Seasonable considerations on the indecent and dangerous custom of burying in churches and church-yards. With remarkable observations historical and philosophical ... Proving, that the custom is not only contrary to the practice of the ancients, but fatal, in case of infection / [Anon].

  • Lewis, Thomas, 1689-1749?
Date:
1721
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Seasonable considerations on the indecent and dangerous custom of burying in churches and church-yards. With remarkable observations historical and philosophical ... Proving, that the custom is not only contrary to the practice of the ancients, but fatal, in case of infection / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    if there be any in the \'Place, or Manner of Burial\ muft be to the Living j either by the external Romp, to allay (b) their Grief or chiefly, by a decent Inhumation, to pre¬ vent thofe Mifchievous Ccnfequences, which the Neglelt would otherwise produce j and there all Nations, by the innate Law of Nature, have ever been careful to bury the Dead in Decent Rlqcesy and in a Decent Manner, * \ .. /. . I. ! l Some few Nations, indeed, have difcovefd great Inhumanity, by neglecting their Dead s Qy\ cajling them into the Sea, Rivers, to be devour d by Fifes : And Others, brut if, have expos’d their Dead to be de- ■ vour d by wild B softs j Hierom (c) tells us But all the Civilizld Bart of the World have Jhewn their RefpeCt and Love to their Deceafed Friends and Relations, £7 Handfome Funerals. And many Nations were fuperftitioufty curious in the Funeral- Rites j for, the Heathens, general, call'd Interment (d) a Divine Inftitution, and (e) a Law of the Immortal Gods: And the Ro¬ mans (f) had a Reculiar Deity prefiding over thofe Rites. And as they flow'd their Love to the Departed, by thofe Ceremonies, fo they alfo ftewd their Charity and Care (b) Statius Thebaid. Lib. 6. (c) Hieronym. contra Jovinian. Cap. 36. ( d ) Ifocrat. Panathem. (e) Euripid. in Supplic. If) Plutarch. Vit. Num&. for