...the saints in heaven have any cognisance directly of what is doing upon earth. Ecclesiastes ix. 5. " The living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten ; also their love,...

...them is calculated to produce sentiments of horror, and excite feelings of indignation and alarm. " The living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything." (Eccles. ix. 5.) And " they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image,...

...that is joined to all the living, there is hupe : for a living dog is better than a dead lion. 5 For nd under it, is turned up as it werp ony thing, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also (heir love,...

...stones, their state was in the spirit of error and whoredom ; and they were gone a whoring from God, Hos. iv. 12. And they that joined themselves to Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the 16S7] PEOPLE CA Is LEI) QUAKERS. 305 dead, provoked the Lord's anger, and brought the Lord's displeasure...

...joined to all ihe living there is hope: for a living do" is better than a clesid lion. o°For tlie ! much good, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also their...

...corpse or his name, after he is dead. I say it will follow, from what is observed, chapter ix. 5, 6, " The dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a portion forever in any thing that is done under the sun." Chapter in. 22, " There is nothing better,...

...thing under ihe sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry. For there is one event unto all : Ihe tainly and clear insight. From this yoke we cannot...free ourselves, but by ceasing lo be men ; and this But he who should repeat these words, with Ihis assurance, to an ignorant man in the hour of his temptation,...

...thoughts perish." — Psalm cxlvi. 4. Two favourite texts with all the materialists of ancient time. " The living know that they shall die;" but " the dead know not any thing." " Their love and their hatred, and their envy is now perished ; and their thoughts (purposes) are perished."...

...hope : for a living dog is better than a dead lion. 5 For the living know that they shall die : but 0 to weigh: d the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished...

...persons. But this would directly contradict the declaration of the wise man; (See Eccl. ix. 5:) " For the living know that they shall die ; but the dead know not anything." Divine revelation makes us acquainted with no sentient existence of man, after he dies,...