Hierugia; invocation of saints, relics, and purgatory, besides those other articles of doctrine set forth in the holy sacrifice of the Mass, ... vestments, and ritual employed in its c - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...attest their belief in a middle state. The authority of Virgil puts the question beyond a doubt, with regard to the Romans. In his descent into hell,. Ki:. nmeets the shade of Palinurus wandering upon the wrong bank of the Styx, and in the company of those other spirits of the dead, who are thus described by the Latin poet:--Hsec omnis, quam cernis, inops inhumataque turba est; Portitor ille, Charon; hi, quos vehit unda, sepulti. Nee ripas datur horrendas et rauca fluenta Transportare prius, quam sedibus ossa quierunt. whether we admit, with the Catholic Church, the book of Machabees to be divinely inspired scripture; Centum errant annos, volitantque hsec litora circum. Tiiin demum admissi stagna exoptata revisunt. Eneid, lib. vi 325. The ghosts rejected are th' unhappy crew Deprived of sepulchres and fun'ral due: The boatman, Charon: those, the buried host He ferries over to the farther coast; Nor dares his transport vessel cross the waves With such whose bones are not composed in graves. A hundred years they wander on the shore; At length their penance done, are wafted o'er. Dryden. Continuing his progress, the Trojan chief afterwards encounters the shade of his own father Anchises, from whom he receives the following description:--Qnin et supremo quum lumine vita reliquit, Non tamen omne mal"TM miseris, nee funditus omnes Corporese excedunt pestes penitusque necesse est, Multa diu concreta modisinolescere mirk Ergo exercentur pcenis, veterumque malomm Supplicia expendunt. Alise panduntur inanes Suspenses ad ventos; aliis sub gurgite vasto Infectum eluitur scelus, aut exuritur igni. Quisque suos patimur Manes; exinde per amplum Mittimur Elysium, et pauci Iseta arva tenemus: Donee longa dies, perfecto temporis orbe, Concretam exemit labem, purumque re...