Kings the types of the great King dwelt after death in Dauids princely tombe 1. K. 62. The mighty Machabees were monumented in Modine their owne mount 1. Mac. 9. Ioseph an t 13. But this licence is to be onely allowed vpon a three folde condition First of personall discretion whereby this kynde of honour may redound onely to the honorable in God For as the graue of Elisha wold not contain the souldiers corps 2. King 13. No more should the graue of the godly honourable be profaned with the gracelesse ginge The next caution is to keepe distinction of place that men presume not to seeke honour where God onely should for feare of his jelousie who cannot abyde Dagon to play jake fellow-lyke And sen God hes taken in the Kirk for his owne Innes let it suffice thee lyke a doore-keeping Dauid Psal 84. or a watchman Vrias 2. Samuel 11. to ligge in the court without Yea sen all the earth is before vs that wee may ly where wee will choise if nothing can content our greede but the Lords peace we are guilty with Achab of Naboths wine-yarde The last caueat is moderation that in making thy monument thou keepe such a measure that it become not another Mausoly that is the worlds ninth maruell For as that sepulchrall monster that Queene Artimise made to her husband Mousolus the Carian Kirk from whom the rest of that ranke of sepluchers were named Mausolies was exposed to the salt taunts of dogged Diogenes so may all that sort of sepulchromany be set vp to the mockage of others For let the world thinke it but a fond foly to bellishe the out-side of a within rotten tombe with beauty and braueries excesse But if thou must haue a monument mak thy choise of any of the two lawfull sortes that before the Kirk-buriall crop in being but of the newest come-ouer antiquity was onely in vse For some there was that to the imitation of Abraham made vp little caues or voltes for buriall vse Such as we finde not a fewe abroade about our oldest Kirkes no doubt after the example of the Excedrall domicils that serued the Priests for reuesteries or Garderobs in the lewishe Temple And because they were but adjacent and incontiguous being but seuerally set as to-falles to the continent Kirks they got therefore among vs the name of of Iles that yet they keep And this kynde may content our most honourable That so they may ly if they list lyke vnto Leuites in compasse round about the Lords house The other sorte of sepulchrall monuments were tombes that beeing tumorous aboue for better capacity were after the counterfoote of Iosephs arke Gen. 50. Conforme to the which custome although now meane men be worse to content we see sundry of our crowned Kings whose monuments yet remanes in the I le Columb-kill to haue beene Kingly entombed in the Court not the Kirk An vse with vs at least vnkend as thereby appeares within this last periode of tyme containing fiue hundreth of yeares So then seeing our Nobles now may be as of olde they were then so honourablie eased with ones princely Iles or tombes why should they wilfully incurre vnnecessar profanation by burying in Kirks An vse that onely Papistry hes hatched as anone we shall showe And seeing some euen of all sortes in the light of the Lord hes begunne to reforme let the rest in the loue and feare of God follow For if they be happie that leades others to righteousnesse Daniel 12. surely that felicity shall be imparted to the faithfull followers Of superstitious pomp in buriall Chap. XI THus hauing deciphered so farre as serues this turne the inciuility of this their ciuile pomp rests to speake of that which is superstitious A matter of more ado as wherin the Lord is more immediatly injured nor in the other For as throughout the Antichristian worlde the exorbitance of superstitious exequies are found infinite as in their bel-ringinges lampe-lighting dirige singing incense burning holy watering letanie praying soule-massing vigilles keeping and such other geare may be seene so we that will be called Christians and hes protested to forleit that lore and to be reformed yet in our sepulchrals at least we adheere too much to that old deformity For as among them the wel deseruing by the purse and liberality in legacy was in vse to be Kirked vp in burial so here which is more our head-strong ones whose deseruing hes bene but sacrilegious Kirk-robbing doth clame to no lesse So that althogh they seeme to make nyce in praying for dead yet vpon the dead they will or else not in bowing their knee no where else but on their forbeers bellies which ceremony how sib it is to the old superstition I wold they could count For superstition is lyke some serpents that though they be couponed in many cuttes yet they can keepe some lyfe in all right so superstition that can hang by one haire does liue in this point And if we chock it not quyte perhaps it shall hatch more And