Volume 1

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:
1780-1781
Catalogue details

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.

    102/448 (page 72)
    bath madcy and upholds with the word of ' His power *y or that His one uniform jurifdiftion 'doth not equally and invariably extend over all His reafonable creatures; is to think of Him as the poor idolatrous, igno- rant Syrians did—fhe Lord is God f the hillsy but he is not the God of the rallies. I Kings XX. 28. . ' . Near akin to this, is the fuppolition that God can change his mind, and be of one mind in the Old Tefiament, and of a- nother in the New Ί^ββament; if fo. He may now have changed His mind again, and neither of thefe books contain a iingle fyllable which can be depended upon ; fo that after all the pains we can take to ac- quaint ourfelves with the divine mind and will, wx may be as utter ftrangers to them as the favages in America are.—But when we fearch the indelible records of truth, we find that the attribute of unchangeablenefs ihines. fuffered the to live in ignqrance and efror con- cerning it for fo many preceding ages—this is as falfe in point of fadt, as if it were faid, that they lived without any revelation at all. As furely as the writ- Ings of ]Uofes contain the law of God, fo furely was the law of marriage adjufted and fettled in theminutell particular. Among other reafons why this muft ne- ceiTarily have been the cafe, is that very conclufive one, which arifes from the dependence of the lawful- nefs of the ijfue on the lawfulnefs of the marriagey and of courfe the prefervation of true genealogy through- ©ut the whole yewifi difpenfation; a matter in which our deareil and eternal intereft is concerned. with