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Thelyphthora; or, a treatise on female ruin, in its causes, effects, consequences, prevention, and remedy; considered on the basis of the divine law: under the following heads, viz. marriage, whoredom and fornication, adultery, polygamy, divorce, with many other incidental matters; particularly including an examination of the principles and tendency of stat. 26 Geo. II c. 33. commonly called The marriage act / [Anon].
- Martin Madan
- Date:
- 1781
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Thelyphthora; or, a treatise on female ruin, in its causes, effects, consequences, prevention, and remedy; considered on the basis of the divine law: under the following heads, viz. marriage, whoredom and fornication, adultery, polygamy, divorce, with many other incidental matters; particularly including an examination of the principles and tendency of stat. 26 Geo. II c. 33. commonly called The marriage act / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![have the fcriptures, yet they do not adopt them as the only rule of faith and worjhip. Their fear towards God is taught them by the doBnnes and commandments of men*, If. xxix. 13. which take place of the mind and will of Gop, as revealed in His holy word. Happy would it be, could we, reformed Trotejiants, clear ourfelves of this charge in all refpedls ! To prove that we cannot, in fome points of the utmoft confequence, is the purpofe of the following page? 3 which, while the reader * Two of the articles in the famous creed of Pope Pi us IV. are as follows : XIII. I moft firmly admit and embrace apojlolical and ecclefiajlical traditions, and a]l other observations and conftitutions of the one catholic and apofldic. church. XIV. I do admit the holy fcriptures in the fame fenfe that holy Mother Church doth, whole bulinefs it is to judge of the true fenfe and interpretation of them, and I will interpret them according to the unani- mous confent of the fathers. The Popijfh canon law frequently affirms—that the church is above the fcriptures. Omnis quee nunc apud nos eft fcriptures authoritas ah ec- clefuz authorhate neceffario dependet.—AH the authority which we attribute to the fcriptures, neced'arily de- cc pends on the authority of the church.” Pighius de Jdierar. Eccl. Lib. i. c. 2. Eccius, in his Enchiridion de Authoritate Eccleficv, maintains—Ecclefam effe feripturis antiquiorem, & feripturam non effe authentic am, nife ecclefice authoritate.—4t The church is more antient than the cc fcriptures, and the fcriptures are not authentic, fave tc by the authority of the church.” Hermannus goes farther, and affirms—Scripturas tan- turn valere quantum valent JEfopi f alulae, nifi acccderet eccle- fics tejlimonium. —The fcriptures are no more to be va- cc lued than /Efop's Fables, unlefs it were for the tefti- “ mony of the church.” See Hijl* of Popery, vol. i. P* 214* perufes.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28772039_0001_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
