Note (return) — Rev. ANDREW LEE, A.M. (continued 5)

But is not God grieved at the obstinacy of sinners? "When God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth—it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart." [97] Was he then unhappy? Departed saints may have similar sensations, whatever may be implied in them. The same objection may be made to the divine knowledge of mankind, as to that of the saints—We do not take it on us to explain either. The same may also be objected to supposing that the saints will be made acquainted with the decisions of the Judge at the great day—that they will then see any who were dear to them here, sent away with the workers of iniquity.