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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    נ *3 ] ?/ic1T?’jd^c oF A· cind. C. w^s «1 nicrc nul״^ Uty ׳ That I am not fmgular in my opinion, refpedling the one divine ordinance of marriagCy will alfo appear from the re- markable ftatute of Henry III; which, as it is very ihort, I will tranfcribe. To the king’s writ of baftardy, whe- ther one born before matrimony may inherit in like manner as he that is born after matrimony : all the bif:ops anfwer- ed, that they would not nor could not anfwer to it, becaufe it was againft the common order of the church. And all “ the bifhops inftanted the lords, that they would confent, that all fuch as were hoxn \ before matrimony, as to the fuc- ceffioa * The law fince 26 Geo. II. c. 33. is quite the reverfe, the pnconirati between A. and B. would be a niilUty^ and the marrioge between A. and C. valid. Such are the liberties which mortals have prefumed to take with the ordmance of Heaven, But this cannot alter either the thing itfelf, or God’s views of it. t Conjiantine^ to difcourage concubinage, and to encourage 7natrimony\n perfons who lived together in “ that way, ordered, that if a man married his concit- bine, the children which he had by her before mar- “ riage, ihould become legitimate. But the church meddled not with thefe diftinitions of the civil “ laws, but regarding only the law of nature, ap· “ proved every conjunction of one man with a woman, if it was with one woman and perpetual ^ and the more Γ0, bccaufe the holy feriptures employ the name of vuife or of ccncuhim indifferently.