This is to be look’d upon as the _second Cause_ or _End of Burial_, to wit, that it being not only disagreeable to the dignity of our Nature, but also occasioning great sadness of Mind, for the Living to see what dismal Accidents and Calamities befall the Dead, that we should free our selves from the Apprehensions and black _Idea’s_ such Objects are naturally apt to inspire, by removing them out of our Sight and Mind, by a timely Sepulture: For as _Demosthenes_ said in a Funeral Oration, _Leniatur ita Luctus Eorum, qui Suis sunt Orbati_; _By this means the Grief of those, who are depriv’d of their Friends, is alleviated_. [Sidenote: Thought more Beneficial to the _Living_ than the _Dead_.] So that these two Reasons seeming to conduce more to the Benefit of the Living than the Dead, it has given occasion to some to believe, that Burial was from thence invented, and of this Opinion was _Grotius_, who thus writes: _Hinc est, quod Officium Sepeliendi, non tam Homini, id est, Personæ, quam Humanitati, id est, Naturæ Humanæ, præstari dicitur_; _For this Reason it is that the Office of Burial is said not to be paid so much to the Man_, viz. _To the particular Person, as to Humanity it self, that is, to Human Nature in general_. And St. _Austin_, Lib. 1. _De Civit. DEI_, cap. 12. and _Lib. De Cura pro Mortuis_, cap. 2. affirms, _Curationem Funeris, Conditionem Sepulturæ, Pompas Exequiarum, magis esse Vivorum Solatia, quam Mortuorum Subsidia_; that _The regulating and management of the Funeral, the manner of Burial, the Magnificence and Pomp of the Exequies, were devised rather as a Consolation to the Living than any Relief to the Dead_. But _Seneca_, Lib. 1. _De Remed._ hath more plainly confirm’d both the foregoing Reasons, saying, _Non Defunctorum Causa, sed Vivorum inventa est Sepultura, ut Corpora & Visu & Odore fœda submoverentur_; _Burial was found out not so much for the sake of the Dead as the Living, that by means thereof Bodies noisom both to Sight and Smell might be remov’d_: Therefore _Andrew Rivet_, in his 19th _Exercise_, on the 23 Chap. of _Genesis_, commends _Sepulture_ as a laudable Custom, pertaining to common Policy and Honesty. Human Nature would be asham’d to see Man, the Master-Piece of the Creation, left unregarded or lye unburied and naked, expos’d to the Insults of all Creatures, and become a Herritage to the most vile Worms and Serpents, or lye Rotting like Dung upon the face of the Earth; so that if Pity and Compassion will not move our obdurate Hearts to Bury him, the very Stench and Corruption of the Dead will compel us to it. Hence _Chytræus_: _Corpus inane Animæ, tandem Fætore maligno, A se abigit Cunctos_—— A breathless Body, tho’ our Pity fails To make us Bury it, its Stench prevails.