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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.
CHAP. II. Of free Burgesses, and free Inhabitants.
Sect. 1. ALL the free Burgesses (excepting such as were admitted free-men, before the establishment of Churches in this Country) shall be received and admitted out of the members of some or other of the Churches already established in this Country, and such members as are admitted by their own Church unto the Lords table.
Sect. 1. ALL the free Burgesses (excepting such as were admitted free-men, before the establishment of Churches in this Country) shal be received and admitted out of the members of some or other of the Churches already established in this Country, and such members as are admitted by their own Church unto the Lords table.
Sect. 2. These free Burgesses shall give power to choose in their own Towns fit and able men, out of themselves, to be ordinary Judges of inferior causes in their own Town. And against the approaches of the General Court, to choose two or three for Deputies or Committees, to join with the Governor and Assistants of the whole Country, to make up and constitute a general Court.
Sect. 2. These free Burgesses shall give power to choose in their own Towns fit and able men, out of themselves, to be ordinary Judges of inferiour causes in their own Towne. And against the approaches of the Generall Court, to choose two or three for Deputies or Committees, to joyne with the Governour and Assistants of the whole Country, to make up and constitute a general Court.