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4 Forasmuch as all Civill affairs are to be administered and ordered, so as may best conduce to the upholding and setting forward of the worship of God in Church fellowship. It is therefore ordered, that wheresoever the Lands of any mans Inheritance shall fall, yet no man shall set his dwelling house above the distance of half a mile or a mile at the furthest, from the meeting of the Congregation, where the Church doth usually assemble for the worship of God.

4 Forasmuch as all Civill affaires are to be administred and ordered, so as may best conduce to the upholding and setting forward of the worship of God in Church fellowship. It is therefore ordered, that wheresoever the Lands of any mans Inheritance shall fall, yet no man shall set his dwelling house above the distance of halfe a mile or a mile at the furthest, from the meeting of the Congregation, where the Church doth usually assemble for the worship of God.

5 Inheritances are to descend naturally to the next of kin, ¹according to the Law of Nature, delivered by God.

5 Inheritances are to descend naturally to the next of kinne, ¹according to the Law of Nature, delivered by God.

1. 1Num. 27.7. to 11.