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134 or ſave his life. But yet I think meet to inſtruct you into our Law. There was an Act made in the days of Pharaoh the Great, Servant to our Prince, That left thoſe of a contrary Religion mould multiply and grow, too ſtrong for him, their Males mould be thrown into the River. There was alſo an Act made in the days of Nebuchadnezzar the Great, another of his Servants, That whoever would not fall down and worſhip his golden Image, mould be thrown into a fiery Furnace. There was alſo an Act made in the days of Darius,That who ſo, for ſome time, called upon any God but his, mould be caſt into the Lions Den. Now the ſubſtance of theſe Laws this Rebel has broken, not only in thought (which is not to be born) but alſo in word and deed; which muſt therefore needs be intolerable.

For that of Pharaoh, his Law was made upon a ſuppoſition, to prevent miſchief, no Crime being yet apparent; but here is a Crime apparent. For the ſecond and third, you ſee he diſputeth againſt our Religion; and for the Treaſon he hath confeſſed, he deſerveth to die the death. Then