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Show of w.. , •tul Puei fame to others,na~ely Pau[~Ma.r King of •• the Lacedemonian.r, who betng provoked •' by the e/.Eginet£ to revenge the deed of d p . the Perfian.r upon Leonides, with the li~e ~~Pfi ~~~.deed rejeeled the advice as unworthy of •n~~fic ~tio: the Gr 4ciAn naiP.c t. And the P hart fees '}Uitur:-Yaa'e buried eAiexander Jann.tus , who had atr•~!R'1" been very contumelious again!t h\s ~~ad SNPP!1~1111,,.t.Y.,: Countreymen *. But if God fometimes trtmlf, "'·•• · · · h h 1 r fb {wmStpul- hath punilhed fome wtt t e 01s o u· chri. rial,.he hath done thls above the con(htu· • Jof. Anriq.l ted laws; and , that David kept the 1 3·c: I3· &. head of qoliah to be fhewed , was done 6onon. · . fG d «{..'' •• againH an Allen , a Com.emner o o , and under that law, w htch extended the name of Neigh!Jour to the Hebrews only. 1 XXV J. Whether it be due to tho{e that have kj)L' d themfelves? to the {acrilegiou.r and traiterous ? I r is here wort~y to be noted, concer· nina burial of the dead, that the rule amono 0 the II ebrews themielves had an ex· l.ib.J. de Bel. ceptfon of them that had layd viole~~\ Jud. cap. 2.f • hands upom themfel~es, as Jofphus tel llttt(.l. 3·'· 1 1· us :~or is it any wonder, when no other Gr/U.Is.c.Io. puniflunent can be' appointed them chat" t Serv~us ~d efleem not deaFh for i punilhmenr. So th~ h.lBo, S•nt Milefian maids were fnghtep from volun f Piwlum q~~~Ji tary death and I'ikewife' the t T !ehs 0 t•HtUPII {utr.Z ' Jn Ptmtifieali- , · ·. 6 .~ t r 111d1 mt· j)us tjb7is,ue qui l~tqueo vitam (iniifTet in(ep~ltNJ. ~!!Jzcere ;.;, """ 11 ;. rit•.;, ipformit Lcthi, quttji mwtu J»{amiffim~. r.~> bil 30i wihil (it hae lfJ~te lieformim, pbttam ttiam pro ~egin41 diyiitate dixifft attipi~mUI. Caf!ill4 auttm Hemina ait Tarquinium Superbum, tN1fJ tlt1atll4 facere popn!um coegif{et, & ob bane injurltlm m.Ntii fe jufpendio ~ecarent, jt~fliffe cor~ora eorum &ruci afftgi• 7iinc primum turpe lu1.bi· tNm e(i, mortem jib1 conftifcere. 1\gme fometime, though Pliny* approve~ Plin. iib. 3'· it not. So the body ofCleomenes, whoc;ap. 1 S'· had flain himfelf, Ptolomj commanded ~o be hang'd up. ~~d faith vfri{fotle, it Nic. 1· f. - IS commonly recetv d t, that fome dif- t Athcnii A!fgrace be done to them , who have been chi~is tC~l.J>othe Authors of their own death : which !CCJUS 9~tfc - A d · Rh d · d' r . h tnterfeclnet 1!!/.ln ronrcm 0 tm expoun mg lalt 'manus fc:or.lim their bodyes we1·e forbidden to be buried. :i c.orpore feAnd this among other Decrees of '])emo· pelie~atu.r. .najfa Q..ueen of Cyprm is commended by lEfchm. 10 •. Di~n {hryfoft~"!us . . Nor is that any great ~dd~~~cfip.: obje6bon agamfl thts cufi:ome, that Ho- pumlib,3.cap• mer, u£fchylm; Sophocles, Mofchio and 17. . . others fay, That the dead feel nothing:and O;at. 6f. • , , therefore can ne~th.er be a~etled with Iofs :~:~ ~o;~~u. no~ Lha.m~. F.or It IS fuflic1ent , that that phoc, Ajace. whtch Is mRuSl:ed on the dead be feared by the living , and they by this means· be deterd ftom· fin. Excellently do· the Platonifts maintain againfi the Scoicks, and whoever els admit the a voidinO. of fer-vi. mde and difeafes , yea and the hope ot glory , for a jull caufe of voluntary death, That the foul is to be retained in the cu-' fio4y of the body, and t~at w'e mufi not ~epart out of tl}is life without .his com- /" mand who aave it to us.To whl~h point. Jlluch may be feen in P/otifJI#s, OJympio~ X dorus, |