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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 fourth essential Sign, is a sound and healthful constitution of body, free from diseases incurably contagious. ⟨p. 54⟩[…] ⟨p. 55⟩[…]
The fourth essential Signe, is a sound and healthfull constitution of bodie, free from diseases incurablie contagious. ⟨p. 54⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 55⟩〈…〉
Whereupon it followeth, that a promise of marriage made between those, whereof the one hath a disease so loathsome, as that the other upon good ground cannot possibly endure familiar society and company with him; though it do not wholly hinder the use of the body, is utterly unlawful.
Whereupon it followeth, that a promise of mariage made betweene those, whereof the one hath a disease so lothsome, as that the other vpon good ground cannot possiblie endure familiar societie and companie with him; though it do not wholly hinder the vse of the bodie, is vtterly vnlawfull.
Of this sort is the Leprosy, the French pox and such like. For seeing there cannot be any matrimonial use of them that are tainted with such contagious diseases, without apparent danger of infecting each other, and those also, which have society with them, and others; yea and by this means the issue of their bodies, growing of a corrupted seed, are even borne to perpetual misery, and to the great hurt and hinderance of the Common-wealth; the case is plain, that such marriages cannot be undertaken with good conscience.