in end it may be that it out-reason thee thus If thou hast attained to that sepulchrall prerogatiue to ly in the Kirk why should thou want that olde priuiledge to be prayed for in death And if thou be to ly at the Altar how wanrst thou a Priest to say thy soule Masse Beware of this closter logick For if once thou bee led to a going in it thou shalt bee drawen to a running with it in end So easie is the discent of Auerne How Kirbburiall superstition crop in Chap. XII Against the poyson of this Papistry there are two preseruatiue considerations that may aware it First if we will but weigh whence and when this corruption crop in next how ackwart it is against our Analogy and the words warrant For first howsoeuer this superstition is now long becomme most penny-rife Papistry yet among Papists it is not home-bred But the foly of it is first to be fathered on the olde Heathen VVho wanting well grounded hope of heauen and sufficient horror of hell became plunged in infinite errors anent the estate of the dead For first hauing diuided the world in men good or bad as we doe they subdiuided both againe in two rankes As the good in these of the best sort whom for their merit they made Gods and in a seconder good sort to whom although they allotted the Flizean fields yet so that they reserued them to a care of the residue relicts heere vnder the name Lares VVho in our tong are Brunies the which by vulgar deceiued vote were spirits employed for the benefite of our militant mortality heere Their bad againe were lykewise of two rankes The first was the worst sorte who as the best of the good were their Eudaemonies so these as the worst were repute Cacodaemones or incarnate deuilles to whom they assigned the pitte of Pluto for prison The next were the not so bad who
caue onely competent thereto In the which History beside the literall sense that so planely does speake against altar graues and for cemiteriall simplicitie there is an elegant allegory gathered for farther explanation VVhereby the caue in the field end may import that a place should be set apart for a monument of memento mori in looking whereon we may learn to loath this lyfe that once we must leaue And so like some American Kings whose custome is to comburie their concubines in tombe with themselues so must we our old-mans affections before we dissolue Againe for the processe of afterling practise we finde it precise to the paterne as the owne positiue law For till this day in â—ury the reserued vestigies of the synagogues sepulchers are euer seene in some apart place from thence where Gods sanctuaries was So that Ierusalem howsoeuer memorable for the many-fold monuments of Peeres and people both which besides the peculiar of Princes prophets or priests had foure sorts common to people as the brok Kedron for Citizens Aceldama for strangers Caluarie for the crucified and Topheth or gehenna for Idolaters yet all were without the verie cittie wals let be the temple And so farre in the fieldes end that not onely for a religious respect were they separated from the places of God but in a politick conseate also from their owne in permitting no cittie buriall And therefore is it that the Lord does at Nain meete the corps caryed vvithout as not lavvfull to be laide vvithin the cittie Luke 7. Conforme to the which wee finde some Roman lawes as by Emperour Hadrian all cittie buriall was forbid vnder the vnlaw and amerciament of fiftie crownes And this auncient policie wee perceiue practised in the ouldest of our owne countrey Kirkes that not vvithout interuall are situate from townes for the farther conuenience of Kirk-courtes for buriales And this custome I thinke the Author of the Heb. 13. regards in allusion vvho reasons that in respect the Lord did suffer and lykewaies was buryed without the cittie campe that we therefore should goe without to get him where he is And although Iudaes Kings by princely prerogatiues aboue populare priuiledge were laide in the latte of Dauid with himselfe in Sion that makes not against For the middle Ierusalem that was then the temples towne was inclusiuely walled apart by it selfe and distinct from Dauids cittie in Sion So that if men be so nyce of their owne nest and dwelling that althogh once the vse was to bury at home in their house graue yet to auoyd the deads flewer they were constrained to bury abroad why should we presume to be so prodigall of the place appoynted for the Lords repare For what euer in this case is ciuilly absurde can neuer be answerable to ecclesiasticall honestie and order Now last this buriall constitution of Abraham as it was customable to his kynde so was it confirmed by Christ in the conformity of his buriall action as if that had bene but the type of this So that as Ioseph and Nicodeme executors of the exequies of Christ made conscience to keepe