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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.
CHAP. 12.
Of the Wife.
The wife is the other married person, who being subject to her husband, yieldeth obedience unto him.
THe wife is the other married person, who being subiect to her husband, yeeldeth obedience vnto him.
Touching the subjection of the wife, the word of God men tioneth it in sundry places. Rom. 7. 2. ⟨p. 130⟩The woman which is in subjection to the man, is bound by the law to the man, while he liveth. Ephes. 5. 24. As the Church is in subjection to Christ, even so let the wives be to their husbands in every thing. Colos. 3. 18. Wives submit your selves unto your husbands, as it is comely in the Lord.