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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. 2. If a man kill another mans beast, or dig and open a pit, and leave it uncovered, and a beast fall into it; he that killed the beast, and the owner of that pit, shall make restitution. Lev 24. 18. He that kkilleth a beast, shall make it good, lbeast for beast Exod. 21. 33, 34. And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it: and an ox or an ass fall therein: The owner of the pit shall make it good, he shall cause money to return to the owners thereof, and the dead shall be his.
Sect. 2. If a man kill another mans beast, or dig and open a pit, and leave it uncovered, and a beast fall into it; he that killed the beast, and the owner of that pit, shall make restitution. Lev 24. 18. He that kkilleth a beast, shall make it good, lbeast for beast Exod. 21. 33, 34. And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it: and an oxe or an asse fall therein: The owner of the pit shall make it good, he shall cause money to return to the owners thereof, and the dead shall be his.
- kHeb. smiteth the life of a beast.
- lHeb. life for life, or soul for soul.Heb. life for life, or soule for soule.
Sect. 3. If one mans beast kill the beast of another's, the owner of the beast shall make restitution.