Chaps. afia and Atka, till Noah's dove Columbus difcovered land,ryc ? Thou fhalt not lZil! : and whofoever (illethJhall be in danger of judgement] That is, it {hall bequeflioned whether it be fit he be put to death or not. Thus as Eve dallied with thecommand, lay- ing, re Jlbail not eat thereof,left yedie (when God had faid,Tefhail Ii rely die, whensoever ye eat) and fo fell into the devils danger : In like fort, thefe Jew-dot:ours had corrupted the very letter of the Law,and made that doubtful' and queftionable, which God had plainly andperemptorily pronouncedto beprefent death. Before the 'loud indeed, fome doe ghefie andgather out of Gen, 9. that the punifhment of murther, and fuch likehainous offences, was only excommunication from the holy aflemblies, and exclufion out of their fathers families, as Cain was cafl out from the pretence of the Lord, that is, from his fathers house, where God was fincerely ferved. Sure it is,that no sooner was the ,world repaired, then this G211,9.1% Lawwas eftablifhed; Who (i fbeddttth maul blou 1, by manshall his blood be flied. And this reafon is tendered ; for in the image ofGod madehe him. That image ( its true) is by the fall defaced andabo- lished ; yet are there some reliques thereof {till abiding, which God will not have deftroyed. It any object, Why then should the ObjeEf. murtherer be deftroid, Gth he alfo is made in the image ofGod ? The answer is eafie, becaufe the murtherer bath deftroyed the Anfw. image ofGod in his neighbour, and turned himfeif into the image of the devil. Befides, God path indifpenfably and peremptorily commanded it. He that fheddeth the bloodofany perfn, baien- Psov.t8,i 7, eth to the grave,let no man hinder him. Say he (cape the strokeof humane justice, yet the Barbarians could fay (as of Paul, whom they took for a murtherer) that divine vengeance will not fuffer ARs 28.4. him to live. Bloudy and deceitful)men (hall not liveout half their Pfel.5 í7.3d.' daies. Utually either God executeth them with his own imme- diate hand, as it might be eafie to instance in many blòudy perfe- cutours and others : or he maketh them their owndeathfinen, as Pilate : or fetteth tome other aworke todoe it for them. As ( a- mong other examples ofGods dealing in this kinde) Anno is86. walfhBifhopof0f ferey in Ireland, aman of honest life, with his two fervants, were (tabbed to death byoneDullandan Irishold fouldier, whileft hegravely admoni(hed himofhis foul adulteries : And the wicked murtherer efcaped away, whohad now commit- ted 45 murtherswithhis own hand. At length, revenge pursuing according to St MAT z x a VV. 39
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