there clearely proued that before the tyme of Antichrists discouery Kirk-buriall was vnknowne and against the constant tennor and Analogie of coemiteriall exemples that are contained in scripture the which we haue sufficiently prouen to haue the force of a law and of necessitie to be followed chap. xvj So then since Kirk buriall is against scripturall Analogie and exemple it is superstition Againe that it is profanation it is lykewise manifest by the wordes Etimologie for profanum being quasi antevel extra farum is that that is vnholied and depryued of sanctification And so contrare to the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which being as many think from a privatiue particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that signifies the earth meanes a sanctified or separate thing from earthly vse to an holy end So then I reason all transferrence of a separate thing from an holy end to a common vse is profanation chap. xviij but Kirk-buriall is such Ibid. Ergo profanation Againe all Paganisme or Papistry is profanation but Kirk-buriall is both cap. xij xiij Ergo profanation So these with the rest of my vnrecited reasons closes vp this conclusion vse Kirk-buriall no more Against the which what spirit will gaine say but that of contradiction that Angels cannot perswade Whereby some do prattle of buriall rather nor learne to dye But if old canons were to vrge whereby men was prouided to bury but where they payed their teynds I see not where a great sort of our cumber somest Kirk-buriers should ly who being toâ—-masters of the teyndâ— themselues hes for-faulted their freedome of all sort of laire But the Lord let the world see what sacrilâ—â—gâ— and profanation is that being forewarned of the day of euill in making redresse they may seeke to be redressed in the redeeming Lord. AMEN Caluine in Act. 9 37. Ionas 2. Lucan â—â— Viues vpon the Cittie of God 1. lib. 12 cap. De Cini Dei 2. Sam. 2.5 Leâ—iâ—â— in hist â—auig in Brasiliam Ierem. 2â— 1. Cor. 15. Hiero. ad pammach Sylli. 13. lib. Cicer. lib. 2. de leg and lib. 3. de tuscu quaest Licurgus Hieromi in Isa 66. Quint. lib. 1 Viues on the Citty of God chap. 12. O to frising lib. 4. Marie Par. 9 Act. 76. Iames 6. Parl. 15. Act. 232. Seneca 2 Sam 5. Suer in Domit. Tertul. de habitu muliebri Euseb Eccles histor Quid. Laert. lib. 1. Ioseph Anti. lib. 2. Duaren de benef Eccle. Ioseph Ant lib. 7. ca. 1â— Enclan in diâ—lo Maus Diog. Durand de Camit Ioseph 〈◊〉 bello Iuâ—â— lib. 6.6 Hector Boe. Chron. Bellarm. de purgat Virgilius Aug. de ciuit Viues on it lib. 9. cap. 11. Virg. 6. Aere Cyril lib 2 de leg b. Bellarm. de purgat Against the 48. an of thâ— Couns of Wâ—rm an 815. Durand de Eccles August de Ciâ—i Dei Damascen tractat de Ortho. sid Ierus 6. part of purificat Ierom. in the life of Paule the Hermite Ioseph Ant. lib. 8 cap. 7. Concil ColoÌ„ part 7. cap. 5. Ierome on Daniel Benzo in hist noaâ— orbis Ier. in locis hebraicis Criuit lib 2. Iosep Ant. lib. 8. Iero. in locis hebraicis Durand de Caemit Origen contra Celsum Lib. Etym. 5. Aug. on Iohn tract 12. Durand de Eccles Ioseph Anti. lib. 2. cap 2. Bernard in apolog August de sermone Dei in monte Gratian. Deciet part 2. Tertul. de resurrect carnis Dur. de caem Iero. on the 2. Chro 33. R. Ios Ben Leui. 2. Macca 3. Ios ben Gor. Eb. cap. 1. Remists in Apoc. ca 9. Durand de Eccesia Conci Gang Greg. ans to August Bish of Canterb. August ad 〈…〉 11â— De cult san lib. 3. cap. 4. 1. Sam. 2. Platina Polidore Vug. in the life of Clement â— Nico de Mil. in his repert auâ—â—um â—â—â—rian deâ— part 2. Durand de Caen it
tun nor tombe ouer end on their feet the more viuely to testifie their faithlesse hope of the resurrection Of the end of buriall Chap. III. BVt the faithfull who rests rightly perswaded does religiously celebrate buriall for the conscience of a double duety The first being due to the dead the other to the liuing The due we ought to the Lords dead is the buriall honour the which as part of their remuneration among men for their good life should follow them as deing in the Lord. Apoc. 14.13 So that the faithfull as forfoghten in the wearisome warfair of this militant life after the victory of dissolution should be streeked downe in graue the down-bed of restfull repose Where otherwise the depriuation thereof or debarring there from hes euer beene inflicted as a most ignominious punishment against the most criminall According to the law imperial against parricids and such And in the diuine law no buriall was the asses burial the portion of rebellious Ioachas wherefore the burial dueties by the old latines were called Iusta such a justum due to each man as burials necessity by natures right required For to defraude the most landles liuer on â—â—e at