2. The precept in the Decalogue _Thou shalt not kill_ is of generall extent; it is a morall command. So that the _Iewes_ are bound not onely, not to kill one of those nations where they live, but they are also oblig’d by the law of gratitude, to love them. They are the very words of R. _Moses_ of _Egypt_ in _Iad a Razaka_, in his treatise of Kings, the tenth Chapter, in the end, _Concerning the nations, the ancients have commanded us to visit their sick and to bury their dead, as the dead of Israel, and to relieve, and maintain their poor, as we do the poor of Israel, because of the wayes of peace, as it is written, God is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works_. Psal. 145.9. And in conformity hereto, I witnesse before God blessed for ever, that I have continually seen in _Amsterdam_ where I reside, abundance of good correspondency, many interchanges of brotherly affection, and sundry things of reciprocall love. I have thrice seen when some _Flemine_ Christians have fallen into the river in our ward, called _Flemburgh_, our nation cast themselves into the river to them, to help them out, and to deliver their lives from death. And certainly he that will thus hazard himself to save another, cannot harbour so much cruell malice, as to kill the innocent, whom he ought out of the duty of humanity to defend and protect. 3. It is forbidden _Exodus_ 21.20. to kill a stranger; _If a man smite his servant, or his maid with a rod, and he die under his hand, he shall surely be punished, notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his money_. The text speaks of a servant that is one of the Gentile nations, because that he onely is said to be the _money_ of the _Iew_, who is his master, as _Aben Ezra_ well notes upon the place. And the Lord commands, that if he die under the hand of his master, his master shall be put to death, for that as it seems, he struck him with a murderous intent. But it is otherwise if the servant dies afterwards, for then it appeares, that he did not strike him with a purpose to kill him; for if so, he would have killed him out of hand, wherefore he shall be free, and it may suffice for punishment that he hath lost his money. If therefore a _Iew_ cannot kill his servant, or slave that is one of the nations, according to the law, how much lesse shall he be impowred to murder him that is not his _enemy_, and with whom he leads a quiet and a peaceable life? and therefore how can any good man believe that against his holy law, a _Iew_ (in a strange countrey especially) should make himself guilty of so execrable a fact? 4. Admit that it were lawfull (which God forbid) why should they eat the bloud? And supposing they should eat the bloud, why should they eat it on the Passeover? Here at this feast, every confection ought to be so pure, as not to admit of any leaven, or any thing that may fermentate, which certainly bloud doth.