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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    נ 77ג ] X Cor. vii.-^then he will begin to find out how MARRIAGE ITSELF was Vilified, and of courfe what gave rife to the con- demnation offemnd marriages of all forts, therefore of polygamyy in the Chrifiian churchy till the church of Rome had the impudence to a71athe7nati%e the man who ihould fay, that it was not forbidden by the law of God,'* (fee Brent. Coun. Trent, p. 784) ‘י juft as they did thofe who ihould affirm, that for a prief to marry was allowed by the law of God.'^ Ibid. The confequences of all this unnatural plan of celibacyy are too many to enume- rate, too * horrible to particularize. It fared with numbers of the Chrifians y who did not like to retain the divine comma71d in their practice, as it did with the hea- thensy who did not like to retain God in * It is an obfervation of the excellent of ihe Hifiory of Popery^ vol. i. p. 359. that ‘‘ the firft law againft a certain unnatural vice in Eng·^ land was by Anfelm Archbiihop of Canterburyy ‘‘ in the days of IVilliam Rufus ; which faid vice feems not to have been heard of here till prief s were forbidden marriage. However, they treated it very gently, leaving it lefs penal in a priejl·^ than to enjoy his lawful wife; Secular guilty of this crime, were to be abfolved only by the htfiop ·y but the monks and priefsy it feems, might civilly abfolve each other. Yet even this “ canony fuch as it is, was foon after recalled, and never publiihed.’’ VoL. I, bi them