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its efficacy the fouls of the dead defired 

 above any other good that he might be 

 chofen of all men to fay fervice for them ; 

 for he fcemed to melt quite away in the 

 fweetnefs of his pity and brotherly love. 

 For the which thing, as he did devoutly 

 raife aloft the Body of Chrift in that Mafs, 

 offering it unto God the Father, and pray- 

 ing Him that for love of His Bleffed Son 

 Jefus Chrift, Which hung upon the Crofs to 

 buy back fouls. He would be pleafed to fet 

 free from the pains of Purgatory the fouls 

 of the dead, created and redeemed by 

 Him, ftraightway he faw an almoft infinite 

 number of fouls rife up out of Purgatory, 

 as they had been countlefs fparks of fire 

 flying up from a burning furnace ; and he 

 faw them go up into Heaven, through the 

 merits of Chrift's Paffion, which is every 

 day offered up for the quick and the dead 

 in that moft Sacred Hoft, worthy to be 

 adored in fceaila fcectdoriim. 



