Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing, Index – Imprimatur
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ABſurdity. Page 204
Abuſe of power. Page 162
Abuſe of lawfull things procures indirect ſelf-murder. Page 109
Abuſed Scripture moſt harmefull. Page 198
Act: How one act of ſelf-murder gives denomination to the doers. Page 175
Actions are good not onelyonly from intention. Page 241
Adam: In Adam all are ſelf-murderers. Page 124
Advancement: Hope of advancement abuſed to evill. Page 245
Adventuring: Of mans adventuring upon ſinfull courſes, the cauſes. Page 69
Of adventuring for ſaving of ſoules, and for Religion. Page 141. 143.
Adverſity: Perſons in adverſity, how to be obſerved and helped. Page 231
Adviſe: To adviſe the tempted. Page 323
Adviſedly a ſelf-murderer kils himſelfe. Page 160
Afflictions ſpirituall. Page 164
Afflictions not ſimply evill. Page 228
Of afflictions occaſioning ſelf-murder. Page 211. &c.
In afflictions, how men ſhould order themſelves. Page 231
Afflicted perſons doubly burdened. ibid.
Affections: Head-ſtrong affections, and ambition are cauſes of miſ-underſtanding the Scripture. Page 197
Ambition cauſe of ſelf-murder. Page 216 241
Amorous diſcourſes, how hurtfull Page 195
Anger the cauſe of ſelf-murder. Page 232
Anger againſt a mans ſelfe, for his ſins. Page 234
Antidotes for ſelf-murder. Page 311
Antiquity of ſelf-murder. Page 177
Apoſtacy: Of finall apoſtacy. Page 75
Apparent: How it is apparent that men murder themſelves. Page 176. 178. 181
Apparent good affects the underſtanding. Page 208
Appearing of fellons voluntarily at Aſſizes. Page 135
Application of the meanes of ſelf-killing. Page 185
Application of the Word againſt temptations. Page 315
Arguments againſt ſelf-murder. Page 262 274
How arguments are deemed weak or ſtrong. Page 191
Aſhamed to do good. Page 222
Authority man hath not to kill himſelfe. Page 281
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Badneſſe: Conceited badneſſe of eſtate cauſe of ſelf-murder. Page 164
Baile for Fellons how by them to be freed. Page 135
Being: Goodneſſe of being. Page 259
Behaviour: Godly behaviour ſigne of ſpirituall life. Page 39
Gaſtly behaviour a ſigne of ſubſequent ſelf-murder. Page 260
Beleeve: To beleeve errors men are ſtrong. Page 206
Benefit: the benefit of well ſpending our lives. Page 19
Benefit of death encourages againſt dangers. Page 126
The benefits of recovery from temptations of ſelf-murder. Page 325
Beware of ſelf murder. Page 182
Blame: Men blame God, to excuſe themſelves. Page 207
Bleſſing: A bleſſing may become a judgement. Page 166
Blindes: What blindes men. Page 209
Body: of mans body, and its works. 81 with its threefold conſideration. ib.
How the body ſuffers by, and for the ſoule. Page 82
The bodies imployment in murdring it ſelf. Page 162
Braves: Of Braves. Page 112
Publiſhing: Of publiſhing the Goſpell amongſt Heathens. Page 142
Burning: Of burning of a Ship in fight, by her own Maſter, or company. Page 138
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Calamities: The diverſe ſorts of calamities. Page 211
Calling: Killing ones ſelf in diſcharge of calling is not ſelf-murder. Page 174
Capacity: Shallow capacity is cauſe of miſ-underſtanding the Scripture. Page 197
Capitall-crimes againſt human laws procuring death. Page 121
Capitall-crimes how a man is to reveale againſt himſelfe. Page 137
How capitall-crimes make way for ſelf-murder. Page 256
Care: Mans care of his naturall and ſpirituall life. Page 4
Mans care ought to be moſt for his ſpirituall life. Page 42
Our care to be preſerved from ſoule-deſtruction. Page 79
Mans care to live well. Page 206
Our care to know and obey the truth. Page 210
Carefull: of what men ſhould be moſt carefull. Page 289
Carnall reaſon diſlikes of ſtrict obedience. Page 62
Caſes of leagnes and ſociety of warre, of infectious places, or company. Page 102 119
Sixe caſes of deſperate hazard. Page 112
Three exempt caſes. Page 125. 127. 143.
