N02155:27
A call to the tempted. A sermon on the horrid crime of self-murder, preached…
A call to the tempted. A sermon on the horrid crime of self-murder, preached on a remarkable occasion, / by the memorable Dr. Increase Mather. ; And now published from his notes, for a charitable stop to suicides. ; [Five lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1723
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.
II. Self-Murder is a very Great Sin. Murder is the greatest Sin against the second Table of the Law. Tis a great Provocation in the sight of GOD. Hence is that expression in the Scripture, concerning a most Abominable Thing,— Isa. LXVI.3. It is as if he killed a Man Tis a Sin that Cries to Heaven for Vengeance! — See Act. XXVIII 4. — But Self-Murder is the worst kind of Murder. — Tis the most Unnatural! — For a Man to Murder a near Relative, tis worse than for him to Murder another. And the nearer the Relation is, the Greater the Sin, — Therefore — Tis a most Complicated Sin?
THE Self-Murderer Sins against the Glorious GOD, in defacing of His Image; and in dishonouring of His Name. — especially, if he be a person that has made any pretences to Religion. —
HE Sins against Himself — against his own Body, as if hating his own Flesh; — And it may be said unto him, Thou hast Sinned against thy own Soul. His Reputation also is forever destroyed.
HE Sins against Himself — against his own Body, as if hating his own Flesh; — And it may be said unto him, Thou hast Sinned against thy own Soul. His Reputation also is forever destroy'd.