Secondly, as concerning survivorship, I have ever held it, and so still shall, having kvotes therein with me, I am sure, not a few, until M. Walker shall be able to convince me of error in it; that it is a worse ⟨p. 4⟩matter to traduce the dead, then the living. Since that the one may, the other cannot now make apology for himself. Besides that it is generally held an argument of lno ingenuous disposition, to insult over, or deale• igorously with the deceased. And it may well be questioned whether an injury done to a Saint in Heaven, have not the greater guilt, in regard o• his present estate. Sure I am, that against those of the Romish party, mour Writers use it as an argument, and nthe Apostle may well seem to add strength thereunto, that it is a greater wrong to offer any indignity to Christs body now glorified in Heaven, then it had been to do the like unto him then, when in the state of humiliation he conversed with men here on earth. Nor see I ought, why it may not hold as well in the other limbs, as in the head; that the greater sin it is to offer any wrong or contumely to them, the more highly they are now honoured and advanced by God. And what greater wrong or contumely can be done to them, then to blast their reputations, to charge them with inexpiable crimes, to damn them to Hell, that now reign with God in Heaven? So osacred hath the condition of the deceased been deemed, that it hath been accounted a ⟨p. 5⟩point of psacrilege, to disturb their remains, or to meddle with the monuments wherein their corps lie enclosed. But the godly deceased, qhad they sense and understanding of what is here done, (as they had wont to speak, and rwe well may) would without all doubt, account it, as well they might, a far greater wrong, to have their names tainted with foul aspersions, of this nature especially, even of the highest and most heinous guilt against the divine Majesty, then to have their Sepulchres defaced, their graves laid open, their bodies digged up, their bones burnt, and their ashes either dispersed into the air, or scattered upon the surface of the waters; or whatsoever other indignity and insolency the vain rage and fond outrage, not of humane, but of inhumane spite and malice hath exercised upon their remains. Let not M.
Secondly, as concerning survivorship, I have ever held it, and so still shall, having kvotes therein with me, I am sure, not a few, untill M. Walker shall be able to convince me of errour in it; that it is a worse ⟨p. 4⟩matter to traduce the dead, then the living. Since that the one may, the other cannot now make apologie for himselfe. Besides that it is generally held an argument of lno ingenuous disposition, to insult over, or deale• igorously with the deceased. And it may well be questioned whether an injury done to a Saint in Heaven, have not the greater guilt, in regard o• his present estate. Sure I am, that against those of the Romish party, mour Writers use it as an argument, and nthe Apostle may well seeme to adde strength thereunto, that it is a greater wrong to offer any indignity to Christs body now glorified in Heaven, then it had been to do the like unto him then, when in the state of humiliation he conversed with men here on earth. Nor see I ought, why it may not hold as well in the other limmes, as in the head; that the greater sinne it is to offer any wrong or contumely to them, the more highly they are now honoured and advanced by God. And what greater wrong or contumely can be done to them, then to blast their reputations, to charge them with inexpiable crimes, to damn them to Hell, that now reigne with God in Heaven? So osacred hath the condition of the deceased been deemed, that it hath been accounted a ⟨p. 5⟩point of psacriledge, to disturbe their remaines, or to meddle with the monuments wherein their corps lie inclosed. But the godly deceased, qhad they sense and understanding of what is here done, (as they had wont to speake, and r
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