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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    [ Ϊ91 ] As thefe points are fully treated in other parts of this book, I will now pro- ceed to ihew, that the wild notions about marriage, which were introduced into the church, bear an earlier date than the days of T^crtulliany and thofe. other fathers mentioned before. “ There were others,*' fays Mr. Brough- ion—Hift. Lib. tit. Marriage—who fim- “ ply exclaimed againil marriage as un- lawful under the gofpeL This dodlrine was iiril taught by Saturnilus^ a fcholar “ of Simon Magus and Mar cion, but af- terwards better known amongft the Encratites; to thefe may be added the Apofolics or ApotaSlics, the Manicheesy Severians, and many others. The “ church had great ilruggles with thefe antient heretics, v/ho inveighed bit- terly againft marriage under the gofpel- fate, and wrought upon many weak minds, to be guilty of great irregula- rities, under pretence of a more re- fined way of living. The church had aifo another contell with the Montanijls and Novatians, about fecond marriages, thefe heretics rejedling them as utterly unlawful.— And indeed the ecclefiaftical hiftories in- form us, that this ?nadnefs (for I can call it nothing elfe) vvas carried fo far, as that 2 fecond \ ·