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For I rather thinke that there should be prayer for the dead, than that there should be baptising for them; to speake in a sacramentall sence. They doe it, to bring in their superstitions of holy-water, and sprinkling the graves and sepulchers, and coffins of dead persons: thereby to make them more pure before God; and that which is more ridiculous, that the Priest should undertake in times past (and it may be now too, in our times) when he was sent for to a sicke body to give him the host, and that the party were dead before he came, he in the presence of the company, was to eate it, for him that was deceased: |
For I rather think that there should be prayer for the dead, than that there should be Baptizing for them; to speak in a sacramental sense. They do it, to bring in their superstitions of Holy water, and sprinkling the graves and sepulchers, and coffins of dead Persons: thereby to make them more pure before God; and that which is more ridiculous, that the Priest should undertake in times past (and it may be now too, in our times) when he was sent for to a sick body to give him the host, and that the party were dead before he Come, he in the presence of the company, was to eat it, for him that was deceased: |
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