The State of the Blessed Dead
by Henry Alford
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Excerpt from Limbo, or an Apology for Purgatory and Prayers for the DeadChurch or companionship with the disorganised squadrons Of infidelity. In the present religious crisis, we Teachers Of the Old Christian School Of thought have Simply to expound the truths Of revealed religion as defined by the infallible Roman Church in her Councils; we have to give a straightforward exposition Of her ancient doctrines we have in consequence no words to handy, no theories to invent, no novelties to propound, no new schools Of thought to inaugurate  all is fixed, all settled, all unchangeable. Hence do we...
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