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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.
A lawful Contract is then dissolved, when some great and heinous fault followeth immediately upon it, in either of the parties espoused. And from hence arise divers and sundry cases to be set down and resolved.
A lawfull Contract is then dissolued, when some great and hainous fault followeth immediately vpō it, in either of the parties espoused. And from hēce arise diuers and sundrie cases to be set downe and resolued.
The first is this. What is to be done, when some disease befalls one of the parties immediately after the contract made?
The first is this. What is to be done, when some disease befals one of the parties immediately after the contract made?
Answ. Those diseases which take away the use of the body, and altogether disable the party from the performance of the promise made, in respect of marriage ⟨p. 78⟩duties, are very just impediments of marriage, and consequently do break off the Contract. Of which sort are uncurable palsies, frigidity, and such like, whereof I have spoken before.
Answ. Those diseases which take away the vse of the bodie, and altogether disable the partie from the performance of the promise made, in respect of mariage ⟨p. 78⟩duties, are very iust impediments of mariage, and consequently do break off the Contract. Of which sort are vncurable palsies, frigiditie, and such like, whereof I haue spoken before.