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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    [ ״ ] foen:er I command you, obferve to do it, thou Jhalt not add thereto nor diminish fromit. Now, I do take it for granted, that He, who,/peaking to the people of dfrael, calls himfelf the Lord your God, is alfo the Lord our God. Is he the God of the yews 072ly ? Is he not alfo of the Gentiles ? Xes—of the Gentiles alfo. Rom. iii. 29. For which very evident reafon, I do conclude, that both yews and Gentiles are equally fubjedl to thofe laws which the Lord THEIR God once revealed and eftabliihed for the moral government of the world : and therefore (as we may learn from the teftimony of the Apofile of the Gentiles un- der the New Teftarhent, G^/.iii. 10. as well as from Mofes under the Old Teftament, Dent, xxvii. 26.) Curfed is every one, that continueth not in things which are written in the Book of the Law, to do them. Thefe laws therefore Hand on the fame footing with what we ufually call the Te71 Commandinents—and are no more fubjedt to decay or alteration than they2s^. I fay they ftand pn the fame footing, becaufe they were equally delivered by God to Mofes, on the fame divine veracity, the fame aw- ful, and indifputable authority, and are guarded by the fame tremendous fan^iion. That the merely ceremonial laws are waxed old and vanifoed away, Heb. viii. 13^ Is certain, becaufe they were only efta- bliihed