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Christian economyChristian oeconomie
Christian economy: or, A short survey of the right manner of erecting and ordering a family according to the scriptures. First written in Latin by the author M. W. Perkins, and now set forth in the vulgar tongue, for more common use and benefit, by Tho. Pickering Bachelor of Divinity.Christian oeconomie: or, A short survey of the right manner of erecting and ordering a familie according to the scriptures. First written in Latine by the author M. W. Perkins, and now set forth in the vulgar tongue, for more common vse and benefit, by Tho. Pickering Bachelar of Diuinitie.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston, 1609
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now he that is in the second degree of this line, comes near to the kindred of his flesh; and for that cause the marriages of brethren, and sisters are unlawful, and forbidden.
Now he that is in the second degree of this line, comes neare to the kindred of his flesh; and for that cause the mariages of brethren, and sisters are vnlawfull, and forbidden.
But against this, sundry things are alleged.
But against this, sundrie things are alledged.
Object. 1. The sons of Adam, who were the first brethren in the world, married their sisters; marriages therefore in this degree may seem to be lawful. Answ. The case of those persons in those times, was a case of necessity, which could not be avoided, and thereupon was warranted by divine dispensation. For God had given them his ⟨p. 34⟩own express commandment in this behalf; Bear fruits and multiply, Gen. 1. 28. Besides that, there were then no other women in the world, by whom they might have issue and posterity, but only by their sisters. Whereupon it is manifest, that Gods will was, to permit them to take even their sisters to their wives. But now out of this special dispensation from God, such matching is utterly unlawful, being an apparent breach of another express commandment given afterward by God himself, Levit. 18. 9. 11. To this purpose saith Augustine in way of answer to the example propounded.1