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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.
And let the milk of thy goats be sufficient for thy food, for the food of thy family, and for the sustenance of thy maids. 1. Cor. 9. 9. Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox, that treadeth out the corn: doth God care for oxen? either saith he it not altogether for our sakes? Matth. 13. 52. Every scribe which is taught unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto an householder, that brings forth out of his treasury, things both new and old.
And let the milke of thy goats be sufficient for thy food, for the food of thy familie, and for the sustenance of thy maids. 1. Cor. 9. 9. Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the oxe, that treadeth out the corne: doth God care for oxen? either saith he it not altogether for our sakes? Matth. 13. 52. Euery scribe which is taught vnto the kingdome of heauen is like vnto an housholder, that brings forth out of his treasurie, things both new and old.
IV. To keep order, and to exercise discipline in his house, and that in this manner:
IV. To keepe order, and to exercise discipline in his house, and that in this manner:
In case of offence, when a capital crime is committed, which incurreth public censure; he is not to punish it himself, but to bring the offender to the civill Magistrate, to inform of his fault, that he may have his desert: It was a course established by the Judicial law, which God gave unto Moses for his direction in causes criminal among the Israelites: