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175 It may sometimes be the duty of a person to lose life; to save the lives of others. If we could suppose a case where the death of a common person might be the means of sav.g the life of one who was eminently great, good & useful to the world, & like to be so, it would be the duty of that common person to be willing to die, To preserve so eminent a life. peradventure?, says our Lord, for a good man ? would men dare to die. It may then be lawful for a person to die, to save the lives of many persons.

  It is also a duty to lay down life, for the cause of God or the the true religion. When a person cannot worship God or own & profess the true religion & live, it is his duty to renounce life. This has been the fiery trial which the Martyrs of Jesus have submited to. They have sealed their testimony with their blood. They were tortured not accept.g deliverance &  To such are addressed the animat.g words of X, fear not them that kill the body but are not able to kill the Soul, but rather fear him, who is able to destroy both body & soul in hell. For he saw  our Lord who saveth his life, by a wilful apostacy & renounce.g the true religion, shall lose his immortal life & be condemned to eternal death, but he also loseth his life, for my sake & the gospel, shall find it.   The favor of God being a greater good, than a temporal life, our temporal life is to be willingly sacrificed in the competition.
 2.  We are to preserve our own life, by abstain.g from lay.g violent hands on ourselves. The precepts those shalt not kill, equally prohibits the taking our