ABSTRACT
A Self-murderer hath denomination from his fact of self-murder; whereby it staines him with an ill and odious name: although a man properly is not to be named from one single act, but from an habituall disposition, and continued practise ; yet here one act gives the name, because it proceeds from that which is in a man by way of habit; and is an act that in regard of the extinguishment of its subject, can be done but once by one body; but if they should live againe in the fame state, yet upon the fame motives and disposition would againe and againe doe the fame; as we fee by the practise of those that after restraint,or disappointment of effecting their purpose therein, doe not cease still to attempt the same untill it be done, and therefore such a fact is equivalent to a constant practise.
