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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. 2. Sarah was Abraham's sister, and yet Abraham took her to wife. Gen. 20. 12. Yet in very deed she is my sister, for she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she is my wife. Gen. 11. 29. Abraham and Nahor took them wives, and the name of Abraham's ⟨p. 35⟩wife was Sarah. Answ. Touching this instance, there are sundry opinions. The Jews do grant thus much, that she was called by a name common to all kinsfolk of that sex, to wit, a Sister; yet indeed she was Abraham's niece, the sister of Lot, and the daughter of Haran, Abraham's brother, which Moses elsewhere calleth Iischa, Genes. 11. 29. Others think, that she was daughter in law to Thare, Abraham's father; because Abraham himself saith, She is the daughter of my father, not of my mother. Others are of opinion, that she was Haran's daughter in law, and after his death was translated into the family of Terah, her grand-father; who was also in ste•d of her father being dead, and thence she was termed his daughter Now howsoever in this variety of judgements, it is hard to find certainty of truth, yet this is out of doubt, that God in those days tolerated many things, which notwithstanding he did not altogether approve.
Obiect. 2. Sarah was Abrahams sister, and yet Abraham tooke her to wife. Gen. 20. 12. Yet in very deed she is my sister, for she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and shee is my wife. Gen. 11. 29. Abraham and Nahor tooke them wiues, and the name of Abrahams ⟨p. 35⟩wife was Sarah. Answ. Touching this instance, there are sundrie opinions. The Iewes doe grant thus much, that she was called by a name common to all kinsfolke of that sexe, to wit, a Sister; yet indeed shee was Abrahams neece, the sister of Lot, and the daughter of Haran, Abrahams brother, which Moses elsewhere calleth Iischa,