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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.
And if the adulteress hath conceived, and is in travel, the husband to avoid the imputation of having an heir in bastardy, is to make relation to the Church of the repentance of the adulteress; or to acquaint some certain persons therewith, not to the end that she should be punished for the fact, but ⟨p. 119⟩that they may take notice of a child conceived in adultery, whom afterward he may lawfully put off, as none of his.
And if the adulteresse hath conceiued, and is in trauell, the husband to auoid the imputation of hauing an heire in bastardie, is to make relation to the Church of the repentance of the adulteresse; or to acquaint some certaine persons therewith, not to the end that she should be punished for the fact, but ⟨p. 119⟩that they may take notice of a child cōceiued in adultery, whom afterward he may lawfully put off, as none of his.
The matter being known, the innocent party may require a divorcement. For adultery is such a sin, as doth quite break off not only the use, but the bond and covenant of marriage, Matth. 19. 9. I say therefore unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for whoredom, and marry another, committeth adultery, &c. And yet the same bond may be continued, and grow up again by the good will and consent of the party innocent, and consequently they may be reconciled, and dwell together still. 1. Sam. 25. 44. Now Saul had given Michal his daughter Davids wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim. 2. Sam. 3. 14. Then David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Sauls son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I married for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines. The same course may be taken in like cases by the innocent, specially upon the repentance of the guilty person. But yet every man must be left