...he considered, that such as made a pious end, had plenty of grace stored up for them. Ti< therefore a holy -and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be freed from their sins. GOSPEL. John vi. 37. 40. AT that time : Jesus said to the multitude of the Jews...

...* The epitaph in question ran as follows: ' Spes mea Christns. Pray for the soul of J. Woolfrey. " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead." 2 Mac. xii. 46. J. VV. obiit 5 Jan. 1838. JEt. 50.' The judgment was delivered by the late Sir Herbert...

...Jerusalem that sacrifice might be offered for the slain, and it is recommended as a wholesome practice to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins. Now these two books of Maccabees were certainly held in great veneration by all antiquity; and,...

...that they, who had fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up for them. It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." * The Scriptural references for that place of departed spirits, where they are detained till...

...considered that they who had fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up finthem. It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins. COLLECT. Detamtlulycntiarittm. O God, the Tjord of mercy, give to the soul (mm/*) of thy Ke:...

...shortening the time of their being there. Thus, the Scripture expressly says, that" it is a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins," 2 Mac. xii. In their situation they can do nothing for themselves, but suffer till they have...

...of his soldiers, who had fallen in battle ; because, as the texts add, it is a holy and a salutary thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins, 2 Mac. xii. 46. At the same time I proved that the Book of Maccabees, here cited, is an integral...

...the former. Instead of the above, which is correctly genuine, they render it, " It is therefore an holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." Against all the rules of reason and logic, they would prove an universal custom from one particular...

...bow long wilt thoa not have mercy on Jerusalem, and on the cities of Juda ? (c) 2 Mai'h : xii. 46. It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins. III. [4]. The relics, or mortal remains of God's faithful servants, as also the images or pictures...

...offered for his soldiers slain in battle"; upon which the inspired writer concludes, " It is, therefore, a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." Now, " they claim a right of considering this book as canonical, because the Catholic Church...