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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
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USE 2. HENCE it is an EVIL THING to SPEAK FAVOURABLY, either of Self-Murder, or of Self-Murderers. There have been those who have undertaken to justify Self-Murder in some cases. [See Voet. vol. 4. Disp. de laesione sui-ipsius.] Pagan Philosophers taught, That it was lawful for Persons to Murder themselves, that they might save their Reputation; or prevent falling into the hands of their Enemies. — Famous the Story of Lucretia.—
IN what we call, The Second Book of the Maccabees, we find celebrated an Action of one Rasis, for which the Jews cry him up as a Martyr; but Austin censures him for a Criminal Self-Murderer, with Reasons that cannot be answered.
IN what we call, The Second Book of the Maccabees, we find celebrated an Action of one Rasis, for which the Iews cry him up as a Martyr; but Austin censures him for a Criminal Self-Murderer, with Reasons that cannot be answered.
YEA, some Christians have cried up those, who to save their Chastity, and so themselves, from Disgrace, have destroyed their own Lives. And the crying up of such a Fact, has given occasion unto many others, to become guilty of that Horrible Thing: that Unnatural Sin. But, must Saul's Self-Murder be lawful too?