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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.
The Beginning, is the Contract or Espousals; the End or accomplishment, is the solemn Manifestation of the Contract, by that which properly we call Marriage. Deut. 20. 7. What man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? Let him go and return again unto his house, lest he die in battle, and another man take her. Matth. 1. 18. When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, She was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
The Beginning, is the Contract or Espousals; the End or accomplishmēt, is the solemne Manifestation of the Contract, by that which properly we call Mariage. Deut. 20. 7. What man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? Let him go and returne againe vnto his house, lest he die in battell, and another man take her. Matth. 1. 18. When his mother Marie was betrothed to Ioseph, before they came together, She was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Between the Contract and Marriage, there ought to be some certain space or distance of time. The reasons whereof may be these:
Betweene the Contract and Marriage, there ought to bee some certaine space or distance of time. The reasons whereof may be these:
First, a business of so great importance as this is, would not be rashly or ⟨p. 19⟩