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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    [ !98 ] a Jccond time on the lofs of his wife, and unlawful alfo for any woman to mar7y a^ain on the lofs of her huiband. Thefe ridiculous opinions owe their birth to the before״mentioned caufe, of taking words by the founds inftead of the Jenfe—the ufual confequence of detaching fcripture from fcripture, not comparing it with it- felf, by taking the whole together. By this, men may prove—quidlibet ex quoit- bet—ni'hat they pleafe from ^johat they pleafe f—and this is the iheet-anchor of error, as well as of many monftrous praftices, and fo has been in all ages \ they־ can be maintained no other way. The whole doilrine of tranfuhfiantiationy ab- furd as it is in all its parts, is held togc־ ther by the found of Hoc efl corpus meuni —This is rny body.—The found oi hare-- ticum devita, in a Latin verfion of Tit. iii. lo. has authorized the moil: barbarous murders of thoufands, who have been burned alive by the inquifition, under the denomination of heretics. It has been made to iignify harcticum de vita—an he- retie from life \ that is—put hun froni kill him.—Thus, by feparating the word devita, and turning the lail two fyllables into the fubftantive the prepofition juft anfwered the purpofe. A lefs tragical confequence of this method of