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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.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT Lord RICH, Baron of Leeze, &c.
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE ROBERT Lord RICH, Baron of Leeze, &c.
Right Honourable; Among all the Societies & States, whereof the whole world of mankind from the first calling of Adam in Paradise, unto this day, hath consisted, the first and most ancient is the Family. For if we look into the Scriptures; The writings of Moses, which in time go beyond all the Histories and Records of men, do evidently declare, it was the will of God, to sanctify that first conjunction of Adam and Eve, as the root wherein mans whole posterity was virtually contained, and whence in the ages succeeding, both Church and Common-weal should spring ⟨image 5⟩and grow to their perfection. And all those nations and Countries before the Flood, the Heads whereof lineally descended from the two first houses of Seth and Cain, had no outward form of civill government, by which they were ruled, nor any visible face of a Church whereto they had relation, but the whole frame of their policy both Civill and Ecclesiastical was confined within the precincts of private families. And from the flood, the house of Noah became the common Mother, in which the other two states were included, and out of whose bowels they issued afterward in the multiplication of posterity, for number, equal to the stars of the sky, and the sands by the sea shore.
RIght Honorable; Among al the Societies & States, wherof the whole world of mankinde from the first calling of Adam in Paradise, vnto this day, hath consisted, the first and most ancient is the Familie. For if we looke into the Scriptures; The writings of Moses, which in time goe beyond all the Histories and Records of men, doe euidently declare, it was the will of God, to sanctifie that first coniunction of Adam and Eue, as the roote wherein mans whole posteritie was virtually contained, and whence in the ages succeeding, both Church and Common-weale should spring ⟨image 5⟩