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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.
But if a man lye not in wait, and God deliver him into his hand, then will I appoint thee a place, whether he shall fly. But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile: thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may dye. Numb. 35. from v 16. to 24. And if he smite him with an instrument of Iron (so that he dye) he is a murderer: the murderer dshall surely be put to death. And if he smite ehim with throwing a stone (wherewith he may dye) and he dye, he is a murderer: the murderer fshall surely be put to death. Or if he smite him with a hand weapon of wood, (wherewith he may dye) and he dye, he is a murderer: the murderer gshall surely be put to death: The revenger of blood, he shall slay the murderer; when he meeteth him, he shall slay him. And he if he thrust him of hatred; or hurl at him, by laying of wait, that he dye. Or in emnity smite him with his hand, that he dye, he that smote him hshall surely be put to death, he is a murderer: the revenger of blood, shall slay ⟨p. 24⟩the murderer, when he meeteth him. But if he thrust him suddenly, without emnity; or have cost upon him any thing, without laying in wait. Or with any stone wherewith a man may dye (not seeing) and cast it upon that he dye; not hating him, nor seeking his harm. Then the Congregation shall judge, between the slayer, and the revenger of blood: according to these judgements. And the Congregation shall deliver the slayer, out of the hand of the revenger of blood, &c. Gen. 9. 6. He that sheddeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the Image of God, he made man.
But if a man lye not in wait, and God deliver him into his hand, then will I appoint thee a place, whether he shall fly. But if a man come presumptuosly upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile: thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may dye.