that custome So Iohn in his 9. calles it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is the Iewes manner thenceforth christianly to be obserued as being consecrat by Christ whose sepulcher was for the same cause simple and at the cittie side Where through we see that this kinde of imitatiue exemples are but as as many founded laws to forfait without fauour all forme of Kirk-burial For althogh that according to Isidore his destruction these exemples be not leges that is written as laws but exemples for vs yet by the generall name they are iura that is rights to be obserued sen to that vse they are insert For seeing that law that we call ius is either naturall ciuile or nationall it followeth that these kynde of expressed exemples of simple buriall must be lawes as being first naturall as we may read of the Emmet and bee who buries their dead but without their hyues and ciuile as we heard before both of the custome and constitution keeped against cittie buriall let be of the Kirk and last of nations for Kirk-buriall is a thing neuer heard of before nor without Antichristianisme Therefore the same must serue for an irrefragable legislation The which by Abrahams primitiue institution becomming Ius publicum or a common law and by Israels practise Plebiscitum or the common conclusion and by the common confirmation at last obtained by the conformity of Christs buriall thereto becommeth a constitution implying the edge of an edict for our perpetuall imitation As the very word that Iohn wayles herein 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth importe not onely a custome but a constitution also What house a Kirk is and how far by buriall it is profaned Chap. XVII THe contrare kinde of exemples that negatiuelie are set down to exhort to abstinence from their imitation rests to consider For as by negatiue laws we are forbidden so by the conform exeÌ„ples we must forbear the vnlawful actions of meÌ„ which the Lord hes set as on the shalde shoare lyke beakens to warne the shipwreake of soules but in this our particulare although there be nothing more plentifully scriptured nor buriall exemples yet such a constant conformity hes euer beene keeped therein that lay aside ceremonies wee may imitate any of all without error And althogh the barbarity of Kirk-buriall as of old vnknown be without particular exemple yet sen it is but Kirk profanation we finde against it prohibitiues anew for the generall For the more commodious application whereof it were heere requisite once to define what kinde of house a Kirk is that so men may make conscience to vsurpe the same against the owne vse What it is we may read as it wer in that Architectoral deliniation of the Lords passe ouer parlor Mar. xiiij the which as it is descriued first in dimension to be high and large next in apparrell to be comely prepared And last for that tyme at least particularly consecrate to the Passe ouer vse So telles it that Bethel the domicile of God must be first an Ecclesie or Kirk a tabernacle for the congregations repare that is of such competent capacity as may easily containe the particular flock Next that it be for bewtie a Basilick or temple fit for contemplation of Gods promised presence there Matt. xviij xx which bewty although it must keepe bounds of christian simplicity yet no warrand will allow emulation in houses humane according to the Centuries conscience Matt. 8.8 whose roofe he acknowledged with himselfe vnworthy to receiue the Lord. For as Dauid disdained to dwell in a palice of Cedar while the Lords Arke remaned in tents 2. Sam 7. so Salomons palice how princely so euer yet was it magnificently exceeded by the house he builded to God 1. King 8. and 9. But this elegance without exces and comelinesse without curiosity
THE BLAME OF KIRK-BVRIALL TENDING TO PERSVVADE CEMITERIALL CIVILITIE FIRST PREACHED THEN PENNED and now at last propyned to the Lords inheritance in the Presbyterie of Lanerk by M. William Birnie the Lord his Minister in that Ilk as a pledge of his zeale and care of that reformation MATT. 8.22 Follow me and let the dead bury the dead EDINBVRGH PRINTED BY ROBERT CHARTERIS PRINter to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie 1606. TO THE TRVELY NOBLE IAMES MARQVES OF HAMMILTON EARLE of Arrane Lord Auen Aberbroth c. the Shiriffe principall of Clydisdaill and Prouost of Lanerk True felicity wished both here and hence from God in Christ Iesus THere is nothing wherein the Antichristian crew is found more condemnable Noble Marques nor that by their lin-sey-wol-sey confusions they haue dared clamp the sincere twist of Gods trueth with the torne clouts of their brain-sicke superstitions instanced especially in their many fold sepulchromany Whose blame therefore we blase that such cullours of Asdod remaine not so standered out euen in Israels campe