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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. 17. Adultery (which is the defiling of the marriage bed) to be punished with death. Lev. 20. 9. And the man that committeth adultery with another mans wife, which commits adultery with his neighbours wife: the adulterer and the adulteress, ishall surely be put to death. Deut. 22. 22. If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them dye, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
Sect. 17. Adultery (which is the defiling of the marriage bed) to be punished with death. Lev. 20. 9. And the man that committeth adultery with another mans wife, which commits adultery with his neighbours wife: the adulterer and the adulteresse, ishall surely be put to death. Deut. 22. 22. If aman be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them dye, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evill from Israel.
- iHeb. In dying shall dye.
Defiling of a woman espoused, is a kind of adultery, and punishable by death of both parties; but if the woman be forced, then by the death of the man only. Deut. 22. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. If a damsel be a virgin, betrothed to an husband: and a man find her in the City, and lye with her. Then ye shall bring them out unto the gate of that City, and ye shall stone them with stones, that they dye: the damsel, because she cried not in the City, and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbours wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you. But if a man find a betrothed maid in the field, and the man