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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    I [ Η ] mitteth adultery'' This is no new law eii- ailed by our bleffed Saviour on the fub- jedl, but an application and explanation of that very law which he had, immediately before, faid — could never fail,'* and which was given to Mofes at mount Sinai. See xvi. 17, 18. When our Lord in his fermon on the mount, as recorded by St, Matthew, is about to explain the moral law, and vindi- cate it from the falfe gloifes which the Scribes and Pharifees had put upon it, he prefaces his explanation with thefe re- markable words—Verily I fay unto you, 'till heaven and earth pafs, one jot or one tittle (one, even the moil feemingly inconiider- able part of a iingle letter) fall in no wife pafs from the law, 'till all he fulfilled, L·; civ τταντοί ysvviTXi* Until all things be done. Which, with the learned Or, Hammond on Matth. V. 18. I would thus paraphrafe : 'Till the world be deilroyed, and all things come to an end, no one leaft particle ihall depart from the law, or be taken away, or lofe its force and obligation.*’ ^^Whofoever therefore, ίύ,ύι Chrifl, ver. 19. fioall break one of thefe leafi commandme71ts, and fioall teach men fo, he fioall be called the leafi in the kingdom of heaven 5 but whofoever fall do, and teach the?n, the fame fieall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. After fuel! a teilimony as this to the immutability of the divine law, it would