Apparitions > Laird of Cool's ghost

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knowledge of these things might have been
easily attained.
Cool. They never properly rejected the
terms of salvation ; they never, strictly speak¬
ing, rejected Christ ; poor souls, they have as
great a liking both to him and heaven, as
their gross imaginations were capable of.
Impartial reason must make many allow¬
ances, as the stupidity of their parents want of
education, distance from people of good sense
and knowledge, and the uninterrupted ap¬
plication they were obliged to give to their
secular affairs for their daily bread, the im¬
pious treachery of their pastors, who per¬
suaded them that if they were of such a party
all was well; and many other considerations,
which 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 discouraged
and quite another thing to be persecuted with
all the power and rage of an incensed earthly
king. I assure you, men's Gees are not more
various and different in the world, than their
circumstances are after death.
Ogil. 1 am loath to believe all that you
have said at this time, Cool, (but I wall not
dispute those matters with you) because some
things you have advanced seem to contradict
the Scriptuies, which I shall always look upon
as the infallible truth of God. For 1 find,
in the parable of Dives and Lazarus, that.