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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. Inquiry must be made, whether this absence be voluntary, or against the will of the party.
Answ. Inquirie must be made, whether this absence be voluntarie, or against the will of the partie.
If it be voluntary. For example; if the man upon an honest and just cause, the woman also being privy thereunto, shall go beyond seas, and being admonished of his duty before hand, shall notwithstanding stay a whole year or more, and will not return, but further wilfully absent himself; then may it be lawful to the woman, to crave of the public Magistrate a dissolution of the covenant made, & consequently marry another man, unless the former, to whom she was contracted, be heard of. If he be, then shall it be lawful for him to plead for himself, and tendering no ⟨p. 82⟩just cause of his refusal, he shall be forced by the Magistrates authority to stand to his promise, and take the woman for his wife. And the same order is to be taken in the wilful absence of the woman, after she is contracted.
If it be voluntarie. For example; if the man vpon an honest and iust cause, the woman also being priuie thereunto, shall go beyond seas, and being admonished of his dutie before hand, shal notwithstanding stay a whole yeare or more, and will not returne, but further wilfully absent himselfe; then may it be lawfull to the woman, to craue of the publike Magistrate a dissolution of the couenant made, & consequently marry another man, vnlesse the former, to whom she was contracted, be heard of. If he be, then shall it be lawfull for him to pleade for himselfe, and tendring no ⟨p. 82⟩iust cause of his refusall, he shall be forced by the Magistrates authoritie to stand to his promise, and take the woman for his wife. And the same order is to be taken in the wilfull absence of the woman, after she is contracted.