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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    [ :2 ] bliilied for the time the71 pnefenty Heb. ix. 9. to point out, and prefigure things to Qome, They had their end and accom- pliihment in Christ, and of courfe their utter abolition. This, fo far from aro-uino; any change of mind or .will in God, is one ot the higheil and moft illuhrious proofs of the uniformity, and coniiftency, with which he has laid down, carried on, and perfedled the fame one defign from the beginning. But the mor.al laws which refpedl the well-being of fociety, the prevention of diforder, confufion, and all other appen- dages of 7noral evily muft endure, as long as the objedls to which they relate endure on the face of the earth. When St. Pauly Gal. iii. 10. and Rom. x. 5. cites the fane- tions of the moral law from the Old Tef- lament, he ihews very clearly, that it ftill remains as an invariable rule of conduct, from which all the people of God, whether or Gentilesy are equally forbidden to depart. Can any perfon therefore, in his fober fenfes, imagine that it was unlawful\n the light of Gob (becaufe expreilly by a pofitive law forbidden) three thoufand years ago, to take a virgin and then abandon her, but that now it is lawjul? or, becaufe there is no law of this land againit it, it is there- fore lefs ofFeniivc in the eyes of God, than at