 | Joseph Nightingale - 1812 - 588 páginas
...Jerusalem that sacrifice might be offered for the Main, 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 iu great veneration by all antiquity ; and, as... | |
 | 1814 - 804 páginas
...the Titular Bishop: — "To the Clergy and Faithful of the Diocese of Clonfert. " It is a holy and wholesome thought to Pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." — Macab. xii. 46. " Beloved Christians, — It is an article of Catholic belief that the souls of... | |
 | John Bell - 1814 - 420 páginas
...formal opposition to what we read in the second book of Machabees (c. xii. v. 46.) It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins. Protestants indeed• have endeavoured to evade the force of this scriptural text, by denying the second... | |
 | Timothy Alden - 1814 - 306 páginas
...expired, tuesday, tlie 2 of April, 1811, aged 63 years. Machab. lib. nv 46. It is therefore an holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins. PHILADELPHIA, PEN. 9T2. Note. — The following paragraph is from the church records of the learned... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1815 - 738 páginas
...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. GOSPEL. John vi. 37. 49. At that time: Jesus said to the multitude of the Jews: All that the Father... | |
 | John Mannock - 1815 - 352 páginas
...that were slain in battle; the sacred writer concluding, that it is a wholesome and holy cogitation to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins, 2 Mach. xii. 43. —In the new law this doctrine is as ancient as the church; witness St. Augustin:... | |
 | Elizabeth Constantia Agnew - 1819 - 266 páginas
...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 purified... | |
 | 1829 - 632 páginas
...Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost : Amen.—" It Is, therefore, a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their tins."— 2 Mac. xii. 45. THE members who compose the Society of Office for the Dead, which commenced... | |
 | Peter Armstrong Whittle - 1821 - 1042 páginas
...Catholics have a Burial ground, or Cemetery, with a neat Oratory of hrick, ornamented by a hip roof, 011 the centre of which stands, in order to beautify it,...dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." 2nd Machiheus, xii. 43. The inside is ornamented with stucco work, representing the Holy Spirit, in the... | |
 | George Hay (bp. of Daulis.) - 1822 - 402 páginas
...sufferings and 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... | |
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It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins. 
