A65285:2365
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.
(12.) By not Executing the Law upon Capital Offenders. A Felon having committed Six Murders, the Judge may be said to be guilty of Five of them,1 because he did not execute the Felon for his first Offence. The next thing I shall speak to, is to show the Aggravations of this Sin of Murder. As,
1. To shed the Blood of another Causeless; as to kill another in an Humour or Frolic. A Bee will not sting unless provoked. But many when they are not provoked will take away the Life of another. This makes the Sin of Blood more bloody. The less Provocation to a Sin, the greater the Sin.
1. To shed the Blood of another Causless; as to kill another in an Humour or Frolick. A Bee will not sting unless provok'd. But many when they are not provoked will take away the Life of another. This makes the Sin of Blood more bloody. The less Provocation to a Sin, the greater the Sin.
2. To shed the Blood of another contrary to Promise. Thus after the Princes of Israel had sworn to the Gibeonites that they should live, Josh. 9.15. Saul slew them, 2 Sam. 21.1. Here were two Sins twisted together, Breach of Oath and Murder.