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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    t 4!ג ] or unlefs good and evil change their na- tufe by length of time, like the failiion of our cloaths) is to make God the au* tbor of fin 3 for not to ־־^ forbid that which is evil, but even to countenance and pro- mote it, is being fo far the author of it,, and acceifary to it in the higheft degree. —And ihall we dare to fay^ or even to thinky that this is chargeable on Him who is of purer eyes than to behold evif and who cannot look on iniquity^ Hab, i. 13. God forbid ! When He is upbraiding David, by the prophet Nathan, for his ingratitude towards His Almighty benefactor, (2 Sam. xii.) He does it in the following terms : ver. 8. I gave ·f* thee thy rnafier s houfe, and * Fuffendorf, b. vi. c. i. § 16. obfen^es, that the Mofaical law was fo far from forbidding this cuftom, that it feems in feveral places to fuppole “ it;” and refers to Dent. xxi. 15. xvii. 16, 17. and 2 Sam. xii. 8. f When Efau met yacoh with his wives and chil- dren, he afked—who are thofe with thee? and yacoh faid—The children which God hath graciously GIVEN thy fervant· Gen. xxxiii. 5. Now, can we fuppofe that God’s gracious gifts are beftowed on adts of rebellion againil His pofitive laws ? Yet we muft either fuppofe this, or that yacoh's polygamy ־was no tranfgrellion of the law. — See Gen. xxx. 16, 17, 18, another remarkable inftance of God’s fpe* cial bleiTing on polygamy. The mention of Efau reminds me of a remarkable part of his hiilory. He took two wives^ both Hit^ titesy