lest of his septipedall inheritance so equally proportioned to all by death without partiality in mettage it were a shamelesse sacriledge Againe in respect of the liuing the right vse of buriall is expresly profitable were it but for the hatching of hope and fostring of faith in the article of rising againe from the death For as in Eccl. 12. the graues periphrase beth gnolam signifies the secular house so shall it no longer be inhabite then the tyme come when by him that liueth for euer tyme shall neuer be more Reuel 10.6 For the giuing vp of the godlies ghost may featlie be compared to three-thinges first it resembles the Propheticall rauishments that Ierome Ezechiel and others had and Paul speaks of 2. Cor. 12. for the soule in dissolution as the Psalmist saies psal 90 flees vpward with the winges of immortalitie to the owne element Heauen to be with him that gaue it repledging the body to her mother earth Eccles 12 till such time as the spirit return to invest her corps as a garment of glorie thenceforth for euer Againe Dissolution is like that matrimoniall desertion that vppon mutuall consent the Apostle i. Corinth vij for a time permites to the farther and freer vse of fasting and praying For the body in graue growing vp to incorruption and the soule in heauen confirmed in immortality shall joyfullie at last joine in full glorification The which without both that is bodilie incorruption and spirituall immortality is not made vp to perfection For euen as Zippora thogh Moses wife in her Madianitish maners was not meet to joine with Israel Exo. 5. til after the farther tryall of time she was better prepared Exo. 18. So this our carnall carion is not meet for a heauenly match til in the graue it be trained to the incorruptible estate And last it is likened by the Apostle first Cor. xv to a seed which thogh by death it be sown incorruption dishonour and weaknes in the grauely fielde of the graue yet hauing fructified to incorruption glory and power shall at laâ—â— in the Lords haruest be glaned in by his Angel with the sharpe sicle Apoc. 14. and reaped vp to the fruition of soueraine felicity for euer For although death in his legacie registrate in the 12. of the Preacher bequeathing the spirit to God that gaue it doth deliuer the body but to the owne dust yet the vigour of that testament does but indure to the terme-terme-day of generall refreshment Act. 3. for the Innes of eternity are alreadie arled in for our farther assurance by our two faithfull furriours Enoch and Elias the Lords exemed ones to the same end So then for honour of the dead and hope to the liuing if to the first we be not fraudulent nor among the second faithlesse we must grant the debt of buriall duetie Of the generall abuse of Buriall ceremonies Chap. IIII. NOw this duety in respect it is discharged in ceremonies in any kynde whereof it hes euer beene impossible to keepe measure without the direction diuyne what sort here are lawfull vnder comparison with the lawlesse it rests to define And first all buriall ceremonies may be reduced to two ranks for some are funerals seruing for preparation to and some sepulchrals seruing for placing in the graue the defunct The ceremoniall variety of both whereof my labor were infinite let be vaine to descryue For to giue but a glance in funerall the Greke and Romane did burne their dead in rogo as they styled their funerall fire the Indean with Got-seame did besmeare the Schithean swallied the Egiptian pickled with bryme but the Gerrens a Schithian sect after exinteration bespyced their gutlesse goodsirs that so ridiculously by corruptible meanes they might assay to reteene fugitiue incorruption as Lucian in his Dialogue de luctu And Silius Italicus the Poet in his 13 booke doe testifie of many such foolish feats Againe in sepulchrals the variety is found no lesse vaine euery Nation seruing it selfe with the owne vowstie deuise For first according to the number of the elements so hes the sepulchrall receptacles of humane bodies fourefold bene found Some chosing the floting fome for their tombe as among others the African Lotophagians others preferred to wither in the aire as of old not a few in Egypt and Ethiopia that so preuenting the stinck of putrifaction by scowdring their skins in the Sunne they might reserue their dead friends extant to be ordinar accombents with them at their tables And which more deserues mockage sometyme the mony lesse Ethiopian by ingadging his reasted parent vpon reuersion might releeue his want Yea and the fire although fearce hes not bene forborne as to the which in defraude of the wormes many hes be taught their body both bone and lyre That so pitchering vp their onely relict asses in vrnes they might make a proud thought a