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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.
All the Magistrates are to be chosen 1. BY the free Burgesses, Deut. 1. 13. aGive for your selves wise men, and understanding, and bknown amongst your Tribes, and I will place them for cRulers over you. 2. Out of the free Burgesses, Deut. 17. 15. Thou shalt in dany wise set over thee the King, whom the Lord thy God shall choose for himself; from among thy brethren shalt thou set a King over thee. Jer. 30. 21. And their Nobles shall be of themselves, and their Governor shall proceed from the mids of them, and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me. 3. Out of the ablest of men, and most approved amongst them, Deut. 1. 13. before mentioned. ⟨p. 2⟩Exod. 18. 21. Moreover thou shalt eprovide out of all the people fable men, fearing God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and thou shalt place over them rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of tens. 4. Out of the ranks of Noble-men, or Gentlemen amongst them, the best that God sendeth unto their Country, if they be qualified with gifts fit for Government, either eminently above others, or not inferior unto others, Eccles. 10. 17. Blessed be thou O land, when thy King is the son of Nobles, and thy Princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness.