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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.
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.
Obiect. 1. The Prophet Hosea was ⟨p. 67⟩commanded to take vnto 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 prophecie, to take vpon him (as it were) the person of a fornicator, that by this meanes hee might the more effectually charge and cōuince the Israelites of their vncleane and vnchast conuersation.
Object. 2. The Lord also forbiddeth the Priest to marry a widow, Levit. 21. 14. it may seem therefore unexpedient for a Minister so to do. Answ. The law concerning the marriage of a virgin, and not a widow, was not enjoined to all Priests, but only to the chief Priest, Levit. 21. 10. And he also might marry a widow, but such a one only, as had bin the widow of a Priest, and not any other, Ezech. 44. 22. Now this was commanded them upon special consideration. For the High Priest was a type of Christ, and Christ was in time to come to call his Church, the elect, among the Gentiles, and to marry them as a virgin espoused unto himself. Yea he was also