ABSTRACT
IN determining of this question, about the finall estate of salvation, or damnation of self-murderers, wee must deale warily: that wee may neither dash ourselves against the rocke of extreamity, rigorous uncharitablenesse, in adjudging all to damnation, whereof wee may finde some at the last day to be inheritours of heaven: and contrariwise, that we may not, by an excesse of charity, extenuate that horrible finne, or excuse the doers thereof; whereby wee may adjudge those to heaven, which arc fire-brands of hell; and may encourage others to doe the like fact ; or at least to make men leffe to regard, or to abhorre and beware of it.
