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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. VII. Of crimes. And first of such as deserve capital punishment, or cutting off from a mans people, whether by death or banishment.
Sect. 1. Blasphemy (which is a cursing of God, or wicked denial of God by Atheism, or the like) to be punished with death. Lev. 24. 15, 16. Whosoever curseth his God, shall bear his sin. And he that ublasphemeth the name Jehovah, xshall be surely put to death, all the congregation in stoning shall stone him: as well the stranger as he that is born in the land, when he yblasphemeth the name, shall be put to death.
Sect. 1. BLasphemy (which is a cursing of God, or wicked denyall of God by Atheisme, or the like) to be punished with death. Lev. 24. 15, 16. Whosoever curseth his God, shall beare his sinne. And he that ublasphemeth the name Jehovah, xshall be surely put to death, all the congregation in stoning shall stone him: as well the stranger as he that is born in the land, when he y