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[proposition 1] WHen God commandeth that we should not kill, he, by the testimonie of Christ, * 1.1 forbiddeth anger, which must not be vnderstood of euerie anger, but of that onelie which is a∣gainst charitie.
[proposition 2] Reuenge belongeth not to priuate men, séeing it is a worke of the magistrate.
[proposition 3] They which saie that the commandement of not reuenging is a counsell, and not of necessi∣tie
to saluation, doo greatlie erre.
[proposition 4] It is lawfull for euerie man against them that be priuate to repell violence by violence, so it be not doone of hatred or desire to reuenge, and onelie when an extreame necessitie forceth, wherein we cannot vse the helpe of lawfull de∣fenders.
[proposition 5] The mishap of those that are punished with death is to be lamented, but yet the execution of a iust iudgement against them must not be hin∣dered by our defenses, or by the intercessions of others.
[proposition 6] It is not lawfull for a man to kill himselfe. Wherefore Pe••llianus is iustlie condemned for iudging them to be martyrs, who, when they were fallen into gréeuous mischéefes, killed themselues vnder pretense of repentance.
[proposition 7] Neither are those to be heard which grant the same when chastitie is put in danger.
[proposition 8] The death of Samson excuseth not them, which of their owne will doo kill themselues.
[proposition 9] In the precept wherein adulterie is forbid∣den, * 1.2 matrimonie, which is the contrarie, is commended, for that it is a lawfull ••oming togither of man and wife into one flesh by the institution of God, for the procreating of chil∣dren, and godlie education of them, and that fornication may be auoided.
[proposition 10] The lawfull vse of matrimonie is not, as ma∣nie thinke, a veniall sinne.
[proposition 11] They which saie that matrimonie is not good, but in comparison of whooredome and adulterie, are of an ill iudgement.
[proposition 12] Matrimonie is violated, when man and wife being lawfullie ioined togither into one flesh, there is mingled a strange flesh, not onlie in the grose and outward fact, but with the hart, with words, beckes, and other dispute actions.
[proposition 13] Also matrimonie is violated by a diuorse ad∣mitted without lawfull causes.
[proposition 14] It is not in the power of man and wife, that the one should grant to the other the vse of their bodies vnto others out of matrimonie.
[proposition 15] In a well ordered Common-weale, the crime of adulterie ought to be punished with death.
[proposition 16] Christ released not the seueritie of the lawe of God in that respect, that he condemned not that woman which was taken in adulterie.
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adulterie.