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 don sets forth this' way s d,: faith will not suffice, according. to them; and good works, penance, and sufiering on the part of the her must make up that which is wanting, or purgatory will be the lot of those whose meritorious works are insufficient to atone for and blot out the guilt and punishment of their venial sins, and the temporal punishment due to mortal sins already pardoned by the priest. 2. We will have recourse to their own standards in order to exhibit this doctrine as they hold it. The creed of Pope Plus IV. thus briefly teaches respecting pur- tory: "I constantly hold that there is a purgatory, and that the souls therein detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful? Dens, in his T'neology,** defines it thus: "It is a place in which the soul8 of the pious dead, obnoxious to temporal punishment, make satisfaction." The Council of Trent, in its haste, perhaps, to finish its labours, published in its twenty-fifth 8ession only a short decree, the former part of which is a8 follows: "Since the Catholic Church, instructed by the Holy Spirit from the sacred writings and the ancient tradition of the fathers, hath taught in holy councils, and lastly in this cecumenical council, that there is a purgatory; and that the souls detained there are assisted by the suffrages of the faithful, but especially by the ceptable sacrifice of the mass; this holy council commands all bishops diligently to endearour that the WHOLESOME DOCTSmE concerning pur- gatory, delivered to us by venerable father8 and sacred councils, be believed, held, taught, and everywhere preached by Christ's faithful."t In the sixth session, the thirtieth canon passed reads as follows: "If any one shall say that after the reception of the grace of justifica- tion the guilt is so remitted to the penitent sinner, and the penalty of eternal punishment destroyed, that no penalty of temporal punishment remain8 to be paid, either in this world, or in the future in purgatory, before the access to the kingdom of heaven can lie open; let him be anathema." In the twenty-second session it is declared: "Waerefore it (the sacri- fice of the mass) is properly offered, according to apostolical tradition, not only for the 8ius, punishments, satisfactions, and other necessities of living believers, but also for the dead in Christ, who are not yet thoroughly purified." In the same session it is said: "If any one shall arm that the �Punt., No. 5. $ "Cure atholica Ecclesia, 8piritu 8ancto edocta, ex sacrio litefts, et antiqua pt. nmm traditions, in sacris conciliis, et novisaim in hAc mcumenici sy, nodo documit, purgatorium ease; auimaaque ibi detentas, fidelluna suiTinglie, potissimum veto aceap- UibiIi altaris sacrificio juvari; prmcipit sancta synodus episcopis, et sahara de purgato- t4o doctrinam  nnctis petribus, et sacris conciliis traditam, a Christi fidelibus credi, mneri, doceri, et ubJque prmdicari diligenter studeant."Conc. Tr/dtnt., esu. xv, $ "Si quis, post cceptam justificationis gratisre, cuih"oet peccatori lmmitanti ouiptm reraitti, et rimtuna roteram pmnm deleri dixerit, ut nullus remsneat reams Immm temporalis exsolvondm vel in hoc seculo, vei in furufo, in purgatorio, antsquare- tessa cmlorum adituo paters posSit; anathema sit."--Conc. TrYLint., seas. vi, can. { "Quare non solurn (sacriicium mime) pro fideUum vivomm peccatis, prosis, eatis- factiota'bus, et allis necesaitatibua, sod et pro defunctis in Christo nondum ad pienuns  rite, juxta apostolorum traditonem, offermr. --Cont. 7'ridtat., esm.  ,xit ii. 1

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