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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    [ 1°9 ] law, how is it poffible that He ihould make laws for its re'gulation, any more than He fl^ould make laws for the regu- lation of theft or murder^ How is it conceivable that He iliould give the leaft countenance to it, or fo exprcfs His ap- ·probation of it,, as even to worh miracles in fupport of it ? For the making a wo- man Jruitful who wa.s naturally bar7'C}1<^ muil have been the eifed: of fupernatural power.—He blefjed<y and in a diilinguiilied manner owned the iffue—and declared it legitimate to all intents and purpofes. If this be not allowance^ what is ? As to the firfiy namely, his making laws for the regulation of 'polygamyy let us coniider what is written, Exod, xxi. lo. If he fi, e, the huiband) take him another wife (not—in fo doinghe fms againft xh^ feventh commandment, recorded in the preceding chapter—but) her foody her ra1me71t (t. e. of the firft wife) and her duty of maridagey he fmlhiot dimmifo. Flere God pofitlvely forbids a neglediy much more the divorcing ox putting away firfl wife, but charges no fin on taking the fecond, 2dly. When facob married Rachel ihe was barreny and ίο continued tor many years ; but God did not leave this as a puniihment upon her for marrying a man who had another wife. It is faid, Gen. XXX. 22. that God remembered Rachel; and