3 Sept 1811

Jug. Util.

B.II.

Ch.1.

§.2. Suicide

(3)

Sole difference on his part an act of beneficence a must

If [...?] [...?] [...?] there an act of self preservation [...?] sent of [...?] [...?]

[very difficult small writing]

To this invention of modern religion /modern refinement of religious tyranny/ it would be injustice to the memory of Jesus to pass unnoticed /without notice/ that in any thing that ever fell from his lips /to judge from the only memorials that are left to us/ it has any the least countenance.

By /In the way of/ his precepts he has not forbidden it: in the way of examples he had preached it.

To escape from the chosen death /cross/ was it not in the power of his omnipotence? If it was then was his last and most important and /in their interpretation at least/ /according to their/ most beneficent and godlike act an act of suicide.

An act of suicide? and a lesson too. Among his commands to his followers was it not that they should act as he acted as well as suffer as he suffered and act as he preached?