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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. 4. Just weights and balances to be kept between buyers and sellers. And for default thereof, the profit so wickedly and corruptly gotten and gained, with as much more added thereunto, it to be forfeited to the public treasury of the Common-wealth; Lev. 19. 36. aJust balances, just bweights, a just ephah, and a just bin shall ye have. Prov. 11. 1. Balances of deceit is abomination to Jehovah: but a perfect cstone is his delight. Prov. 15. 11. A djust weight and balance are Jehovahs: all the stones of the bag are his work. Prov. 20. 10. A stone and a stone, an epha and an epha, both of them are like abomination to Jehovah.
Sect. 4. Just weights and ballances to be kept between buyers and sellers. And for default thereof, the profit so wickedly and corruptly gotten and gained, with as much more added thereunto, it to be forfeited to the publick treasury of the Common-wealth; Lev. 19. 36. aJust ballances, just bweights, a just ephah, and a just bin shall ye have. Prov. 11. 1. Ballances of deceit is abomination to Jehovah: but a perfect cstone is his delight.