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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.
Now the duties of the wife, are principally two.
The first is, to submit her self to her husband; and to acknowledge and reverence him as her head in all things. Gen. 20. 16. Likewise Abimelech said unto Sarah; Behold thy brother, that is, thy ⟨p. 131⟩husband, whom thou callest thy brother, is the veil of thine eyes to all that are with thee. As if he should say, Thy husband is thy head, and hath power over thee, and thou oughtest to reverence him. For of ancient times, the wife was covered with a veil in the presence of her husband, in token of subjection to him. Thus Rebekah at the sight of Isaac took a veil, and covered her head therewith, Gen. 24. 65. 1. Cor. 11. 3. The man is the woman's head. Ephes. 5. 22. Wives submit your selves unto your husbands, as unto the Lord; for the husband is the wives head, even as Christ is the head of his Church. The reason hereof is good. For the wife enjoyeth the privileges of her husband, and is graced by his honour and estimation amongst men. His Nobility maketh her noble, though otherwise she is base and mean; as contrariwise, his baseness and low degree, causeth her, though she be by birth noble and honourable, to be by estate base and mean.
The first is, to submit her selfe to her husband; and to acknowledge and reuerence him as her head in all things. Gen. 20. 16. Likewise Abimelech said vnto Sarah; Behold thy brother, that is, thy ⟨p. 131⟩husband, whom thou callest thy brother, is the vaile of thine eyes to all that are with thee. As if he should say, Thy husband is thy head, and hath power ouer thee, and thou oughtest to reuerence him. For of ancient times, the wife was couered with a vaile in the presence of her husband, in token of subiection to him. Thus Rebekah at the sight of Isaak tooke a vaile, and couered her head therewith,