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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    [ Ϊ22 ] ttwo ‘wives together at oncey or one to ano^ thevy and cohabiting with bothy is not fo much as ^ mentioned any where, that I can find, from the firfl chapter of Saint Matthew to the laji of' the Revelation of Samt Johny inclufive: therefore it can- not be faid to be f condemned. The fa- mous paflage in Matt. xix. which has been already confidered, and will be more fully hereafter, certainly relates. to di- ^orccy and, properly fpeaking, not to po^ iygamy ; for this, fimply confidered, does not come in queftion. The people there, fo far from intending polygamyy meant nothing lefs, for they meant to have but one wife at a time\ elfe why were they for divorcing onCy in order to take [j a710- iher^ Their fin. was this, not the taking * Unlefs incidentally, 1 Tim. iii. 2. 1 Tit. i. 6. where nothing is faid, either good or bad, as to the matter itfelf. t Judge Blactytone fays, very gravely*—Comm, vol. i. p. 436. “ Polygamy is condemned by the law “of the New Ψ6βα?η6ηίΡ J So our tranyators undoubtedly thought; for in the fummary of the contents printed at the head of thtchaptery they only fay—“ Christ anfwereth the “ Pharifees concerning divorcement,^^ ver. 3—10. So Mark x. 2. “ Touching divorcement,'''* II Here the word ΛλλΜί׳, Matt. xix. 9. is fuppofed to fignify another (i. e. any other woman) according to our tranflation. But that this may not be the fenfe of it, fee after. and