Two caſes. Page 141
Foure caſes of adventuring life for Religion and ſalvation. Page 143, 144, 145, 146. 149
Of five exempt caſes. Page 172
Caveat: A caveat againſt vaine praiſe of ſelf-murderers. Page 194
Cauſe: there is no true cauſe of ſinfull evill. Page 191
The true cauſes of ſelf-murder, upon the occaſion of afflictions. Page 225
Cenſuring: of cenſuring beware Page 231
Certainty: Of the certainty that many men murder themſelves. Page 176
Cheerefulneſſe a preſervative of naturall life. Page 13
Chriſtians murdering themſelves are moſt blameable. Page 179
Self-murdering Chriſtians are indeed worſe than Heathens. Page 180
Church: In the Church ſelf-murder fals out. Page 177
To the Church ſelf-murder is hurtfull. Page 273
The Churches judgement of ſelf-murderers. Page 297
Commiſſion of evill how to be avoided. Page 149
Of Common-place Preaching. Page 196
Common-wealth: The Common-wealth is wronged by ſelf-murder. Page 271
Condemned perſons may not kill themſelves. Page 265
How a condemned perſon is to ſubmit to take his inflicted death. Page 266
Concealement: Of concealement of troubles beware. Page 231
Conference: Chriſtian conference and company how uſefull. Page 29
Confeſſion: Of confeſſion to prevent ſelf-murder, with the Caveats, benefits, and hinderances of it. Page 316 unto page. 323
Of confeſſion of truth, with danger of life, for the ſame. Page 145
Confiſcation: Of confiſcation of the goods of ſelf-murderers. Page 278
Conſcience: A troubled conſcience an occaſion of ſelf-killing. Page 217
For caſe of conſcience, troubled about crimes, what is to be done. Page 137
Eaſe of conſcience is not from our ſelves. Page 219
About eaſe of conſcience by ill meanes. Page 235
For peace of conſcience what is to be done. Page 236
Diſtreſſed conſcience cauſe of ſpirituall phrenſie. Page 251
Conſider: What men ſhould conſider. Page 289
Conſideration of our courſes. Page 157
Contemners of the meanes of life. Page 61
Contentment good againſt ſelf-murder. Page 312
Converſion: Of mans converſion. Page 30
Covenant: Of covenant with perſons deſtinate to deſtruction. Page 119
Courſe: Our morall courſe in this life fore-ſhewes our future eſtate. Page 79
Ill courſes are harmfull. Page 158
Covetouſneſs cauſe of ſelf-murder. Page 215
Councill of Bracara againſt ſelf-murder. Page 277
Creatures: The moſt noble creatures faile moſt. Page 189
The degrees of the creatures being. Page 274
The creatures by nature condemne ſelf-murder. Page 283
Cuſtome: Some cuſtomes cauſe of error in judgement. Page 192
Cuſtome in India and Lemnos. Page 193
Of cuſtome contrary to reaſon and Religion. Page 194
Cuſtomes ought to bee examined whether they be wicked. ibid.
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Damneds miſery in hell. Page 166
Danger: Prevention of dangers neglected, cauſe of ſelf-murder. Page 92
Danger of ſelf-murder how not knowne. Page 188
Dangers upon delivery from temptations of ſelf-murder. Page 325
Dangerous undertakings how to be ſhunned. Page 17
Dangerous perſons and places are occaſions of indirect ſelf-murder. Page 93
It is dangerous to give way to Satan. Page 188
Darings: Deadly attempts upon darings ſelf-murderous. Page 116
Deadly things to be reſiſted. Page 16
Death is a thing of great importance. Page 1
Of death in murder. Page 48
Benefit of death encourages. Page 126
Vncertaine death for certaine publick good. Page 128
Certaine death for Superiours and friends. Page 129
Certaine death for certaine and greater publick good. Page 131
Death is not the ultimate end of ſelf-murder. Page 163
Touching our deaths we are onelyonly to be paſſive. Page 206
Death worſe than affliction. Page 229
Death is not ſubjected by God to mans free will. Page 276
Deceived: Many men are deceived in their eſtates. Page 155
Men are more deceived in the meanes, than in the end. Page 143
Diſcerne: How to diſcerne things that differ. Page 172
Deſtinie: How conceit of deſtiny perverts judgement. Page 201
Decrees: Mans ignorance of Gods decree. Page 204
No man is ſaved for fulfilling the will of Gods decree. Page 205
The will of Gods decree none can overthrow. ibid.
Defence: In defence of Religion what is to be done. Page 144
Deficiency of man in Adam, and in himſelfe to be ſaved. Page 59. unto 66.
Degrees: Of the degrees of ſin. Page 89
Denomination is given from habit and practiſe. Page 175
Deodands: How ſelf-murderers goods be deodands. Page 278. 299
Deſire of death, lawfull, and unlawfull. Page 257
Deſperation cauſe of wicked revenge of ſin upon ones ſelfe. Page 235
Deſperation a degree of entrance into ſelf-murder. Page 256
Deſtroy: To deſtroy is the effect and end of ſelf-murder. Page 160
Deſtruction: For deſtruction way is made by ignorance. Page 210
Die: To die in, what eſtate is bad. Page 281
Difference of ſins. Page 76
Difference betweene direct and indirect ſelf-murder. Page 85
Direct bodily ſelf-murder defined. Page 84
How direct bodily ſelf-murder is greater than indirect. Page 88
Direct bodily ſelf-murder, what it is in the nature of it. Page 159
Of direct ſelf-murderers. Page 175
Direct ſelf-murder is a morall and mortall act. Page 159
Diſappointment of mens paſſions and affections. Page 219
Diſcontentment, cauſe of ſelf-murder. ibid.
