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1593 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) ii. xv. 125 By speciall oeconomie, he [sc. St Peter] was publikely to proceede to their examination and condemnation vnto death.

1664 H. More Apol. in Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 516 Tending to the greater ornament and completeness of the Christian Oeconomy.

a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) vii. 150 Framers of the whole Mosaical Oeconomy, and Levitical Dispensation.

1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 256 The Oeconomy of Faith should go before that of Vision.

1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. III. 317 The correspondence between the Jewish and Christian Oeconomy.

1710 J. Welwood in tr. Xenophon Banquet 7 Much clearer than those the Jews had under the Mosaick Oeconomy.

1766 J. Bate Rationale Literal Doctr. Orig. Sin xiv. 318 The principal one, was, to typify and predescribe the Christian Oeconomy.

1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §4. 13 This Egyptian influence in the Mosaic Economy has been largely over-rated.

1862 E. M. Goulburn Thoughts Personal Relig. 97 The Economy of Grace.

1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos viii. 100 The twofold song descriptive of both economies.

1931 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 16 142 Slaveholding in the modern sense of the term abolitionists declared to be inconsistent with the Mosaic economy.

1969 M. H. Ahmann New Negro Pref., ix It is hard, indeed, in the Christian economy of things, to understand how all of us have been able to tolerate..devices..designed to hold some of our..fellow countrymen in a..state of slavery.

1987 Amer. Ethnologist 14 176 Only the self-sacrifice of God himself could lift the curse of Adam and Eve and overturn the Mosaic economy.

2006 Daily Tel. 27 June 16/2 There is, as it were, an economy of love, so the fact that one member of the human race is making a concerted effort to open themselves to love, to God, automatically has a spin-off for the rest of the world.