The Fifth Commandment Expounded.
Q. WHAT is the fifth commandment?
A. Thou shalt not kill.
A. Thou shalt not kill.
Q. What is prohibited by this?
A. All murder, unjust shedding of blood, fighting and quarreling.
A. All murder, unjust shedding of blood, fighting and quarreling.
Q. Is it not lawful to kill in any cause?
A. Yes, in a just war, or when public justice requires it: "For the magistrate beareth not the sword without cause." Rom. i. 4. As also in the blameless defence of our own, or our innocent neighbour's life, against an unjust invader.
A. Yes, in a just war, or when public justice requires it: "For the magistrate beareth not the sword without cause." Rom. i. 4. As also in the blameless defence of our own, or our innocent neighbour's life, against an unjust invader.
Q. Is it lawful to fight duels, appointing a set time and place, for private interest, or punctilios of honour?
A. No, by no means; for the church hath forbidden it under excommunication, to be incurred ipso facto; and such as die in duels, can be neither have Christian burial nor be prayed for the church.
A. No, by no means; for the church hath forbidden it under excommunication, to be incurred ipso facto; and such as die in duels, can be neither have Christian burial nor be prayed for the church.
Q. How prove you all fighting and quarreling to be unlawful?
A. Out of Matt. v. 39. "You have heard (saith Christ) it was said of old, and eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth; but I say unto you not to resist evil, but if any other strike thee on the right cheek, turn to him also the other."
A. Out of Matt. v. 39. "You have heard (saith Christ) it was said of old, and eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth; but I say unto you not to resist evil, but if any other strike thee on the right cheek, turn to him also the other."
Q. What else is forbidden by this precept?
A. To seek, wish, or desire our own, or any other man's death, out of impatience or passion, or to cause women with child to miscarry.
A. To seek, wish, or desire our own, or any other man's death, out of impatience or passion, or to cause women with child to miscarry.
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