Corollary 1.
* 1.1Was Christ buried in this manner, then a decent and mourn∣ful Funeral (where it can be had) is laudable among Chri∣stians.
I know the souls of the Saints have no concernment for their bodies, nor are they solicitous how the body is treated here; yet there is a respect due to them, as they are the Temples where∣in God hath been serv'd and honoured, by those holy souls that once dwelt in them. As also upon the account to their relation to Christ, even when they lie by the walls. And the glory that will be one day put upon them, when they shall be changed, and made like unto Christs glorious body. Upon such special accounts as these their bodies deserve an honourable treatment, as well as up∣on the account of humanity, which owes this honour to the bodies of all men.
To have no funeral is accounted a Judgement, Eccles. 7.4. Or to be tumbled into a pit without any to lament us, is lamentable. We read of many solemn and * 1.2 mournful funerals in Scripture, wherein the people of God have affectionatly paid their respects and honours to the dust of the Saints; as men that were deep∣ly sensible of their worth, and how great a loss the world sustains by their remove. Christs funeral had as much of decency and so∣lemnity in it, as the time would permit; though he was a stranger to all pomp, both in life and death.