Diſeaſe: Of the ſame diſeaſe all are ſick. Page 180
Inbred diſeaſes occaſioning ſelf-murder Page 212
Diſpoſition: Mans diſpoſition is cauſe of eaſineſſe to do evill. Page 184
Diſtruſt: Wee ought to diſtruſt our ſelves. Page 57
Divell: The divels malice againſt the truth and Church by ſelf-murder. Page 177
The divell hinders good, and furthers evill. Page 184
Who bee forward to obey the divell. Page 206
Of the divels motions, cauſe of ſelf-murder. Page 246
Whence the divell hath his power. ibid
What perſons the divell haunts moſt, and how he tempts. Page 247
Duels: The unlawfulneſſe of duels. Page 114
Dutie of divine commands is not to be omitted. Page 146
Of the kinds of duties. Page 147
Of neglect of duties. Page 260
Mans dutie marred by ſelf-murder. Page 272
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Election: Of election of meanes to ſelf-murder. Page 185
End: The ſame end ſeverall wayes attained. Page 89
Our laſt end croſſed by ſelf-murder. Page 279
Error in judgement. Page 192
Error of underſtanding the Scripture, how to be prevented. Page 199
Mens errour about decree and deſtiny. Page 204
Men are ſtrong to beleeve errours, Page 206
Eſtate: Of calamities upon mens eſtates. Page 214
The preſent eſtate of the godly is then beſt for them, Page 245
Evill: How, and why evill cleaves to good. Page 3
How by doing evill men miſ-ſpend their lives. Page 19
Evill of commiſſion how to be avoided. Page 150
Evils of ſin determinate, by lawes of God and nature. Page 151
Evill cannot be an end. Page 163
From evils to be freed, Heathens murdered themſelves. Page 179
It is eaſie to doe evill. Page 184. 186
Of evill of ſinne there is no proper cauſe. Page 191
Evill of ſin brings ſhame. Page 223
Future evill is but contingent. Page 240
Evill not to bee done to accompliſh good. Page 241
Examples: By examples ſelf-murderers not deterred. Page 282
Vſe of examples, not to be rules. ibid.
Examples occaſion of ſelf-murder, they ſhould not be wiſe-mens rules. Page 252
The examples of ſelf-murder, all bad. Page 282
By examples of ſelf-murderers, they are all damned that murder themſelves. Page 293
From examples, the objection of ſelf-murderers anſwered. Page 303
Exchange: A bad exchange. Page 280
Execution of ſelf-murder. Page 187
Executioners of deſtruction God wants not. Page 56
Exerciſe of ſpirituall life preſerves it. Page 40
Experience diſcovers ſelf-murderers. Page 181
By experience, the evill of ſelf-murder is not knowne in this world. Page 188
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Faith: Want of faith is cauſe of diſobedience. Page 70
Faith is a help for courage. Page 128
Faith overthrowne by ſelf-murder. Page 272
Faith is againſt ſelf-murder. Page 274
Faſting and prayer, helps to prevent ſelf-murder. Page 315
Feare: A man ſhould feare himſelf. Page 171
Of feare occaſioning ſelf-murder. Page 224
How feare makes bold. ibid.
Feare of ſin to come how it occaſions ſelf-murder. Page 237
Feare, how hurtfull. Page 314
Fellons: When fellons are voluntarily to appeare at Aſſizes. Page 135
Fits of ſelf-murder. Page 261
Folly of ſelf-murderers. Page 186
Food a preſervative of naturall life. Page 12
Food neglected cauſe of ſelf-murder. Page 91
Fooles: Of naturall fooles killing themſelves. Page 250
Fortune-tellers, cauſe of ſelf-murder. Page 202
Freedome from evill is the conceited good in ſelf-murder. Page 164
Friends, when, and how one may die for them. Page 129
How calamities upon friends may be cauſe of ſelf-murder. Page 216
How to friends and poſterity ſelf-murder is hurtfull. Page 273
What care friends of the tempted to ſelf-murder ſhould have of him. Page 323
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Gallants deſperatly adventuring. Page 112
Generall nature of direct ſelf-murder. Page 159
Glory the end of ambition. Page 242
God converts man by the Goſpell. Page 30
Why God converts by meanes. Page 31
To depend upon God. Page 180
Gods ſecret will is the meaſure of his own actions; and his revealed will is the rule of ours. Page 205
How men blame God. Page 207
Self-murder is againſt God himſelf, and how. Page 267
Gods glory wronged by ſelf-murder. Page 272
Godly life is a ſigne of ſpirituall life. Page 38
Good: A good-conſcience is a ground of choerefulneſſe. Page 13
Good life neglected, how it is cauſe of indirect ſelf-murder. Page 94
For publick good one may die. Page 131
The imaginary good of ſelf-murder. Page 164
Good is the object of the will. Page 167
The kinds of good. Page 168
How to do good is hard. Page 184
Of good ſhame. Page 222
Benefit of good imployment. Page 314
Goods of ſelf-murderers confiſcate, and why. Page 278
Goodneſſe: The Goodneſſe of being. Page 259
Both goodneſſe and truth are the objects of the underſtanding. Page 208
Goſpell: The Goſpell how publiſhed to all mankinde. Page 24
How the goſpell works ſpirituall life. Page 30
Of the malignity of the ſins againſt the Goſpell. Page 76
About publiſhing the Goſpell, how to adventure. Page 142
Grace: Of grace habituall and actual Page 35
How grace dies by mans negligence. 63 How to cheriſh it. ibid.
