Hydriotaphi*} 



brains and entrails, they had broken 

 the fubjeft of fo entire a Refurre&ion, 

 nor fully anfwered the types of Enoch, 

 Etidh, or Jon&ht which yet to prevent 

 or reftore, was of equall facility unto 

 that rifing power, able to break thefaf- 

 ciations and bands of death, to get clear 

 out of the Cere-cloth, and an hundred 

 pounds of oyntment, and out of the 

 Sepulchre before the (lone was rolled 

 from it. 



But though they embraced not this 

 praftice of burning, yet entertained they 

 many ceremonies agreeable unto Grcckf 

 and RontAne obfequies. And he that ob- 

 fervuh their funerall Feafts , their La 

 mentations at the grave, their mufick, 

 and weeping mourners ; how they clo- 

 fed the eyes of their friends, how they 

 waflied, anointed, and kifle J the dead ; 

 may eafily conclude thefe were not 

 meere Pagan-Civilities. But whether 

 that mournfull burthen, and treble cal 

 ling out after Abfalom, had any refe 

 rence unto the laft conclamation, and 

 triple valedidion , ufed by other Na 

 tions, we hold but a wavering conje- 

 fiure. 