very poore pompe And althogh the worlds rest in common with the Kirk hes made choise of the moulds of their mother earth as the graue onely designed by God warranted by the words exemples and keeping best relation to our resurrection as out of whose lare onely we may properly be saide to rise yet in the vsage thereof how infinitly men hes deborded Histories records Of the due direction in Buriall Chap. V. BVt lest I shoulde as some doe in telling vyce teach it I will turne me rather to teach as I can what or what not the Kirk should doe nor toomely to talke what hes beene done abroad by the world in this earand except so far as by outward exemples we may confroÌ„t our present confusions wherat I aime And because nowadayes buriall is ordinarilie traduced as a scripturelesse thing and so amongst indifferents to be vsurped at the vnstayed arbitriment of men how
graue were of enamelled gold yet it is but our graue the monument of our common misery that by diuine mercy onely may be remedied without farther meanes And as a blood-gush made Iulian at last to knowe Christ and Alexander thogh the maine Monarch his mortality against the which he had beene be flattered before so if we be not frentick our funerals should teach vs our transitory estate For of all pride this pompe I esteeme it most perillous in respect that if the world will haue by it the graue restored to her victory God for a meeting to the world will restore death to his sting For a document therefore against the which the Lord did closly conuey the body of his owne dissolued Moses from being the object of such fecklesse ostentation and perillous pompe Deut. 34. The which seeing in that great one the Lord did not allow why should our far lesse ones lawleslie claime it And this for that ciuile pompe that in buriall funerals is found blameable Against seculare or ciuile pompe in sepulchrals Ch. VIII THe sepulchrall pride of men is nothing inferiour For although before we deduced that among al the elements the earth to be the most seemely sepulcher yet in the vsage thereof the earthlings hes laboured to transcend the earth in pryd as in a touch we shall showe The name sepulcher as it is in common vsed for all graues so it implyes two seueral kindes Whereof some are peculiare to some persons onely and others common to all Again of the peculiar sort sum ar proper to singular persons only and others to mo yet being of one sort or family To the proper kynde of sepulchers as in the world yet for the most part out of the Kirk the choise of place hes beene as many where it remaines indifferent euen so in the Kirk to the death of Sara it seemes to haue beene at what tyme Abraham first to eschew that promiscuous confusion and for a more actual possession of his promised Canaan vnder his pilgrimag did acquyre a field for his constant buriall Gen. 23. wherein he and his Sara Isaac and his Rebeka Jacob and his Lea three maryed matches in others armes attendes the resurrection Gen. 48. And although the estate of Gods gathering Kirk then requyred the decency and order of common buriall yet we finde the necessity thereof neuer holden absolut For as among diuers necessities the meanest must yeeld so Iacob hauing his head homeward from Sechem to Mambre where his father dwelled at his sepulcher and within one dayes trauell to his rinks end sustening in his campe a double irruption by death in the first whereof he was depriued of Debora his vmwhile mothers Nurce in the other of Rachel the wife of his choise to auoyde the suspition of superstitious curiositie he yeelds to the most present necessity and suffers the treto ly wher it fell Eccle. 11. by entombing Debora at the oake of Bethel and Rachel in the way to Ephratah without farther cariage Gen. 35. So then we see that euen after the institution of common buriall the vse of proper vpon necessity which beeing lawlesse can bring no disorder was neuer inueterat nor thoght vnlawfull For as sound doe they sleepe by the mure edge that are folded vp in the fauour of God though it were by the Pest as in the most stately tombe For as fishe in euery sea is at home so we in euery earth if we be the Lords to whom the earth and her implements do all appertaine Psal 24. And as this consideration serues to confound the superstitious opinion of the prerogatiue of some sepulchrall places for their hallowed moulds so does it for the blame by the way of these farland conuoyences of the dead to their homed tombes defrauding the weary corps of the desired rest For althogh vpon some propheticall respects Iacob and Ioseph both commanded their cariage from Egypt to Canaan Gen 50. yet without the like cause their case is no warrant Let men therefore rather translate their curiositie of sepulchrall