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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.
Again, for the accomplishment of marriage, there must needs be a mutual donation, between the spouse and the espoused. And what is that which is ⟨p. 92⟩mutually given? Surely their persons, or rather their bodies each to other, for so Paul saith, 1. Cor. 7. 2. Let every man have his wife, and let every woman have her own husband. But by whom is this donation to be made? by sons and daughters that are in the family, under the jurisdiction of their parents? It may not be; For nature her self taketh it for granted, that he which is not at his own liberty, cannot yield to the giving of himself. The donation therefore remains in the right of the parent, in as much as the will & consent of the child, ought to depend upon his will and consent, to whom God hath given power and authority in this behalf.
Againe, for the accomplishment of mariage, there must needs be a mutuall donation, betweene the spouse and the espoused. And what is that which is ⟨p. 92⟩mutually giuen? Surely their persons, or rather their bodies each to other, for so Paul saith, 1. Cor. 7. 2. Let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband. But by whom is this donation to be made? by sons and daughters that are in the familie, vnder the iurisdiction of their parents? It may not be; For nature her selfe taketh it for granted, that he which is not at his own libertie, cannot yeeld to the giuing of himselfe. The donation therefore remaines in the right of the parent, in as much as the wil & consent of the child, ought to depend vpon his wil and consent, to whom God hath giuen power and authoritie in this behalfe.
In the third place, let the judgement of the ancient Church be observed. Ambrose, in his first book of the Patriarch Abraham, chap. 9. requires this consent in marriages, which he saith is so equal and agreeable to nature, that even the Poets acknowledged the same. For which purpose he reciteth two verses out of the Grecian Poet Euripides, in his Tragedy called Andromacha, wherein