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SECT. III. Of Widows.
1. THE next state which can succeed to that of Marriage is Widowhood, which tho it supersedes those duties which were terminated meerly in the person of the husband, yet it en∣dears those which may be paid to his ashes. Love is strong as death, Cant. 8. 6. and therefore when it is pure and genuine cannot be extinguisht by it, but burns like the funeral lamps of old, even in vaults and charnel houses, the conjugal love trans∣planted into the grave (as into a finer mould) im∣proves into piety, and laies a kind of sacred obli∣gation upon the widow to perform all offices of respect and kindness which his Remains are ca∣pable of.
2. Now those Remains are of three sorts, his body his memory, and his children. The most pro∣per expession of her love to the first, is in giving it an honorable Enterrment; I mean not such as may vye with the Poland extravagance (of which 'tis observed that two or three neer succeeding fu∣neralls ruin the family) but prudently proportio∣n'd to his quality & fortune, so that her zeal to his Corps may not injure a nobler relique of him, his Children. And this decency is a much better in∣stance