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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.
If it be here alleged, that the sin of adultery dissolves the bond both of contract and marriage, and therefore much more doth idolatry or infidelity, which is a sin far more detestable then adultery: I answer, that the question is not, whether of these is the greater sin, or more heinous in the sight of God; for Infidelity in both respects far exceedeth the other; but whether of them is more repugnant to the nature and condition of wedlock. Now the sin of adultery is that alone, which breaks the bond, and renounceth the troth plighted in marriage, and is the proper cause of a divorce, and not Idolatry or Infidelity.
If it be heere alledged, that the sin of adulterie dissolues the bond both of contract and mariage, and therefore much more doth idolatrie or infidelity, which is a sinne farre more detestable then adulterie: I answere, that the questiō is not, whether of these is the greater sin, or more hainous in the sight of God; for Infidelitie in both respects far exceedeth the other; but whether of them is more repugnant to the nature and condition of wedlocke. Now the sinne of adulterie is that alone, which breakes the bond, and renounceth the troth plighted in mariage, and is the proper cause of a diuorce, and not Idolatrie or Infidelitie.
The second note, is parity or equality in regard of age and condition.
The second note, is parity or equalitie in regard of age and condition.
First of Age; because though the marriage of persons, whose years are far unequal, is not expressly forbidden in ⟨p. 63⟩the word; yet is it agreeable to the rules of expediency and decency, that the aged should match with the aged, the younger with the younger.