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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 third duty is, when God giveth ⟨p. 137⟩ability & means, to lay up some thing for the future maintenance of the child. 2. Cor. 12. 14.—for the children ought not to lay up for the fathers, but the fathers for the children. Prou. 19. 14. House and riches are the inheritance of the fathers.
The third dutie is, when God giueth ⟨p. 137⟩abilitie & meanes, to lay vp some thing for the future maintenance of the child. 2. Cor. 12. 14.—for the children ought not to lay vp for the fathers, but the fathers for the children. Prou. 19. 14. House and riches are the inheritance of the fathers.
The fourth is, to observe both the inclination, and the natural gifts of body and mind that are in the child, and accordingly to bestow it in some honest calling & course of life. Prou. 20. 11. A child is known by his actions, whether his work be pure and right. In the Ecclesiastical history,1 written by Ruffinus, it is recorded, that Alexander Bishop of Alexandria, saw a far off, in a place near to the sea, a company of children playing together, and in their play imitating himself in sundry Ministerial actions. And when he had a while viewed them, he perceived that they examined & baptised one another, according to the solemn order used in y• Congregation: which thing, when he had made some of his Clergy acquainted withal, and taken order that the children should be sent for, and brought before