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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.
CHAP. VIII. Of other crimes less heinous, such as are to be punished with some corporal punishment or Fine.
CHAP. VIII. Of other crimes lesse heynous, such as are to be punished with some corporall punishment or Fine.
Sect. 1. Forcing of a maid or a rape, is not punished by Gods law by death. But 1. with a fine or penalty to the father of the maid. 2. With marriage of the maid defiled; to wit, if she and her father consent. 3. With corporal punishment of stripes. fFor this wrong is a real slander: and worse to make an whore, then to say one is a whore. Deut. 22 28, 29. If a man find a damsel a maid, which is not betrothed, and lay hold of her, and lye with her: and they be found. Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsels father, fifty [shekels] of silver: and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. Deut. 22. 17, 18. And lo he hath given occasion of speech [against her] saying, I found not gthy daughter a maid, yet these are the tokens of my daughters virginity: and they shall spread the cloth, before the Elders of the City. And ⟨p. 27⟩the Elders of that City shall take that man: and shall chastise him.
Sect. 1. FOrcing of a maid or a rape, is not punished by Gods law by death. But 1. with a fine or penalty to the father of the maid. 2. With marriage of the maid defiled; to wit, if she and her father consent. 3. With corporall punishment of stripes. f