46 Hydriotapbia y 



That devouring agent leaves almoft all- 

 way es a morfell for the Earth, whereof 

 all things are but a colonie ; and which,* 

 if time permits, the mother Element: 

 will have in their primitive mafle a- 

 gain. 



He that looks for Urnes and old fepul- 

 chrall reliques, muft not feekthem in 

 the mines of Temples ; where no Reli 

 gion anciently placed them. Thefewerq 

 found in a Field, according to ancient 

 cuftome, in noble or private buriall; 

 the old praftife of the CanaanHe^ the 

 Family of Abraham^ and the burying 

 place ofJofuA^ in the borders of his pot- 

 feffions ; and al(o agreeable unto R0ma 

 praftice to bury by high- way cs 3 where 

 by their Monuments were under eye: 

 Memorials of themfelves, and memsnto't 

 of mortality into living pafiengers; 

 whom the Epitaphs of great ones were 

 fain to beg today and look upon them. 

 A language though (bmetimes ufed, not 

 fo proper in Church-Infcriptions a . The 

 fcnfible Rhetorick of the dead, to exem- 

 plarity of good life, firft admitted the 

 bones of pious men, and Martyrs within 

 C hurch- wals , which in fucceediog ages 



crept 



