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An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirror may be seen…An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirrour may be seen…
An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirror may be seen the wisdom & perfection of the government of Christs kingdom accommodable to any state or form of government in the world that is not antichristian or tyrannical / collected and digested ... by John Cotton ... ; and now published after his death by William Aspinall.An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirrour may be seen the wisdome & perfection of the government of Christs kingdome accomodable to any state or form of government in the world that is not antichristian or tyrannicall / collected and digested ... by John Cotton ... ; and now published after his death by William Aspinall.
London: printed by M.S. for Livewel Chapman, 1655
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sect. 6. To worship God in a molten or graven Image, to be punished with death. Exod. 32. 27, 28. And he said unto them, thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel, put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the Camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. And the children of Levy did, according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day, about three thousand men.
Sect. 6. To worship God in a molten or graven Image, to be punished with death. Exod. 32. 27, 28. And he sayd unto them, thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel, put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the Campe, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. And the children of Levy did, according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day, about three thousand men.
Sect. 7. Such members of the Church as do wilfully reject (to wit, after admonition and conviction) the Churches established, their admonition and censures, shall be cut off by banishment.
Sect. 8. Whosoever shall revile the Religion and worship of God, and the Government of the Church, as it is now established, to be cut of by banishment.