An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

Secondly, There is no order in going to the grave; men do not keep to a rule in dying, nor observe their ranks. The old go not always first, and then the young; the great before, and the mean following after. Death hath no master of the Ceremonies; but takes promiscuously, here a child, and there a man, here a rich man, and there a beggar. And as there is no order in going thither, so none when we are there: the grave mingleth the dust, and bones of one with another. We cannot distinguish the rich mans dust from the dust of the poor, nor the bones of Kings from those of the lowest subject. Though rich men are buried in more eminent places, and Kings under stately Monuments, though their Tombs differ from their inferiors, yet their bones do not. An old Philosopher was observed searching a cemetery, and prying busily among the Tombs, and being asked, what he looked for, answered, I come to see if I can find the dust of rich men, and the bones of Princes, but I cannot see which is which; the dust of the rich and of the poor, of Princes and peasants, are all alike to my eye.

Secondly, There is no order in going to the grave; men do not keep to a rule in dying, nor observe their ranks. The old go not alwaies first, and then the young; the great before, and the mean following after. Death hath no master of the Ceremonies; but takes promiscuously, here a childe, and there a man, here a rich man, and there a beggar. And as there is no order in going thither, so none when we are there: the grave mingleth the dust, and bones of one with another. We cannot distinguish the rich mans dust from the dust of the poor, nor the bones of Kings from those of the lowest subject. Though rich men are buried in more eminent places, and Kings under stately Monuments, though their Tombs differ from their inferiours, yet their bones do not. An old Philosopher was observed searching a caemitery, and prying busily among the Tombs, and being asked, what he looked for, answered, I come to see if I can finde the dust of rich men, and the bones of Princes, but I cannot see which is which; the dust of the rich and of the poor, of Princes and pesants, are all alike to my eye.

And seeing Job makes this an aggravation of the misery of death, that it is without order; We may observe,