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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. 3. Rash and profane swearing and cursing to be punished. 1. With loss of honour or office if he be a Magistrate or Officer. Meet it is that their name should be dishonoured, who do dishonour Gods name. 2. With loss of freedom. 3. With disability to give testimony. 4. With corporal punishment; either by stripes, or by branding them with an hot iron, or boring through the tongue, as he hath bored and pierced Gods name. This seems to be grounded upon the equity of the Law of blasphemy, in the 7. Chapter and 1. Section, by way of proportion. However my copy hath no Scriptures annexed.
Sect. 3. Rash and profane swearing and cursing to be punished. 1. With losse of honour or office if he be a Magistrate or Officer. Meet it is that their name should be dishonoured, who do dishonour Gods name. 2. With losse of freedome. 3. With disability to give testimonie. 4. With corporal punishment; either by stripes, or by branding them with an hot iron, or boring through the tongue, as he hath bored and pierced Gods name. This seemes to be grounded upon the equity of the Law of blasphemie, in the 7. Chapter and 1. Section, by way of proportion. However my copy hath no Scriptures annexed.
Sect. 4. Drunkenness (or transforming Gods image into a beast) is to to be punished with the punishment of beasts. Prov. 26. 3. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass: and a rod for the back of fools.
Sect. 4. Drunkenesse (or transforming Gods image into a beast) is to to be punished with the punishment of beasts. Prov. 26. 3. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the asse: and a rod for the baek of fooles.