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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.
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.
This duty consisteth principally in the performance of special benevolence one to another, & that not of courtesy, but of due debt, 1. Cor. 7. 3. Let the husband give unto the wife due benevolence, and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
This dutie consisteth principally in the performance of special beneuolēce one to another, & that not of courtesie, but of due debt, 1. Cor. 7. 3. Let the husband giue vnto the wife due beneuolence, and likewise also the wife vnto the husband.