Of emptineſſe of grace. Page 218
Conceit that the time of grace is paſt. ibid.
The uſe of being in the ſtate of grace. Page 311
What want of grace wrought in the heathen. Page 178
Grounds of deceived judgement Page 192. 195. 207.
Guilty: About anſwering at Aſſizes Guilty or not Guilty. Page 100
To ſave the guiltleſſe what the guilty is to do. Page 136
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Habit gives denomination. Page 175
Hainouſneſſe of ſelf-murder. Page 286. 294
Harmefulneſſe of ſelf-murder. Page 272
Hazard: Of deſperate hazard, and caſes thereof. Page 112
Heathen hiſtories manifeſting ſelf-murderers. Page 178
Why Heathens murder themſelves. ibid.
Some heathens thought ſelf-murder in ſome caſes to be lawfull. Page 178
Heaven: To heaven, ſelf-murder is not the way. Page 244
For heaven wee are to wait Gods time. Page 245
Hereſie: How ſelf-murder is Hereſie. Page 233
Hieroms opinion againſt ſelf-murder. Page 277
Hiſtorie: How by hiſtories ſelf-murderers are diſcovered. Page 178
Holy-Ghoſt: Of the ſin againſt the Holy-Ghoſt. Page 73. 301
Holy life is good againſt ſelf-murder. Page 312
Holineſſe is a good meanes to underſtand the Scriptures. Page 200
Honor: How affectation of honor cauſed Heathens to kill themſelves. Page 179
Calamities upon honour occaſioning ſelf-murder. Page 215
Hope a preſervative of ſpirituall life. Page 41
Humility a meanes better to underſtand the Scripture. Page 199
Humility is a good preſervative againſt ſelf-murder. Page 312
Hurt: The hurt of ſelf-murder. Page 181 288
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Jdleneſſe: Of idleneſſe, and how men miſ-ſpend their lives therein. Page 20
Idleneſſe the divels advantage. Page 247
Ignorants killing themſelves are not ſelf-murderers. Page 173
Ignorance: Mans ignorance of Gods decree. Page 204
Ignorance makes way for deſtruction. Page 210
Ilneſſe of ſelf-murder unknowne, incourages to it. Page 208
Image of God defaced by ſelf-murder. Page 267
Imagination: by meanes of imagination man ſuffers. Page 164
Impatiency, the cauſe of ſelf-murder. Page 164. 225
Impenitency, a ſin againſt the Goſpell. Page 72
Impertinent: Doing things impertinent, is miſ-ſpending of life. Page 19
Imployment: The benefit of good imployment. Page 314
Jmpoſtures of Magitians. Page 202
Indifferent: Of things indifferent, how they become ſinfull. Page 152
Indirect bodily ſelf-murder defined. 84. How the ſame (in ſome reſpects) is a greater ſin than direct ſelf-murder. 87. Of indirect ſelf-murder of the body. 91. Why the ſame is treated of in the firſt place. Page 90
Of indirect ſelf-murder by omiſſion. 91 Phyſically wrought. ibid. How morally wrought. 94. Of indirect ſelf-murder by commiſſion 109. By entring covenant and ſocietie. 118. By doing that which naturally kills the doer. 121. By doing capitall crimes againſt humane lawes. 121. By tranſgreſſing of Gods Lawes. Page 122
The properties of indirect ſelf-murderers. Page 154
Indowments of man do condemne murder. Page 283
Infectious: Of preſuming into infectious places, or company. Page 120
About infectious perſons, in ſome caſes, adventuring. Page 141
Infidelity its cauſes and cure. Page 72
Innocents ſuffering by ſome miſtake. Page 136
Inſufficiency: Afflictions inſufficiency to cauſe a man to kill himſelfe. Page 228
Intention: Of mans intention to kill himſelfe. Page 160
Intention onelyonly makes not actions good. Page 241
Invaſion is to be reſiſted. Page 17
Joſephus his judgement and oppoſition againſt ſelf-murder. Page 284
Judgement perverted. Page 192
How the judgement of the learned obtaines the force of a Law. Page 194
How judgement abuſed is cauſe of ſpirituall phrenſie. Page 251
Juſtice: Concerning Juſtice. 34. and how ſelf-murder is againſt it. Page 263
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Killing: Wilfull killing of ones ſelfe comprehends murder in it. Page 47
Knowledge incourages. Page 126
Of knowledge of the Scriptures, the rules. Page 199
Knowledge of a mans ſelfe needfull to cure his pride. Page 227
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Law: The tranſgreſſion of Gods Lawes how dangerous. Page 112
Sin againſt the Law of nature, and of God to be avoided. Page 150, 151.
