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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. The Jurors are not to be chosen by any Magistrates, or Officers, but by the free Burgesses of each Town. Especially out of such Town, as can give best light to the causes depending in Court, and who are least obnoxious to ⟨p. 30⟩suspicion of partiality: And the Jurors so chosen, to be nominated to the Court, and to attend the service of the Court.
Sect. 3. The Jurors are not to be chosen by any Magistrates, or Officers, but by the free Burgesses of each Towne. Especially out of such Towne, as can give best light to the causes depending in Court, and who are least obnoxious to ⟨p. 30⟩suspition of partiality: And the Jurors so chosen, to be nominated to the Court, and to attend the service of the Court.
Sect. 4. The sentence of Judgment, upon criminal causes and persons, shall be executed in the presence of the Magistrates, or some of them at the least. Deut. 25. 2. And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten; that the Judge shall cause him to lye down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
Sect. 4. The sentence of Judgment, upon criminall causes and persons, shall be executed in the presence of the Magistrates, or some of them at the least. Deut. 25. 2. And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten; that the Judge shall cause him to lye downe, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a cetain number.