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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. 5. Men betrothed and not married, or newly married; and such as have newly built or planted, and not reaped the fruit of their labours: and such as are faint-hearted, are not to be pressed or forced against their wills to go forth to war. Deut. 20. 5, 6, 7, 8. And the Officers shall speak to to the people, saying: what man [is there] that hath built a new house, and hhath not dedicated it? let him go, and return to his house; lest he dye in the battle, and another iman dedicate it.
Sect. 5. Men betrothed and not marryed, or newly marryed; and such as have newly built or planted, and not reaped the fruit of their labours: and such as are faint-hearted, are not to be pressed or forced against their wills to go forth to warre. Deut. 20. 5, 6, 7, 8. And the Officers shall speake to to the people, saying: what man [is there] that hath built a new house, and hhath not dedicated it? let him goe, and return to his house; lest he dye in the battle, and another iman dedicate it.
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And what man [is there] that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not keaten of it? let him go and return to his house: lest he dye in the battle, and another man