Some Lawes cauſe error in judgement. Page 192
What humane Lawes ought to be obeyed, or not obeyed. Page 194
Self-murder is againſt Gods Law, and how. Page 262
The Law of nature is to be obſerved. Page 269
Lawes of men condemne ſelf-murder. Page 277
Lawes given to men are bounded. Page 294
Lawfull ſelf-killing. Page 54
VponUpon lawfull calling how to adventure life. Page 125
Leagues: Of Leagues. Page 119
Letter: The Letter of the Scripture is not to be followed contrary to the true meaning. Page 199
Lets of endeavour after ſpirituall life. Page 66
Life is a thing of great importance. Page 1
Of the kinds of the life of man. Page 4
How mans life may be loſt. 43. and how taken away. Page 45
Life unſure 82. It is the object of ſelf-murder. Page 159
Life eternall is here begun. Page 245
Life temporary is a bleſſing. Page 275
Light of the Spirit twofold. Page 200
Live: Mans care to live well. Page 206
To live by faith. Page 313
Love: Of love, and to love our neighbours as our ſelves, expounded. Page 129
Love is deſtroyed by ſelf-murder. Page 272
Luſts: Curbing of our luſts is a good revenge upon our ſelves, for our ſins. Page 234
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Mad men killing themſelves. Page 250
Madneſſe of ſelf-murderers. Page 186
Magiſtrate: A Soveraigne Magiſtrate, for no crime may ſlay himſelfe, nor be ſlaine by his ſubjects. Page 264
Man only is ſubject to ſelf-murder. Page 6
Man how ſubject to death. Page 45
Man in greateſt danger. Page 56
Mans care to live well. Page 206
Man onelyonly is capable of ſhame. Page 222
Mans-ſelf wronged by ſelf-murder. Page 271. 273
Mankinde: To mankinde ſelf-murder injurious. Page 270
Manner: The manner of executing ſelf-murder. Page 187
Man-ſlayer: What a man-ſlayer is to do to ſave his friends purſued to death for his fact. Page 133
Mariners: Concerning mariners. Page 113
Meanes to be uſed for ſpirituall life. Page 28
Of meanes of converſion, why appointed of God. Page 31
Meanes of preſervation of ſpirituall life. Page 39
Meanes weakening and quickning zeale. Page 41
Meanes of loſſe of life. Page 44
The meanes of the deſtruction of ſpirituall life. Page 45
The meanes of ſelf-murder. Page 183. 185
Meanes for knowledge of the Scripture. Page 199
Meanes of ſin cut off. Page 234
Meanes to prevent ſelf-murder. Page 311
Meanes againſt Satans motions to ſelf-murder. Page 250
Melancholick perſons killing themſelves. Page 250
Melancholick people in danger of ſelf-murder, and why. Page 254
Memory: How by meanes of his memory man ſuffers. Page 165
Men ſelf-blinded. Page 209
Merchant: Of merchant men. Page 139
Minde: how the mindes diſtemperarature procures indirect ſelf-murder. Page 110
The minds calamities. Page 217
Miniſtery of the word, and its uſe. Page 29
Miſchance: Of killing ones ſelfe by miſchance. Page 173
Miſ-ſpend: How men miſ-ſpend their lives. Page 19
Moderation of war for Religion. Page 144
Mortifying humiliation a good revenge upon ones ſelfe. Page 234
Motions of ſelf-murder to be abhorred. 18. They are moſt hardly ſhaken off. Page 182
Motions of the devill cauſing ſelf-murder. 246. How knowne to bee from him. Page 248
Of motions of ſelf-murder entertained. 257. Horrible motions to be withſtood. Page 314
Motives to ſelf-murder c. 15. throughout. Page 191
Murder: In murder things obſervable. 48. murders vileneſſe. 49. what it deſtroyes. ibid. Whence murder comes. 51. What kind of act it is; how man is reſtrained from it. 52. How murder is not to be deſired to be done upon us. Page 274
Murderers of others murder themſelves by the ſame act. Page 53
Mutes: Of ſtanders mute at Triall, refuſing to anſwer legally. Page 96
Mutilation of body procuring ſelf-murder. Page 110
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Natures oppoſition to true obedience. Page 63
Nature is againſt ſelf-murder. Page 269 283
Naturall: How naturall life is known 6. wherein mans naturall life conſiſts. 8. The ſweetneſſe of it; the loſſe of it painfull and horrible. 9 How it is deare and pretious; the degrees of it 10. How it is well ſpent and ill ſpent. 19. How it is taken away. Page 44
Neceſſity: Vrgent neceſſity may make men adventurous of their lives. Page 128
Neceſſaries: The want of neceſſaries for the body. Page 213
Neglect of outward meanes of life. Page 60
Neglect of the power of the meanes of ſpirituall life. Page 60.
