Lord's day 32.
Q. Which is the sixth Commandment?
A. Thou shalt not kill, or Thou shalt do no murder.
Q. What are the Duties required in this Com∣mandment?
A. It requires all due care, in all Persons, to preserve their own, n and others o lives: and to nourish in themselves, those inward affections and gracious dispositions, that tend thereunto. p
Q. What are the Sins forbidden in this Command∣ment?
A. All actual Murder, committed either on our selves, q or others; r and whatever, thoughts, words, or actions, tending thereunto.
2. Together with all outragious Passions, or vicious Dispositions of any kind, which occasion or encline Men to the Commission of this foul sin. s
Q. Is it in no case lawful to take away anothers Life?
A. It is only Lawful in three cases.
1. In the way of publick Justice, for capital Offences. t
2. In lawful War, and in heat of Battle. u