A09377:429
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.
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: Deut. 21. 18. 19. 20. If any man ⟨p. 169⟩hath a son that is stubborn, & disobedient, which will not hearken unto the voice of his father, nor the voice of his mother, and they have chastened him; then shall his father and his mother take him, and bring him out, unto the Elders of his city, and unto the gate of the place where he dwelleth, and shall say unto the Elders of his city; This our son is stubborn, and disobedient, and he will not obey our admonition: he is a rioter, and a drunkard. Again, Deut. 13. 6. If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thine own son, or thy daughter, or the wife that lieth in thy bosom, or thy friend which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly saying, Let us go and serve other gods (which thou hast not known, thou, I say, nor thy fathers) thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hear, neither shall thine eye pity, nor show mercy, nor keep him secret. Zach. 13. 3. And when any shall yet prophesy, his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live: for thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord: and his father, and his mother that begat him, shall thrust him thorough when he prophesieth.