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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:
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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    [ Ιΐί ] .God’s account, the fecond marriage Is juft as valid as <X\(tfirliy and as obligatory, and that our making it lefs foy is contra- didory to the divine wifdom. 3dly. God blefled and owned the iflue. How eminently this was the cafe with regard to Jofephy fee Gen. xlix. 22—26; to Samuely fee 1 Sam. iii. 19, It was exprefsly commanded, that a baf·- tardy or fon of a woman who was with child by whoredonty ihould not enter in- to the congregatio71 of the Lord, even to his te?2th generation, Deut. xxiii. 2. But .we find Samuely the offspring ·f of myy miniftring to the Lord in the taber- nacle at Shilohy even in his very childhoody cloathed with a linen ephod before Eli the priefi. See this whole hiftory, 1 Sam. i. and ii. Who then can doubt of SamueV^ legitimacy, confequently of God’s allow- iince of, and bleffmg on polygamy ? If fuch fecond marriage was in God’s ac- count null and voidy as a fin againft; the original law of marriage, the feventh com-ts mandment, or a72y other law of God, no mark of legitimacy could have been found on the iffae ; for a null and void marriage is tantamount to no marriage at all; and if no marriage, no legitimacy of the iflue can poflibly be. Inftead of fuch a blef- fmg iK T0pv)!f. LXX, t See Appendix, N® i. vol, ii. 11