CHAP. IV f 



/^Hriftians have handfomdy glofled 

 V-/ the deformity of death, by careful 

 confideration of the body, and civil rites 

 which take of brutal! terminations. And 

 though they conceived all reparable by 

 refurreftion, caft not off all care of 

 enterrment. And fince the aflbes of 

 Sacrifices burnt upon the Altar of God, 

 were carefully carried out by the Priefb, 

 and depofed in a clean field ; fince they 

 acknowledged their bodies to be the lod 

 ging of Chrift, and temples of the holy 

 Ghoft, they devolved not all upon the 

 fufficiency of foul exiftence ; and there 

 fore with long fervtces and full folemni- 

 ties concluded their la ft Exequies , 

 wherein a to all diftinftions the Greek 

 devotion feems moft pathetically cere- 



Chriftian invention hath chiefly dri- 



at Rites, which fpeak hopes of an- 



E 3 other 



