 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 932 pages
...young leaves, and filled with the music of birds, is truly the season of poetical love. OBITVARY. U i* a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may bo loosed from their out, 2 Mac. xii. 46. Of yonr Charity pray for tlic repose of tlic sonlsof the... | |
 | John Heron Macguire - 1851 - 158 pages
...Version), Job xix., 21 — with that profitable eulogy — gleaned from the Apocrypha — " It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be .loosed from sins?" — (Same version), ii. Madiabees, xii., 46. THE COUNCIL OP TRENT ON PURGATORY. The Council... | |
 | Disney Robinson - 1851 - 130 pages
...GOD, does not teach ! Yes, they quote the following from the Apocrypha, "It is therefore a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the, dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." (2 Mace. xii. 46.) Now putting aside for the moment the very questionable authority of the Apocrypha,... | |
 | Charles Elliott - Theology - 1851 - 504 pages
...Chapel. •' In the 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 jrom their sins,' Maccabees xii, 46. " The members who compose the society of the office for the dead... | |
 | John Cumming, Daniel French - Protestantism - 1852 - 750 pages
...remains firmly established for ever. And, therefore, when the book of Maccabees declares that it is "a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins," I think, »entlemen, it is evidence not to be jontradicted by any far-fetched or fanciful interpretation... | |
 | Stephen Keenan - Catechetics - 1852 - 592 pages
...state, prayer for the dead would-be an absurdity. Now, in 2 Machab. xii. 43, &c., we are told that it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins. St. Paul — 2 Tim. i. 16, 18 — prays for Onesiphorus, after his death, " that the Lord grant he... | |
 | Sisters of Mercy (LIMERICK) - 1852 - 378 pages
...for the sins of the dead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins." (2 Mac. xii. 43, 46.) COMMUNION OF SAINTS. " There shall be joy before the angels of God, upon... | |
 | father Rowland (fict.name.) - 1852 - 190 pages
...was true then that a Purgatory existed, it will always be true, and it will always be ' a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.' Add to this the remark of the Redeemer, that there are sins which shall not be forgiven either in this... | |
 | John Cumming, Daniel French - Protestantism - 1852 - 710 pages
...asleep with godliness, had had great grace laid up for them. It is, therefore, a wholesome and holy thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins." And, my friends, having quoted to you this passage, the authenticity of which book I shall endeavour... | |
 | Charles Hastings Collette - Purgatory - 1853 - 112 pages
...should iise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead. It is, therefore, a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins ; and, secondly, that our blessed Saviour distinguishes 1 Bell. Disput. tom. ip 1807-S. Ingolst. 1590.... | |
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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. 
