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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    [ ] levity of behaviour—which, though not amounting to fuch proof as to he the ground of utter legal divorce, yet luch ctS as a chaftifement 0r vifitation from Heaven, ami therefore muft be fubmitted to and endured. ■ So is ficknefs from the hand of God ; fo are af- fliaions of all kinds, and certainly to be fubmit- ted to with patience and refignation ; yet to uie means of recovery from ficknefs, and of deliverance from trouble and affliaion, are apparent י and why not in the other cafe ? Xhe great jX'lilton has fome excellent and fcriptural obferyations on thefe points in his Tctrachordon ; to which I refer tlic The whole analogy of feripture agrees with that faying ot the Apojile—L^t not the wife depatt fYO7n. her hufband \ and again—Let not the hufiand put a- way his vjife—1 Cor. vii. 10, ii. But then thefe things muil be conftrued agreeably to the analogy of that wlfdo?n which is pr oft able to diredl Eccl. X. 10. They cannot mean, that a wife is not to de- part from her hufband^ who threatens or endangers her life—nor that an hufband may not feparate from a wife who obftinately fets herfelf to be the plague and torment of his* This kind of things falls under a fort of necejfty^ which muft always interpret the law in favour of felf-prefcrvation. ’Thou floalt do no murder—confti־' tutes a capital offence in the man who wantonly or malicioufly kills another—but if a man flays ano- ther in his own defence, it is an excufable homi- cide : this from the neceffary care which every man has a right to take of his own life. The fl>ip- mafer to whom I intruft my goods, is wicked and bafe, if he wantonly caft them into the fea; but if a ilorm arife, and he caft them out to fave the ihip from finking, he is highly juftifiable. I would ^ therefore