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 Ogil.] This then is one of the queſtions you will not anſwer.

Cool.) You are ſtill 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 from him as a Judge?

Cool.) Never yet.

Ogil.] I know you were a ſcholar, Cool, and it is generally believed that there is a private judgement, beſides the general one at the great day, the farmer immediately after death.Upon this he interrupted my arguing.

Cool.). No ſuch thing! No ſuch thing! No trial till the great day. The heaven which good men enjoy after death, conſiſts only in the ſerenity of their minds, and ſatisfaction of a good conſcience, and the certain hopes they have for an eternal joy, when that day ſhall come. The puniſhment or hell of the wicked immediately after death, conſiſts in the dreadful ſtings of an awakened conſcience, and the terror of facing the great Judge, and the ſenſible apprehenſions of eternal torments enſuing; and this beats ſtill due proportion to the evils they did when living: So indeed, the ſtate of ſome good folks differs but little in happineſs from what they enjoy in the world; ſave only, that they are free from the body, and the ſins and ſorrows that tend