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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.
Now touching the consent of parents, that is, of father and mother, I hold it requisite of necessity to marriage: For the authority of parents must not be resisted, or violated. As for Tutors, and such as have the place of parents, their consent is not required of necessity, but* of honesty at least, because the power and authority of the parent, though it be not taken away, yet it is lessened, when it is either transferred to another person, or in part resteth in the child already bestowed.
Now touching the consent of parents, that is, of father and mother, I hold it requisite of necessitie to marriage: For the authoritie of parents must not be resisted, or violated. As for Tutors, and such as haue the place of parents, their consent is not required of necessitie, but* of honestie at least, because the power and authoritie of the parent, though it be not taken away, yet it is lessened, when it is either transferred to another person, or in part resteth in the child alreadie bestowed.
- *De honestate.
Secondly, by parents consent, I understand that which they give, not ⟨p. 86⟩rashly, unadvisedly, or foolishly, but out of good & wise consideration, and upon true and sound judgement, of the business in hand: For otherwise, as much as in them lieth, they make the marriage void and of none effect. And they are then thought to carry a right judgement of the thing, when they be able to yield a just cause of yielding, or denying their consent. For example; if a father denies to bestow his daughter Julia upon Sempronius, because he knows him to be an Arian, a Pelagian, or of any other sort of Heretics; he withholdeth his consent upon a good ground, & he doth that which he doth, of judgement.