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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.
II. To bring his family to the Church or Congregation on the Sabbath day, to look that they do religiously there behave themselves, & after the public exercises ended, & the Congregation is dismissed, to take account of that which they have heard, that they may profit in knowledge and obedience. Act. 10. 24. The day after, they entered into Caesarea; Now Cornelius waited for them, & had called together his kinsmen & special friends. vers. 33. Now therefore (saith Cornelius to Peter) are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God. Job 1. 5. And when the days of their ⟨p. 167⟩banqueting were gone about, Job sent and sanctified them, & rose up early in the morning, & offered burnt offerings, &c. 2. King. 4. 23. And he said, wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath. For this very cause the fourth Commandment is given first of all & principally to the master of the family, that he might see the Sabbath kept, and be a principal doer in all parts of Gods worship therein. Exod. 20. 10. In it thou shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.
II. To bring his familie to ye Church or Congregation on the Sabbath day, to looke that they do religiously there behaue themselues, & after the publike exercises ended, & the Congregation is dismissed, to take account of that which they haue heard, that they may profit in knowledge and obedience. Act. 10. 24. The day after, they entred into Caesarea; Now Cornelius waited for them, & had called together his kinsmen & special friends. vers. 33. Now therefore (saith Cornelius to Peter) are we all heere present before God, to heare all things that are commanded thee of God. Iob 1. 5. And when the daies of their ⟨p. 167⟩