...not give us chapter and verse for praying for the dead ! It must be confessed they do. Here it is. " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosened from their sins." 2 Macb. 12 : 46. This looks like Scripture, though it does...

...not give us chapter and verse for praying for the dead ! It must be confessed they do. Here it is. " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosened from their sins." 2 Macb. 12 : 46. This looks like Scripture, though it does...

...discipline of the Church of England. The inscription on the stone, was, " Pray for the soul of J. Woolfrey. It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead. 2 Maccabees, xii. 46." Now, in the first place, the Court would perceive that this passage was taken...

...Curisbrooke, in the Isle of Wight, bearing the inscription, " Pray for the soul of Joseph Woolfrey." "It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead." — Mace. ii. 12. The Popish clamour which has been raised against the complaining minister, the strange...

...confined to the legality of the inscription. The inscription set forth in the articles was, " Tray for the soul of Joseph Woolfrey," and " It is a holy...was on the party setting up the illegality of the insciiption. The minister of the parish was the proper party to proceed, if the inscription was of...

...erected in the churchyard of that parish, a stone inscribed : " Pray for the soul of JOSEPH WOOLFREY. It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead. 2 Maccab. xii. 46." — the latter part of the inscription being a quotation from the Roman Catholic version of the Apocrypha....

...headstone were contained, amongst other, the two following inscriptions — " Pray for the soul of J. Woolfrey ;" and '• It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead ;" both which inscriptions were contrary to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England, and...

...there are contained, among others, the two following inscriptions, namely, " Pray for the soul of J. Woolfrey," and " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead," both which said inscriptions we do further article and object to you to be contrary to the doctrine...

...Woolfrey, 190. The inscription on the tombstone ran as follows : — "Pray for the soul of J. Woolfrey. It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead " (2 Mac. xii. 46) ; which was objected to as involving the doctrine of purgatory, but the Court held that,...

...caused to be placed upon it the following inscription : — " Pray for the Soul of Joseph Woolfrey. — It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the Dead. — 2 Mace. xii. 46." Against this inscription the worthy vicar seems to have taken exception, as being of...