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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    [ 93ז ] choice of B^dops and Deacons from amongft thofe who had but one wife? What occafion for this caution of the apofile s^ if none had more tha71 one ? That the eleftion was to be made from amongft the Chrifiian believers^ there can be no doubt, that is to fay, of fuch as had been admitted to baptifm and the Lord's /upper y and were enrolled as 7ne7nbers of the Chrifiian church. To fuppofe that none of thefe had more than 072e wifey is to fuppofe the apo/le giving a needlefs rule in the eledtion of Bi/oops and Deacons. To fuppofe that any who had 7770re than one wifey iliould be admitted to baptifm and the Lord's /uppery if Christ had forbidden polyga771y as adulteryy is to fup- pofe a greater abfurdity ftill, and that the great apofile of the Gentiles was lefs faithful to his truft, than thofe fefuits who refufed to admit the King of Lon- quin into the Christian church, unlefs he would put away all his wives but one: for which thefe pfeudo-apofles were very juftly driven out of the country. The learned Selden has proved, in his Uxor HcebraicUy that polyga771y was allowed, not only amongft the HebrewSy but amongft moft other nations throughout* the world; doubtlefs amongft the inha- bitants of that vaft tract of ylfa, through- I. O out