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
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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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    [ 9s ] daily. Deut. xvii. 18, 19. Ύ\ίζ. Priefis and Levites could not be ignorant; for their //>r were to /^eef> ImowledgCy and the people were to feek the law at their mouth. Mai. ii. 7. As for the people, they not only heard the law conftantly, but were com- manded to write it upon the very door- pofis of their houfes. Deut. vi. 9. What-, ever elfe, therefore, their polygamy pro- cecded from, it could not be derived from ignorance. They could not be ig^ horant of the feventh commandment; and fuppofing that many of them, like their defcendents in later times, loft fight of its fpiritual intendment, yet the meaning of its outward letter they could hardly be at a. lofs for, efpecially as they muft obferve its uniform and unvaried ufe throughout the whole of their fcriptures. If, therefore, polygamifs finned againft the feventh commandment, ־ they did it with their eyes open j and whofoever can believe that fuch men as we have men- tioned, could do this without any fcruple before-hand, or forrow afterwards, or the leaft fign of repentance, muft believe more than, for their fakes, and the fake of thoufands of God's faints (who though not mentioned as polygamifs, doubtlefs were fo) I could wifh even to furmife, or than is in the leaft coniiftent with the account ר׳ ג