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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.
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 kforce her, and lye with her: then the man only that lay with her, shall dye. But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing, there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: because, as when a man riseth up against his neighbour land slayeth him; so is this matter. For he found her in the field: the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
Defiling of a woman espoused, is a kinde of adultery, and punishable by death of both parties; but if the woman be forced, then by the death of the man onely. Deut. 22. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. If a damsel be a virgin, betrothed to an husband: and a man finde her in the City, and lye with her. Then yee shall bring them out unto the gate of that City, and yee shall stone them with stones, that they dye: the damsell, because she cryed not in the City, and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbours wife: so thou shalt put away evill from among you. But if a man finde a betrothed maid in the field, and the man kforce her, and lye with her: then the man onely that lay with her, shall dye. But unto the damsell thou shalt do nothing, there is in the damsell no sin worthy of death: because, as when a man riseth up against his neighbour land slayeth him; so is this matter. For he found her in the field: the betrothed damsell cryed, and there was none to save her.