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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.
This fitness or ability is known and discerned by certain signs; which are either essential to the contract, or accidental.
This fitnes or abilitie is knowne and discerned by certaine signes; which are either essentiall to the contract, or accidentall.
An essential sign is that, without which the contract in hand becomes a mere nullity. And of this sort there are principally five.
An essentiall signe is that, without which the contract in hand becomes a meere nullitie. And of this sort there are principally fiue.
The first is the distinction of the sex, which is either male, or female. The male is man of a superior sex, fit for procreation. The female is woman of an inferior sex, fit to conceive and bear children. 1. Cor. 11. 7. The man ought not to cover his head; for as much as he is the Image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man. 1. Tim. 2. 12. I permit not the woman to teach, neither to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. By this distinction is condemned, that unnatural and monstrous sin of uncleanness between parties of the same sex,1 commonly termed Sodomy; as also the confusion of the* kinds of creatures, when one kind commits filthiness and abomination with another.3