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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    ז [ 6ך1 ] Vox furturis audita ζ/?, quae eft predl- catio continentiae, eos, qui fe cafirant propter regnum coelorum, fpeilans; ** cum ab initio vox ifta non fit audita, fed magis — et multiplicaminiy- fterilitas etiam malediftioni fait fub- polygamia conceifa/’ &c.; but all this is now at an end, quia hodie, re- pleto mundo, non tarn fit neceflaria quam olim”-^^ becaufe now, the world being filled (with people) it is not fo neceifary as formerly/״ If the reader has a mind to fee how far folly and en- thufiafm can carry people on thefe fub- Jedi:s, let him read T'ertullian^ epiftles to Eiufiachius י— to Gerontius — and againft Helvetius; T'ertullian on ; Chry- fifiom on Virginity ; Cyprian on the dif- cipline of Virgins 5 and Oecumenius on fpe£ls. In others weak and fuperilitlous. See Moili. voL i· 591* A pretty clear proof of the latter part of his charader lies before us. His confining the, command—Be fruitful and multiply—to the days of the OldTefamenty is certainly a mafter-ftroke of folly and weaknefs—however, his acknowledgment of the allowance of polygamy as a concomitant of that com— mand, is much more fcriptural and confiftent, than the comments of fome more modern expofitors (or s2it\itx' expofers) of the fcriptures, who contend for the obligation and permanency of the command it-, felf, but deny the permanency and obligation of thofe laws \9hich the divine wifdom cnadbed for its I Cor· regulation.