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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    [ ] revelation of His word exprefsiy autho- rizes us, is to be wife above what is writteriy to involve ourfelves in endlefs mazes of error, till—p'^ofejfmg ourfelves wife, we be·· coniejools. Rom. i. 2 2. God's bringing the woman to the man— that folemn denunciation—therefore Jhall a man leave father and mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they jhall be one fiefo — form a conclufive argument againil: di- vorce; and are exprefsiy made ufe of by Christ for that purpofe in His difpute with the Pharifees, Matt. xix. 4, 5 ; but it is no where, in the whole fcripture, made ufe of as an argument againft poly· gamy* There were, doubtlefs, opportu-. nities enough in the antediluvian, as well as the poftdiluvian world, to have given occafion for it, had any fuch thing been intended. The * One weighty reafon for the creation of only one man and one woman at firii:, may be gathered from A£ts xvii. 26. where it is faid —//<? hath 7nade o'f ONE BLOOD all nations of men^ for to dzvell on all the face of the earth. Had more men and women than Adam-2inA Eveh^^w created at firii, this ftridl affinity of relationfhip hy blood could not have ex- iiled ; biit this was wifely and graciouily contrived, as a reafon for, and cement of, brotherly love—as a mean» of hiding pride, and boailing of one above another, with refpe6t to their original pedigree; fa· that none, on this account, ihould defpife or fet , _ *2 uoti^ht