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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.
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 The practise of those first times, 2then backed by urgent necessity; the more ancient it was, the more damnable it proved afterward, when it was restrained by Gods commandment.
Obiect. 1. The sons of Adam, who were the first brethren in the world, married their sisters; marriages therefore in this degree may seeme to bee lawfull. Answ. The case of those persons in those times, was a case of necessitie, which could not be auoided, and therupon was warranted by diuine dispensation. For God had giuen them his ⟨p. 34⟩owne expresse commandement in this behalfe; Beare fruits and multiplie, Gen. 1. 28. Besides that, there were then no other women in the world, by whom they might haue issue and posteritie, but only by their sisters. Whereupon it is manifest, that Gods will was, to permit them to take euen their sisters to their wiues. But now out of this speciall dispensation from God, such matching is vtterly vnlawfull, being an apparent breach of another expresse commandement giuen afterward by God himselfe,