a very great burning] Greeks and Romanes of old used to burne their dead bodies; specially of their Great ones, with a great deale of cost, burning huge piles, and curious fabricks of timber, together with abundance of odoriferous spices, at their Funerals; gathering their ashes into an Urne; and so layed up in their Monuments. And among the Jewes we read something like, viz. of Burning at the Exequies of their Kings; so here, and Jer. XXXIV. 5. of such of them at least, as lived beloved, and died desired: which was to others denied, 2 Chron. XXI. 19. Jer. XXII. 19. and XXXVI. 30. But we read not That this Burning was of their Bodies, but of sweet Odours only at and in their Sepulchers.