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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
(1.) Thou shalt not hurt thy own Body. One may be guilty of Self-murder, either 1. Indirectly and Occasionally. 2. Directly and Absolutely.
1. Indirectly and Occasionally. As,
First, When a Man thrusts himself into Danger which he might prevent. As if a Company of Archers were shooting, and one should go and stand in the place where the Arrows fly, if the Arrow did kill him, he is accessary to his own Death. In the Law God would have the Leper shut up to keep others from being infected, Lev. 13.4. Now if any would be so presumptuous as to go in to the Leper and get the Plague of Leprosy, he might thank himself, he occasioned his own Death.
First, When a Man thrusts himself into Danger which he might prevent. As if a Company of Archers were shooting, and one should go and stand in the place where the Arrows fly, if the Arrow did kill him, he is accessary to his own Death. In the Law God would have the Leper shut up to keep others from being infected, Lev. 13.4. Now if any would be so presumptuous as to go in to the Leper and get the Plague of Leprosie, he might thank himself, he occasioned his own Death.