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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.
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.
Answ. The argument is faultie, and concludes nothing to the purpose. For there is not the same reason of both. In the right line of consanguinitie, those which are sisters to father and mother, stand in the place and stead of parents; and their nephewes and neeces are to them as children, therefore mariages among them can stand by no law, either of God, of nature, or by the positiue lawes of nations. It is not so with cousin germans. For hauing no such relation, there is not in their mariages, by the law of Moses, any discouerie of shame, or breach of ciuil honestie. The blessing of God vpon some of them mentioned in Scripture, as vpon Iacob and Rahel, and such like, doe euidently shew that they were lawfull in themselues, and pleasing vnto him. And thus much touching kindred by blood or consanguinitie.
Kindred in affinity, is that, whereby the terms of two kindreds, are brought into the society of one and the same ⟨p. 41⟩family; or whereby persons that are not of blood, are by marriage allied each to other. Hence it is termed affinity, because it maketh an unity of terms in kindred, which before were distant.
Kindred in affinitie, is that, whereby the termes of two kindreds, are brought into the societie of one and the same