How does this legal document from 1672 illustrate
the role of the Christian religion in the early New
England colonies?
Religion was based on community laws.
Religion had minimal influence in the
colonies.
Religion was the basis for government as
well as private life.
O Religion was separate from local
government.
DONE
Idolatry.
Witchcraft.
CAPITAL LAWS
F any man after Legal Conviction fhall HAVE or Wo
SHIP any other God but the LORD GOD, be fall be
put to death, Exod. 12. 19. Det ry. 6, 19. De 17. 1,6.
2. If any Man or Woman be a WITCH, that is, Hath or Con
faleeth with a familiar Spirit they shall be put to death, Ed. 12. 18.
Levit. 20.27. Dat. 11.11.
3. If any Perfon within this Juridilice, whether Chriftian or Pagan,
Blobomy. hall wittingly and willingly prefume to BLASPHEME the holy name
of God, FATHER, SON, or HOLYGHOST, with direct, exprelle,
prefumptuous, or high-handed Blafphemy, either by willll of cbfinite de
nying the true God, or his Creation, or Government of the World, or fall
curle God in like manner, or reproach the holy Religion of God, as if it
were but a politick "devife; to keep ignorant men in awe or fhall umersey
ether kind of Blafphemy of the like nature and degree, they fhall be put
3. If any Person within this Jurisdiction, whether
Christian or Pagan, shall wittingly and willingly
presume to BLASPHEME the holy name of God,
FATHER, SON, or HOLY-GHOST,... they shall
be put to death.