The want of Burial proceeds also from a Judgment of GOD, as will appear from the Example of _Jehoiakim_, the Son of _Josiah_ King of _Judah_, whom for his great Wickednesses, such as Covetousness, Oppression, shedding innocent Blood and the like, GOD threatned with the want of Burial (a severe Sentence!) and that he should have no solemn Funeral or honourable Sepulture, such as Kings usually have, nay, not so much as an ordinary Burial among the Graves of the common People, _Jer._ 26. 23. but be cast out like Carrion in some remote Place: And _Chap._ 22. 19. [Sidenote: To be bury’d like an Ass.] _He shall be bury’d with the Burial of an Ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the Gates of Jerusalem_, that is, as an Ass is wont to be bury’d, he being more worthy the Society of Beasts than Men. The _Greeks_ call the Burial of an Ass, ἄταφον τάφον, according to that Expression of _Cicero_, _Insepulta Sepultura_; and _Sanctius_ expounds it, that to be bury’d like an Ass, is to be cast out into a sordid and open Place, which neither covers the horrid and obscene Parts of the Body, nor hinders the Dogs or Birds from tearing it to pieces, but as in _Chap._ 36. _ver._ 30. _His dead Body shall be cast out in the Day-Time to the Heat, and in the Night to the Frost_; that being so expos’d, it may the sooner putrefie, and become the more vile and loathsom; and that the sight of a King’s Body, in such a condition, should be an hideous Spectacle and horrid Monument of GOD’s heavy Wrath and Indignation unto all that should behold it, _Isaiah_ 66. 24. Wherefore _Ecclesiastes_ wisely concludes, _Chap._ 6. 3. _A Man had better have never been born than to have no Burial._ The People of _Israel_ (crying unto GOD against the barbarous Tyranny of the _Babylonians_, who spoil’d GOD’s Inheritance, polluted his Temple, destroy’d his Religion, and murther’d his Chosen Nation) amongst other Calamities, thus complain for the want of Sepulture, _Psal._ 79. 2, 3. _The dead Bodies of thy Servants have they given to be Meat to the Fowls of the Heavens, the Flesh of thy Saints to the Beasts of the Earth. Their Blood have they shed like to Water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them._ Here the Prophet observes, that GOD suffers his Church sometimes to fall to great Extremities, to exercise their Faith before he delivers them; as at other times he deprives the Wicked of Sepulture, to bring them to Repentance by such an ignominious and shameful Punishment. Thus, for the Pride and Wickedness of _Jezebel_, the Prophet _Elijah_ pronounces GOD’s Vengeance against her, saying, _In the Portion of Jezreel shall Dogs eat the Flesh of Jezebel, and her Carcass shall be as Dung upon the face of the Field, so that they shall not say, this is Jezebel, and there shall be none to bury her_, 2 Kings 9. 10, 36, 37. [Sidenote: To become like _Dung_ rotting upon the _Earth_.] By the Comparison to Dung is shown how odious and