The guilt, folly, and sources of suicide : two discourses, preached in the city of New-York, February, 1805 / by Samuel Miller.

  • Miller, Samuel, 1769-1850.
Date:
1805
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    species of imprisonment, and transferring them to a more enlarged and useful sphere of action. How do they learn this? The immortality of the soul, and a future state of bliss or suffering, are fully as- certained by Revelation only; a Revelation which, while it unfolds to our view another world, solemnly forbids us to precipitate ourselves by suicide into its awful realities. 3. Suicide is a sin against society. The bener- volent Creator, who placed us in this world, has bound us to our fellow men, by many strong and interesting relations. These differ in number and in kind, according to circumstances; but they exist in all cases, and under all varieties of condition. It is a dictate of nature, as well as a doctrine of Re- velation, that no man liveth to himself and no man dieth to himself. In the civil Magistrate, in the Minister of the Gospel, and in all who, by their of- fice, their talents, or their wealth, hold conspicuous stations, this crime is peculiarly atrocious, because they are connected with those around them by more numerous and more important ties than other men. And when such persons, regardless of all the obligations which bind them to society, aban- don the post at which they are placed, they act a part which deserves to be stigmatized as selfish, unsocial, and base. Instead of living to bless man- kind, by their instruction, their example, their be- neficence, and their prayers, they meanly fly from the scene of labour and usefulness; and, attentive only to their own feelings, they deliberately rob