Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Q. What are the breaches concerning the body of the dead?
A. When friends and neighbours neglect to see it honestly buried, & funerals performed with moderate mourning: also it belongeth to the person himself, to give order for his own comely and Christian burial.
Thomas Cartwright, A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole body and substance of divinity (2nd edn, London: Thomas Man, 1616), p. 138.
A. When friends and neighbours neglect to see it honestly buried, & funerals performed with moderate mourning: also it belongeth to the person himself, to give order for his own comely and Christian burial.
Thomas Cartwright, A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole body and substance of divinity (2nd edn, London: Thomas Man, 1616), p. 138.