Hydriotaphia Urne Buriall Or a Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Foun
Hydriotaphia Urne Buriall Or a Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Foun
Thomas Brown
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Cedit enim retro de terra quod fuit ante In Terram, &c. Lu- cret. CHRISTIANS have handsomely glossed the de- formity of death, by careful consideration of the body, and civil rites which take off brutal termina- tions. And though they conceived all reparable by a resur- rection, cast not off all care of interment. And since the ashes of Sacrifices burnt upon the Altar of God were care- fully carried out by the Priests, and deposed in a clean field; since they acknowledged their bodies to be the... lodging of Christ, and temples of the holy Ghost, they devolved not all upon the sufficiency of soul existence; and therefore with long services and full solemnities concluded their last Exe- quies, wherein* to all distinctions the (jreek devotion seems most pathetically ceremonious. Christian invention hath chiefly driven at Rites which speak hopes of another life, and hints of a Resurrection. And if the ancient (gentiles held not the immortality of their better part, and some subsistence after death, in sev- eral rites, customes, actions and expressions, they contra- dicted their own opinions : wherein 'Democritus went high, even to the thought of a resurrection, ^ as scoffingly re- corded by 'Tliny.
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