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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.
CHAP. 10.
Of the Communion of married folks, and of due benevolence.
Of the Communion of married folkes, and of due beneuolence.
The communion of man & wife, is that duty, whereby they do mutually and willingly communicate, both their persons, & goods each to other, for their mutual help, ⟨p. 111⟩necessity and comfort, Ephes. 5. 28. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies; he that loveth his wife, loveth himself.
THe cōmunion of man & wife, is that dutie, whereby they do mutually and willingly communicate, both their persons, & goods each to other, for their mutuall helpe, ⟨p. 111⟩necessitie and comfort, Ephes. 5. 28. So ought mē to loue their wiues as their own bodies; he that loueth his wife, loueth himselfe.