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[ 1728] Not to be over-carefull for the place of our Buriall.
THat of Monica,* 1.1 the Mother of S. Augustine, is worthy of remembrance; She had with great care provided her a Sepulcher near unto her Husband, who dyed at Tagasta in Africa, and was there buried, purposing to l••e by him; but the Lord so disposed, that she left her life at Ostia in Italy, and being ready to depart, she said unto her sonne, Ponite hoc corpus Ubic••n{que}, nihil vos ejus cura a conturbet, Bury my body where you think good, take no great care for it; And being asked, If it grieved her not to leave her body so far off from her own City? she gave this answer; Nihil longè est à Deo, ne{que} timendum est ne ille ag∣n••scat in fine saeculi unde me resuscitet; No place is nearer to God then other, nei∣ther am I to fear lest the Lord should not as well raise me up in this place, as in my own City: Thus let none be troubled with the thoughts of their Burial-place.* 1.2 What though the distance be great betwixt them and them to whom they are more especially related, and that without great charge and expence they cannot be buried near together; All places are alike unto God, he can raise them up as well out of Country clay, as out of finer City-dust, and bring them and all their Kindred and Acquaintance together in a comfortable Resurrection.