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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Quest. Which is the Sixth Commandment? Resp. EXOD. XX.13. Thou shalt not Kill.
In this Commandment, (1.) Is a Sin forbidden, viz. Murder. Thou shalt not kill. (2.) A Duty implied, To preserve our own Life, and the Life of others.
1. The Sin forbidden, Murder. Thou shalt not kill. Where two things are to be understood. (1.) The not injuring another. (2.) Our selves.
I. In this, Thou shalt not kill, is meant the not Injuring another. 1. We must not injure him in his Name. 2. In his Body. 3. In his Soul.
(1.) We must not injure another in his Name. A good Name is a precious Balsam; it is a great Cruelty to murder a Man in his Name. We injure others in their Name. When we calumniate and slander them. 'Twas David's Complaint,