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THE ENGLISH PREFACE


CANON XXX. SESSION VI. OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT

"If any one saith that after the grace of Justification has been received, to every penitent sinner the guilt is remitted, and the debt of eternal punishment is blotted out in such wise that there remains not any debt of temporal punishment to be discharged, either in this world, or in the next in Purgatory, before the entrance to the Kingdom of Heaven can be opened to him — let him be anathema."

DECREE CONCERNING PURGATORY: COUNCIL OF TRENT: SESSION XXV.

"Whereas the Catholic Church, instructed by the Holy Ghost, has, from the Sacred Writings, and the ancient tradition of the Fathers, taught in Sacred Councils and very recently in this Ecumenical Synod, that there is a Purgatory and that the souls there detained are helped by the suffrages of the Faithful, but particularly by the acceptable Sacrifice of the Altar — the Holy Synod enjoins on Bishops