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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. 19. Unnatural filthiness to be punished with death; whether Sodomy (which is carnal fellowship of man with man, or woman with woman): or buggery, which is carnal fellowship of man or woman with beast or fowl. Lev. 20. 13. 15, 16. If a man also lye with mankind, ras he lieth with a woman: both of them have committed abomination, they sshall surely be put to death, their blood [shall be] upon them. And if a man tlye with a beast, †he ushall surely be put to death; and ye shall slay the beast. And if a woman approach unto any beast, xand lye down thereunto; thou shalt kill the woman and the beast: they shall surely be put to death, their blood [shall be] upon them.
Sect. 19. Unnatural filthinesse to be punished with death; whether Sodomie (which is carnall fellowship of man with man, or woman with woman): or buggery, which is carnal fellowship of man or woman with beast or fowl. Lev. 20. 13. 15, 16. If a man also lye with mankinde, ras he lyeth with a woman: both of them have committed abomination, they sshall surely be put to death, their blood [shall be] upon them. And if a man tlye with a beast, †he