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A50067 The general laws and liberties of the Massachusets colony; Laws, etc. Massachusetts. 1672 (1672) Wing M1003; ESTC R208 224,188 210

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as an addition to the Law tit Gaming c. Penalty for Gaming This Court doth Declare and be it Ordered by the Authority thereof That what person or persons soever shall bring into this Jurisdiction any playing Cards or Dice or with whomsoever such Cards or Dice be found in his or their Custody he or they shall pay as a fine the sum of five pounds the one half to the Treasurer the other half to the Informer But in case any such Cards or Dice shall come into the custody of any person without his knowledge or consent he shall carry them to the next Magistrate or Commissioner within two dayes after his knowledge of them to dispose of them as the said Magistrate or Commissioner shall see cause any such person shall be free from the penalty And if any person that hath played or gamed and shall give Information thereof he shall be freed from the penalty of the Law to pay treble damage but shall have no further benifit of the Law by his information And also any such persons Testimony shall be good in Law for one Testimony against any that shall break this Law And it is also Declared that it is and shall be in the liberty of the Court or Judges that shall determine any such case to punish the transgressor or transgressors of the Law by imposing the fine or otherwise by corporal punishment as they shall judge best any Law Usage or Custome to the contrary notwithstanding 1670. Heresie Error ALthough no Humane power be Lord over the Faith and Consciences of men yet because such as bring in damnable Heresies tending to the subversion of the Christian Faith and destruction af the Souls of men ought duely to be restrained from such notorious impieties It is therefore Ordered and Declared by the Court That if any Christian within this Jurisdiction shall go about to subvert and destroy the Christian Faith and Religion by broaching and maintaining any damnable Heresies As denying the immortality of the Soul or resurrection of the Body or any sin to be repented of in the regenerate or any evil done by the outward man to be accounted sin or denying that Christ gave himself a Ransome for our sins Errors or shall affirm that we are not justified by his death and righteousness but by the perfections of our own works L. 1. p. 2. or shall deny the Morallity of the fourth Commandment Anabaptists or shall purposely depart the Congregaaion at the administration of that Ordinance or shall deny the Ordinance of Magistracy or their lawful Authority to make War or to punish the outward breaches of the first Table Obstinate to be banished or shall endeavour to seduce others to any of the Errors or Heresies abovementioned every such person continuing obstinate therein after due means of conviction shall be sentenced to Banishment 1646. 44. 2. The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament A. 57. p. 7.8 being written by the Prophets Apostles and Holy men of God inspired by the Holy Ghost containing in them the infallible and whole Will of God which he purposed to make known to Man-kinde both for his own Worship and Service and also for the Instruction Obedience Faith and Salvation of Man which yet by Hereticks in former ages and now of late have been opugned and denied so to be which tends to the overthrow of all true Religion and Salvation for the prevention of so hainous a crime It is Ordered by this Court and the Authority thereof That what person or persons soever professing the Christian Religion above the age of sixteen years that shall within this Jurisdiction wittingly and willingly at any time after the publication of this Order deny either by Word or Wrighting any of the Books of the Old-Testament As Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuterenomy Joshua Judges Ruth Samuel Samuel Kings Kings Chronicles Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah Esther Job Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Canticles Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habbakuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi Or New as Matthew Mark Luke Iohn Acts Romans Corrinthians Corrinthians Galathians Ephesians Philippians Colossians Thessalonians Thessalenians Timothy Timothy Titus Philemon Hebrews Iames Peter Peter Iohn Iohn Iohn Iude and Revelation To be the written and infallible Word of God Denying the Scrip●●●e to be the word of God Or if any person as aforesaid belonging to this Jurisdictton shall commit the said crime upon the Sea not being or belonging to the Jurisdiction of any other Common-wealth shall be forthwith apprehended by the next Officer or Officers whether Marshal or Constable or their Deputy who shall have power so to do by warrant from any one of the Magistrates and shall be committed to the Prison at Boston without Bale or Mainprize there to be safely kept till the next County Court where upon sufficient Testimony brought against the said Delinquent he shall be adjudged for his offence after legal conviction to pay such a fine as the Court which shall have cognizance of the crime shall judge meet not exceeding the sum of fifty pounds Penalty or shall be openly and severely whipt by the executioner whether Constable or any other appointed not exceeding forty strokes unless he shall publickly recant before his Sentence which if he do he shall not pay above the fine of ten pounds to the Treasurer for the use of the Common-wealth or be whipt in case he pay not the fine And it is further Ordered and Enacted That if the said Offender after his Recantation Sentence or Execution shall the second time publish and Obstinately and Pertinaciously maintain the said wicked Opinion he shall be Banished or put to Death as the Court shall Judge 1651. 3. It is Ordered A. 54. p. 7. that all and every of the Inhabitants of this Jurisdiction that have any of the Books in their Custody that go under the names of ●ohn Reeves Muggletons books to be delivered in to some Magistrate and Lodowick Muggleton who pretends themselves to be the two last Witnesses and Prophets of Jesus Christ which are full of Blasphemies and shall not bring or send in all such Books in their Custody to the next Magistrate shall forfeit the sum of ten pounds for every such Book found in his hand the one half to the Informer the other half to the Country to be burnt And as many of the said Books as are or shall be in Custody shall be burnt in the Market place at Boston on the next Lecture day by the Common Executioner 4. Whereas there is a cursed Sect of Hereticks lately risen up in the World A. 56. p. 13. which are commonly called Quakers who take upon th●m to be immediately sent of God and infallibly assisted by the Spirit to speak and write Blasphemous Opinions dispising Government and the Order of God in Church and Common-wealth Quakers speaking evil of Dignities reproaching and revi●ing