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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.
The same is the judgement of Ambrose in one of his Epistles to his friend Paternus,1 wherein he dissuadeth him from marrying his son with his cousin-german, upon the grounds before alleged by Augustine adding this withal, that though it were in it self lawful, being no where forbidden by God, yet in sundry respects being inexpedient, it ought not to be done, according to the saying of the Apostle, All things are lawful for me,2 but all things are not expedient.
The same is the iudgement of Ambrose in one of his Epistles to his friend Paternus,1 wherin he disswadeth him frō marrying his sonne with his cousin-g•rman, vpon the grounds before alledged by Augustine adding this withall, that though it were in it selfe lawfull, being no where forbidden by God, yet in sundrie respects being inexpedient, it ought not to bee done, according to the saying of the Apostle, All things are lawfull for me,2 but all things are not expedient.
- 1Epistle. li. […] 66.Epist•l. li. 〈…〉 66.
- 21. Cor. 6.