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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.
But it is avouched to the contrary, that God by express law forbiddeth marriage with the aunt, the fathers sister Levit. 18. 12. and with the mothers sister▪ vers. 13. and with the fathers brother wife, which is also the aunt, vers. 14. therefore by the law of proportion, • forbiddeth matching with the childr•• of these persons. For in nature it is a ruled case: If a man may not marry th• ⟨p. 40⟩mother, much less may he marry the daughter.
But it is auouched to the contrarie, that God by expresse law forbiddeth mariage with the aunt, the fathers sister Leuit. 18. 12. and with the mothers sister▪ vers. 13. and with the fathers brother wife, which is also the aunt, vers. 14. therefore by the law of proportion, • forbiddeth matching with the childr•• of these persons. For in nature it is a ruled case: If a man may not marrie th• ⟨p. 40⟩mother, much lesse may he marrie the daughter.
Answ. The argument is faulty, and concludes nothing to the purpose. For there is not the same reason of both. In the right line of consanguinity, those which are sisters to father and mother, stand in the place and stead of parents; and their nephews and nieces are to them as children, therefore marriages among them can stand by no law, either of God, of nature, or by the positive laws of nations. It is not so with cousin germans. For having no such relation, there is not in their marriages, by the law of Moses, any discovery of shame, or breach of civil honesty. The blessing of God upon some of them mentioned in Scripture, as upon Jacob and Rachel, and such like, do evidently show that they were lawful in themselves, and pleasing unto him. And thus much touching kindred by blood or consanguinity.