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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.
But if to go thou [determine], make thy self strong for the ybattle: God will make thee fall before the enemy, for God hath power, to help and to cast down.
But if to goe thou [determine], make thy selfe strong for the ybattle: God will make thee fall before the enemie, for God hath power, to help and to cast downe.
- yOr War.
Sect. 9. Women (especially such as have not lien by man) little children and cattle, are to be spared and reserved for spoil. Deut. 20. 14. But the women and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the City, all the spoil thereof thou shalt take as a prey to thy self: and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
Sect. 9. Women (especially such as have not lyen by man) little children and cattle, are to be spared and reserved for spoile. Deut. 20. 14. But the women and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the City, all the spoile thereof thou shalt take as a prey to thy selfe: and thou shalt eate the spoile of thine enemies, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
Sect. 10. Fruit-trees, that may be of use for meat to our own Soldiers, are not to be cut down or destroyed, and consequently not corn.