Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker.
- Alexander Walker
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![—‘ This is true in the general right of marriage, but not in the chance-medley of every particular match. For if they who were once undoubtedly one flesh, yet became train by adultery, then sure they who were never one flesh rightly, never helps meet for each other according to the plain prescript of God, may with less ado than a volume be concluded still twain. ‘* What therefore God hath joined, let no man put asunder.” ‘‘ When is it that God may be said to join? When the parties and their friends consent? No surely, for that may concur to lewdest ends. Or is it when church rites are finished? Neither; for the efficacy of those depends upon the pre-supposed fitness of either party. Perhaps after carnal knowledge? Least of all; for that may join persons whom neither law nor nature dares join. ‘* What God hath joined.”’—‘‘ Shall we say that God hath joined error, fraud, unfitness, wrath, contention, perpetual loneliness, perpetual discord; whatever lust, or wine, or witchery, threat, or inticement, avarice, or ambition hath joined together, faithful and unfaithful, christian with antichristian, hate with hate, or hate with love, shall we say this is God’s joining ? ‘It is left, that only then [God hath joined] when the minds are fitly disposed and enabled to maintain a cheerful conversation, to the solace and love of each other, according as God intended and promised in the very first foundation of matrimony, ‘I will make him a help meet for him ;’ for, surely, what God intended and promised, that only can be thought to be his joining, and not the contrary. “The rest, whom either disproportion or deadness of spirit, or something distasteful and averse in the immu-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33095851_0410.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
