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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 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. 1. Tim. 2. 12. I permit not a woman—to usurp authority over the man. And it was a law established by God immediately after the fall, Gen. 3. 16. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly increase, &c. and thy desire shall be subject to thine husband, and he shall rule over thee. Indeed the daughter, according to the Civill law, even when she is married is* in the power of her father, and not of her husband. But this is directly against the law of Moses, and crosseth the law of Nature, Levit. 22. 12. 13. Numb. 30. 13.
Touching the subiection of the wife, the word of God mē tioneth it in sundrie places.