vnder this our protested reformation But to award the malignance of any gain-said affection I strong-hold my self by this nuncupation of you vnder your Marqueships Mecenatisme For as by the foster-father-hood of such high callings Gods Altar-mens trauels in his own trueth ought to be steil-bowed so these great-good gifts of nature and grace in body and minde that God hes garnelled vp in you does plentifully promit that comfort to vs. For to Gods glory I speak beside these personal parts of such vigorous talnes in statur strength so dexterously kythed by a peereles pausty in all campestrial prowes and pas-tyming exployts that if I may say it by a grace-full Gygantinisme the commonly doughâ—y are become your dwarfes your minde which is more thogh yet adolescent is so magnifickly inner-manned that in rauersing these forraine territories as ye Heroikly intend ye can se no singular thing that in some compeÌ„dious Micro-cosmo-graphy does not shine in your self And therefore althogh the Magogick negotiation of Schittim the bordel of both the whordomes hes ship-wreaked the soules â—f some almost of your rank yet being so mainly munitioned with that panoply of God I hope to see your triumph ouer such temptations As happily did your heauen-dwelling Father of incorruptible memory For so long as ye resolue to loyalize the loue of your soule to the Lord and of your body to the betrothed breasts of that Lady that ought it the gates of hell shall not preuaill But least ye prolong too long the iust experience of these high expectations that Kirk and Country conceiues of you be intreated my good Lord to retrinch and abridge your forain tary that so not onely the viduity of vs your wel willing followers by your fairing away may be remoued but also the pinching langour of these two your dayly beed-Ladies your Mother to wit the mirrour of all godly graue matronisme and your Spouse now the yong fruteful Matriarch of that multi-potent Marquesad So shall Dauid enioy his owne Ionathan and Israell now in his growing need his mediating Ioseph of all men now-adayes most skant But the Lord by his pasport of protection giue your Lordship continuall conuoy to your rinks end And grant that Coelum non animum mutet qui trans mare currit The incessant Orator to God for your Lordship M. W. B. The blame of Kirk-buriall The proposition of the matter Chap. I. THere be three seuerall stations that the diuine Prouidence by degrees hes assigned to man wherby he may mount to immortalitie First the wombe a mansion for nine moneths next the world that indureth to dissolution last the graue the tabernacle of bodilie rest vnto the resurrection to the consideration of the first two whereof althogh Philosophy may auaile as Physick for our incarnation and Ethick for our worldlie well yet to the science of the last the Graue Theologie is onelie sufficient as a subiect that farre ouer-reaches Natures reason For we see that howsoeuer the Corinthian error that doubted or Saducean herisie denied the resurrectioÌ„ in our christian Kirk seeme extinguished yet the practise of manie in buriall processe argues not onlie irresolution but incredulitie whereof kirk-buriall is badge as wherein by a sacrilegious conuersion they make Gods Sanctuarie their Golgotha that is the Kirk a caluarie or cairne of dead mens skulles Which sinne lest it seeme to walke safely vnder protection of the Kirks conniuence or of the commons conceat that counts it indifferent I intend to decypher beginning at burials definition The definition of Buriall Chap. II. NOw Buriall I finde to be that religious ceremonie whereby our defunct bodies are interred vnto the resurrection For as in deing destruction is resembled so by buriall that is the reuersion of life immortalitie is represented I call it a ceremonie in respect it is not of that essentiall necessitie to christian welfaire as without the which we will be prejudged of the resurrection For although casually euen the godly may fall vnder the in lake of funerall exequies yet of burial neuer For whatsoeuer element shall dissolue this elementall body in this mother dust the same is his tombe and must repledg him at the requisition of the great day as did the Whale in the type Ionas For as Lucanus to Cesar saye who after the Pharsalian defeate of Pompey his â—ost 〈◊〉 inhibite to burne that is after the Romane vse to bury the slane Capit omnia tellus quae genuit coelo tegitur qui non habet venam The which transuersed meanes The earth is ready to receiue her broode And heauens will couer when leame tombes cannot do I de And Virgil affirmes that whom the world neglectes vnburyed nature in tombes Wherefore Augustine refuting the Heathen who for the misery of the vnburied Gospellers inflicted by the Gothes at the saccadge of Rome inferred the discredite of the Gospell it selfe makes answere