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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.
By which it appeareth to be a clear case, that the commandment of the Pope of Rome, whereby he forbiddeth marriage of certain persons, as namely, of Clergy men, is merely diabolical; for so writeth the Apostle, 1. Tim. 4. 1. The spirit speaketh evidently, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, and shall give heed unto spirits of error, and doctrines of devils, vers. 3. forbidding to marry.
By which it appeareth to be a cleare case, that the commandement of the Pope of Rome, whereby he forbiddeth mariage of certaine persons, as namely, of Clergie men, is meerely diabolicall; for so writeth the Apostle, 1. Tim. 4. 1. The spirit speaketh euidently, that in the latter times some shall depart frō the faith, and shall giue heed vnto spirits of error, and doctrines of diuels, vers. 3. forbidding to marrie.
But against this doctrine sundry things are alleged.
But against this doctrine sundrie things are alleaged.
Object. 1. The Apostle commandeth the married among the Corinthians, to abstain with consent for a time, that they might give themselves to fasting and prayer, 1. Cor. 7. 5. I answer, that Paul speaks not in that place of daily and common ⟨p. 16⟩service of God in prayer, but of the solemn and extraordinary exercise thereof, which was joined with fasting and abstinence, in common dangers and calamities.