...conversation with him upon purgatory, and I think did some good. I send the inscription upon the headstone—" It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." The Secretary of the Westminster Auxiliary thus writes—"...

...that the following inscription : " Spes mea Christus," — " Pray for the soul of J.Woolfney;" — " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead," 2 Mac. »u. 46.; *JW obiit 5. die Jan. 1838, aet. 50;" was not illegal, as by no яаоо or authority...

...if by the way f upon that which we read, in book ii. chap. 12 of the Machabees, where it is said, " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins :" and tho sentiment of St. Augustine,1 by which we are assured that...

...history of all their father and grandmother had gone through, finishing his recital in these words : " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." LONDON : MINTED IIV LEVKV,BOmOK, AhO FHANKLTK, Great New...

...taught him in childhood to lisp his prayers — impressing on him the aphorism of Holy Writ, that " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." Very possibly he never meditated on what St. Paul says about...

...weak and indefinite assertion in one of the books of the Apocrypha, (upon Romanist rendering,) that it is "a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead." Of the persuasive force of the writings of St. Justin the Martyr, or of St. Augustine; of the merits...

...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...

...of Judas Maehabeitg? That he " thought well and religiously concerning the resurrection," and " that it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins." After Judas Machabeus had governed Juda, and prevailed over...

...this book remains nrmly 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, gentlemen, it is evidence not to be contradicted...

...Protestants, the practice of praying for the dead, from the 2nd book of Machabees, where it is said, that " it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins." — 2 Mac. xii. 46, — they fuil not to observe, that they do...