485 TEMPOS PV ?`f1TI0OMS_: OR THE RIPE ,AA ILMOND Gathered. A SERMON Appointed tobePreached at the Funeral of theRight Honourable, the Earl ofExeter, in the Abby Church at Weftmin/ler. SERMON XLII. Gen. iq. if. find thou /halt go to thy Fathers inpeace, thou Jhalt beburiedinagood olde/Ige. T was the manner of the Egyptians and greeks to embalm the dead bodies of great Perfonages , and anoint them all over with Honey , which kept them a long time from corrupting and putrifying in their Sepulchres. Thus the e tacedonians preferred the Corps of ellexander (as fome Hifforians report) above a hundred years from rot - ting in his Coffin. But Gemiflus Phleton being to perform a like Rite to Agefilaue, for want of Honey laid his Corps in Wart made of Honey-combs. I am lorry I am at this time to give theMotto to this Emblem. A perfon ofquality, a perfon ofwealth, a perfon noble birth, a perfonofHonour, a perfonoffame and renown,whole foul is already hound up in the bundle oflife, is now to be brought withHonour to his long home ; and though not his Body, yet his Name to be E,bbalmed, and preferred as it were in Honey, in the fweet Commemoration ofhis Venues ò and the firft Standard-bearer of Religion under his Majefty, and the greatMaher of thefe
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