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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. 12. A tribute from both is to be levied to the Lord, and given to the treasury of the Church. A fiftieth part out of the Common-wealths part; and a five hundred part out of the part of the Soldiers. Numb. 31. 28, 29, 47. And levy a atribute for Jehovah, of the men of war that went out to war, one soul of five hundred: both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep.
Sect. 12. A tribute from both is to be levyed to the Lord, and given to the treasury of the Church. A fiftieth part out of the Common-wealths part; and a five hundreth part out of the part of the Souldiers. Numb. 31. 28, 29, 47. And levie a atribute for Jehovah, of the men of warre that went out to warre, one soule of five hundred: both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep.
- aHeb. A portion.
Take ye it of their half; and give it unto Eleazar the Priest, for an heave offering of Jehovah.
Take yee it of their halfe; and give it unto Eleazar the Priest, for an heave offering of Jehovah.
Even of the children of Israels half, Moses took, one portion of fifty, of the men and of the beasts; and gave them to the Levites, that keep the charge of the Tabernacle of Jehovah, as Jehovah commanded Moses.