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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    [ ϊ56 ] been arraigned before the judges of Ifrael on that ftatute, Deut, xxii. 22· he muft, as well as the womariy have been con- demned to die, notwithftanding what Beza has faid, or what all the reafoners in the world could have faid on the fub- jedl of polygamy y in arrefi of Judgment. But there is a texjt in the Old Tefta- ment, which is looked upon by fome to be a diredl forbiddance of polygamyy for it Hands in the margin of our Bibles—T’hou fi)alt not take 071e wife to another. If this be right rendering of the Hebrewy then the faints of old time finned againft lighty knowledgey and law with a witnefs ! But it is tranflated in the text—Neither Jloqlt thou take a wife to her Jifiery to vex hery hi ^ Ipfos quoque yudesos hanc legem de polygamia baudaccepiiTe, perpetua confuetudo plures fibi ex hac ^ente jungentium uxores oftendit. Non autem vi- dentur tantoimpetu per vetitum w^jTuiiTe, praecipuc legis divinae caetera lludiollilimi, fi expreflb hujuf- modi mandate hac de re cautum fuifl'et· Tympius in Nold· p. 3®, note r. That the yews themfelves did not ynderftand ‘‘ this law as concerning polygamy^ their conftant pradlice of marrying a plurality of wives demon־? ‘‘ ilrates; for it is not probable that they ihould have fuibed with fuch violence into prohibited wickednefs, efpecially thofe who were moil ob- ‘‘ fervant of the divine law in all other refpe<Sls, jf cautioned againil it by fo exprefs a comm^^^d־· ment,״* her