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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.
If it be asked, How God that is in heaven, should bring and join together man and wife upon the earth?
If it be asked, How God that is in heauen, should bring and ioyne together man and wife vpon the earth?
I answer, that he doth it not immediately by himself, as he brought Eve unto Adam, but in & by some solemn and lawful means. And this mean, is that great and ancient power and prerogative of parents. And the law of God hath given them this power, not in civill contracts and compositions alone, but even in the beginning and accomplishing of marriages. Deut. 7. 3. Thou shalt not give thy daughter unto his son, ⟨p. 89⟩nor take his daughter unto thy son. Jerem. 29. 6. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters unto husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. 1. Cor. 7. 36. But if any man think that it is uncomely for his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not, let them be married.
I answere, that he doth it not immediately by himselfe, as he brought Euah vnto Adam, but in & by some solemne and lawful meanes. And this meane, is that great and ancient power and prerogatiue of parēts. And the law of God hath giuen them this power, not in ciuill contracts and compositions alone, but euen in the beginning and accomplishing of mariages. Deut. 7. 3. Thou shalt not giue thy daughter vnto his sonne, ⟨p. 89⟩nor take his daughter vnto thy son.