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therefore the Poet emphatically impli- 

 eth the totall deftru&ion in this kinde 

 Of death, which happened to A}*x 

 OilewZ. which 



The old * 'Balearians had a peculiar **&* 

 mode, for they ufed great times and 'gjfa^ 

 much wood, but no fire in their burials, *piodonu 

 while they bruifed the flefli and bones *" 

 of the dead, crowded them into times, 

 and laid heapes of wood upon them. 

 And the*c/#0*r without cremation or *R<omfiu 

 urnall interrment of their bodies, make in 

 ufe of trees and much burning, while 

 they plant a Pine-tree by their grave, and 

 burn great numbers of printed draughts 

 of (laves and horfes over it, civilly con 

 tent with their companies in effigie, 

 which barbarous Nations exaft unto re 

 ality. 



Chriftians abhorred this way of obic- 

 quies, and though they ftickt not to 

 give their bodies to be burnt in their 

 lives, detefted that mode after death ; 

 affc&ing rather a depofiture thanabfum- 

 ption, and properly fubmitting unto the 

 fentence of God, to return not unto a- 

 (hes but unto duftngaine, conformable 

 unto thepraftice of the Patriarchs, the 



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