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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.
This duty must be kept especially the first year of marriage, Deut. 24. 5. When a man taketh a wife, he shall not go on warfare, neither shall be charged with any business, but shall be free at home one year, & rejoice with his wife which he hath taken. And the ground of this commandment, no doubt, is, that they might learn to know one another's conditions, and that they might work a settled affection one towards another, which afterward upon no occasion might be changed.
This dutie must bee kept especiallie the first yeare of mariage, Deut. 24. 5. When a man taketh a wife, hee shall not go on warfare, neither shall be charged with any busines, but shall bee free at home one yeare, & reioyce with his wife which he hath taken. And the ground of this commandement, no doubt, is, that they might learne to know one anothers cōditions, and that they might worke a setled affection one towards another, which afterward vpon no occasion might bee changed.
Yet they may be absent each from other in two cases: First, upon mutual consent for a time, for the performing of some business, that is requisite for the family, Prou. 7. 19. For mine husband is not at home, he is gone a far journey: at the appointed time he will return again. Secondly, the like absence is allowed, when some great and weighty affairs either in the Church or Common-wealth ⟨p. 98⟩[…] ⟨p. 99⟩[…] ⟨p. 100⟩are in hand, 2. Sam. 11. 9. 10. But Uriah slept at the door of the Kings Palace, with all the servants of his Lord, and went not down to his house? v. II. Then Uriah answered David; The Ark, and Israel, and Judah dwell in tents, and my Lord Joab, and all the servants of my Lord abide in the open field; shall I then go into my house to eat, and drink, and lie with my wife? by thy life, and by the life of my soul, I will not do this thing.