thers, and left unto our view fome 

 parts, which they never beheld them- 

 fclves. 



Though earth hath engrofled the name 

 yet water hath proved the fmarteft 

 grave; which in forty dayes fwallowed al- 

 moft mankindc 5 and the living creation > 

 Fifties not wholly efcaping, except the 

 Salt Ocean were handfomely content 

 pered by a mixture of the frefb Ele 

 ment. 



Many have taken voluminous pains to 

 determine the ftate of the foul upon dif- 

 mnion s but men have been moft phanta- 

 fucall in the fingular contrivancss of their 

 corporal Idiflblutioa : whileft the fobreft 

 Nations have refted in two way es s of ftm- 

 pie inhumation and burning. 



That carnall interment or burying^ 

 was of the elder date* the old examples 

 of Abraham and the Patriarchs are fuffici- 

 ent to illuftrate 5 And were without com 

 petition, if it could be made out, that A- 

 dam was buried near Damdfc^ or Mount 

 Cdvtry^ according to fome Tradition . 

 God himfdf, that buried but one, was 

 pleafed to make choke of this way, colle- 

 ftible from Scripturc-expreffion, and the 

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