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Cool. No sucli thing, no such tiling ! No
trial, no trial till the great day ! The heaven
which good men enjoy after death, consists
only in the serenity of their minds, and the
satisfaction of a good conscience, and the
certain hopes they have of 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 terrors effacing the great
Judge ! and the sensible apprehensions of
eternal torments ensuing ! And this bears still
a due proportion to the evils they did when
living. So indeed the state of some good folks
differ but little in happiness from what they
enjoyed in the world, save only that they are
free from the body, and the sins and sorrows
that attended it. On the other hand, there
are some who may be said rather not to have
been good, than that they are wicked ; while
living, their state is not so easily distinguished
from that of the former; and under that
class comes a great head of souls; a vast
number of ignorant people, who have not
much minded the affairs of eternity, but at
the same time have lived in much indolence,
ignorance and innocence.
Ogil. I always thought that their rejecting
the terms of salvation offered, was sufficient
ground for God to punish them with his
eternal displeasure ; and as to their ignorance,
that could never excuse them, since they
live in a place of the world, where the true
Cool. No sucli thing, no such tiling ! No
trial, no trial till the great day ! The heaven
which good men enjoy after death, consists
only in the serenity of their minds, and the
satisfaction of a good conscience, and the
certain hopes they have of 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 terrors effacing the great
Judge ! and the sensible apprehensions of
eternal torments ensuing ! And this bears still
a due proportion to the evils they did when
living. So indeed the state of some good folks
differ but little in happiness from what they
enjoyed in the world, save only that they are
free from the body, and the sins and sorrows
that attended it. On the other hand, there
are some who may be said rather not to have
been good, than that they are wicked ; while
living, their state is not so easily distinguished
from that of the former; and under that
class comes a great head of souls; a vast
number of ignorant people, who have not
much minded the affairs of eternity, but at
the same time have lived in much indolence,
ignorance and innocence.
Ogil. I always thought that their rejecting
the terms of salvation offered, was sufficient
ground for God to punish them with his
eternal displeasure ; and as to their ignorance,
that could never excuse them, since they
live in a place of the world, where the true
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| Description | Being a copy of several conferences and meetings that passed betwixt the Rev Mr Ogilvie, late minister of the Gospel at Innerwick in East Lothian and the ghost of Mr Maxwell, late Laird of Cool. As it was found in Mr. Ogilvie's closet after his death, very soon after these conferences. (Written by his own hand.). |
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| Description | Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides. |
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