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Rh nation of their brethren and their living with the Lord, as the putting a difference betwixt our Saviour and all other men how blessed soever, (in respect the one is, the other but men; the one after his glorious resurrection remaineth now immortal in heaven, the other continue yet in a state of dissolution, with their bodies resting in the earth in expectation of the resurrection; the purity and perfection of the one is most absolute, the manifold failings of the very best of the other such that they stand in need of mercy and pardon;) this prayer following may witness:

Whereunto this other short prayer also for one that is deceased may be added:

Lastly, that these prayers have principal relation to the judgment of the great day, and do respect the escaping of the unquenchable fire of Gehenna, not the temporal flames of any imaginary purgatory, is plain, both by these kinds of prosopopœias, which they attribute to the deceased: