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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.
IV. Rule. Kindred of affinity to the wife,1 are also kindred of affinity to her ⟨p. 49⟩husband; but how? not properly, but only after a sort, and as it were, of affinity. So on the contrary. Kindred of alliance to the husband, are, as it were, of alliance to his wife. For example. The wife of my father in law, which is not my wives own mother, but her step-mother, is, as it were, my mother in law, for she is (as it were) of affinity to me, because she is indeed of affinity to my wife.
IV. Rule. Kindred of affinitie to the wife,1 are also kindred of affinitie to her ⟨p. 49⟩husband; but how? not properly, but only after a sort, and as it were, of affinitie. So on the contrarie. Kindred of alliance to the husband, are, as it were, of alliance to his wife. For example. The wife of my father in law, which is not my wiues owne mother, but her step-mother, is, as it were, my mother in law, for she is (as it were) of affinitie to me, because she is indeed of affinitie to my wife.
- 1Beza de repudijs. 82.
Those which are of affinity only after a sort, cannot conveniently match one with another. And therefore the son in law may not marry with his wives step-mother; because being of affinity to his wife, she is in stead of a mother in law to him. Neither may the daughter in law match with her husbands step-father, because he is (as it were) a step-father to her. Again, my sisters husband may not marry my brothers wife; for they are after a sort, brother and sister each to other. The reason hereof is, because the wife is holden in law a*