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General Books LLC claimed This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1828 Excerpt: ... LETTER XIV. Jesuitical Maxims on the subject of Homicide refuted by the holy Fathers Reply, in passing, to some of their Calumnies, and a Comparison of their Doctrine with the Form observed in pronouncing Judgment in Criminal Cases. Paris, Oct. 23, 1656. Ueverend Fathers, If I had only to reply to the three remaining impostures on the subject of homicide, it would be unnecessary to detain your attention long--a few words would suffice, as will be soon seen, for your refutation; but as I feel persuaded it is more important to impress the world with a just horror of your opinions than to verify my own citations, I shall be obliged to employ the greatest part of this letter in refuting your maxims, and representing how remote you are from the sentiments of the church, and even from nature. The permission to kill, which you give on so many occasions, evinces that in this affair you have so forgotten the law of God, and so extinguished the light of nature, as to need reminding of the simplest principles of religion and of common sense. What can be more natural than the following sentiment: ´One private individual has no right over the life of another. We so well know this ourselves,´ says St. Chrysostom, ´that when God established the law against murder he did not add, it was on account of its being an evil, because the law supposes that men have already learned this truth from nature.´ This commandment has been in force in all ages. The Gospel confirms the law, and the decalogue only renewed that which mankind had received from God previous to the law in the person of Noah, from whom the human race were to spring. At the renewal of the world God addressed that patriarch, ´At the hand of a man, even at the hand of a man´s brother, will I require the life of a ma...