A call to the tempted. A sermon on the horrid crime of self-murder, preached…

I. TEMPTATIONS to Self-Murder. SATAN is in them! Such Temptations are not from the Holy & Blessed GOD. Let no man say, when he is thus Tempted, I am tempted of GOD! — Jobs Wife tempted him, to Commit such a Sin, as would bring a quick Death upon himself. Curse GOD, and Die! She was an Instrument of Satan: It was the Devil that put her upon giving that Cursed and Bloody Counsel to her Husband. The Devil would persuade Men to think of getting out of Affliction by Sin; — yea, & to Die Sinning;— that the last Act which they do before they go out of the World, should be to Commit some Great Sin against the Glorious GOD. He knows, This will ⟨p. 7⟩render them, unfit to Die! — Thus the Devil says, Murder, & Die! — Stab thyself,— Shoot thyself,— Choke thyself, — & Die! The Devil is therefore said to be — Joh. VIII.44. A Murderer. Yea, Satan has a most peculiar Hand in the perpetration of this Crime: As is evident from the strange manner, how sometimes it is accomplished: — by Drowning, in a small Puddle of Water; — Hanging, upon a small Twig not enough to bear the weight of a Man; — or, with Knees resting on the Ground. Satan must needs have a great hand — the Invisible World is most sensibly at work, in such things as these! —

I. TEMPTATIONS to Self-Murder. SATAN is in them! Such Temptations are not from the Holy & Blessed GOD. Let no man say, when he is thus Tempted, I am tempted of GOD! — Iobs Wife tempted him, to Commit such a Sin, as would bring a quick Death upon himself. Curse GOD, and Dy! She was an Instrument of Satan: It was the Devil that put her upon giving that Cursed and Bloody Counsel to her Husband. The Devil would perswade Men to think of getting out of Affliction by Sin; — yea, & to Dy Sinning;— that the last Act which they do before they go out of the World, should be to Commit some Great Sin against the Glorious GOD. He knows, This will ⟨p. 7⟩render them, unfit to Dy! — Thus the Devil says, Murder, & Dy! — Stab thyself,— Shoot thyself,— Choak thyself, — & Dy! The Devil is therefore said to be — Joh. VIII.44. A Murderer. Yea, Satan has a most peculiar Hand in the perpetration of this Crime: As is evident from the strange manner, how sometimes it is accomplished: — by Drowning, in a small Puddle of Water; — Hanging, upon a small Twig not enough to bear the weight of a Man; — or, with Knees resting on the Ground. Satan must needs have a great hand — the Invisible World is most sensibly at work, in such things as these! —