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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.
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. Leuit. 21. 7. The Priest shall not take to wife one that is a whore, or prophaned, that is to say, which hath an euill name, or comes of ignominious parents. Which law, though it was in part Ceremonial and Leuitical, and so far forth abrogate; yet hauing in it some Moralitie, in as much as the reason therof (to wit, because it is reprochfull to a Christian, but specially to a Minister) is still in force, it is to be holden perpetuall. For Christian profession, and the Ecclesiasticall Ministrie is principally to be respected, and whatsoeuer may preiudice the dignitie and credit thereof, to be auoided.
Object. 1. The Prophet Hosea was ⟨p. 67⟩commanded to take unto him a wife of fornication, that is, an harlot, Hosea 1. 2. Answ. Hosea did it not in deed, but in type and resemblance. For God commanded him in his prophecy, to take upon him (as it were) the person of a fornicator, that by this means he might the more effectually charge and convince the Israelites of their unclean and unchaste conversation.