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Show LXXIV, whatWIU the fir.ft c~u(e of thu cufto~e. " wHat was the firfl: caufe of this cu. fiome of interring bodies , whether enbalmed before , as among the Egyptians , or burnt, as among ~oft of the Grecians, or foas they are, wh1ch {rcero • Plin. Hiftor. notes to be mofi the antient way , and nttur.7. S'4• after him <p flny *, of this all have not the ubi & hoc: s~- · · F .r. h · I · k h ;•lt/14 intelligi- fame optmon. or c..MoJc to? t 11~ s t e turquoquomod~ occa!ion was given from the.&tgantlck fecondittU: hMm4: rity in eating men, the abolmon whereof '\ 1114'De:,o, buml, is fionified by Sepuhure t· tQ&CiiliU• b t Tuuc m1rte raptos It~~ptt1tf4!". Legibu~ Ma11dare ttrr~, pulveremq j 1rifpa~g~re 'N cdum {t}rAtu, ne dartntu~ c~.(piU 1bomin171dll {ig11a pafttU pri{l1111. t ]Db to.~- . Others think , men did in this manner, Philo in FJ_a~- as it were of their own accord, pay the ' cum :.Prop1lum debt which otherwife nature'requireth of -b~o.mnz1a1wzbrrua ttoe-r·- them~ even agam• t1r1 t he ·n '11 p that Wl • .or, . ,~,. trib~it;ruc the body of man made of earth IS due to viv~ tantum.,,\ the earth t, not on~y God declared to fed ~ 1ll9rtuu ~ .. · · · · Nt eadem qttttt · primqs fufteJit natales, /Nfcipilll tJo ex b~tc vita exi~u111. Amm~n? Ji. (Ut nullum eft in homine fatlum laudabile; CUJUS non vdbgiUqt in alio aliquo anim.antium genere Deus poluerlt,it~ & in h~c re cvenit. De fo,r.micis Plinius Jib. 11.30. Stpt[iuntur znttr fi v1v~n· tium fo/=·P~r ~tter homivem. At ipfe de Dclphinis l. 9· 8. ~onfpt~1q; • jam· defi 11111 port1ntes ,ne lltcertlretur « iel/uil. E t de apt bus Vtrg. rNm car ora t11~e earmtNm E xportant 11llil & trifliA [11'/llra iMeNMl· Suvi~ .~ ~'!.~ ~~/tqNilli ftilittt JI•P•· .Adam ~'lht focmd Par)~ ''17 :Adam,but alfo the Greek..J & Ltttivs ftequendyacknowledge. Cicero out of Euri-pides .: Earth.is to be rendr'ed to the earth. And 1the ·fame EHripides hath elfwherct more fully exptell what.we reac! in &lo· . mon *,The body rtiF~rttno the earth,foom,. , whence it came and the foul to God tha.tJ !!.~clef. U. ,., gave ' . , Eun ptdes ez it. 'P /iny h~th alfo wmten , that perfonaThefd. ~he earth entertains in fupplicibllr. / Us at our birth,feeds ] am finite terr~ martrm f.'~' tt~i: us bemo born and Res uv~t.fJMittJ; f~m[trat prt111fWd1U• o .~ . Eoree~Jntur:fPzrztwcflloudit . _. all. along our lneiu- torpufq; terr~:jure11tcelim"l.ll1ICUJ.I; .- fl:ems us , and lafl: Sed breTJis ad ~Tii ttmpUI·Nt(lliNm d41~~ of all , when we are M•x ttrra rept.tit ip[a quod 1utri11tr1t• abdicated by the retl: Lucrc.tius iffiillterdc terra: · o f ~ature, m11... e I'1 k e a 0.1 n11p1upl«crreumm t.a dem rtrtmJe.( t eommr'm· efi.. gentle mother em- C1ccro lllc~egibu~ 2., ex Xenophonre: braces us in her lap R.cdditur ttrrttt CfPJ•, & ttf£ 11Jc11tu~ AC and covers us. There fituTJJ , quafi optrimento matru 1bdrlcitur, are fome that hold , the hope of refurred:ion ; as it were by this. \llODUjllent , wai confignd to • pofl:c .. rity by the firll paren'cs 0f mankind. For6 that '.Democritm alfo t<\,uoht, Bodtes are to be conferved becaufe o? a promife of re:. turning to life , 'l~liny wimelfeth. .f\n4. , l. ~ Chrifiians oft refer the rite of decerit bu-rial to this hope, Pruac~;ti~ *. • ~~idn~"! /fbi [ax a cavata, Why do Mub!e.s"c·ove.r dud-, . ~uid puler a v~lunt mont~m'ha? And Mon~mcncs our bodies keep 1 'l{j(i quod res crtditur ·i/Jil, Be~2ufe .the thing they have in truft, Non m~rlllf ~ftd ~at1fomn11. I~ not dc~d, b(.ltlai4 to -p~c:p. |
