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Show 2'44 of· their Buriali. LIB: V f •. faperfl:itious worlliip, and therefore it is forbiod~Duct. 14. 1. seco11dlj, mak..inJ?.. themfe~oeJ bald, wh~ch w~s done divers manner of ways; etther by foavrng then• .. . . hair, or pluclti•g it off wh:h the!r hands, or ~y impoi!'l , ~StDu fr•tr~ foned plaifler to mal{e it f 11ll off.. Other Nattons were ~~~~,o('uore~~- wont to fuave off the hair· of their head, an.d to , fM!l~ to..rje~ vt"• offer it in the behalf of the dea.d :. h d'd r t ey t to.me· times ' £have their· cheeks fometimes thetr· eye·ltds-: · and this..alfo, . being ~n He~theni(/? cuftom~, was li~ewife forbidden in Ifrael, D11et. 14.1 Tlnrd!J, go111g_·: hAre headed~ that they might cafi duO: or allies upon their heads, fignifying thereby that they wer~ 1UJ'rcortht the ground on which· they -n:~n.l: Fourth.l~:gotng bare~ footed) for their greater humlltatton •. !ifth/1, the co -, v.erillg of their lips., for ~that was a fpectal fign of wr· row and lliame, The SeerJ fo,All be af!Jamed~ &c. they~ fball all cover their lips-. for they have no anfwer ot . . God, Mich .. ~ .7. I fit be demand~d~ how they c~vered t,l'· K:inrchtWtheir lips?· It is thought they dtd tt (t-) ~~ :caqu;g the Aben.LE{r" P, sLirl oj: their cloa 1., orgarment over them. Sixthly, ( u) Fo4lirt·. . e"•'4• re~n tin~g their cloat'h\ s.. SeveNt h! J!puttt,.n gJrt; tcl'-lt Io t b 11 bo 11t : us,;ff•q~te,.Po•.,heir /o"ns Gen. 37 ·3 4· Thefe were general tok.ens of lyxtnA 'alla.. / ' , d" fi f fc J•"en•l.SAtyr. gri~f, ufed upon all ex-t roar tnary occa 1ons o · o~- . :ao. 0 0 row. · Tw.o other there were, more proper to bun. ~~M~':;;~ ~l~ als, to augment ~hei~ grief. Firft, Jt!inflrels, who with •~•~~• proft!" their fad tunes tnchned the affethons of the people fofchArt~: mrn~ .. to mourniug (x) Of thefe there were two Jort1:Some ru ""u •tAtll · • d" h dJ tibial. ser-~ playing on pipes, others foun tng tr.umpets. At t e. ~i1u Ar.neid. funeral of NQblemen or old men, they ufed.a tr1ttJt· isb ·~~ ' 1 h "l y. i;~;. cui,tt"' pet .: at the. funeral of the comm~n peop ~' .or c. 1 - "ero1 [utll•m dren they ufed a (J) pipe. , In thts refpetl: .tt 1s fatd ; deJuc~n mtt.J That '1e(111 whetz he raited Jairus his d411ghter, ctifi out ~ nel, .ltgt ., ' r;r d ho d fi Jlbritrtm melfa. the Jt-Jinflrels, Mat .9.13 . .secon ·!y ,women tre to tng srA~i~~~ •• _Theq. -at bt1rialsJo1· the fame purpofe, and like wife by .out• zb.r., u~'- ' u.. · · w.ard : .·. .. t I B. VI. Of 1/JCir O~tthi. Ward fignifications of forrow, to move the company ~nd more firongly to affetl: them, caU for the mourn~ tng women.&c. andjendfor skjlful womefl, Jer.9.17. 1 hefe the Rom_a1Js ca·JJed, Prttficar, IJ"afi in hoc ipfom prttfe0flt) cheif or s'<J!fi1l mourners. CHAP •. VI. Of their Oaths. ~He ma~ner of[weari11g was fometimes by lifii•g , . .l up therr handJ tow"rds hea'lJen.; .Avrah4m faid to the King of ~oJom, I have lifted 11p my hand unto . the Lord; that Is, I, have fworn·, that I ·w·ill not~take from a . thred, even to a Ihoe-latchet Gen .. 14- 22 Unto which cuftowe the Pfalmift feem:th to allod • Pfal. to6 .. l6. He lifted 11p hk hand, that -is ~ fnffJre, _ Sometimes he ~hat took the Oath did pu; his h411~ · IUlder the ot~herJ thigh~ which.a~mioill:red the Oath. We read this manner of admtn\fl:rationto have been ufe~ by Ahrah-.am, Gen. 24 .. 2. and J4cob., Gnz-. 47~ 29• Wh1ch ceremony (a) fome interpret to be as a t 0 r. ... .. ~!. r h · n · · (b) h .. a . 't""'# a Alltn Efr• ... oJ JH1Jef.l#tQn; ot er5 as -a mJ.J .. erJ()f czrcumcijio11, Gtrt .~ 4. 2. the fign whereof t~ey bore about that .place of their b ~ol~".'"" 1Ar· body·: Others,mqre probably think it to be a m,11a cht, rht~... .a • C ;t; · .+ h ;tJ h :/J•C• c Aall,,,qrtllpt rtous J~gnryctltton o1 C rt.J• t e promifedfted, who Waif•'P" Gen .62. ·to come out of AbrahamJ loJns or thioh. · as the l'k ~ Altx.AJ .. .4Ie~ ·. h fc • I' d ' 0 ' I e ltbo·So ca' to. P ta e JS · ~1e , Gev.46.~ 6. the fouls that came out of e t;1dus tlte ,?,• · J4cob1 thtgh •. Sometunes alfo the manner Qf depofing Jih.I _1 It.Valer .. was to fiand hifore the .Altar, 1 King;8,· 31. Whicr: ;j:;~~~;:1r& Was alf~ the cuftc;>me of the (d) Athevia111 the (e)SamothrAcN,,: Carthagtnianr, and-the (f) Rom4111 & ,eftror,, Th b . .n. f J fi l O h i • arAI.._]N1JttrAl. eo Je'-'{ o a aw u ar was,. and 1s, one/j-, the SAtJr .. 1,. Lor.d_: whence he that took .the Oath was faid to conftfi |