Neglect of meanes is tempting of God. Page 95
Of neglect of duties. Page 260
Negative righteouſneſſe. Page 65
Nocent, or criminall perſons how, and when to diſcover themſelves. Page 137
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Obedience: Of actuall obedience, the grounds. 36. the kinds Evangelicall and Legall. Page 61
Want of obedience, and reaſons of it Page 62
How the obedience of the Goſpell differs from the obedience of the Law. Page 71
Of obedience and diſobedience to unjuſt ſuſpenſion and deprivation. Page 148
Of unlawfull obedience. Page 162
Obey: Diſobedients to God, forward to obey the devill. Page 206
Our care to obey the truth. Page 210
Obſerve: What ſelf-murderers obſerve. Page 187
Obſervant: To bee obſervant of occurrences. Page 181
Obſervations from indirect ſelf-murder. Page 155
Obſtinate: Self-murderers are obſtinate. Page 187
Old-man: Our old-man of ſin we ſhould kill, and how done. Page 54
Omiſſion: A fourefold omiſſion of dutie. 60. Of ſins of omiſſion. Page 62
Omiſſion deprives man of life eternall. Page 64
By omiſſion, how indirect ſelf-murder is committed. Page 91
Of the not omiſſion of neceſſary duties, upon perill of life. Page 146
Opportunity ſelf-murderers obſerve. Page 187
Oracles occaſioning ſelf-murder. Page 202
Over-charging ones ſelfe in doing good. Page 21
Outward bleſſings are a ground of cheerefulneſſe. Page 14
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Parricide; and whence it proceeds. Page 256
Paſſions: To contrary paſſions all earthly things are ſubject Page 3.
Immoderate paſſions kill. Page 123
Of paſſions diſappointed. Page 219
Patient ſuffering for Gods truth. Page 38
Pelagia: That Pelagia, and ſuch others that killed themſelves, were not ſelf-murderers. Page 205
Periſhing: That all periſhing ſoules are ſelf-murdered. Page 57
Perſeverance upholds ſpiritual life. Page 41
Perſon: Where the perſon of a man is after his death. Page 50
Our perſons deſtroyed by ſelf-murder. Page 272
Perverſeneſſe of man. Page 170
Perverted judgement hinders ſpirituall life. 66. and occaſions ſelf-murder. Page 192
Philolaus his opinion againſt ſelf-murder. Page 277
Phrenſie, the cauſe ſometime of ſelf-killing. Page 250
Spirituall phrenſie whence it ariſes. Page 251
Phrenticks in their fits killing themſelves. Page 174
Phyſick and how it is to be uſed. Page 14 92. 111
Platoes opinion againſt ſelf-murder. Page 279
Pleaſure and profit hinder obedience Page 63
Practiſe: Of unwarrantable practiſe of Phyſick and Chirurgery. Page 111
Practiſe gives denomination. Page 175
Praiſe: Of vaine praiſe of ſelf-murderers. 194. and of praiſe more largely. Page 242
Prayer a preſervative of life. 12. the neglect of it how hurtfull. Page 94
Prayer is a help to know the Scripture. 200. Of a ſelf-murderers antecedent prayer before the fact. Page 206
Of prayer to prevent ſelf murder. Page 315. 323, 324
Preaching: Of Common-place and metamorphozed preaching Page 196
Predeſtination blameleſs of mans deſtruction Page 156
Preferment: How preferment hinders ſpirituall life. Page 66
Premeditation of ſelf-murder. Page 185
Preſumption: Of preſumption. Page 67. 310
Prevent: To prevent ſelf-murder. Page 311
Prevention of ſinne occaſioning ſelf-murder. Page 237
Prevention of error. Page 199
Pride, cauſe of ſelf-murder. Page 215. 226
Prodigality cauſe of ſelf-murder. Page 111
Profeſſors: How in profeſſors, groſs ſins are moſt offenſive. Page 178
Promiſes: Gods promiſes cheriſh ſpirituall life. Page 41
Properties of ſelf-murdring ſins. Page 68
Proſperity of the wicked ground of ſelf-deceit. Page 156
Proud ambitious perſons in danger of ſelf-murder. Page 255
Providence: Gods providence how wronged by ſelf-murder. Page 268
Puniſhment of damage is worſe than of ſmart. Page 65
Purchaſe: Of deſperate purchaſe. Page 112
Puſillanimity the cauſe of ſelf murder in affliction. Page 227
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Queſtions: Sixe queſtions reſolved. Page 133 135, 136, 137, 138.
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Reaſon: Man by meanes of his reaſon ſuffers. 164. Man wanting the uſe of reaſon, no ſelf-murderer. Page 172
Reaſon abuſed to ſelf-murder. Page 189
Reaſon condemnes ſelf-murder. Page 273
Regardleſneſs: Of regardleſneſs. Page 260
Regenerated: The regenerated preſerved from ſelf-murder. Page 291
Religion: For religion to adventure life 143. The defence of religion. 144 Self-murder is contrary to religion. 262. Religion requires the obſervation of the Law of nature. Page 269
Repent: To repent. Page 157
Repentance: True repentance ſelf-murderers have not. 296. 306. The uſe of it againſt ſelf-murder. Page 312
Reskue: Of deſperate reskue. Page 112
Reſtraint: Of forcible reſtraint of ſelf-murderers. Page 325
Reſolution a help to obedience. Page 128
What reſolution is hardly altered. Page 188
Reſolutions of ſelf-killing injected by Satan. Page 246
Revealing: Of revealing a mans own capitall faults. Page 137
Revenge, good and bad. Page 232
Rules for underſtanding the Scripture. Page 199
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Salvation: In ſtate of ſalvation none can be properly a ſelf-murderer. Page 292
Sampſon proved no ſelf-murderer. Page 303
Sanctification: How ſanctification is wrought in us by the holy Spirit. 32. 35. the degrees of it. ibid.
