reddamus id Terræ, unde ortum est_. _Let us not suffer the Image and Workmanship of GOD to lie expos’d as a Prey to the Beasts and Birds, but let us return it back to the Earth from whence it had its Origin._ [Sidenote: Accounted by us the Fourth _Cause_.] So that we will account the _Fourth Reason for Burial_, to be the _Excellency of Man’s Body_, to which we ought to show the greater Honour and Respect, in that it is the Receptacle of the _Immortal Soul_. Hence _Origen_, Lib. 8. _Contra Celsum_ says, _Rationalem Animam honorare didicimus, & hujus Organa Sepulchro honorifice demandare_. _We have learn’d to Honour the Rational Soul, and respectfully to convey its Organs to the Grave._ And thus St. _Austin_ very elegantly expresses himself, _Lib._ 1. De Civit. DEI, _cap._ 13. _Si Paterna Vestis & Annulus, vel si quid hujusmodi, tanto carius Posteris, quanto erga Parentes Affectus major, nullo modo ipsa spernenda sunt Corpora, quæ utiq; multo familiarius, atq; conjunctius, quam quælibet Indumenta gestamus._ _If we take so much the more care to preserve our Fathers Apparel, Ring, and other Remainders of the like nature, as we bore an Affection to them, ’tis plain their Bodies are by no means to be neglected, which we wear closer and nearer to us than any Cloaths whatever._ [Sidenote: Fifth _Cause_ of _Burial_.] But the _Fifth Cause_ and _ultimate End of Burial_ is in order to a future _Resurrection_, and as B. _Gerhard_ asserts, agreeable to that Companion of _Christ_ and St. _Paul_ his Apostle, _John_ 12. 24. 1 _Corinth._ 15. 37, 38. That Bodies are piously to be laid up in the Earth, like to Corn sowed, to confirm the assured Hope of the _Resurrection_: And therefore the _place_ of _Burial_ was call’d by St. _Paul_, _Seminatio_, as others term it _Templi Hortus_, the _Churches Orchard_ or _Garden_. By the _Greeks_ it was call’d, Κοιμητήριον, _Dormitorium_, a _Sleeping Place_. By the _Hebrews_, בית חיים, _Beth-chajim_, i. e. _Domus Viventium_, the _House of the Living_, in the same respect as the _Germans_ call _Church-Yards_, =Gotsacker=, i. e. _DEI Ager, aut Fundus_, _GOD’s Field_, in which the Bodies of the Pious are sowed like to Grain or Corn, in expectation of a future Harvest. By these Appellations we are admonish’d of the Resurrection of the Body, and of the Immortality which is given by GOD to the Soul. _For as they that Sleep awake again, and as Christ who is the Head arose again, so shall we who are his Members arise._ Hence _Calvin_ (Commenting on _Isaiah_ 14. 18.) says, _The Carcasses of Beasts are thrown out, because they were Born to Putrefaction; but our Bodies are interr’d in the Earth, and being there deposited, expect the last Day, that they may arise from thence to lead a Blessed and Immortal Life with the Soul_. Also _Aurelius Prudentius_, a Christian Poet, rightly asserts _The Hope of the Resurrection to be the chief Cause why the greatest Care is taken of Burial_, whereof he has most excellently describ’d