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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. 5. Heresy (which is the maintenance of some wicked error, overthrowing the foundation of our christian Religion, ⟨p. 20⟩with obstinacy) if it be joined with endeavour to seduce others thereunto; to be punished with death. Because such an heretic (no less then an Idolater) seeketh to thrust the souls of men from the Lord thy God. Deut. 13. 10. 13. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he dye; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from Jehovah thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house iof bondage.
Sect. 5. Heresie (which is the maintenance of some wicked errour, overthrowing the foundation of our christian Religion, ⟨p. 20⟩with obstinacy) if it be joyned with indeavour to seduce others thereunto; to be punished with death. Because such an heritick (no lesse then an Idolater) seeketh to thrust the souls of men from the Lord thy God. Deut. 13. 10. 13. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he dye; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from Jehovah thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Aegypt, from the house iof bondage.
- iHeb. Servants.
Sect. 6. To worship God in a molten or graven Image, to be punished with death. Exod. 32. 27, 28. And he said unto them, thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel, put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the Camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. And the children of Levy did, according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day, about three thousand men.