Satan: To give any way to Satan is dangerous. 188. Of his powerfull motions in the mind. Page 247
Saved: No man is ſaved for fulfilling the will of Gods decree. Page 205
Saving: For ſaving of ſoules to adventure life. Page 141
Scripture miſ-underſtood perverts judgement. 195. the cauſes of miſ-underſtanding of it. Page 196.
Abuſed Scripture harmefull. Page 198
How rightly to underſtand it. Page 199
It is apparent by the Scripture that men murder themſelves. Page 176
Sea-fight: Of a ſea-fight. Page 138
Secrecie: The reaſon of affectation of ſecrecy about ſelf-murder. Page 211
Secret: When a man is to reveale his ſecret capitall crimes to the Magiſtrate. Page 137
Seeming-good is cauſe of diſobedience. Page 70
Selfe: Mans ſelfe is ſubject to ſelf-murder. 159. How ſelf ſhould behave himſelfe to ſelf. Page 171
Self-blinded: How man is ſelf-blinded. Page 155
Self-conceit a ground of ſelf-deceit. Page 156
Not to be ſelf-conceited. Page 210
Self-content in indirect ſelf-murder. Page 155
Self-deceived, and cauſes of ſelf-deceit. Page 156
Self-deniall is cure of pride. Page 227
Self-killing: To ſelf-killing who are moſt ſubject. Page 236
Self-killing is no lawfull meanes to prevent ſin. Page 240
Self-killers: What ſelf-killers be not ſelf-murderers. Page 172. 290
Self-murder deſcribed what it is. 2 How known by life. 2. it is horrible, comprehends in it murder. 47. the degrees of it; why ſlighted. Page 83
Of bodily ſelf-murder the kinds. 84 defined and differenced. Page 85
How ſelf-murder is horrible and great. 162. It falls our in the Church; and is moſt blameable in Chriſtians. Page 176. 180.
The meanes and way of ſelf-murder. 183. Motives of it. 189 how it is hereſie. 233. it is proved unlawfull. Page 262
How ſelf-murder extends to the ſoule to hurt it. 288. it is a tranſcendent ſin, and how. 295. 302. It is equivalent to the ſin againſt the holy Ghoſt. Page 301
Self-murders antidotes. 311. and how beſt prevented. Page 323
Self-murderers many, 124, how known by Scripture, hiſtory, and experience. 178. 181. their follie. 186. their ſecrecy. 187. they are deceived. 229 their goods confiſcate. 278. how they ſin moſt grievouſly. 286. they are Atheiſts. 278. they regard not their ſoules. 288. they are all damned. 291. they want faith and true repentance. 296. they are debarred from Chriſtian buriall, and why. 287. their antecedent prayer and repentance is vaine; and they cannot be at peace with God. Page 306
Service: Our ſervice muſt be done before we receive our reward. Page 245
Shame: Of ſhame cauſing ſelf-murder, the kinds of ſhame. Page 221
Shortneſſe of life a motive to ſpend it well. Page 19
Similies: By ſimilies ſelf-murder condemned. Page 279
Sins of commiſſion againſt negative cōmandements ſubjects to death 67 Of ſins againſt the Goſpell, 70. 77. ſin coſts deare. 77. men ſin againſt themſelves 158. how to prevent ſin, men murder themſelves. 237. ſinne blinds. 208. men ſinning think they ſin not. 203. the worſt ſins are committed againſt Gods goodneſſe. 268 Some ſins beyond Law and mercy. Page 294
Sinning is a courſe of ſelf-murder. Page 77
Sinking, or burning a ſhip in fight Page 138
Society with perſons deſtinate to deſtruction. Page 118
Solitarineſſe of ſelf-murderers. Page 259
Soule. The ſoules double act in man. 7 its works in the body. Page 81
The ſoules relation to its owne, body. Page 270
Soule-murder how it is ſelf-murder. 57 the degrees of it. Page 58
Soule-murdering ſins. Page 68
Souldiers: About ſouldiers. Page 112. 127
Speeches: Manner of ſpeeches of ſelf-murderers. Page 260
Spend: How to ſpend our lives well. Page 18
Spirit: Of the Spirits operation quickning us. 29. how it manifeſts its power in the meanes. 32. the evidences of its work. 34. the degrees of its working. 35. its worke in us about obedience 36. how it is a meanes in us to know the Scripture. Page 200
Spirituall life what it is. 21. the acts of it. ibid. degrees of it 22. who may have it, and how it is loſt 24 the nature and excellency of it. 26. the continuance and effects of it. ibid. how to obtain it. 8. 66. the ſignes of it. 37 how preſerved 39. and to be preferred, 39. ibid. how it is deſtroyed. Page 45
Spirituall-ſelf-murder defined and differenced 58. how done by omiſſion. 59. by commiſſion. …7. by ſinning againſt the Goſpell. 70. by ſinning againſt the Law. 68. ſpirituall ſelf-murder moſt damnable. Page 78
Strictneſs in religious obſervances Page 234
