every particular Circumstance in a Latin Funeral Hymn, which being Translated by Sir _John Beaumont_, Baronet, into 172 Verses, I will for brevity sake refer you to _Weaver_’s _Funeral Monuments_, pag. 25. where you will find them inserted, and worth your Perusal. [Sidenote: Want of _Burial_ not prejudicial to the _Soul_.] Nevertheless, we are not to think, tho’ _Burial_ was ordain’d by GOD as a Work both pleasing and acceptable to him, and consequently approv’d and practis’d by all Men, that therefore the want of it, or any particular Ceremony thereof, can any ways be prejudicial to a Christian Soul, as St. _Austin_ and _Ludovicus Vives_ his Commentator alledges, _Lib._ 1. De Civit. DEI, _cap._ 11. And that Complaint which the _Royal Prophet_ makes, _Psalm_ 79. 3. _That there was none to bury the dead Bodies of GOD’s Servants_, was spoken rather to intimate their Villany that neglected it, than any Misery to them that underwent it. ’Tis true such Actions may appear heinous and tyranous in the Eye of Man, but precious in the Sight of the Lord is the Death of his Saints: Neither is our _Faith_ in his assured Promise so frail, as to think ravenous Beasts or Birds of Prey can any ways make the Body want any part at the _Resurrection_; but, on the contrary, we are well satisfied that in a Moment there shall be given such a new Restitution, not only out of the Earth, but out of the most minute Particles of all the other Elements, wherein any Bodies can possibly be included, that not a Hair of our Heads shall be missing. We read how the Bodies of the _Christians_ (after great Battels, and the Sacking and Subverting of Towns and Cities) stood in want of the Rights and Ceremonies of _Burial_, which neither is to be accounted any Omission in the living Christians, who could not perform them, nor any Hurt to the Dead, who could not feel them. We may, moreover, find in the History of Martyrs, and such like Persecutions, how barbarous and cruel Tyrants have raged over the Bodies of Christians, who, not content with tormenting them to Death several thousands of ways, still persever’d with inhumanity to insult over their mangled Corps, and at length to shew their utmost Contempt, bury’d them in the Bowels of rapacious Creatures, or what other ignominious ways their wickedness could invent. Nevertheless, we have all the reason to believe their Souls were receiv’d into Heaven, and that their Bodies will at the last Day be reunited intire to them again; after which, Death will have no more Power over their Bodies than their Souls, but as St. _Paul_ says, 1 _Cor._ 15. 44. _They will become Spiritual Bodies_. [Sidenote: Nor any kind thereof hurtful.] So that in this respect it matters not after what manner the Body be destroy’d, dissolv’d or bury’d, as _Tatian_ in his Book _Contra Gentes_ says, _Quamvis Caro tota Incendio absumatur tamen Materiam evaporatam Mundus excipit, quanquam aut in Fluviis, aut in Mari contabescam, aut Feriis dilanior, condor