus, that the one was, immediatly after death, carried up by the angels into Abraham's boſom, and the other immediately thruſt down 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 a 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 glorious and happy in the next.

Ogil.] Be it ſo, Cool, I ſhall yield that point to you, and ſhall paſs to another which