By these two fore-going Causes of Burial appears yet a farther Benefit to Mankind, that they may live without that continual Terror of Death, [Sidenote: Frees from the _Terror_ of _Death_.] which is occasion’d by seeing such miserable Emblems of Mortality. If you do but consider, when Men at first liv’d dispers’d, the very Abhorrence and Detestation of meeting Dead Bodies, made them to remove such unpleasant Objects out of their sight: Afterwards, when they assembl’d together and built Cities to dwell in, they used Burial for this Reason says _Lilius Gyraldus_, Lib. _De var. Sepult. Ritu._ pag. 4. _That the Living might not be infected by the most noisom stench of the Dead_. The before-going Arguments for Interment have been deduc’d from Natural and Political Reasons, but the latter likewise relating to Physic, and particularly conducing to the Health and long Life of Man (since _The Art of Embalming_ was not known in those Days) we will a little more accurately enquire into the pernicious Effects of _Putrefaction_, and the fatal Consequences that from thence ensue; for this being the most potent Enemy to Life, [Sidenote: From _Putrefaction_ the _Enemy_ of _Life_.] Nature is very careful to expel it so soon as ever she perceives, by its odious Scents, its invisible Approaches: Nor can she endure the lesser ill Scents of Sweat or Urine, or those Excrements of the Belly, which are necessarily produc’d from the Aliments of the Body, but the Body it self as well as Spirits reject them; for this is to be observ’d, that the Excrements and Putrefactions of all Creatures smell worst and are most offensive to their own _Species_, which we may see by Cats, which voiding a more than ordinary fetid Dung, always take care to bury it. And such cleanliness of Living renders all Creatures the more Healthful, as we daily find by Birds, Pigeons, Horses, Dogs, _&c._ which thrive best when their Houses, Stables and Kennels are kept sweetest. There is not only an unhealthy, but oftentimes a secret poysoning Quality in the fetid Odours of a putrid Air, which are made so malignant by Bodies corrupt and exposed therein; and thus, in several Countries, [Sidenote: From the _Plague_.] great Plagues have been occasion’d only by the Putrefaction of prodigious swarms of dead Grasshoppers and Locusts cast up on heaps. Thus, the _Scripture_ testifies, the Land of _Egypt_ was corrupted with Lice, Flies, Frogs and Locusts as a Punishment to _Pharaoh_: The Fish of the Rivers died, and the Waters stank; also there was a Murrain among the Beasts, and a Plague of Boils and Blains among the Inhabitants, _Exod._ chap. 7, 8, 9, 10.