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A18977 A monument of mortalitie vpon the death and funerals, of the gracious prince, Lodovick, late Duke of Richmond and Lenox: Earle of New-castle, and Darnley, &c. ... By Iames Cleland Doctor in Diuinitie and domestick chaplaine to his Grace. Cleland, James, d. 1627. 1624 (1624) STC 5396; ESTC S108068 29,880 72

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de Isid O sir them to permit any man to be buried in wooll more then to weare clothes of wooll in their Temples but all must bee made of Linnen cloth The ancient Greekes and Romanes were euer most curious and carefull in celebrating the Solemnitie of their Funerals witnesse Plato Aristotle Plat. in Phaed Cratil Menox lib. 4. de l●g Arist l. de virtu Problem sect 29. q. 9. Plutarch Tully and many other Heathen Authors Poets and Philosophers Plato the best of the Philosophers prescribed a perfect Rule and gouernment in obseruing the Ceremonies of Burials so did Aristotle his Disciple in his Ethicks and Tullius in his Topicks especially Seruius in his Commentaries Cic. in Top. Seru. in Aen. 6. Plutarch in vitis Thesei Themist aboue all in Numa vpon Virgill commends these Ceremonies of Funerals and Plutarch in all his Workes at all occasions declareth how Honourable Funerals are Euripides amongst the Greeke Poets saith Eurip. in Hecub Acl. 2. Sophocl in A●ac Antig. that Buriall is the commandement and old Law of the Gods and to depriue men of Buriall is to contemne the Gods aboue and below And Sophocles saith to defraud men of their Religious Ceremonies of Funerals is to violate and transgresse the Lawes of the Gods Naturally the condition of man requireth that as it is appointed for all men once to dye so euery-man wisheth and requireth that this piety humanitie and compassion bee shewen vpon him insuffering their dead bodies to be buried decently and honestly And of this same naturall inclination proceedeth this great desire which they shew to haue of Burying their bodie fearing lest after their death some dishonor or incōuenience should be happen it Such was the selfe-loue of that cruell Nero towards his bodie when hee said surely he must Die most Suet. in Nerone instantly intreating that his head might not bee giuen to his Enemies Tacitus reports of the Tacit. lib. 17. like of the Emperor Otho praying that they cut not off his head after his death and expose it to the mockerie of his Souldiers Many yeeres Hom. Iliad before that Homer bringeth Hector vanquished by Achilles instantly requiring that his body be not made a prey to the Dogges but that it may bee ransomed or redeemed at what price Idem ibidem he would the same motion or the like Aiax made to Iupiter Gods people both in the Old and New Testament euer religiously obserued these Ceremonies and Solemnities of Buriall relying vpon their Resurrection and that one day they should liue againe and that eternally Yea Gods Word commands and commends Buriall in expresse tearmes and practise As in Ecclesiasticus is said Eccles 7. 33. from the Dead restraine it not that is to say from the Funerall Solemnitie according to his estate And soone after he saith My sonne powre forth Cap. 38. 16. teares ouer the dead and begin to mourne as if thou haddest suffered great harme thy selfe and then couer his Bodie c. Gods owne holy Spirit Eccles 6. 3. pronounces absolutely it is better to bee an vntimely fruit then not to bee Buried For Practice loc to all the ancient Patriarchs in the Old Testament and yet shall find them very diligent in these Ceremonies of Funerals as Abraham Isaac Iacob Ioseph Dauid Tobie and others Gen. 23. 49. 50. 2. Reg. 2. Tob. 14. Iohn 19. 40. Luke 23. 53. Chrysost Hom. 84 in 19. chap. Ioan. In the New Testament when Saint Iohn saith our Sauiour Christ was Buried as the manner of the Iewes is he signifieth sufficiently that Buriall was one of the Ceremonies of the Law Iesus was Buried honourably and that by honourable men his owne Disciples first to euince his owne innocencie and to conuince the Iewes of their iniquity seeing no criminall condemned Chrysost Hom. 4. in cap. 2. ad Hel● person could be Buried according to their owne Lawes secondly it appeareth euidently by Ioseph and Nicodemus his preparation Iohn 19. 37. on the day of preparation that Buriall was highly esteemed amongst the Iewes in regard on that day that they might not prouide any other thing Thirdly hence may be collected that it is lawfull for Christians to Burie their Dead on the Sabbath day seeing the Iewes permitted it on their Sabbath Fourthly that the Buriall of Iesus was the end of Iewish Ceremonies in Funerals and the beginning of our Christian Exequies because he would not be Buried by the superstitious Iewes but by his owne Disciples who were become Christians Lastly to shew the Burying-place of Heretickes and Schismaticks of Orthodoxalls or of Protestants should not bee common more then you may obserue there was one common place after the Buriall of Christ with the Iewes and Christians For Christ at his Death did rent the veile of their two Religions as hee did of the Temple Ma● 27. 51. and appointed Funerall Ceremonies for his people far different from the Iewish Superstitions in Buriall In consequence of which Doctrine Saint Luke markes expresly that Steuen being stoned Acts 8. 2. then certaine men fearing God carried him among them to be buried by those of his owne profession and Religion not by Iewes or of his contrarie part nor yet amongst them So the Eunuch who was baptized by Philip in this Vers 38. Dionys de Hi●rar Ecclesiast l. 7 Hieron Epist. 25. ad Paulam same Chapter is said to haue beene honourably Buried as Saint Steuen was apparently in that they made Magnum Planctum that is to say a Magnificent Funerall for him as Saint Hierome interpretes it It is a Christian duty then to Bury the Dead and that Honourably and Magnificently according to the meanes honour ranke and qualitie of the partie defunct howsoeuer to Burie him decently and with an honest conuoy Saint Chrysostome renders three Reasons why Chrysost Hom 4. in c. 2. ad Hebr. we should religiously Burie the Dead and make Funerals One is to witnesse our reciprocall loue and charitie one towards another another is to shew our assured hope of Resurrection in others thirdly to be a lesson for our owne instruction that as others Die so shall we Lactantius Lactant. lib. 6. Diuin Institut cap. 12. Aug. l. 1. de ciuit Dei cap. 13. ioynes the fourth because it is not fit that the Image of God should be exposed to beasts or rauenous fowles Saint Augustine addeth the fifth shewing our bodies are the Tabernacle of the holy Spirit and it were to o great an absurditie or foule fault to preserue carefully the Pictures Apparell Iewels and Armour of our Predecessours and neglect their bodies and bones and their essentiall Spoiles of Death Therefore wee accompany the Dead to the Graue with a holy meditation of Death common to all but to the faithfull a passage to a better life comforting our selues through assurance of their happinesse that are gone before vs and that we shall follow