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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.
§ 14. Rebellion, Sedition, insurrection (by taking up arms against the present Government, established in the Country) to be punished with death. Numb. 16. 1, 2, 3. 31, 32, 33. Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi: and Dathan and Abiram sons of Elijah, and Or the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men.] And they rose up before Moses, and scertain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty: Princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men tof renown. And they gathered themselves together against Moses & against Aaron, and said to them, uye take too much upon you: for all the assembly even all of them are holy, and Jehovah in the mids of them: Wherefore then lift up your selves above the congregation of Jehovah? And it came to pass as xhe had made an end of speaking all these words: that the earth clave asunder that was under them. And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses: and every man which appertained to Korah, and all their goods. And they and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the grave: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation.
§ 14. Rebellion, Sedition, insurrection (by taking up arms against the present Government, established in the Country) to be punished with death. Numb. 16. 1, 2, 3. 31, 32, 33. Now Korah the sonne of Izhar, the sonne of Kohath, the son of Levi: and Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliah, and Or the sonne of Peleth, sonnes of Reuben, tooke [men.] And they rose up before Moses, and scertain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty: Princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men t