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CHAPTER XL. Of their Capitall punishments.
IOSH. 7. 25. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones.
THere were sundry sorts of punishments inflicted upon malefactors by the house of judgement a∣mong the Iewes. Some of them were burnt, some of them were strangled, some of them were stoned, and some of them were beheaded, and some of them were drowned.
He that lay with his mother, or daughter in law the wife of his sonne, or with a maide that was betrothed,* 1.1 Deut. 22. 24. Or if a woman bowed downe to a beast, Levit. 20. 16. so the blasphemer, Levit. 24. 14. and I∣dolater, Deut. 17. 5. So he who offered his seed to Mo∣lech, Levit. 20. 2. He that had the spirit of divination or was a wizard, Levit. 20. 27. He that profaned the Sab∣bath, he that cursed his father or his mother, Levit. 20. 9. so the disobedient sonne was stoned to death. Deut. 21. 21. He that perswaded or enticed others to Idolatry, Deut. 13. 1. all these were stoned to death.
First the Priests daughter if she committed adulterie. Secondly he who lay with his owne daughter. Thirdly* 1.2 he who lay with his sonnes wife. Fourthly he who lay with his daughters daughter, or with the daughter of his wiues daughter. Fifthly he who lay with his mo∣ther in law, or with the mother of his mother in law, or hee who lay with the mother of his father in law, his wife being yet aliue; even all these