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Rh of his sins, that in the glory of the resurrection being raised among thy saints and elect, he may breathe again,"

or be refreshed. And that other in the Roman Pontifical:

Now, forasmuch as it is most certain that all such as depart in grace, as the adversaries acknowledge that all in purgatory do, are sure to escape hell, and to be raised up unto glory at the last day, Medina perplexeth himself exceedingly in according these kind of prayers, with the received grounds of purgatory; and after much agitation of the business to and fro, at last resolveth upon one of these two desperate conclusions. That touching these

And we easily do believe, indeed, that their offices and legends are fraught not only with untrue and unfit, but also with far worse stuff; neither is this any news unto us. Agobardus, Bishop of Lyons, complained, about eight hundred years ago, that the Antiphonary used in his Church had "many ridiculous and phantastical" things in it; that he was fain to cut off from thence such things as seemed to be "either superfluous, or light, or lying, or blasphemous."