Many other accounts like these we meet sometimes in history [SN: Hujus farinæ multa in historia horribili.], scandalous unto Christianity, and even unto humanity; whose verities not only, but whose relations honest minds do deprecate. For of sins heteroclital, and such as want either name or president, there is oft times a sin even in their histories. We desire no records of such enormities; sins should be accounted new, that so they may be esteemed monstrous. They omit of monstrosity as they fall from their rarity; for men count it veniall to err with their forefathers, and foolishly conceive they divide a sin in its society. The pens of men may sufficiently expatiate without these singularities of villany; For, as they encrease the hatred of vice in some, so do they enlarge the theory of wickedness in all. And this is one thing that may make latter ages worse then were the former; For, the vicious examples of Ages past, poyson the curiosity of these present, affording a hint of sin unto seduceable spirits, and soliciting those unto the imitation of them, whose heads were never so perversly principled as to invent them. In this kind we commend the wisdom and goodness of _Galen_, who would not leave unto the world too subtile a Theory of poisons; unarming thereby the malice of venemous spirits, whose ignorance must be contented with Sublimate and Arsenick. For, surely there are subtiler venenations, such as will invisibly destroy, and like the Basilisks of heaven. In things of this nature silence commendeth history: 'tis the veniable part of things lost; wherein there must never rise a Pancirollus [SN: _Who writ_ De Antiquis deperditis, _or of inventions lost_.], nor remain any Register but that of hell. And yet, if as some Stoicks opinion, and _Seneca_ himself disputeth, these unruly affections that make us sin such prodigies, and even sins themselves be animals; there is an history of _Africa_ and story of Snakes in these. And if the transanimation of _Pythagoras_ or method thereof were true, that the souls of men transmigrated into species answering their former natures; some men must surely live over many Serpents, and cannot escape that very brood whose sire Satan entered. And though the objection of _Plato_ should take place, that bodies subjected unto corruption, must fail at last before the period of all things, and growing fewer in number, must leave some souls apart unto themselves; the spirits of many long before that time will find but naked habitations: and meeting no assimilables wherein to react their natures, must certainly anticipate such natural desolations. Lactant. _Primus sapientiæ gradus est, falsa intelligere._ =_FINIS._= HYDRIOTAPHIA URNE-BURIALL OR A DISCOURSE OF THE SEPULCHRALL URNES LATELY FOUND