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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. 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.
Sect. 9. Wilful perjury whether before the judgment seat, or in private conference, to be punished with banishment. Just is, that such a mans name should be cut off from his people, who profaneth so grossly the name of God before his people.
Sect. 9. Wilful perjury whether before the judgment seat, or in private conference, to be punished with banishment. Just is, that such a mans name should be cut off from his people, who profaneth so grosly the name of God before his people.
These three last Sections have no Scripture annexed in my copy. But I suppose the Author groundeth his judgement for banishment, upon Numb. 15. 30, 31