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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.
But when none of all these means will do good; if the party be a servant, his master may, and ought to remove him. Psal. 101. 7. There shall no deceitful person dwell within mine house; he that telleth lies shall not remain in my sight. Joh. 8. 35. The servant abideth not in the house for ever.
But when none of all these meanes will do good; if the partie be a seruant, his master may, and ought to remoue him. Psal. 101. 7. There shall no deceitfull person dwell within mine house; he that telleth lies shall not remaine in my sight. Ioh. 8. 35. The seruant abideth not in the house for euer.
V. To give entertainment to those that are strangers, & not of the family, if they be Christians, and Believers; but specially to the Ministers of the Word. Rom. 12. 13. Giving your selves to hospitality. Hebr. 13. 2. Be not forgetful to lodge strangers: for hereby some have received Angels into their houses unawares. This duty the woman of Shunem & her husband performed unto the Prophet Elisha, 2. King. 4. 10. Let us make him a little chamber, I pray thee, with walls, and let us set him a bed there, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, that he may turn in hither, when he cometh to us. These are the duties.
V. To giue intertainment to those that are strangers, & not of the familie, if they be Christians, and Belieuers; but specially to the Ministers of the Word.