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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    <6 נ 73! ] tient ^ fathers^ who, to eilabliih their own idol of I know not what ginityf which they themfelves had not, have Λvritten moil wickedly and bafely of marriage.” To fay truth, I cannot conceive any man's confcience to be more taken captive by the devil (2 Tim. ii. 26.) than his is, who is brought under a perfuafion that celibacy is more pure and holy^ and, as fuch, more acceptable to God than marriage. Such a one, who, under this perfuafion, ab- ilains from marriage, lives in perpetual *f oppofition.to that command which was given * Jerom^ Amhrofe^ and other fathers^ have de- claimed againft matrimony־, and recommended “*monkiih abilinence almoft as much zs Manes^ ‘‘ and have employed almoft as infignificant argu- ments.*’ Id. vol. ii. p. 69. t Dr. Alexander^ Hift. Worn. voi. ii. p. 269. in- troduces what he there fays on the fubje6t of emaf- culation on a religious account, with this pertinent and fenfible obfervation : The two fexes were evidently intended for each ‘‘ other, and increafe and multiply was the firft great “ command given them by the Author of Nature. But fuppofe no fuch command had been given, how it firft entered into the mind of man, that the propagation or continuation of the fpeciei was criminal in the eye of Heaven, is not eafy to conceive. Ridiculous, however, as this notion may appear, it is one of thofe which early inft- nuated itfelf amongft mankind, and plainly de- “ monftrated.