that buriall is rather a solace to the liuing nor subsidie to the dead and so but a ceremony But such a one that withall remember it is so religious that althogh it be not among the pointes of Gods absolute and immediate worship yet as opportunity serues it is religiously and conscientiously to be cared for As it hes euer beene not by the Kirk onely but by the very world who in many outward thinges hes beene accustomed to murgean and apishly to imitate the Kirks holy ceremonies thogh neither in substance nor the right sence For in the Greeke lawes of Solon the latine of Numa and Romane of Iustinian we find a rigorous vigour against buriall violation According as wheresoeuer immortality it beleeued the same is in force in such sort that among the lately discouered Brasilians people whose bellies otherwise are burials to foes whom they eate yet for their friends they digge graues though not to our forme in length but to their owne in hight so that the defunct is rather set in a
for our buildings are spirituall For as Salomons many thousand artificers were exercised about the building of the materiall temple so must we the many millions of the greater nor Salomons men be occupyed in making vp the spirituall and in squairing our selues as the Lords lyuely stones that being sounded on all sides we may soane aright in the Lords aslare work the which is our edificatioÌ„ And this in respect of the oportunity of application can no where be more peremptorly promoued nor in buriall the which beside that it beares in hand euen in death immortall hope as being but a gathering vp of Gods saints to their fathers Gen. 25. a sleep 1. Thess 4. a seede j. Cor. xv a rest from our trauels Appo 19. c. it is a most powerfull preacher of mortification and humility And so mekill better it is to be in the house of mourning nor joy that as the one serues but to tickle our lustfull appetytes yet the being in the other will abate all carnall affection Exemple whereof we may finde euen in excommunicate Ishmael who thogh he could not abyde his borne brother Isaac during the lyfetyme of their common father Abraham yet the sore sight of that saint his syres death did so tawne the truculent turke that he became content to partake in the common paines of his fathers funerals with the son of promise For but the remembrance onely of death or buriall and their consequences that Ecclesias calles our last things is an effectuall â—wband of affection and restraint to sin To the which vse S. Ierome made his mort-head to serue And surely if we could but sufficiently make our vse of that anotomicall description of our immortality and misery that the preacher sets down Eccle. 12 in such enigmaticall poesie that as it passes all humane elegance eloquence so I think it wold make our craw-down fedrum fal and make vs sit downe in the dust of mortification But alas the mynds of men are so els-where bewitched that against this Analogical end that we shold propose for edification in steed to mortify by burial showes they most exceede in pryde therein So that mens nuptial festiuities ar ofttimes exceeded by their necial folies in making their burials with the tempter Matt. 4. a mont to show worldly glory rather nor with the Preacher to teach this worlds vanity For burials now are become the occasion not onely of the brugling brags of men but of the contemp also of Gods hous and seruaÌ„ts And wheras burials shold flow the hony of edification as did the medicinall graue of Hyppocrates the honey of health they are rather whyles like Herods whose birth day as it was Iohn Baptists buriall Matt. 14. so was his buriall day tragicall to the noble Iewes whom to get himselfe mourned he made to be slane Ioseph anti lib. 17 chap. 8. So then sen Kirk-buriall is at the best excuse but pryde as being a clame of exemption from common case and consequently against edification the Apostles right end I conclude it is sin Of buriall exemples Chap. XVI NOw hauing found by Analogies lyne Kirk-buriall beyond square it restes to rype vp the rule of exemple The second of the two meanes that the Lord hes employed for our easier information in his obedience For as by propheticall instruction we are taught what we ought to do so by exemples instance we are showen how the same hes beene done by others for authentick exemples are the very practised speculation of the Law it selfe Wherein the spirit is so plentifull that there is no case of our conuersation that may not either be qualified or controled by scripturall exemples seeing they are of two sortes For some are to be noted as improper that being certaine singular actions of some odde men whose warrand if it wanted not yet being at least extraordinarly vouchsafed they could requyre no ordinare imitation Such as the patriarchall polygamie c. For as the Lord said to his two