Rites of funeral ancient and modern, in use through the known world / Written originally in French, by ... Monsieur Muret. To which is added, a vindication of Christianity against paganism [by M. Minucius Felix] All translated into English by P. Lorrain.
- Muret, Pierre, approximately 1630-approximately 1690
- Date:
- 1683
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Rites of funeral ancient and modern, in use through the known world / Written originally in French, by ... Monsieur Muret. To which is added, a vindication of Christianity against paganism [by M. Minucius Felix] All translated into English by P. Lorrain. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![acquitted himfelf in all the Funeral Honors, he ought to pay to his Be- nefactor after his Death, or omitted any eflential thing relating thereto, be put by,and deprived of the Inheri- tance or Legacy which was left him. Secondly, that in cafe he has ex- prefs’d the leaft contempt in perfor- ming of the fame, he fhall be lyable tocapital Punifhment. And in the third and laft place, that if he has been obferv’d fomewhat carelefs and negligent in difcharging the faid Duty, he fhall not enjoy the means bequeathed to him, except ‘he do every Year Sacrifice a Sow before he gather-in his Harveft, to the end he may pacifie and appeafe the Ghoft of the Departed. SOLON who was the firft of Greece, that eftablifh’d Laws, and had fo well regulated the Republick of Athens, that Cicero was of opini on, all other States were to conform Fi 7 11 RP] Vv?) r=](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30331948_0318.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
