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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    €ζ נ 55ג ] Is one with each of his feveral wives> when he is rather divided into as many parts as he has wives”' Though this learned man reprefents a polygamifi as judges xix. 29. reprefents the Levites concubmey whom he divtdedy together with her bonesy into twelve partsy and fent her into all the coafis c/Tsrael, yet the poly^ gamiβs which we read of in fcripture were as entire individuals, in a moral as well as a natural fenfe, as thofe who had but one wife; otherwife each woman could not have called the man her hufoandy I Sam. i. 8, 22. nor could each woman be called his wifey ver. 2. Now w^hat- ever parties, being united, in God’s ac- count are man and wifey they are alfo one flefy therefore it is truey that 2.polyga^ * mif is one with each of his feveral wives”—that is to fay, in the legal fenfe above-mentioned; nor can all the rea- fonings of men prove them otherwife, 'till they .can prove themfelves wifer than He is who declares them to be fo. And I do verily believe, that if a man had fe-- diiccd any wife of a polygamfty and had * Even as Christ, the hufiand of the church (C omp. IC llv. r, with 2 Cor. xi. 2») is as really cne with e^^ery feveral believer, as with the whole church coHedlively ; or as the head is one with each and all the members of the body. See poll. - been