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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.
So much of the first way of performance of due benevolence.
So much of the first way of performance of due beneuolence.
The second way is, by cherishing one another: Ephes. 5. 29. No man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as Christ also doth the Church. This cherishing is the performing of any duties, ⟨p. 122⟩that tend to the preserving of the lives one of another. Wherefore they are freely to communicate their goods, their counsel, their labours each to other; for the good of themselves and theirs.
The second way is, by cherishing one another: Ephes. 5. 29. No man euer hated his owne flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as Christ also doth the Church. This cherishing is the performing of any duties, ⟨p. 122⟩that tend to the preseruing of the liues one of another. Wherefore they are freely to cōmunicate their goods, their coūsel, their labors each to other; for the good of themselues and theirs.
The third way is, by an holy kind of rejoicing and solacing themselves each with other, in a mutual declaration of the signs and tokens of love and kindness. Prou. 5. 18. Rejoice with the wife of thy youth: vers. 19. Let her be as the loving Hind, and pleasant wild goat: let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and delight in her love continually.