care in a serious cure how they may be gathered vp aright to their grandsirs in God and in the common faith of our father Abraham In doing whereof we shall be blessed with the bed-fellowship of Iesus in our buriall lare where euer it be Otherwise if thy graue were of gold yet it is but the gate of hell Of the diuers kindes of pompous sepulchers Chap. IX THe proper sort of sepulchers the world as I said hes labored to make them proudly proper so french hes men beene in their fashions For many to eternize their soone forgot memory and to gaine the vogue of this vaine world hes prepared Pyramides of pomp others pillers of pride some mousolies of maruel As if such superciliosity could sweeten the bitter swarfes of their sowre death the wickeds greatest euill But as oft it occurres according to the prouerb that he that hountes doth not ay rost so it may befall others that did Pharao Cenchres that drowned King of Egypt who hauing a sepulchrall Pyramide elabored by the panefull taske of Gods people wherein he desingde to ly yet his funerals was found in red-sea floode And as both the name of a Pyramide did signifie and the forme resemble fire so is he now for his pride plotted with Pluto in the flame of hel For ofttymes what men does propose in pride God disappointeth in his displeasure Of the common and allowed sort of Buriall Chap. X. THe comon kinde of sepulchers are more answerable to Pauls order and to that sort of the Saints communion that consists in lying together in graue Yet they are found diuers For some hes beene acquyred and as conquished to that vse as Abrahams caue in Makpela Gen 23. And Akeldama Matt. 27. Others were munificently dedicate As Iehosaphats vaile by Ierusalem In the which some out of Ioel 3. hes conjectured that the conuocation of the great day should be Other parts againe are found of olde mortified to that vse lyke Caluary so called as some thinke from Adams brane-pan there found if all be true that is alledged Of some one of the which sorts are all Coemiteries or clostered places wherein our bodies being keeped from the carnage of beasts are lade a part to the resurrection For sepelire though Durand thinke it to be from sine pulsis yet I take it to be from se-palliare that is to couer apart as our buried bodies be Now this sepulchral communion for the commonty of it none should contemn For althogh the place remane common yet to auoyde confusion of rankes the sepulchrall preparation I thinke may be different For true honours monuments should euer haue place And what vertue hes win in this world should not be suffered to dy with death And therefore Rachael the joy of her Iacob is not onely buried but by a distinct monument memorized Gen. 35. with the ods of a piller that Debora wantes And Iudaes
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
Prophet whom for his preuarication they pretend to haue beene punished with the depriuation of his paternall saire 1 King 13. the Lords wordes meanes more then they marke For as the 25. verse may commen the 21. the sense is that being preuented by death as he was by the lyons lench he should neuer see home nor ly in the common laire by a peaceable death Otherwise the penalty of his presumption in the want of the vsuall laire had beene but slight seeing buryed he was So then vnder skoâ—gh of the conscience scruple to adheare to this vncouth vse it were but conceate and no conscience For beside the vnnecessity of keeping this custome the consideration of the impossibility of it should resolue the doubts in respect of successional multiplications For as neither all Adams children no nor Iaphets Gentiles can be contained in graue with themselues what tombe could intumulate any entyre race of folks And therfore in temple foundations because nature in graue craues elbow-roume and abhorres to be rufled with ouer frequent discouery because the center Kirk was both incompetent and incapable of the congregations dead there was alwayes a circumferent yarde of thirty foote in compasse at least or more if the occation of farther confluence requyred set apart to burial bounds in common to all But if thou would stand vpon a parentall societie in graue seeing the deserters deserues to be deserted seeke vpward to them that most Analogically liued in the purest times whose exemple thou may imitate with lesse heresie hazard For as in ciuile entries to heritage if it be for the better men can make leap-yeare of their father and seeke farther vppe why may not thou in this case bissextile some bodily forebeares that so thou may enter to the most immaculate aunciety and fathers of faith whom all thou wilt finde not in the Kirk but in her courts buryed as I reede you doe or else in errour thou shalt more erre For since