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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 ?ubnicted? to. They have sealed their testimony with their blood. They were torturdy? 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