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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    [ ]־ againft the holinefs, and deilroying the pofitive obligation of the marriage-inili- tution. Thofe, who by the legerdemain of this fame numerical interpretation of the word t%vain, added to the found of the former claufe of ver. 9'. make Christ condemn polygamy as adultery, reprefent Him as ufing the word נאף—adultery—in an un- authorized unconformity to the Hebrew fcripture (as our Lord doubtlefs ipake in Hebrew) ·, for no where is that word ufed, to denote a man who had one wife, taking another to her, and cohabiting with both (which I take to be the true and ge- nuine notion of polygamy) ; nor is it ufed in any other fenle, but to denote the de- filement 0) a married woman. Our Sa- VIOUR, who conftantly appealed to the Hebrew fcriptures for what he delivered to the people, can hardly be fuppofed to have advanced a doitrine fo uniupported by them; and that before an audience of thofe very Pharifees, who we are told, Luke xi. 54. were laying waitfor him, feek- ing to catch fomething out of Hu mouth, that they might accufe Him. Again—by mak- ing Christ AccX'ixe. polygamy to be adul- tery, they charge Him with aflerting a falfhood, both in point of Ιαχΰ and fadl, by declaring all fuel! after-taken women