 | 1843 - 220 Seiten
...GOD for mercy for the dead. We should by our practice show that we fully and feelingly believe that it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead. The SPIRIT of GOD which inspired Judas Maccabeus to send twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem... | |
 | John Cumming - 1843 - 230 Seiten
...counterpart in the rest of the sacred volume. And in the same second book of Maccabees, we read that " it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." In other portions of the Apocrypha, especially in the book... | |
 | Protestant association - 1844 - 420 Seiten
...God for mercy for the dead. We should, by our practice, show that we fully and feelingly believe that it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead. The Spirit of God which inspired Judas Maccabeus to send twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem... | |
 | Peter Cooper - 1844 - 280 Seiten
...—did not he too think it superstitious? Did not hia curate? But it seems the people must not know that it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, lest they come to believe in purgatory. They must be kept in ignorance of that fact,—it must be kept... | |
 | Peter Cooper - 1844 - 278 Seiten
...—did not he too think it superstitious? Did not his curate? But it seems the people must not know that it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, lest they come to believe in purgatory. They must be kept in ignorance of that fact,—it must be kept... | |
 | William Howitt - 1845 - 416 Seiten
...having placed this inscription on her husband's tombstone :— " Pray for the soul of Joseph Woolfrey. It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, 2 Mac. xii." Now, though popery, like an old and badly healed sore, was breaking out in the church at... | |
 | Charles Grevile Prideaux - 1845 - 396 Seiten
...in the parish churchyard, with the following inscriptions : " Pray for the soul of J. Woolfrey." " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead." Judgment was, indeed, in that case, given in favour of the defendant, on the ground that the inscription... | |
 | 1870 - 494 Seiten
...it was held that the following inscription, 'Spesmea Christus,' 'Pray for the soul of J. Woolfrey,' 'It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead,' (2 Mace. xii. 46) ... was not illegal, as by no canon or authority of the Church in these realms had the... | |
 | 1847 - 492 Seiten
...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—"... | |
 | M A. P - 1847 - 152 Seiten
...doth accord ; But think how powerful her plea, Pray, Holy Mary, pray for me. PRAYING FOR THE DEAD. " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead." MACCABEES, ii. I.-;. AND can we do no more for thee, But lay thee in the tomb ? Bedew the grassy mound... | |
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it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins. 
