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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.
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.
Nevertheless a covenant once made, is not suddenly to be renounced, for fear of breeding offence. And therefore some longer respite is to be taken from the time of the contract, in which they are to rest in expectation of amendment, before the said diseases be publicly and solemnly declared to be incurable, and consequently that the covenant made is become void.
Neuerthelesse a couenāt once made, is not suddenly to bee renounced, for feare of breeding offence. And therefore some longer respite is to be taken from the time of the contract, in which they are to rest in expectation of amēdment, before the said diseases be publikely and solemnely declared to be incurable, and consequently that the couenant made is become void.
Now, if the disease do not for the present take away the use of the body, and yet in time proves incurably contagious, and so loathsome, that the one may justly fear to keep and converse with the other; as it falleth out when one is tainted with leprosy; then the contract is utterly to be dissolved, as if God himself should have commanded it, though the promise was formerly made, & the parties themselves should be unwilling. God hath ordained Matrimony