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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. III. Of the protection and provision of the Country.
CHAP. III. Of the protection and provision of the Countrey.
Sect. 1. A Law to be made (if it be not made already) for the training of all men in the Country (fit to bear arms) unto the exercise of Military discipline. And withal another Law, for the maintenance of Military Officers and Forte.
Sect. 1. A Law to be made (if it be not made already) for the training of all men in the Country (fit to bear armes) unto the exercise of Military discipline. And withall another Law, for the maintenance of Military Officers and Forte.
Sect. 2. Because fish is the chief staple commodity of this Country, therefore all due encouragements to be given to such hands as shall set forward the trade of fishing. And for that end, a Law to be made, that whosoever shall apply themselves to set forward the trade of fishing (as fisher-men, Mariners or Ship-wrights) shall be allowed man for man, some or other of the labourers of the Country, to plant and reap for them, in the seasons of the year, at the public charge of the Common-wealth, for the space of these seven years next ensuing: And such labourers to be appointed and payed by the Treasurer of the Common-wealth.
Sect. 2. Because fish is the chief staple commodity of this Country, therefore all due incouragements to be given to such hands as shall set forward the trade of fishing. And for that end, a Law to be made, that whosoever shall apply themselves to set forward the trade of fishing (as fisher-men, Marriners or Ship-wrights) shall be allowed man for man, some or other of the labourers of the Country, to plant and reape for them, in the seasons of the year, at the publick charge of the Common-wealth, for the space of these seven years next ensuing: And such labourerrs to be appointed and payed by the Treasurer of the Common-wealth.