This two-part, eight-volume, reset edition draws together a range of sources from the early modern era through to the industrial age, to show the changes and continuities in responses to the social, political, legal and spiritual problems that self-murder posed.
Part I: Sermons, Discourses, Essays and Treatises Francis Ayscough, A
Discourse against Self-Murder (1755) Wellins Calcott, Suicide, Th oughts
Moral and Divine (1761) John Chorley Knowles, Th e Unreasonableness and
Impiety of Suicide Considered, Twelve Sermons (1769) Thomas Secker, Th e
Sixth Commandment, Lectures on the Catechism of the Church of England (1769)
Matthew Henry Cooke, On Suicide, Th e Newest and Most Complete Whole Duty
of Man (1773) Caleb Fleming, A Dissertation upon the Unnatural Crime of
Self-Murder (1773) John Herries, An Address to the Public on the Frequent and
Enormous Crime of Suicide (1774) John Marks Moffatt, To the Distressed,
Especially to the Person who is Tempted to Suicide, Th e Duty and Interest
of Every Private Person (1778) Manessah Dawes, An Essay on Crimes and
Punishments (1782) J. Yonge, Essay XIX, Essays and Letters on the Most
Important and Interesting Subjects (1783) Anon., A Collection of Letters in
Defence of Christianity and Its Distinguishing Doctrines (1784) George
Gregory, An Impartial Inquiry into the Reasonableness of Suicide, Essays
(1785) Richard Hey, A Dissertation on Suicide (1785) William Paley,
Suicide, Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785) Anon., A
Caveat against Suicide (1786) Edmund Burton, Suicide, a Dissertation (1790),
Charles Moore, A Full Inquiry into the Subject of Suicide (1790) Anon., Short
Expostulations and Thoughts on Suicide (1790) Herbert Croft , A Sermon
Preached at Prittlewell (1791) Edward Barry, Self-Murder, Theological,
Philosophical and Moral Essays (1792) John Garnons, On Suicide, Sermons on
Various Subjects (1792) Vicesmus Knox, Against Despair and Suicide, Sermons
(1792) John Watkins, Enquiry into the Causes of Suicide, Th e Peeper, A
Collection of Essays, Moral, Biographical, and Literary (1796) George Beaver,
A Sermon against Self-Murther (1797) George Gregory, A Sermon on Suicide
(1797) Anon., On Suicide, Crude Thoughts on Prevailing Subjects (1798)
William Davy, Against Suicide, or Self-Murder, A System of Divinity (1799)
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