disciples that after the counterfoote of Elias 2. Kinges 1. would haue commanded a consuming fire to come downe against the in hospitall Samaritanes Luk. 9. They are caried with an vnknowne spirite that would imitate anomalous exemples And this sort that thou be not deceiued the indytement of Analogy will easily discerne from proper exemples whose vse is onely set downe for vs. 1. Cor. 10. the which likewise are of two sortes For as the Lords lawes are either imperatiues of good or inhibitiues of ill so are the exemples conforme For some are of imitation to perswade good and others of abstinence to disswade euill And therefore they are to the Apostle types 1. Cor. 10. that is exemples answerable to the law the Architype from heauen And so throgh this conformity of Canonick exemples to Authentick law exemples becommes no lesse nor lawes Where through we see that not onely the fiue bookes of Moses beares the tytle of the lawe but the whole bookes of the old Testaments Bible also Ioh. 10.34 and xv 25. that so wee may learne to count the comprysed exemples for consecrate lawes For like as the sanctification and obseruation of the Dominicall day although it had no more warrand nor Dominicall and Apostolical exemples yet the same does importe a vigorous necessitie of law to imitation For euen as in a sea-fairing flot the formest by saile doth fuir before with lantern and flag as fade whom the rest should follow or lyke the eagle in sore trayning her yong to flee so did our auncient admirals and fathers of faith pestere the righteous paths for the vse of our exemplare imitation But for our purpose let vs licere looke what light of exemplare lawes in buriall hes beene borne before for vs to followe And first as in the word there is nothing more frequent nor buriall exemple in all the which there is a tenorall processe so equally and vnchangeably euery-where obserued that they are not onely injurious that count it without scripturall direction but also vnjust that would infringe anywayes the old forme that in funerals we finde was simple without pompe or pryde and in sepulchers was sober without superstition or profanation of any place appointed for Gods publick worship So that this one-fold Analogie so euenly obserued did justly deserue in deed the pragmaticall power of a perpetuall law For sen first we finde the primitiue paterne of buriall proponed by Abraham next without interruption of the same a perpetuatl practise in Israel and last a peremptor confirmation thereof by Christ it can be no lesse nor a law to continue for euer And to begin at the originall institution we finde it first solemnly set downe in the consecration of Abrahams conquest caue where he designes it for buriall vse Gen. 25. and so beginnes the first at least expresse Cemiteriall law For then the faithfuls father for posterities exemple will not lay nor be laide in Mambre where the altar was but in Makpelachs
I vrge because alas although the vmwhile zeale of Gods house did eate the godly vp with Dauid Psal 69. Yet now it is contrarily come to passe that the zeal of the godlesse does eat vp Gods house his portion and all And sin that in our owne experience hes beene oft punished by the Prophecy of Haggai 1.4 c. And last the Kirk must be according to the patern an oratory or house of prayer Isa 56.7 that is destinate to the onely end of Gods worship So then vnder these three conditions to wit of amplitude ornacy and vnprostitude chastity to any other vse nor the owne but specially the last it becommes a Kirk As for that all Kirk-worshippe is vnder one comprised in the name of prayer by the Prophet there is a triple cause First for that originall encoenie or dedication prayer vttered at the temple consecration it became after intituled alwayes the house of prayer j. King 8. and consequently euen so Kirks because beside that the olde holy places vnder the law had lyke the annoynted persons a mistick meaning seruing to Catechise in the knowledge of Christ they caryed also some materiall resemblance of such Gospell places as should be set apart for the worship of God As first the Apostles Analogicall allusion of Altar and temple worshippe then to Kirk ministration now imports j. Cor. 9. and next was acknowledged by the selfe Iewes in supplying the defects of the second temple by building synagogues Acts. xv xxj And last also the righteous accommodation of the Prophecy it selfe Isa 567 may proport For there such a house of prayer is proponed that should be Catholicklie patent to all people of the vvorld vvhich onely is competent to the Euangelicall temple Mark xj xvij So then for conscience of that autentick consecration that in common may concerne all the Oratories of God christians should not lyke cursed ones and Papists vsurpe them to a sinister vse For they in consecrations being more not