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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    [ 94ג ] out which the gofpel was preached by the great apofile of the Gentiles^ where fo many ChrijUan churches were planted, as well as in the neighbouring ftates of Greece: yet in none of Paul's epifiles^ nor in the !even awful epifles which St. John was commanded to write to the /even churches in Afia^ is polyga7ny found amongil the crimes for which they were reproved. Every other fpecies of com7nerce between! the fexes, is diiHndly and often men- > tioned, this not once, except on the wo- man\ fide, as Ronu vii. 3 ; but had it been finful and againll the law on the 7nansfde^ it is inconceivable that it ihould not have been mentioned on both fides equally. When St. Taul fays that a Bifoop or Deacon is to be the hifband of one wifcj it certainly carries with it a tacit allow- ance of polygamy, as to the lawfuhiefs of it, with regard to all other men; not that it was fnful in one more than in another; but this was a prudential caution in that diftreifed and infant ilate of the church, that thofe who were to have the manage- ment of it, ihould have as little avocation, and diftradlion as the nature of things would admit of. Paul does not fay that a Bifoop or Deacon iliould not be married, as the church of Borne fays, but that·