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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. 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. Deut. 20. 19, 20. When thou shalt ⟨p. 34⟩besiege a City many days, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the ztrees thereof by forcing an axe against them, for thou mayest eat thereof, and thou shalt not cut them down: for ô man it is to be employed by thee in the siege.
Sect. 10. Fruit-trees, that may be of use for meate to our own Souldiers, are not to be cut downe or destroyed, and consequently not corne. Deut. 20. 19, 20. When thou shalt ⟨p. 34⟩besiege a City many dayes, in making warre against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the ztrees thereof by forcing an axe against them, for thou mayest eate thereof, and thou shalt not cut them down: for ô man it is to be employed by thee in the siege.
- zHeb. wood.
But the tree which thou knowest, that it is not a tree for meat, that thou mayest destroy and cut down: that thou mayest build a bulwark against the City that is making war with thee, until thou hast subdued it.
But the tree which thou knowest, that it is not a tree for meate, that thou mayest destroy and cut downe: that thou mayest build a bulworke against the City that is making warre with thee, untill thou hast subdued it.