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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    ί >8 ] י CHAP. I. Cy’Marriage as a Divme InJUtuthn, HEN the great and alhwife Crea- tor had formed man upon the earth, male and feniakj He hlejjed the?72y and /aid unto themy he fruitful and multiplyy and re^ plenifj the earth. Gen. i. 28. This com- inand was to be fulfilled in a way of God’s own appointment; that is to fay, by the union of the man and woman in perfonal knowledge of each other. This is tlae only marriage-’Ordinance which we find revealed in the facred fcriptures. Wherever this unioji iliould come to pafs, though two dif- iindt and independent perfons before, they now were to become as one. They fall be vne^ flejhy Gen. ii, 24. and fo indiiibliibly one.y לבשר אחד *י—gs one flefi—\ις CdL^ntt μίΑν^ Gr. Tcil. The Hebrew ל prefixed, hath often this fenfe. See Joili. vii. 5. Lam. i. 17. So the Greek prepofi- tion £/<־, which anfwers to it. Compare 2 Sam. vii. 14. with Hcb. i. 5. where the לבן and לאב of the Old Teilament, arc rendered by \ις ττοΓαρΛ and vior in the New Teftament; and clearly evince the names of Father and Son to be ceconomlcal names of office in the covenant of redemption, not deferiptive of an infe- riority and fiibordination in the perfons of the God^ H£AD. Compare Luke i. 35. Aifo