Self-Homicide is Not So Naturally Sin that it may Never be Otherwise, Title page – List of authors
ΒΙΑΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ. A DECLARATION OF THAT PARADOXE, OR THESIS, that Selfe-homicide is not so Naturally Sinne, that it may never be otherwise. WHEREIN The Nature, and the extent of all those Lawes, which seeme to be violated by this Act, are diligently surveyed. Written by IOHN DONNE, who afterwards received Orders from the Church of England, and dyed Deane of Saint Pauls, London.
Jo: Saresb. de nugis Curial. Prolog.
Non omnia vera esse profiteor. Sed legentium usibus inservire.
Published by Authoritie.
LONDON, Printed by John Dawson,
TO THE Right Honourable THE LORD PHILLIP HARBERT.
My Lord,
ALthough I have not exactly obeyed your commands, yet, I hope, I have exceeded them, by presenting to your Honor, this Treatise, which is, so much the better, by being none of mine owne, and may therefore peradventure, deserve to live, for facilitating the Issues of Death.
It was writ… long since, by my Father, and by him, forbid both the Presse, and the Fire; neither had I subjected it now, to the publique view, but that, I could finde no certaine way to defend it from the one, but by committing it to the other; For, since the beginning of this War, my Study having been often searched, all my Books (and al-most my braines, by their continuall allarums) sequestred, for the use of the Committee; two dangers appeared more eminently to hover over this, being then a Manuscript; a danger of being utterly lost, and a danger of being utterly found; and fathered, by some of those wild Atheists, who, as if they came into the World by conquest, owne all other mens Wits, and are resolved to be learned, in despite of their Starres, that would fairely have enclined them, to a more modest, and honest course of life.
Your Lordships Protection will defend this Innocent from these-two Monsters, Men that cannot write, and Men that cannot reade, and, I am very confi dent, all those that can, will think it may deserve this favour from your Lordship; For, although this Booke appeare under the notion of a Paradox, yet, I desire your Lordship, to looke upon this Doctrine, as a firme and established truth,Da vida osar morir.
Your Lordships most humble Servant Io: DONNE.
From my house in Cov…nt-Garden. 2….
Authors cited in this Booke.
BEza.
B. Dorothaeus.
Bosquierus.
Athenagoras.
Causaeus.
Trismegistus.
Theodoricus A. Niem.
Steuchius Engubi.
Ennodius.
Pererius
Zamb …us
Alcoran
Corpus Iur: Canon.
Carbo, Summa Summarum
Polidorus Virgilius
Matalius Metellus, Praefat. in Osor. Histor.
Pierius
S. Ambrosius
Cardanus
Tholosa: Syntagm.
S. Cyprianus
Haedri: Junius
Emanu… Sâ
Nicephorus
S. Gregorius
Vasques
Clarus Bonars…ius
Corpus Iur: Civil.
Binnius
Bracton
Plowden
A: Gellius
Tertullian
Climacbus
Basil
Filesacus
Campianus
S. Hieronimus
Ben: Gorion
Plinius
Paleotus de Noth.
Canones Poenitenti:
Clemens Alex:
Sotus
Bodin
Sylvius
Middendorpius
Lucidus
Arpilcueta
Fabricius Hist: Ci…ro.
Windeckus
Lipsius
Porphyrius
Damasus
Feuardentius
Eusebius
Vincentii Speculum
Prateolus
Diodorus Siculus
Tho: Morus
Anto: Augustin.
P. Manutius
Sebast: Medices
Scotus
Calvinus
Forestus de Venen.
Serarius
Biblia Sacra
Humfredus Angl.
Mallonius in Paleotti Sindon.
S. Chrysostomus
Pontius Paulinus
Aquinas
Azorius
Sayr
Elianus
Cajetanus
S. Augustinus
Artemidorus
I. Caesar
Josephus
Vegetius
Acacius
Jo: Picus
He… nius
Latinus Pacatus
Platina
Baronius
Ignatius
Alfon: Castro
Schultingius
Plato
Simancha
Alb. Gentilis
Pruckmannus
P. Pomponatius
Buxdorfius
Anto: de Corduba
Thyraeus
Lavater
Nauclerus
Quintilianus
Toletus
Sulpitius
Adrianus Quodlib.
Beccaria
Vita Phil: Nerii
Maldonatus
Bonaventura
Gregor: Nazianz.
Canones Apostolorum
Lucas de Penna
Optinellus
Laertius
Binsfeldius
Pedraça
Sextus Senensis
Par acelsus
Metaphrastes.
Surius
Gregor: de Valentia
Brentius
Th…phtlact
Hesic ius
Marloratus
Schlusselburgius
Agapetus
Reuchlin
Martialis ad Tholo:
Saravia
Sylvester
Liber Coformitatum S. Franc. et Christi.
Cassianus
Procop. Gazaeus
Ardoinus
Greg. Turon
Supplem. Chronic.
Nazarius Paneg.
Menghi
Ioan de Lapide
Hippocrates
Bellarminus
Revelation. Brigidae
Regul. Iesuit.
Franc. Gregorius
Oecumenius
Origenes
Alcuinus
Corn Celsus
Id…ota Contemplatio de morte
Baldus
Aristoteles
Stanford
Bartolus
P. Martyr
Declaration des Doctes en France
Sedulius Minorita
Io Gerson
Lylius Geraldus
Mariana
Sansovinus
Lambert
Fra. a Victoria
Wierus
Keeplerus
Lyra
B…rgensis
P. Lombard
Sophronius
Schultetus
Euthymius
Paterculus
Cassanaeus
IN citing these authors, for those which I produce only for ornament and illustration, I have … my owne old notes; which though I have no reason to suspect, yet I confess here my lazines; and that I did not refresh them with going to the Originall. Of those few which I have not seene in the bookes themselves, (for there are some such, even of places cited for greatest strength,) besides the integrity of my purpose, I have this safe defence against any quarreller, that what place soever I cite from any Catholique Author, if I have not considered the Book it selfe, I cite him from another Catholique Writer. And the like course I hold in the Reformers. So that I shall hardly be condemned of any false citation, except to make me Accessorie, they pronounce one of their owne friends principall.