A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation

140 HIS TOR Y 0 F
feet to the weft.-The following couplet
was written by a traveller on the fteeple: '
. "They're fo perverfe and oppofite,
" As if they built to God in {pite."
The reafons for the fingular cuftom of
buryingthedead with their fec:t to the weft,
are two, and fpecial: firft, when Chrift
begins his millenarian reign, he will come
from the weft, and his faints will be in a
ready poClure to rife and meet him:
{econdly, the papifts and epifcopalians
bury their dead with their feet to the
call:.
Was I to give a characte'r of the people
of Norwich, I would do it in the words
of the famous Mr. Gtorge Whitefield,
(who was a good judge ofmankind, )in his
farewel-fermon to them a thort time before
his death; viz. "When I fidl:
preached in this magnificent houfe, above
20 years ago, I told you, that you were
part beaft, part man, and part devil i
at which you were offended. I have fince
thought