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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    [ !97 ] the ‘Wife of one man. There are alfo thofe, who, on the authority of thefe paflages, hold it unlawful for a minifer to marry * Whether any carry this point Γ0 far as the ano- nymous anfwerer to Luther, Tr. ile digarnta Epifco· porum^ I can’t fay; but he declares—“ Mortaliter “ peccant qui bigamos (facerdotes fcil) eccleiI3e ilipendio fuftentant.”—They fin mortally who “ fupport clergymen that have been twice married, “ with the allowance or ftipend of the church.”—— Again—Peccant qui fcientes ex bigami ore vcr- ‘‘ bum Dei pollui audiunt.”—They fin, who ‘‘ knowingly hear the word of God polluted, by the mouth of a miniffer who has been tvvucemar- ried.” Again—“ Bigamus cenfendus eit, non ‘‘ folum is qui duas duxit virgines, fed & viduain aut aliter corruptam.”—He is to be reckoned a htga?nyi^ not only who has married two virgins^ but alfo he that hath married a widow^ or a wo^ . 7nan other wife corrupted H is conclufion breathes the true fpirit of igno-, ranee, fuperftition, and blind zeaL—“ In fumma ‘‘ —quicunque proprias voluptates, & luxuriae ex- “ adlionem, οροβοΓι verbis & patrum honeilis prae~ “ ponit decretis, non tamen facerdotis aut ecclefi- ‘‘ ailico ftipendio cedere dignum putat, is non folum tolerandus non eft, fed ad corvos abigendus, quo non ovis morbofa totum corrumpat ovile, & tarn “ laudabilem, bonam, h longsevam confuetudinem pelHlenti fuo defaedet exemplo.” — In fine, ‘‘ Whofoever prefers his own pleafures, and the “ requirements of luxury, to the words of the ‘‘ apoflle^ and to the decent decrees of the fathers^ and yet doth not think proper to depart from the “ miniftry, or his ecclefiaftical ftipend, is not only not to be tolerated, but to be driven away to the crows (we ihould fay, thrown to the dogs) that one fcabby fheep might not mar the whole flock, and defile, by his own peftilent example, fo laudable, good, and antient a cuftom.” 0 3 a fecond