Superiours: For …uperiors men ſhould chooſe to die 29 Of their diſpleaſure to be appeaſed, and how. Page 133
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Teachers: Falſe Teachers cauſe of miſ-underſtanding the Scriptures. Page 196
Temper of people, Satan obſerves, to tempt them. Page 248
Our own tempers we ſhould know. Page 255
Temptations: People under ſpirituall temptations are in danger of ſelf-murder. Page 254
Temptations of ſelf-murder to be withſtood Page 313
Thoughts: Mans thoughts heavenly a ſigne of ſpirituall life. Page 38
Our thoughts to bee rightly ordered Page 315
Torments inflicted occaſion of ſelf-murder. Page 212
Tranſgreſſion: How tranſgreſſion of Gods Law kills Page 122
Trouble of conſcience, and grounds thereof. Page 218
Truth to be confeſſed. 145. it is blameleſſe. 177. we ſhould know and obey it Page 210
Times badneſſe a motive to ſpend our lives well. Page 19
Conceit that time of grace is paſt, how harmefull. Page 218
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Venturing life, and in what caſes. Page 125
Vertues: Of vertues good againſt ſelf-murder. Page 312
Vnbeleefe: Of unbeleefe, and whence it proceeds 94. it is a propertie of a ſelf-murderer. Page 155
It is a ground of ſelf-deceit. Page 156
How it cauſes ſelf-murder. Page 225
Vnderſtandings object is both goodneſſe and truth. Page 208
Vngodly ſhame. Page 2…2
Vnreaſonableneſs of ſelf-murder. Page 228
Vnthriftineſs, as it tends to ſelf-murder. Page 111
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Wagering: VponUpon wagering, deſperate attempts. Page 116
Want of meanes of prevention of evill occaſions ſelf-murder. Page 164
Wants occaſioning ſelf-murder Page 213
Warre: Of warre, and of the doubtful event of it. Page 119 120
Of warre for Religion. Page 144
Watch: Man ſhould watch himſelf Page 171
Wicked: A ſelf-murderer is wicked. Page 155
Wicked are ſubject to ſelf-murder. Page 255
Will is the proper ſubject of converſion. 31. our wills coſt us deare. 77 The wills object is good; its faultineſs. 168. variableneſs. 169 Of Gods ſecret will, and the uſe of it. 203. how our wills move from our ſenſes. 208 will of reaſon croſſed 220 the ſubject of mans will. Page 276
Wittingly: That a ſelf-murderer wittingly and willingly kils himſelf Page 161
Word: The Word of God is a meanes of ſpirituall life. Page 29
The uſe of the Word for obedience. Page 37
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Yeelding: Of yeelding to ſuffer. Page 135
When a ſhip in fight is to be yeelded up to the enemies. Page 140
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Zeale: How zeale preſerves ſpirituall life. Page 40
How Zeale is weakened and quickened. Page 41
The faults of the Preſſe thus amend.
PAg. 21. l. 1. r. mans life. p. 26. l. 31. Citie. The p. 39 l. 23. r. ſo a man p. 40. margine, r. weakeners of zeale. p. 41. l. 2 r. ill examples. and l. 3. r. from the prevailing. ibid. l. 13. Antiperiſtaſis. p. 44. In the margine againſt § 2. ſet, Firſt, of the body. ibid. l. 19 r. the taking away. p. 45. l. 5. r. Courſes. ibid l. 7. r. are guilty p. 51. In the margine againſt l. 17. ſet downe, Secondly, from the Divell. p. 64. after l. 14. and before the uſes, inſert § 9. p. 65. l. 34. After theword, things; adde, proper to their eſtates. p. 72 l. 27. crooked wayesb. p. 88 l. 11. r. is directly under a common Genus or generall, partakes p. 94. l. 5. omiſſion, p. 123 l. 32. r. and ſome, p. 126. l. 33. r. cut off; p. 130. l. 19. r. Tollet. p 138. l ult r. overcharged. p. 142 l. 13. r. opportunity, to teach p. 147. l. 33. the will of ſuperrour ib. l. 34. r. concurre, if it plainly ibid. l. 35. dele to p. 152. l 25. r. ſubjectô p. 153. l 29. for properly, r. peremptorily p. 162. l. 12. for conclude r. include p. 172. l. 6. for fower r. five p. 184. l. 13. r. forwardneſſe p. 197. l. 14. for ore r. over p. 204. l. 1. for greater r. great p. 207. l. 29. for God r. Good p. 235. l. 2. r. debilitating p. 261. l. 23. for Eſſay r. Aſſay. p. 272. l. 10. For the p. 283. l. 7. for fury r. Iury.
PErlegi hac Opus cui Titulus [Lifes preſervative againſt Self-killing] in quo non reperio quite quam ſanae doctrinae aut bonis moribus contrarium, quo minus publicâ cum utilitate imprimi queat.
Octob. 29. 1636. Gulielm. Haywood RR. P. Archiepiſc. Cantuar. Cap. Domeſt.
End of the text · John Sym, Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing (1637)