superstitious admitting the vncouth exercise of buriall are contrare themselues and prodigally profane Againe the Kirk is called the house of prayer because no pointe of Gods vvorship can either be seasoned or sanctified without prayer as testifies the Apostle j. Tim. 4.5 And last the Kirk is so called for the wordes homonimie or variety of sense for â—ephillah that wee expone prayer lyke the roote that it springs from does import more For althogh the 90. Psa in number be intituled a praier yet from the matter it is rather a preaching so that this way to be the house of prayer by figure is to be dedicate to the administration onelie of the publict points of kirk-worship The which points as being also the onely vndenyable and viue marks of a visible Kirk are but three to wit the word sacraments and discipline as if wee looke throgh the rent vaile we may soone perceiue For althogh there was without the temples inner-uaile a variety of ceremonial vtensiles to be seene yet within and before the Arke of presence there was but three pledges of perpetuall monument consigned the tables of the law the sacramentall vrne and the rod of Aarons rule shadowes of that trinity of the tokenâ— that only may tel vs vvhere the true Kirk is Heb 9. VVhere the Apost mentioning the golden censor with all wherin Iohn in the Reuel places the odoriferous prayers of the saints means the same that we say that neither word sacrameÌ„ts nor discipline can be in season without prayer So then to resume that parlor or place that is competentlie spatious speciose in outward forme and spiritually plenished with no implements but the owne proper three is the onlie Bethel and dedicate house to God And to assume but burial-kirks are not such Ergo. The Assumpion may be sene in the misuse of the foresaid all three kirk properties For first by kirk-buriall kirk-bounds are so mistrammed and in many places either so eatten vp vvith intaking Iles or the passage so impeshed with thorter some throughes or at the least the pauement so partiallie parted to paticulare men that if they cleaue to that they haue calked the people that rests as by a proude purpresture postponed must byde at the dore Againe the cullors of their comelines are become so vncouth that in stead of Basilick beautie there is oft to be seene the badges of buriall in black dolie duill And the the more to skar away christian contemplation ye will finde for object to your eye the conuoysances of knights portracts pinsels of men So that Gods seemely sanctuarie beeing transferred to the vvithout vvhited but vvithin rotten sepulchers of men odious to Christ Matth. 23. becommeth in populare opinion thereby the alrishe Innes of bogles and Gaists So that many for that presumed feare dare not enter alone in the Kirk But seeing as Tertulian sayes that sepulchers are but mortuorum stabula that is stables for the dead there can be nothing more incompatible nor the same thing to be made an buriall beere and to remaine a Kirk both at once As by weighing the scripturall equiuocations that are bestowed on both Kirk and graue maybe considered For as the Kirk hes many names in common with heauen as Bethel and the port of heauen Genesis xxviij c. Euen so the graue beside the twelfe names wherewith it is commonly called as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sometyme the name of Gehenna for the boulkes of many muddy men that fell in that greene 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sepulchrum Sepulchretum Mausolium Dormitorium Monumentum Tumulus Vrna Spelunca Bustum it hes yet seauen names more that by scripturall equiuocation are common with hell So that the originall words of the text may be exponed to meane of either And first in Prouerb 30.16 it is called Schaol that is a place of insatiable apetyte Next is Abaddon or of perdition Psal 89.49 Thirdly Zal-maneth the shadow of death Psal 107. Fourthly Erets Tachtau the lowest parts of the earth Psal 86 13. Fifthly Tit Hauon or myrie clay Sixtly Borschaon the pit of tumult both mentioned in the 40. Psalme 3. verse And lastly it is also called Bor Schachath that is the pit of corruption Psal 55.24 All the which as they agree to the graue as the graue and gate of Hell so doe they by the same figure to the golfe it selfe And by consequence to make Bethel or Gods house which should be lyke heauen the place of insatiable appetyte or of corruption perdition the shadowe of death a pit of tumult a myrie clay c as in deed the Roman Kirk-buriers doe in a Gigantomachy they prease to commix the heauen with the hell And last for the vse who sees it not thereby so miserably transferred from the owne to an vncouth vse that verie lyke these Herodians that mingled their sacrifices with bloode Luke chap. viij they pelmell the dead with the liuing all in one Kirk For sen buriall action is of