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Show tJfW-'r· 4ntl Pt4t~ The more plain and fimple opinio!! is~ -wbaeas mari excells other living creatures, it feemed an unworthy thing, that\ other animals fhould be fed with his body : for the p~eventing whe!eof, as much . as· might be, iepuhure was mvented. By . ·. · · . .. the pity of men bodies are kept from the t_'fide V'aua .. invafwn of fouls a.nd wild beails t , faid ttrum de Jero- n. . .1. A d C. T' J b ·11 lKS:tfiH pofttri- ~mtt. tan. n ! cera , , exea 'J W1ea tate inp~ft~m btafts •' h~ want:~ 'the common honour in peccatorutn hio dearh.~ · cjus. 1 Reg. I .tt. ' s 1.' & Tertul- • . . : r . .J , ~nu~ de rcfurre~1one. D~ ~gtllh,o n<>merus Odr!s. ,. . EtgtJ nee ttvittr Gk&tiiiJ' inimrt pmmt~ , . • 11liM$ votuem laetrtllrtnt tJ/Ja cane[q;. ,De ~~~ftho loqwrur, ut adulterum & ret;ni invaforem, Argmmfepultum ab· ~em;nt· tujuHamen reliquias humanior terr~ dedit Oreftc,,ut ~o~r dic:cur. Menelaus de Ajacc in Sophocle: · $td ille mnu j1l!M1 in pall~n~ibtu, . . Gwum m~~rmu pabult~m alitl~fls dab1t. Sed hoe Cluoq. ·ibi prohibc~ lllyf!'es • prudentiz exemplar~ l)ophocles An~ir;onc in ipfius AntJgones laudem: Ill" obfitum. errto.rl gmna.r~~rn [Uhf!Z , '}{.on in{epult~m ftvit, ~tlltJh!Uf~u can~hHfq; ~tri pabulum rnou/~eJb/U. AppiaftUS Civilium primo,de inrerfeais ju~u Marii~ Ntctfl~::~:. lice~ at qutnquam inteift&lorum ftpelirt, fed v:ros ta 1 rn {grtgi~s :olii&ibAnt aves & cane1 • .Ammianus Marcell. I. 17. de u 1ano ·:~ eti6n1 rtufq.; nt dirte voluC't'es e~nfumerent c~rp~r~ ptrem~torum_finediJ&r ttlntlOl bumari mantla-rJJt. -Apud Vrrgthum kgtmus • --Non te optima mater conlltt bumfJ, 1•triove onerabit memFrta ftp1tl&ro.; A.litibus linqutrt I tr ~ • _..:__ ~- God . 7(~~.fo~in4. God in the Prophets; threatneth the ~pg~ . ~~hates , that· ~h~y iliou]Jd, have the burial of an Affe, that dogs fuould lick their blood, Nor doth LaUanfiiU ~o'~fi.der any thing els in-burial~ wh~n he fa~Eh, ·We wilJ .not.Juf{er rhe ]1J11fgtt ;aiul ... worf{.o/Gpd to ly a prey for ~eafts an4/?ird1; ·An~ -.Am!Jrofe his word~ are thefe,, Yott~ an do nq hetttr office for him, who u 1i,Qw paft. req~iting of you :{ave him frtJm tht: fouls. of the air, fave from the heafts" partakJr of the fame nature. Bur, thouoh fuch injuries were not, yet for the body of man to be trod under foot,and broken,' / feems very unbecomino the dioni'ty ofhi$ kind. That in Sopate~~s con~overfies is to our purpofe : It . h· a comely thing to bury the dead~ and hy nature it [elf appoitJ .. ted unto hodtes , left they be vi!tfied afrno death if they putrify nak.fd. Aft the God§' are p/e1t{edto indulge t.his honour tfJ": /Jodiu depri1;~d of lifo, For, hecaHfe it is unreafonahle ,the fecret s of human nature jhou!rl · / be expll{ed af~er dtar/no. the fight of nil :f owe haverec.etved 4 cuftome ofold,to /met · ~umalz h()dtes, that heing laid up in their {epul~hers they may concraJ tneir rottenr.f.r. . To the fame purpofe is that of Greg()rJ t Sin1t~i moef~1 Nyf!en, That the Sun may not fee what is Ag~~ht:ts did~ Jhamefull t to human nllt~~re. Hence . t . morJs dfe.o!~ ' · . 1 lSj ttgtrt puerpl!'li~ quam m'h 'l · · · - pudorem Ira 1 natura limus - apparet .in or & • . · ftgnificarent fa 'icntes H 'b . . tu ., ll"!tenru. Qlod ur: fi rt . ~ • e rzt' vetuere ne Plebe~ :rut fummz ~o au~"~!'::,i. ent 'al!ufmodi !afciis jnvQlvcrenrur ,aut modo na. ; t . that |