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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40659	A comment on the eleven first verses of the fourth chapter of S. Matthew's Gospel concerning Christs temptations delivered in XII sermons at St. Clements, Eastcheap, London / by Tho. Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1652 (1652)	Wing F2421; ESTC R31517	55,746	204

yet he taketh all on his own score vers. 17. It is I● that have sinned and done evil indeed as excusing his subjects so not accusing Satan as knowing he could not necessitate him to sin without his own consent It is a notorious sin for a man whilst himself to destroy himself Why insert you these words whilst himself Open but that window and it will be in vain for you to shut any doors Every self-homicide will plead That he was beside himself with Fear or Love or Grief or Anger God is not mocked I onely count such besides themselves who are not compo●es mentis but visit●d with a distraction from Gods hand and not wilfully contracted by their own vitious Intemperance In such a case ut ad insaniam ita adjudicium as men fall into madness so are they brought to judgement and all their mediate intervening actions are beheld by Divine Justice as none of theirs because wanting the royal assent of their Reason For any other to destroy themselves is an hainous offence against Nature self-preservation being the first Article in the grand Charter thereof 2. Against Reason Ephes. 5.29 No man ever yet hated his own flesh No man he must be a beast or a devil that doth it 3. Against Scripture Thou shalt not kill Say not No law is particularly made against mans killing himself Perchance it was purposely omitted as the Law against Patricides amongst the Grecians partly because Charity would presume none could be so wicked and partly lest mans corruption should abuse the Law sins punisher to be sins remembrancer But whereas it is said Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self love of our selves is the original love of our neighbour the copie If therefore the killing of our neighbour much more of our selves is forbidden Miserable are the pretences men make for this sin First To prevent or remove pain This proceeds from the ignorance of the Scriptures and the unbelief of the torments of hell Otherwise it is not the removing but the increase and exchange of pain where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched Secondly To shan shame Both these motives to Self-murther met in Saul 1 Sam. 31.3 4. He was sore wounded of the archers there was pain and he feared le●t the uncircumcised come and abuse him there was his shame Yet twist both together and they would not make one Reason strong enough for him to kill himself This was not the way to avoid but increase shame Of him shall the Son of man be ashamed Mark 8.38 Thirdly To procure Praise which cannot be only when it is purchased by the breach of God's Law Say not Samson did the same whose faith is praised Heb. 11. Do thou as Samson did and it shall be forgiven thee Pluck down at once two fundamental pillars of a Church His action shews his commission extraordinary and is no warrant for others to drown stab poyson murther themselves To confute such as are guilty of Self-homicide But be this first pr●m●sed Those who being Preachers look with the severest on this sin can as private men look with the most pitiful eyes on their persons They that fall on their own sword stand or fall to their own Master I will not say the men are damned but I will say the deed is damnable Who knows but that the l●st groan which divorces their souls from their bodies may marry their souls unto God●● so that the pangs ' of temporal death may prove the pains of their spiritual birth Now Self-homicide is twofold Either of Omission or Commission Omission by neglecting the means of food and Physick which God hath appointed for the preservation of their lives and which come within the compass of their estates to procure Christ saith Mark 3.4 Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to save life or to kill making the forbearance of curing another man when he had power to do it and the other faith to have it done equivalent to the killing of him How more strongly then doth the argument hold in our selves that it is Self-murder to omit the means of our preservation Self-homicide of Commission is when men actually murther themselves Let such as have entertained thoughts to destroy themselves and are yet kept alive Be doleful for what is past thankful for what is present watchful for what is to come Peter said to S●mon●s Magus Act. 8.22 Pray God if perhaps the thoughts of thine heart may be forgiven thee Some conceive Magus his fault within the luburbs of the sin against the Holy Ghost and therefore Peter warily inserteth perhaps speaking conditionally not positively as uncertain of his pardon But I may certainly say to such who have harboured thoughts of Self-homicide Pray and without any perhaps the thoughts of thine heart shall be forgiven thee The rather because the best of men in their passions have been tempted with such thoughts Iob 7.15 So that my soul chuseth strangling and death rather then life Beza confesseth that when a youth being tortured with a scurfie head he intended to have drowned himself from off the Millers bridge in Paris had not the coming in of his uncle interrupted him And let such as have lodged thoughts of Self-murder be watchful for the future in their prayers to God Let them beg of him to binde their souls in the bundle of life to secure them in the best acceptance of the word from themselves to hide their life as well temporal as spiritual Col. 3.3 with Christ in God that it may not be found out either when Satan seeks to devour them or they to destroy themselves Amen CHRISTS Second Temptation to PRESUMPTION SERMON VII MATTH. 4.6 For it is written He shall give his angels charge concerning thee and in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone COme we now to the Bait under which the Hook was hid God's Word We will consider it 1. As indicted by the best 2. As abused by the worst of spirits Or As written by David as wrested by the Devil Of the first We finde the words Psal. 91.11 12. Wherein three things are considerable 1. God's Injunction 2. Angels Attendance 3. Man's Protection First God's Injunction Shall give his angels charge This solemn charge proceeded not from the least distrust God hath of Angels performance but from the great desire he hath of mans protection A word being enough to the Wise Secondly Angels Attendance Thou shalt not dash thy foot against a stone An expression which alludeth to what befel Balaam when a not protecting but prosecuting Angel so withstood him Num. 22.25 that his ass crush'd his foot against the wall The foot we know is not onely the extremest but meanest part of the body and shews the extensiveness of Angelical protection If the foot be kept surely the head shall not be hurt but Christ shall be preserved cap-a-pe with an universal safety