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 before the people: that uncertain things, and such as have the appearance of falsehood, be not allowed to be made public, nor be discussed: and that whatever may tend to encourage idle curiosity, and superstition; or may savour of filthy lucre, be prohibited as scandalous impediments to virtue." Sess. xxv. Decretum de Purgat. p. 286.

''The Sacrament which is administered to dying persons, to strengthen them in their passage out of this life into a better, from the oil that is used on the occasion, Catholics call Extreme Unction, and they believe it to be divinely instituted.

Mark vi. 12, 13.—“And going forth, they preached that men should do penance: and they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.”

This may be understood to refer to that institution which St. James afterwards promulgated in his epistle, v. 14, 15.