A09377:282
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, it is objected, that he which flieth leaves his calling; and every man must abide in his calling; according to the rule of the Apostle, 1. Cor. 7. 20.
Againe, it is obiected, that he which flieth leaues his calling; and euery man must abide in his calling; according to the rule of the Apostle, 1. Cor. 7. 20.
Answ. There is a double calling; The general, standing in the worship of God; The particular, as the calling of marriage, or of single life. When these two callings cannot stand together, the latter must give place to the former, Luk. 14. 26. If any man come to me, & hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters; yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Answ. There is a double calling; The generall, standing in the worship of God; The particular, as the calling of mariage, or of single life. When these two callings cannot stand together, the latter must giue place to the former, Luk. 14. 26. If any man come to me, & hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters; yea and his owne life also, he cannot be my disciple.
III. Case. When the husband is perpetually absent from the wife, what is to be done?