A09377:362
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 second general duty of parents, is the bestowing of their children; This bestowing is, when they knowing their children fit for marriage, not to have the gift of continency, do use their best endeavour to provide matches for them in time, or at least, do advise them thereunto by themselves or by their friends: 1. Cor. 7. 36. If any man think it uncomely for his virgin to pass the flower of her age, and need so require—let them be married. vers. 38. he that giveth her to marriage, doth well. Jerem. 26. 6. Take ye wives—and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, &c. Gen. 28. 1. Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him and said unto him; Take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan: Arise, get thee to Padan Aram—and thence take thee a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mothers brother. Judg. 14. 2. Sampson came and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore give me her to wife.
The second general dutie of parents, is the bestowing of their children; This bestowing is, when they knowing their children fit for mariage, not to haue the gift of continencie, do vse their best indeuour to prouide matches for them in time, or at least, do aduise them therunto by themselues or by their friends: 1. Cor. 7. 36. If any man thinke it vncomelie for his virgin to passe the flower of her age, and need so require—let them bee married. vers. 38. he that giueth her to mariage, doth well. Ierem. 26. 6. Take yee wiues—and take wiues for your sonnes, and giue your daughters to husbands, &c. Gen. 28. 1. Isaak called Iacob and blessed him, and charged him and said vnto him; Take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan: Arise, get thee to Padan Aram—and thence take thee a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mothers brother.