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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.
§. 5. Maiming or wounding of a free-man (whether free Burgess or free inhabitant) to be punished with a fine, and with loss of member for member, or some valuable recompense, and to pay for his cure and for the loss of his time. Exod. 21. 18, 19. 22, 23, 24, 25. And if men strive together, and lone smite another, with a stone, or with his fist: and he dye not, mbut keepeth his bed. If he rise again and walk abroad, upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall npay for the loss of his time, and oshall cause him to be throughly healed. And if men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no pmischief follow: he qshall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him, and he shall pay as the Judges [shall determine.] But if any rmischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: ⟨p. 28⟩hand for hand, foot for foot. Burning for burning, wound for wound: stripe for stripe. Lev. 24. 19. 20. And if a man cause a blemish, in his neighbour: as he hath done, so shall be done to him. Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
§. 5. Mayming or wounding of a free-man (whether free Burgesse or free inhabitant) to be punished with a fine, and with losse of member for member, or some valuable recompence, and to pay for his cure and for the losse of his time.