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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 necessity of the performance of these duties is so great, that if the son neglecteth them, and doth the contrary, by ill usage of his parent, either in word or deed, he is worthy of death, even by Moses law: Exod. 21. 15. He that smiteth his father or his mother, shall die the death.
The necessitie of the performance of these duties is so great, that if the sonne neglecteth them, and doth the contrarie, by ill vsage of his parent, either in word or deed, he is worthie of death, euen by Moses law: Exod. 21. 15. He that smiteth his father or his mother, shall die the death.
The law of the first borne of a mans children, that he should have a greater portion of his fathers goods, then any of the rest of his brethren, is perpetual, and admits no exception, but only in the case of notorious wickedness. Deut. 21. 17. He shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the first borne, & give him a double ⟨p. 150⟩portion of all that he hath, for he is the first of his strength, and to him belongeth the right of the first borne. This was the law; yet we read that Reuben lost this prerogative, by reason of his incest, and Judah the fourth son of Jacob had the dignity of the first borne, Gen. 49. 8. Thou Judah, thy brethren shall praise thee—thy fathers sons shall bow down unto thee.
The law of the first borne of a mans children, that he should haue a greater portion of his fathers goods, then any of the rest of his brethren, is perpetuall, and admits no exception, but only in the case of notorious wickednes.