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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 collateral or crooked line, is ⟨p. 29⟩that, which walketh by the sides of the right line, whether ascending or descending, in the row of the kindred. And it is either unequal or equal.
The collaterall or crooked line, is ⟨p. 29⟩that, which walketh by the sides of the right line, whether ascending or descending, in the row of the kindred. And it is either vnequall or equall.
The unequal is that, whereby the person in question and his kinsman, are unequally distant from the common stock, or head of the kindred.
The vnequall is that, whereby the person in question and his kinsman, are vnequally distant from the common stocke, or head of the kindred.
And in this line, look how many degrees the kinsman that is furthest off from the common stock, is distant from the same, so many is he and his kinsman in question distant one from the other.
And in this line, looke how many degrees the kinsman that is furthest off from the common stock, is distant from the same, so many is he and his kinsman in question distant one from the other.