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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.
Now if the promise be uttered in words,* for time to come, it doth not precisely bind the parties to performance. For example, if one of them saith to the other; N. I will take thee, &c. and not, N. I do take thee, &c. by this form of speech the match is not made, but only promised to be made afterward. But if ⟨p. 21⟩on the other side it be said, N. I do take thee, and not, I will take thee; by these terms, the marriage at that very instant is begun,* not in regard of fact, yet in regard of right and interest, which the parties have each in another in deed and in truth. And this is the common opinion of the learned. Yet notwithstanding, if the parties contracting shall say each to other, I will take thee to, &c. with intention to bind themselves at the present; the bond is in conscience precisely made before God, and so the Contract is indeed made* for the present time before God. True it is, that he which standeth to his promise made, as much as in him lieth, doth well: yet if the promise hath or conceiveth some just cause, why he should afterward change his purpose, the Contract expressed in terms for time to come, though it were formerly made, & confirmed by oath, must notwithstanding give place to the Contract made for time present.
Now if the promise bee vttered in words,* for time to come, it doth not precisely bind the parties to performance. For example, if one of them saith to the other; N. I will take thee, &c. and not, N. I do take thee, &c. by this forme of speech the match is not made, but only promised to bee made afterward. But if ⟨p. 21⟩on the other side it be said, N. I do take thee, and not, I will take thee; by these termes, the mariage at that very instant is begun,* not in regard of fact, yet in regard of right and intrest, which the parties haue each in another in deed and in truth. And this is the common opinion of the learned. Yet notwithstanding, if the parties contracting shall say each to other, I will take thee to, &c. with intention to bind themselues at the present; the bond is in conscience precisely made before God, and so the Contract is indeed made