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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    4 נ 96 ] sccount which we have of them in the holy fcriptures. I ihall only obferve farther on this head, of attributing the praftice of po/y-· ga?ny by the Old-Teftament faints to ig- norancey that we muft charge ignorance on God’s high-prieft yehotada, who ftands recorded, 2 Kings xii. and 2 Chron. xxiv. as one of the wifeft, beft, and greateft characters that ever lived, as likewife one of the moft exemplary promoters of God’s honour, and a chief inftrurnent of the reformation of religion in yudahy in the reign of king * yehoap:· If fo, our charge of ignorance will not ftop here, but even reach the Spirit of Goo Him- felf. For He fays, that yoaf did right in the fight of the Lord all the days of yehoiada the priefy 2 Chron. xxiv. 2. or ^as it is 2 Kings xii. 2.) all his daysy wherein yehoiada the prtef infrudled him; and yet we are told, ver. 3· that yehoiada took for him two wives, andhe begat fins and daughters* On whom ihall the com- mentator fix ignorance'? On fehoiada the high-prieft, for teaching his pupil king Jehoafiioht 2. polygamifiy by taking for nim two wives ? or on yehoafhy^ who re- ceived them, and cohabited with them ? * Called Joash aifo, 2 Chron* xxiv. or