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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 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 ⟨p. 120⟩to his own conscience, and none is to be compelled to take another, from whom he may justly be separated against his will.
The matter being knowne, the innocent partie may require a diuorcement. For adulterie is such a sin, as doth quite break off not only the vse, but the bond and couenant of mariage, Matth. 19. 9. I say therefore vnto you, that whosoeuer shall put away his wife, except it be for whoredome, and marrie another, committeth adulterie, &c. And yet the same bond may be continued, and grow vp againe by the good will and consent of the partie innocent, and consequently they may be reconciled, and dwell together still. 1. Sam. 25. 44. Now Saul had giuen Michal his daughter Dauids wife, to Phalti the sonne of Laish, which was of Gallim. 2. Sam. 3. 14. Then Dauid sent messengers to Ishbosheth Sauls sonne, saying, Deliuer me my wife Michal, which I married for an hundred foreskins of the Philistims. The same course may be taken in like cases by the innocent, specially vpon the repentance of the guiltie person. But yet euery man must be left