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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.
II. It is altogether inexpedient, that a woman should be married to such a man, as hath a Concubine, unless he formerly renounce her, and testify the same by true and unfeigned repentance. The reason is plain. Such a marriage cannot be undertaken in the Lord. And the party himself, being before polluted ⟨p. 66⟩with his Concubine, becomes now by marriage to another, an adulterer; and she that is married unto him, by this her act yields consent unto his adultery.
II. It is altogether inexpedient, that a woman should be married to such a man, as hath a Concubine, vnlesse hee formerly renounce her, and testifie the same by true and vnfeined repentance. The reason is plaine. Such a mariage cannot be vndertaken in the Lord. And the partie himselfe, being before polluted ⟨p. 66⟩with his Concubine, becomes now by mariage to another, an adulterer; and she that is maried vnto him, by this her act yeelds consent vnto his adulterie.
III. That no man professing Christian religion, much less a Minister of the word, ought to take to himself in marriage a harlot, a defamed woman, or one that comes of infamous parents, though she be repentant. Levit. 21. 7. The Priest shall not take to wife one that is a whore, or profaned, that is to say, which hath an evil name, or comes of ignominious parents. Which law, though it was in part Ceremonial and Levitical, and so far forth abrogate; yet having in it some Morality, in as much as the reason thereof (to wit, because it is reproachful to a Christian, but specially to a Minister) is still in force, it is to be holden perpetual. For Christian profession, and the Ecclesiastical Ministry is principally to be respected, and whatsoever may prejudice the dignity and credit thereof, to be avoided.
III. That no man professing Christian religion, much lesse a Minister of the word, ought to take to himselfe in mariage a harlot, a defamed woman, or one that comes of infamous parents, though she be repentant.