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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. X. Of causes criminal between our people and foreign Nations.
CHAP. X. Of causes criminall between our people and forreign Nations.
Sect. 1. IN case any of our people should do wrong to men of another Nation, upon complaint made to the Governor, or some other of the Council or Assistants, the fact is diligently to be inquired into; and being found to be true, full restitution is to be made out of the goods of the offender (as the case shall require) and the offender himself to be severely punished, according to the quality of the crime. Mat. 7. 12. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the Prophets.
Sect. 1. IN case any of our people should do wrong to men of another Nation, upon complaint made to the Governour, or some other of the Councell or Assistants, the fact is diligently to be inquired into; and being found to be true, full restitution is to be made out of the goods of the offender (as the case shall require) and the offender himselfe to be severely punished, according to the quality of the crime. Mat. 7. 12. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should doe to you, doe ye even so to them; for this is the law and the Prophets.
Sect. 2. In case the people of another Nation have done any wrong to any of ours, right is first to be demanded of the Governor of that people, and justice upon the Malefactor, which if it be granted and performed, then no breach of peace to follow.