Least M. Doctor (as his common fashion is when the corruption of any thing is spoken a∣gainst)* 1.1 say, that we condemne buriall, I would haue him vnderstand that we hold that the body must be honestly and comely buried, and that it is meete that for that cause some reasonable number of those which be the friends and neighbours about should accompany the corps to the place of bu∣riall: we hold it also lawfull to lament the dead, and if the dignitie of the person so require, we thinke it not vnlawfull to vse some way about the buriall whereby that may appeare, but yet so that there be a measure kept both in the weeping, & in the charges, considering that where as immoderate ey∣ther weeping or pompe was neuer, no not in the time of the law allowed, now in the time of the gos∣pell, all that is not lawfull, whiche was permitted in the time of the law. For vnto the people of God vnder the law, weeping was by so much more, permitted vnto them, than vnto vs, by how muche they had not so cleare a reuelation and playne sight of the resurrection as we haue, whiche was the cause also why it was lawful for them to vse more cost in the embaulming of the dead, ther∣by to nourish and to help their hope touching the resurrection, whereof we haue a greater pledge by the resurrection of our sauioure Christ than they had.
Al this is néedelesse: but that you are disposed to stretch out your volume.