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Secondly, When one takes away the life of another. There's too much of this violence now adays. No sin hath a louder voice than blood, Gen. 4. 10. The voice of ¹thy Brothers Blood crieth unto me from the ground. If there is a Curse for him that smites his Neighbour secretly, Deut. 27. 24. then he is double cursed that kills him. If a man had slai• another unawares, he might take Sanctuary, and fly to the Altar: but if he had done it willingly, the holiness of the place ⟨p. 10⟩was not to protect him, Exod. 21. 14. If a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour to slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar that he may die. Joab being a man of blood, King Solomon sought to slay him, though he caught hold on the horns of the Altar, 1 King. 8. 29. In Bohemia formerly, the Murderer was to be beheaded, and put in the same Goffin with him whom he killed. Thus we see, what violence the Text excludes.

Secondly, When one takes away the life of another. There's too much of this violence now adays. No sin hath a louder voice than blood, Gen. 4. 10. The voice of ¹thy Brothers Blood crieth unto me from the ground. If there is a Curse for him that smites his Neighbour secretly, Deut. 27. 24. then he is double cursed that kills him. If a man had slai• another unawares, he might take Sanctuary, and fly to the Altar: but if he had done it willingly, the holiness of the place ⟨p. 10⟩