And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
Ver. 7. And with him went up all the servants.] That is, most of them, as Matthew 3:5. In doing the patriarch this honour, they stand renowned for thankful men; and such, saith one, are worth their weight in gold. "Blessed be he of the Lord, who leaveth not off his kindness to the living and to the dead." Rth 2:20 But how base was Bonner, that railed so bitterly against his patron Cromwell, whose creature he had been, after his death; calling him the rankest heretic that ever lived, and that it had been good he had been despatched long ago! a And Cardinal Pool played the unworthy man, in having an intent to take up King Henry VIII's body at Windsor, and to have burned it. b This the Papists did to Paulus Phagius, a learned German, that died at Cambridge, being sent for over by King Edward VI. And although they never heard him speak - for he died soon after his coming into the realm, having not time either to dispute or preach here - yet they unburied him, and burnt his bones. c Of all birds, we most hate and detest crows; and of all beasts, those called jackals, a kind of foxes in Barbary: because the one digs up the graves and devours the flesh; the other picks out the eyes of the dead. d
a Act. and Mon., 1089.
b Ibid., 1905.
c Ibid., 1789.
d Featly's Transubstantion Exploded, 219.