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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.
First, by the right and lawful use of their bodies, or of the marriage-bed, which is indeed an essential duty of marriage.
First, by the right and lawfull vse of their bodies, or of the marriage-bed, which is indeed an essentiall dutie of mariage.
The marriage-bed signifieth that solitary and secret society, that is between man and wife alone.
The mariage-bed signifieth that solitarie and secret societie, that is betweene man and wife alone.
And it is a thing of it own nature indifferent; neither good nor bad; and so Paul numbereth it amongst indifferent things, 1. Cor. 7. 27. Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed: art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. Wherefore the Church of Rome erreth two ⟨p. 112⟩contrary ways. First, in that it maketh marriage to be a Sacrament, and so every action of it, to be of the own nature good. Secondly, in that they prohibit marriage of certain parties, and the reason of the prohibition may seem to be this; that they think this secret coming together of man and wife to be filthiness.1 This was the sentence of Syricius, that filthy Pope of Rome; who determined that marriage was the uncleanness of the flesh, and to that purpose abused the words of the Apostle, Rom. 8. 8. affirming, that they which are in the flesh, that is, in the estate of Matrimony, cannot please God. Yea and after that marriage was condemned by them, some began to detest and hate women,