Pelecanicidium, or, The Christian adviser against self-murder together with a guide and the pilgrims passe to the land of the living : in three books.

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Title: Pelecanicidium, or, The Christian adviser against self-murder together with a guide and the pilgrims passe to the land of the living : in three books.
Author: Denny, William, Sir, 1603 or 4-1676.
Publication: London :: Printed for Thomas Hucklescott ...,; 1653.
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Subject terms: Suicide -- Religious aspects -- Early works to 1800.
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MORAL. X.

THe skilfull Chirurgeon, that would preserve the Bodies health, doth scarrifie a part to stupifie it, and to let it blood; and in other cases doth mortifie and cicatrize to pre∣vent the mischief of a Gangreen.

Ense recidendum est, ne pars sincer a trahatur. Virtue and Vice cannot live together. We cannot at once serve two Masters: We cannot serve God and Mammon. We must throw down, and trample upon Idols, if we mean to serve the Living God, There is but one Phoenix, and that hath a very sweet Note, as Lactantius Firmianus, which continu∣eth his race by the death of his Predecessor, who gathering rich spices to his compiled Nest in the face of the Sun, fireth them, and therein consumeth in his Age, and from his Ashes ariseth the living young. Who so dyeth to the world, liveth such a Phoenix unto happiness.