vse is an euill ruse vvhere warrand is avvay let reason ouer-rule and ordour reforme The sconce againe that they carie of others exemple is rather found an excuse for the fact nor a reason for it But the wyte makes a wrong no more the better nor did the trajection of our first parents fall Genes chap. 3. on the author of it sathan auailed vvith God For in sifting out their sinne to the far end from Adam to Eua from her to that euill one at last as he did punishe all by proportion the seducing serpent with a curse the inducing Eua with a crosse of subjection and the grinding paines of her birth the ouer easily adduced Adam with the care and sweatty labours of this militant lyfe So may the Lord doe in this proces of ours For as the symoniacall seducers that first lade this block before the blinde with the immediate transmitters of Kirk-burial tradition for this tymes exemple deserues at least at the handes of God both a crosse and a cursse the very same they may justly also incurre that does obstinatly insiste in the trace of such foole-hardy footsteps For the which cause then seeing in authentick exemples are but Egiptian reedes that doe harme the hand of him that leaneth on we should looke how we should liue by the law and not to goe louse by lawlesse exemples And this far for such patrociny that Kirk-buriall procutors doe vse pragmatically to pleade But the practicians now keepes vp for the as good a reason in oddes that lyke a pittard hes more pith nor all the rest whatsoeuer that they vse to take from the vse of a forehammer The conclusion whereof in their clubbe-law doth oft tymes make the Kirk-dore fling on the floore And althogh to beligger the lodgings of meÌ„ for feare of their murther-holes they wil looke ere they loupe yet to enforce the Kirk-house as if God had no gunnes there are many of small feare But to refute a reason so rough since it doeth passe our pastorall reach in humble reuerence we remitte the same to the ciuile power as by right appertaines That they who by calling should be the foster-fathers of the Kirk Isa 49. may by the rod of their charge represse such vnreasonable insolence as they will answere to him that set them in ranke And because that a publict law would best ridde the martch if so be that such feete may come so farre ben I doe present this petition on the knees of the Kirk to his Highnesse selfe that according to our expectation founded vppon his Majesties gratious response not far from the Assemblies sute heere-anent he wold procure an inacted law to beem fill the Kirk acts against Kirk-buriall whereby secluding all from the Kirk-laire the great ones and good ones whom qualitie and condition does exeeme from popular case may in tyme begin to talke of a tombe or else a new I le for buriall vse A recapitulation of some former reasons against buriall in Kirk Chap. XX. NOw here ere I end for the more populare application I will contriue an clench of some former reasones in sylogistick forme by the which self-momus may see Kirk-buriall blame vndenyablie induced and that men may in familiar vse as it were beare the same about at their belt For beside that wee haue showen it a prat of proud pryde chap. xj c. before we may proue it also to be not onely a shamefull superstition but also a most peruerse profanation And first to be superstition I proue it this way All action that is atouer and against the statute of the Lord is but superstition for so the very etimologie of the word doth beare for superstitio is quasi supra statutum Dei that is aboue or at ouer or against the statute of God but Kirk-buriall is aboue yea against the statutes of God Ergo it is superstition The assumption I proue All that is against the wordes Analogie is against the statute of God as none will deny but Kirk-buriall is against the words Analogie Ergo it is against the statute of God The assumption I proue All action that is against the Apostles rule of decency and order in the manner of doing and edification in the end is against Analogy for these things he does requyre j. Cor. xiiij 26. and 40. vers but Kirk-buriall is found to be such Ergo it is against the wordes Analogie The assumption yet I proue in partes First it is against Analogicall order of buriall read the 15. chap. before Next it is against Analogicall decency read chap. 18. Last it is against Analogicall edification read chap. xvj Ergo against Analogie and consequently it is superstition Againe I reason al actions that is against the authentick exemples of the word that like lawes are commended to vs for ordinar imitation are superstition 1. Cor. 10. but Kirk-buriall is so Ergo it is superstition The assumption I proue by induction of tyme. chap. 14. and persons chap. 17. So that we haue