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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 second duty of the son, is to recompense his fathers love, and care over him, by relieving him in case of want, if God give ability, with food and raiment, and other necessaries. Herein children must deal with their parents, as the brood of the Stork is reported to do with her, by feeding her when she is old; wherein they do no more but what she before hath done unto them. It is Pauls counsel, that children & nephews should recompense the kindness of their kindred in the first place, 1. Tim. 5. 4. and therefore to their parents, the head & foundation of their kindred. When Joseph was in prosperity, and his father Jacob in want, he first gave him corn freely; and afterwards sent for him to Egypt, and there provided for him; in so much as the text saith of him, that he nourished his father and ⟨p. 149⟩his brethren, and all his fathers house-hold with bread, Even as the mother puts meat into the child's mouth, Gen. 47. 12. When Naomi the step-mother of Ruth was of great years, and her strength spent, Ruth gathered corn in the harvest for relief of them both. Yea when Boaz gave her to eat and to drink, she reserved part of her victuals, & brought it home with her gleans to refresh her mother, Ruth 2. 14. 18.
The second dutie of the sonne, is to recompence his fathers loue, and care ouer him, by relieuing him in case of want, if God giue abilitie, with food and rayment, and other necessaries. Herein children must deale with their parents, as the brood of the Storke is reported to do with her, by feeding her when she is old; wherein they doe no more but what shee before hath done vnto them. It is Pauls counsell, that childred & nephewes should recompence the kindnes of their kindred in the first place, 1. Tim. 5. 4. and therefore to their parents, the head & foūdation of their kindred. When Ioseph was in prosperitie, and his father Iacob in want, he first gaue him corne freely; and afterwards sent for him to Egypt, and there prouided for him; in so much as the text saith of him, that he nourished his father and ⟨p. 149⟩