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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.
CHAP. 3.
Of married folks.
Of maried folkes.
A Family is distinguished into sundry combinations or couples of persons.
A Familie is distinguished into sundry combinations or couples of persons.
A couple, is that whereby two persons standing in mutual relation to each other, are combined together as it were in one. And of these two, the one is always higher, and beareth rule, the other is lower, and yieldeth subjection.
A couple, is that wherby two persons standing in mutuall relation to each other, are combined together as it were in one. And of these two, the one is alwaies higher, and beareth rule, the other is lower, and yeeldeth subiection.
Couples are of two sorts; principal, or less principal.